Unlock Your Hidden Potential - The Simple Golf Swing

When you have an awkward shot to make, think about how you can swing, keep your balance, and keep from moving your head. Then imagine the line your club travels along.

Prior to setting up your shot, consider where the club head needs to travel for the greatest distance in a straight line. Keep in mind that the ball makes contact with the club head for several inches. After you make a few practice swings, you will be able to see what relationship your feet will have with the line and then you can determine your stance.

It is important to keep from swaying when you are about the hit the ball. Just before you swing, see if there is any problem keeping your balance. If there is, you need to keep shifting until you find a comfortable position where there is no tension in your swing. Freedom in your muscles and mind is what you are looking for so that you will be able to swing smoothly. If you are fidgety when you address the ball, you are not going to be able to focus on the ball. Be sure you keep your feet still.

Ensure that you can see the ball from the beginning to end of your swing. Even if it is a difficult shot, do not lose focus on the ball. This will help you hit the ball cleanly and solidly.

If you keep your eye on the ball, then your swing will be free from faults and the ball will be hit correctly. If you can keep your head still for the entire swing until the club head meets the ball, your swing will definitely improve. Then if you have an awkward shot, you will be able to hit it with confidence and assurance.

Bad or difficult weather can make any shot more difficult. When the wind is blowing, it is important to keep your feet closer together. It is natural to think that you just need to hit the ball harder, but the wind makes it even more important to hit the ball correctly.

The more awkward the shot, the more you need your muscles to be relaxed enough to make the shot. Here is a tip. The shorter the shot that you need to make, the closer your feet should be brought together. Hit the ball true, instead of with all of your strength to keep it from bouncing away and reducing the distance that it travels.

Awkward and difficult shots are something that every golfer needs to learn to deal with. Once you learn how to handle them, then you will be much more confident and be enjoying a lower golf score!

Everything You Wanted to Know about the Law of Attraction

Everything You Wanted to Know about the Law of Attraction

We intuitively understand the law of attraction, as evidenced by so many popular phrases: “You reap what you sow,” “give and you shall receive,” and “what you do comes back to you.” That’s the law of attraction in a nutshell: what you put out there comes back to you.

The Law of Attraction: It’s all in Your Head

We control the law of attraction with our very own thoughts! So we could revise those old sayings to read, “You reap what you think,” “think and you shall receive,” and “what you think comes back to you!”

Attitudes and emotions play a key role, too. That’s why we have to be very clear with ourselves when it comes to the law of attraction. On the outside we have a fake smile plastered on our faces and exclaim our affirmations into the mirror every morning: “This year, I’m going to make $75,000!” But on the inside we’re thinking, “There’s no way they’ll give me a raise this year.” And even deeper on the inside–so deep that we may not even consciously realize it–we believe that we don’t deserve a raise. And hence, according to the law of attraction, we’re not going to get a raise. The barrage of our constant stream of negative internal thoughts trumps our less frequent external actions–that’s the law of attraction in action.

Consistent behavior also gets the law of attraction rolling. Give love, and you’ll receive love. Be happy, and you’ll be surrounded by happy people. Be motivated, and you’ll be surrounded by energetic go-getters. Be nice, and others will be nice to you. Be grateful for what you do have, and even more will come your way.


Of course, the law of attraction can work to your detriment, too, if you don’t keep your thoughts, emotions and behavior in check. Act like a jerk, and people will be rude to you. Withhold love, and you’ll rarely get a hug. Feel sorry for yourself, and you’ll attract only losers who chalk all their bad luck up to “fate.”


You can employ the law of attraction to improve your life in countless ways: create happier relationships, earn more money, lose weight, attract the love of your life–to make your wildest dreams come true! All it takes to set the law of attraction in motion is your positive thoughts!

That’s because thoughts are a type of energy, and all matter in the universe is composed of energy. We know the brain emits different types of waves when we’re awake or sleeping, much like light and sound create waves. Therefore, according to the law of attraction, we literally create outcomes, or physical matter, with our thoughts!

