taimoor.me is now Online

Its been a long run, a very long run. Though in between we may have had prolonged absences it has still been a considerable amount of time since we have used this space to create, share and explore a variety of thoughts & ideas. However, circumstances are such that we now bid farewell.

Though the change would not be majorly visible on the face of it since we move to what has been created more or less as an exact replica of the old Mind Storm essentially Mind Storm has re spawned again.

So I bid you farewell at taimoor.wordpress.com and welcome you to a place of fresh possibilities and new beginnings taimoor.me

Urdu Adab ka Janaza

Ik zamanay tak apnay khayalata ko angrizi main qalam band kernay kay baad hum nay soocha keh inhe khayalat ke akase Urdu zaban main bhe kerne chaye. Akhir yeah humari madari zaban hai aur is ka bhe hum per haq hai. Chunanchay, apnay dostoon ke iltajha kay bawajood, khe hamara Urdu main likhnay say Urdu adab ke moat waqay ho jae ge, hum nay is zaban main bhe apnay khayalat ko tehreer kernay hai pukhta azam banna leya. Ab sawal yea paida howa keh shuruat kee kidher say jae. Ik taraf kalaam likhnay ka khayal aye tu dosree taraf ik afsana. Akhir main soocha keh moqay ke munasabat say shair kahee jaen tu yea ik acha pehla kadam ho sakta hai. Wesse bhe angrizi main likhnay ka agaz bhe ma badolat nahin shaire say he keya tha.

Is silsalay main hamaray ik dost Rabbani sahib nay bhe hamare kaffe madat ke. Becharay akhir main khud he pachtae, liken merray nazarye say un kay pashtanay main Urdu adab ka ik nihayat he nafees adeeb/shair apne is silhayat ko pehchanay kay kabil howa. Rabbani sahib say mushwarat kay sath hum nay apna pehla shair porra keya, jo keh kuch essay hai

Ankhoon he ankhoon main keh deya, mujhay tum say peyar hai
Kahan ho mere sanam, terra intezar hai

Is shair kay filmi rujhanat kay mutaliq humain kaffe took jhook ka samna kerna para. Albata, is say bara masla yea tha keh humari ik qaribi dost bhe isse naam say pukare jateen hain. Ab shaire kernay ke thane hai Urdu main, aur sanam ka naam istamal kernay say hitchkichayen. Yea baat kuch munasib nahin lagte. Leken ab jab shair kehnay ke thaan le tu is tarhaan kay masiall tu paish ayeen gay. Almia yea hai keh is khayal kay sath bhe hamara dosra shair kuch essay kaha gya

Talo-e-aftab say terra intezar hai sanam
Gul-e-kanwal per aa gya ab, mager teree ana na mani

Is shair say humain kaffe shurat hasil howe aur tareefen bhe sunnay ko mileen. Chand logoon ka tu apni angrizi main likhay gye tehreeron ka taruf bhe hum nay is shair he kay ziryay keya. Dosra hum shair kum keh rahay thay aur un pay logoon kay tasurat zeyada sun rahay thay. Sath main khayal aya khe koi takhalus bhe chun lenna chaye. Rabbani sahib nay ik daffa “sexy” ka lafz tajweez keya tha, liken humain is ka wazan shair main bethtay maloom nahin howa. Khair, mukhtasir alfaz main yeah kehna sahe ho ga khe humara takhalus nay tay paya.

Ishar ke kami kay bais hum nay ik din beth ker chand bachkana shair likhay, jis main say ik ka ziker na kerna zayadte kehlae ga.

Idher hum aur udher tum
Ik ke choonch aur ik ked um

Ik aur shair kuch is tarhan say hay

Sitaroon say agay jahan aur bhe hain
Wahan Roti Kapra aur Makan bhe hai

Iqbal ke shaire ka aisay bay darde say galla katna kaffe logoon ko na manzoor tha. Hum nay is ko mazhaya shaire kay zamray main daal ker mazarat chaye, leken ab tak humaray dostoon ka sabar ka paimana labraiz ho chukka tha. Akhir hum nay Urdu nazam ko waqte taur per alwida kaha.

Raita pehlanay ke umang the humare
Yeahan tu damgh ke dahi ban gye

Ab hum nay soocha hai khe apni silhayatoon ka andaza Urdu nasar main lageen gay. Isse silsalay main Urdu adab ka janaza humare pehle tehreer hai. Albata, essa na soochain khe hamara Urdu main likhnay kay azam ko koi thees pohanche hai.

Zamana humain kuch bhe bolay
Hum tas say mas nahin hongay

Risk, Intelligence and Business

An interestin disucssion going on at Hasseb’s blog. Here is my take on it…

Intelligence is not as much related with taking risks as we think it does. “Higher the risk, higher the return” is one of the fundamentals of finance. However, that fundamental says nothing about intelligence. Point being that, one might be stupid and therefore he might take a risk just because of the fact that he has no idea what he is getting into. This person has a chance of failure but stupidity does not always mean failure so he can be successful too (remember Forrest Gump).

Coming to the intelligent person, now when this person would take a risk, he would assess the risk. He would know how much risk is involved, what are the losses he might have to bear and also, what would be the profits if his risk pays off.

Now with all of this knowledge, why would he not take the risk? That is a behavioral question; people are risk averse or risk takers. Even a stupid (or less intelligent) risk averse person would not try out something new, or enter into a risky venture.

What we call jugari over here is actually innovation. I prefer the latter word over the former because jugar has a negative connotation attached to it, in fact munir’s reply also takes jugar as a wrong practice. The word sounds like you are cheating. What an innovator does it that he finds a new way of solving an old problem, thereby finding new avenues and turning them into profit.

Elaborating on jugari, one of the reasons for it to have a negative meaning associated with it might be because in general we (Pakistanis) try to find shortcuts. In doing so, the quality or the substance is lost. So jugar seems to have two meanings now; one, innovation, two, shortcuts. Shortcuts of course don’t deliver. So a business man using shortcuts to get his product across might not be so successful in the long run bcause he is not just bypassing important aspects, he is completely ignoring them. However, an innovator is not doing that and therefore, has higher chance of sucess.

Like Hasseb asked at the end of his post; what is your opinion?

NOTICE

After the explicit big balls and a HUGE no blogging period I will soon write part 2 of “From Here to Eternity”. The reason being the change of some facts, which I would like to update. Why do I write this notice, more importantly why the fuck do I even come to this god forsaken place and write all this crap?

Answer. I dont have anything better to do!

Signing out!