How To Maximize Your Personal Potential In Business, School, Career and Life

We are all endowed with a special thing – i.e. our potential. Some of us realize this potential quite early in life where as, for some, it takes a lifetime to realize this. These latter people who take time to realize their potential often accept the fact that they have lost the time needed to bring their real potential to surface. That is why, it is really important to realize your potential within a given time period, else its often too late to begin.

Moreover, one can also realize their hidden talent while discovering their real potential. This is done with experience, with the help of family, friends and even enemies. However, quite unfortunately, people at times, also tend to de-motivate a person to such an extent that their search for their hidden potential becomes lost in their misery. That is why, we recommend some general guidelines which can be adopted in order to buff and polish your hidden potential.

1. Read books:  If you want to discover your hidden talent or potential, you can explore and search your interests and stay abreast of the latest happenings in your field of interest. This would not only keep you updated, but also make you flourish especially if your career is in your interest fields.

2. Expand your exposure:  You need to expose yourself to different happenings that take place these days. In many cases, you will realize that your hidden potential lies in the knowledge that you were exposed to since childhood. So you must travel to places, research about topics of interests and make social networks with associates that might help you discover your hidden potential.

3. Find a good mentor:  A successful mentor who understands you would certainly make you realize your hidden potential. They will help you regarding matters such as dealing with family matters, business dealings and other aspects. A mentor would certainly bring about that hidden talent that you have not realized yet.

4. Take challenging work:  Taking up challenges would help you optimize your potential and find it. Being out of your comfort zone would not only make you realize what you are made of, but you would also be surprised to discover those aspects about your personality that are actually unknown to you.

5. Participate in competitions:  Participating in competitions would help you tap into your own talent pool and discover the undiscovered! This would need you to maximize your time and energy and enhance your skills.

6. Try new things: You should treat every day as a new day, a new beginning. Look ahead at new avenues and don’t hesitate to try new things or taking risks.

Every one of us has unique potentials hidden inside them. All we need to do is to wake up and start looking for them.

‘We hope that change in Mumbai post 26/11 is transformational’

Mumbai: An old man whose son and daughter were killed. An American lady whose husband and daughter were gunned down inside the Oberoi hotel. A young girl who was badly injured by a bullet. A police officer whose life was forever changed. All of them tied together by the terror attacks on 26th November 2008 that left a city shell shocked, and irrevocably changed. All of them sharing their stories at an event to commemorate the third year anniversary of the attacks.

“Destruction is always the seed of some change, but what remains to be seen if that change is transitional or becomes transformational. We can only hope that the change in Mumbai post 26/11 is transformational”, said Julio Ribeiro, the Chairman of the Public Concern for Governance Trust which had organized the event titled “Transforming our way of living: remembering 26.11.2008″ that was held at the NCPA at Nariman point on Wednesday.

Organised by the Orchid Room Experiment, the event featured film, first person accounts, speeches by various industry leaders, and live performances. The theme of the evening was ‘Transforming our way of life: Containing corruption and having good governance’, based on the idea that corruption reduced public and government efficiency, making the nation more vulnerable to the threat of terrorist attack. “We have to demand good governance from our leaders. So many of you came out that night to Gateway of India holding candles asking for better governance. We have to sustain that momentum”, said Praful Vora, a volunteer with Anna Hazare‘s “India Against Corruption” movement.


The other events of the programme were more emotional. There was a film that followed the lives of a mix of Mumbaikars – some from affluent South Bombay, others from the slums of Dharavi – all of whom had lost loved ones or suffered injuries as a result of the attacks. Divided into four parts and interspersed with other items on the program, the film covered four themes – “Prayer”, “The power of positive thought”, “Hope”, and “Dreams for the future”, which when taken together, followed the journey of the films protagonists from how they first dealt with what had happened, to where they are now and where they want to be in the future.

Kia Scherr, an American lady who lost both her daughter and husband to the attacks, recited a touching haiku detailing her experiences from the time she dropped her family off at the airport to the time it was confirmed that her loved ones had been killed. Renown Hindustani singer Dhanashree Pandit Rai sang thumri as a symbol of hope in the times to come, accompanied by a tabla player and pianist.

The performances were well received and the audience was appreciative. But what the programme also did in many ways, was bring people face to face with that night again. And what it revealed, was that although Mumbai has mostly moved past 26/11, it has left behind many still-raw wounds, a lot of sadness and even trauma. And it was important that there was an effort to include the experiences of people from all walks of life, because this was an attack that did not target people based on income, religion or social status. And perhaps, in keeping with that theme of inclusiveness, the event should not have been an exclusive, invite only affair.

Remember The Day........... 26/11/2008

In Memory Of 26/11 "Hotel Taj : Icon Of Whose India ?"

Watching at least four English news channels surfing from one another during the last 60 hours of terror strike made me feel a terror of another kind. The terror of assaulting one's mind and sensitivity with cameras, sound bites and non-stop blabbers. All these channels have been trying to manufacture my consent for a big lie called - Hotel Taj the icon of India. Whose India, Whose Icon ?
It is a matter of great shame that these channels simply did not bother about the other icon that faced the first attack from terrorists - the Chatrapathi Shivaji Terminus (CST) railway station. CST is the true icon of Mumbai. It is through this railway station hundreds of Indians from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, West Bengal and Tamilnadu have poured into Mumbai over the years, transforming themselves into Mumbaikars and built the Mumbai of today along with the Marathis and Kolis. But the channels would not recognise this. Nor would they recognise the thirty odd dead bodies strewn all over the platform of CST. No Barkha dutt went there to tell us who they were. But she was at Taj to show us the damaged furniture and reception lobby braving the guards. And the TV cameras did not go to the government run JJ hospital to find out who those 26 unidentified bodies were. Instead they were again invading the battered Taj to try in vain for a scoop shot of the dead bodies of the page 3 celebrities.
In all probability, the unidentified bodies could be those of workers from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh migrating to Mumbai, arriving by train at CST without cell phones and pan cards to identify them. Even after 60 hours after the CST massacre, no channel has bothered to cover in detail what transpired there.

The sacrifice of the commandos or the police officers who went down dying at the hands of ruthless terrorists is no doubt heart rending but in vain in a situation which needed not just bran but also brain. Israel has a point when it says the operations were misplanned resulting in the death of its nationals here. Khakares and Salaskars would not be dead if they did not commit the mistake of traveling by the same vehicle. It is a basic lesson in management that the top brass should never travel together in crisis. The terrorists, if only they had watched the channels, would have laughed their hearts out when the Chief of the Marine commandos, an elite force, masking his face so unprofessionally in a see-through cloth, told the media that the commandos had no idea about the structure of the Hotel Taj which they were trying to liberate. But the terrorists knew the place thoroughly, he acknowledged.
Is it so difficult to obtain a ground plan of Hotel Taj and discuss operation strategy thoroughly for at least one hour before entering? This is something even an event manager would first ask for, if he had to fix 25 audio systems and 50 CCtvs for a cultural event in a hotel. Would not Ratan Tata have provided a plan of his ancestral hotel to the commandos within one hour considering the mighty apparatus at his and government's disposal? Are satelite pictures only available for terrorists and not the government agencies ? In an operation known to consume time, one more hour for preparation would have only improved the efficiency of execution. Sacrifices become doubly tragic in unprofessional circumstances. But the Aam Aadmis always believe that terror-shooters do better planning than terrorists. And the gullible media in a jingoistic mood would not
raise any question about any of these issues.

Incredible India ( Andhra Pradesh )

Trip To Andhra Pradesh:-..........  

Andhra Pradesh, known as the "Rice Granary of India" is the favourable tourist state in India, which has a coastline of 1000 kms with eight of its 23 districts having direct access to the sea. Located in South India, Andhra Pradesh is bounded by Tamil Nadu in the south, Maharashtra in the North and North-West, Madhya Pradesh in the North-East, Karnataka in the West, and by the Bay of Bengal in the East. The medieval city of Hyderabad is its capital. The main languages that are spoken in Andhra are Telugu, English, Urdu, Hindi.

It uniquely combines history, beaches and mountains into a great travel destination. The state of Andhra Pradesh is recognized variously-for its legendary dynasties; for its most revered temple, Tirupati; for its beautiful language, Telugu; for its lacquer toys and beautiful weaves; rich literature and the vibrant Kuchipudi. The Places to see in Andhra Pradesh are Sri Venkateswara temple at Tirupati, Charminar, Salar Jung Museum, Golconda Fort in Hyderabad and Buddhist viharas at Nagarjunasagar. Andhra Pradesh had been an important seat of rich Buddhist heritage. Andhra Pradesh has also the largest IT park and largest Film City in Asia. 

There are three main regions in Andhra Pradesh - (1) Northern Circars or coastal Andhra comprising Srikakulam, Visakhapatnam, East Godavari, West Godavari, Krishna, Guntur, Ongole and Nellore districts; (2) Rayalaseema or Ceded districts comprising Kurnool, Cuddapah, Chittoor and Anantapur districts; and (3) Telangana comprising Khammam, Nalgonda, Warangal, Karimnagar, Medak, Nizamabad, Aadilabad, Mahbubnagar and Hyderabad districts. The Circars or Coastal districts are well developed and enjoy a greater degree of affluence than the other two regions; Rayalaseema is close to the coastal districts and here rainfall is less than in the coastal districts and drought conditions prevail sometimes, and the Telangana region is of the former princely state of Nizam's Hyderabad, which is close to Maharashtra's Marathwada region and some parts of Karnataka.  

    Climate of the state: 

                                       Andhra Pradesh receives rainfall from the southwest monsoon as well as the northeast monsoon. The first begins in the second week of June and lasts till September while the second occurs in October-November. The state's coastal areas receive heavy rains during the northeast monsoon and are also subject to cyclonic conditions, which cause enormous damage to residential accommodation and to standing crops. The rainfall decreases from north to south. The Nizamabad district in Telangana receives about 87.5 cm of rain while Anantpur in Rayalaseema receives only 31 cm. The state has a really hot summer but after the rains begin in the middle of June, there is a decline in the heat when humidity takes over. There is a mild winter in December but the temperature does not go down below 16^o Celsius. While the southwest monsoon is comparatively heavy in the northern parts of the state, the northeast monsoon brings more rain to the southern areas like Rayalaseema. The hot season causes the mercury to rise to troublesome proportions in the months of April and May when it could shoot upto 40 degrees and more.

Places To Visit : 

1. Hyderabad : -  

                            Hyderabad is the fifth largest city in India with an ancient civilisation and culture. Hyderabad and Secunderbad are twin cities, seperated by Hussain sagar which is a man made lake. Hyderabad occupies a unique position on the map of India. With its confluence of cultures and traditions, the city is often described as a link between the north and the south, and a meeting place of the east and the west. The city is nearly 400 years old and is noted for its natural beauty, mosques and minarets, bazaars and bridges, hills and lakes. The name itself brings up visions of a vibrant city of minarets and modern high - rise buildings. A natural and sophisticated blend of old and new, an old 'Nawabi' culture with a new pro-active approach and hospitality. 

                                                                     

The teeming bazaars of the old city, in the midst of which stands the 400-year-old Charminar, the modern shopping complexes and ultra-modern malls in the newer areas of the city add to the charm of Hyderabad.

The Golconda Fort, capital of the kingdom by that name, is today very much part of the city, as is Cyberabad (means Cyber City), a new local area created to keep pace with the zooming Information Technology & Tourism sector. 

Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011

Steven Paul Jobs, 56, died Wednesday at his home with his family. The co-founder and, until last August, CEO of Apple Inc was the most celebrated person in technology and business on the planet. No one will take issue with the official Apple statement that “The world is immeasurably better because of Steve.”

It had taken a while for the world to realize what an amazing treasure Steve Jobs was. But Jobs knew it all along. That was part of what was so unusual about him. From at least the time he was a teenager, Jobs had a freakish chutzpah. At age 13, he called up the head of HP and cajoled him into giving Jobs free computer chips. It was part of a lifelong pattern of setting and fulfilling astronomical standards.
Throughout his career, he was fearless in his demands. He kicked aside the hoops that everyone else had to negotiate and straightforwardly and brazenly pursued what he wanted. When he got what he wanted — something that occurred with astonishing frequency — he accepted it as his birthright.

If Jobs were not so talented, if he were not so visionary, if he were not so canny in determining where others had failed in producing great products and what was necessary to succeed, his pushiness and imperiousness would have made him a figure of mockery.

But Steve Jobs was that talented, visionary and determined. He combined an innate understanding of technology with an almost supernatural sense of what customers would respond to. His conviction that design should be central to his products not only produced successes in the marketplace but elevated design in general, not just in consumer electronics but everything that aspires to the high end.

As a child of the sixties who was nurtured in Silicon Valley, his career merged the two strains in a way that reimagined business itself. And he did it as if he didn’t give a damn who he pissed off. He could bully underlings and corporate giants with the same contempt. But when he chose to charm, he was almost irresistible. His friend, Heidi Roizen, once gave advice to a fellow Apple employee that the only way to avoid falling prey to the dual attacks of venom and charm at all hours was not to answer the phone. That didn’t work, the employee said, because Jobs lived only a few blocks away. Jobs would bang on the door and not go away.

For most of his 56 years, Steve Jobs banged on doors, but for the past dozen or so very few were closed to him. He was the most adored and admired business executive on the planet, maybe in history. Presidents and rock stars came to see him. His fans waited up all night to gain entry into his famous “Stevenote” speeches at Macworld, almost levitating with anticipation of what Jobs might say. Even his peccadilloes and dark side became heralded.

His accomplishments were unmatched. People who can claim credit for game-changing products — iconic inventions that become embedded in the culture and answers to Jeopardy questions decades later — are few and far between. But Jobs has had not one, not two, but six of these breakthroughs, any one of which would have made for a magnificent career. In order: the Apple II, the Macintosh, the movie studio Pixar, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. (This doesn’t even include the consistent, brilliant improvements to the Macintosh operating system, or the Apple retail store juggernaut.) Had he lived a natural lifespan, there would have almost certainly been more.

 

Behind any human being is a mystery: What happened to make him … him? When considering extraordinary people, the question becomes an obsession. What produces the sort of people who create world-changing products, inspire by example and shock by justified audacity, and tag billions of minds with memetic graffiti? What led to his dead-on product sense, his haughty confidence, his ability to simultaneously hector and inspire people to do their best work?

His gene pool was intriguing. His biological parents were Abdulfattah John Jandali, a Syrian immigrant; and a graduate student named Joanne Simpson. Unmarried when her son was born on February 24, 1955, Simpson gave him up for adoption. She later married Jandali and had another child, award-winning novelist Mona Simpson. Jobs grew up in a middle-class suburb with two loving parents, Paul and Clara Jobs. (He had a sister, Patti, who survives him.) Though he did make a successful effort to find his birth mother, he never seemed to warm to the theory that his drive was a subconscious reaction to a conjectured rejection. He always spoke highly of the family that raised him. “I grew up at a time where we were all well-educated in public schools, a time of peace and stability until the Vietnam War got going in the late sixties,” he said.

The turmoil in those sixties was also part of his make-up. “We wanted to more richly experience why were we were alive,” he said of his generation, “not just make a better life, and so people went in search of things. The great thing that came from those that time was to realize that there was definitely more to life than the materialism of the late 50’s and early sixties. We were going in search of something deeper.”

He went to Reed, a well-regarded liberal arts school known as a hippie haven, but dropped out after a semester, choosing to audit courses informally. (Including a class on calligraphy that would come in very handy in later years.) Jobs also took LSD in those years, and would claim that those experiences affected his outlook permanently and positively. After leaving Oregon, he traveled to India. All of these experiences had an effect on the way he saw the world — and the way he would make products to change that world.

Jobs usually had little interest in public self-analysis, but every so often he’d drop a clue to what made him tick. Once he recalled for me some of the long summers of his youth. I’m a big believer in boredom,” he told me. Boredom allows one to indulge in curiosity, he explained, and “out of curiosity comes everything.” The man who popularized personal computers and smartphones — machines that would draw our attention like a flame attracts gnats — worried about the future of boredom. “All the [technology] stuff is wonderful, but having nothing to do can be wonderful, too.”

In an interview with a Smithsonian oral history project in 1995, Jobs talked about how he learned to read before he got to school — that and chasing butterflies was his passion. School was a shock to him — “I encountered authority of a different kind than I had ever encountered before, and I did not like it,” he said. By his own account he became a troublemaker. Only the ministrations of a wise fourth grade teacher — who lured him back to learning with bribes and then hooked him with fascinating projects — rekindled his love of learning.

अन्ना बने दूसरे गांधी, गांधी परिवार ही मुश्किल में!!!!!!

नवरात्र में उपवास रखकर लोग अपनी मनोकामना को पूरी कर रहे हैं तो दूसरी तरफ समाज सेवी अन्ना हजारे ने आमरण अनशन कर देश को भ्रष्टाचार मुक्त कराने के अपने संकल्प पर अडिग है और उनकी यही मनोकामना है कि देश को भ्रष्टाचार और भ्रष्टाचारियों से मुक्त कराया जाए। पूरे देश के लिए लड़ाई लड़ने वाले यह शख्स आज देश के दूसरा गांधी बन गए हैं। जिन्होंने गांधी को नहीं देखा वे अन्ना को देखकर यह अंदाजा लगा सकते हैं कि महात्मा गाधी ने किस तरह अहिंसा, आमरण अनशन और असहयोग आंदोलन का सहारा लेकर अंग्रेजों के नाक में दम कर दिया था और अंग्रेजों से देश को मुक्ति दिलाई थी। उसी सदगी, ईमानदारी और नेकी के रास्ते पर चलते हुए यह अन्ना हजारे देश को भ्रष्टाचार से मुक्त कराना चाहते हैं। उस समय लड़ाई पराए लोगों से थी लेकिन इस बार घर की लड़ाई है और घर के लोगों से ही है और इस कारण यह महायुद्ध पहले से कहीं ज्यादा मुश्किल और महत्वपूर्ण है। हालांकि उनका यह महायुद्ध रंग लाने लगा है और देश की करोड़ों जनता के साथ-साथ, बुद्धिजीवी वर्ग, बॉलीवुड कलाकार, छात्र और युवा उनका भरपूर सहयोग कर रहे हैं। इसी कारण वर्तमान सरकार भी पशोपेश में पड़ गई है। अपनी नींव हिलता देख खुद गांधी परिवार की वर्तमान मुखिया सोनिया गांधी को आगे आने पड़ा। सरकार को ज्यादा फजीहत न झेलनी पड़े, इस कारण उनकी कई मांगों को मान भी लिया गया है। वहीं शरद पवार ने जीओएम से पहले ही अपने पांव पीछे खींच लिए हैं, क्योंकि वे जानते है कि मेरा दामन कितना पाक है और भ्रष्टाचार में उनका कौन सा नंबर है। खैर, भ्रष्टाचार को लेकर अगर येदि नेताओं में इस तरह की गिनती की जाए तो यह बताना मुश्किल हो जाएगा कि पहले नंबर पर किस नेता को रखा जाए। सबसे महत्वूपर्ण यह है कि इस आंदोलन का आगाज तो हो चुका है लेकिन इसका अंजाम देश की कमजोर कड़ी और विकास में बाधक बन रहे रहे भ्रष्टाचार से मुक्ति से ही होना चाहिए। यह बहुत अच्छा अवसर है जब पूरी जनता खासकर युवाओं को एक बार फिर से मौका मिला है कि वो खुद को खुदीराम बोस, भगत सिंह, सुखदेव और आजाद साबित करें और भ्रष्टाचार जैसे दैत्य से देश को मुक्त कराएं। जय हिंद!

गुनाहों का देवता : एक अहसास

पढने के शौक के चलते यूं तो ये उपन्यास पहले शायद 9th में पढा था, मगर कुछ भी याद नहीं था। पिछले दिनों  दिल्ली बुक फेयर में हिन्दी के इक्लौते स्टाल पर जब गुनाहों का देवता दिखाई दिया तो सोंचा इसे भी अपने पुस्तकों के संकलन में शामिल कर लें।
इतवार को कुछ वक्त मिला तो सोंचा इसे पढना शुरु कर देते हैं। आराम से कम से कम एक हफ्ते में पढ जायेगा। पर पढना शुरु करने के बाद अपने आप को रोकना मुश्किल था। कल शाम को इसे खत्म करने के बाद मन एक अजीब सी उदासी से घिरा हुआ है। एक अजीब सा भारीपन है जिसे समझना मुश्किल सा लग रहा है। सोंचा था बहुत कुछ लिखेंगे, पर मन अभी भी उन पात्रों के बीच भटका हुआ है। जिन्होंने भी गुनाहों का देवता पढा है, वो मेरी हालत समझ पा रहे होंगे।
वैसे देखा जाय तो ये एक सीधी सी कहानी है, पर भावनाओं से एकदूसरे से बंधे सभी पात्र और कहानी विलक्षण हैं। कभी ये पात्र अपने बीच के से लगते हैं तो कभी किसी दूसरी दुनिया के से। सुधा और चंदर मुख्य पात्र हैं बहुत ज्यादा प्रभावित करते हैं। वे एकदूसरे से इतना प्यार करते हैं कि उसकी पराकाष्टा बलिदान और त्याग में होती है। वे एक ओर महान हैं तो दूसरी ओर उनमें मनुष्यगत कम्जोरियां भी हैं, इन्हें वे स्वीकार भी करते हैं । पर हमारा पसंदीदा चरित्र बिनती का है। जो एक साधारण और व्यवहारिक लडकी है। उसके चरित्र में आरम्भ से अंत तक जो परिवर्तन दिखाया गया है, वो आशा की ओर ले जाता है।
आधा उपन्यास पढने के बाद ही पता नहीं क्यों अहसास हो गया था कि सुधा को तो जाना ही है। और जो उपसंहार है , लगता है इससे बेहतर कुछ हो ही नहीं सकता था।
शायद कुछ दिन बाद, या कुछ साल बाद इसे दोबारा पढेंगे, तब शायद कुछ और गहराई से समझ पायेंगे।
किताब का आखरी अंश बहुत ही सुंदर है;

.....चीख से चन्दर जैसे होश में आ गया। थोडी देर चुपचाप रहा फिर झुककर अंजलि में पानी लेकर मुंह धोया और बिनती के आंचल से पोंछकर बहुत मधुर स्वर में बोला-"बिनती, रोओ मत! मेरी समझ में कुछ नहीं आता कुछ भी! रोओ मत!" चन्दर का गला भर आया और आंसू छलक आये-"चुप हो जाओ रानी!मैं अब इस तरह कभी नहीं करूंगा-उठो! अब हम दोनों को निभाना है, बिनती!" चन्दर ने तख्त पर छीना छपटी में बिख्ररी हुई राख चुटकी में उठाई और बिनती की मांग में भरकर मांग चूम ली। उसके होंठ राख से सन गये।
सितारे टूट चुके थे। तूफान खत्म हो चुका था।
नाव किनारे पर आकर लग गई थी-मल्लाह को चुपचाप रुपये देकर बिनती का हांथ थामकर चन्दर ठोस धरती पर उतर पडा....'मुरदा चांदनी में दो छायाएं मिलती-जुलती हुई चल दीं।
गंगा की लहरों मे बनता हुआ राख का सांप टूट फूट कर बिखर चुका थाऔर नदी फिर उसी तरह बहने लगी थी जैसे कभी कुछ हुआ ही न हो।

...एक अनकही कहानी!

लिखना कभी उसका पैशन हुआ करता था.. कुछ लिखे बिना उसे जीना नहीं आता था, लिखना जैसे की उसके लिए सांस लेना जैसा था. कुछ कविता या नज़्म नहीं तो डायरी या फिर यूँ ही बेलौस बस लिखे जाना उसकी आदत सी थी. अगर वो कुछ पढता भी तो उसकी कलम उसके साथ होती थी. किताब पर वो कुछ नहीं लिखता था पर उसकी साफ़ शफ्फाक किताबों में रक्खी छोटी छोटी पर्चियों में उसकी समझ के अनुसार वो किताब पढ़ी जा सकती थी. उसके पर्स में हमेशा एक सफ़ेद पन्ना और जेब में एक कलम जरुर होती थी. पर अपने लिखे हुए को वो संभाल कर नहीं रखता था! ये भी उसकी सभी अजीब आदतों सी एक आदत थी. अपनी आदतों में बंधा हुआ  था, और अपनी आदतों से अलग कुछ करने में वो परेशान हो जाता  था, झुंझला जाता था.  एक बंधे बंधाये रूटीन में उसकी ज़िन्दगी चलती थी. बस इसी तरह जीना उसे आता था.....

 और फिर एक दिन उसकी ज़िन्दगी ने करवट ली, वक्त की डाली पर एक नयी कोंपल नए मौसम के साथ यूँ उगी की पूरी फिजा ही बदल गयी. मुस्कुराहटों के मौसम छा गए. अब अपनी खुली किताब सी ज़िन्दगी वो छिपाने लगा. उसे लगता की उसके जज्बे कोई उसके चहरे पर ही न पढ़ ले. और लिखना तो बस यूँ ही बंद हो गया. अब वो पढता भी तो कुछ लिखता नहीं की कोई कुछ अंदाजे न लगा ले. यूँ सबसे सब कुछ छिपा कर रखना भी उसकी आदत सी हो गई..अब वो सपनों में जीता था, उसके ख़्वाब उसकी अमानत थे..और वो अपने ख़्वाबों की दुनिया का सह्जादा था ..अब वो लिखता नहीं था, अपने शब्दों को खुद जीता था, वो एक जीती जागती कहानी बन ग़या था....एक अनकही कहानी!

True love stories never have endings

Another equally or rather more relevant fact is, holding the love. Finding the love but not keeping it, give the worst kind of wound one can ever have. There is famous quotation that' wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them'.

This is famous quote by Richard Bach ...how true it is?

I think this is perfectly true. I believe true love works on the same principle as they say the enzymes (catalyst) works i.e the lock and key theory. There is only one key to every lock and likewise there is only one key to your heart and God has provided that key to only a single soul on this earth. Problem is that he has not created a duplicate key at all.

But the million dollar question is whether you happen to meet that keyman of yours in your lifetime or not? And if you are the lucky one who succeeds in finding that keyman it means you have got your soul mate.

Yes friends this is the most important truth of life. Because I believe that love is equally important to survive as are air, water and food. You can sustain without love but you cannot live the life without it.

Another equally or rather more relevant fact is, holding the love. Finding the love but not keeping it, give the worst kind of wound one can ever have. There is famous quotation that” wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them”. So these wounds can never be healed if one is not able to keep the love.

It is said that time is the greatest healer but even that does not work in case of the wounds of true love. Love does not fade away with time, it may get buried somewhere deep in your heart but it will stay there as long as you are going to stay on this earth. Howsoever you may try to evade it or ignore it or overpower it, it will not go. There is no eraser that can rub the writings of love form your soul.

People say love lies in your heart but it actually is in your soul, so you cannot do much to evacuate your soul of the love once its has been made to enter it.

But if you are able to come out of the dense clouds of love, it was never love at all a very thin line of difference exist between true love and the attachment. Attachment may die with time but nothing can kill love. Even betrayal cannot do it though it may change the course of love.


If you happen to think about someone with or without any reason it is love. A thought of someone, if brings tears in your eyes or a smile on your face, it is love.

It is said that everything is OK in the end and if it is not OK it is not the end, So true love stories never have endings. They are endless, continuous like the day and night, autumn and spring. They go on and on and on.

Not everybody is able to meet his/her soul mate and if you think you have found the one, please don’t let him or her go at any cost.