Second Terminal

Aawazen kuchh sunaai de rahi hain

shayad tum yahi par ho

Hawa thandi si tan ko sehla rahi hai

shayad tum yahi par ho

Blinking cursor jaisa mera ye dil kehta hai

shayad tum yahi par ho

Mana hame mile kaafi waqt hua aaj,

par hawa me tere deo ki khushbu kehti hai

shayad tum yahi par ho

Yaad hai wo pal jab aaya tha error

Download failed due to unrecognized mirror

Try kiya tumne phir run karne ka program

Nahi hua lekin samasya ka samadhaan

Frustration ka chhaya phir kaala sa saya

Uth ke tumne phir control, shift T dabaya

Kho gaya mai andhero me aashayen man me liye

Pata hai mujhe tum aaoge ekdin mere liye

Din ho gaye kaafi shayad nahi milenge hum

Dheere dheere teri memory se bhi mit jayenge hum

Lagta hai ab zaroorat poori ho gayi hai hamari

Garbage collection ki hamne bhi kar li hai tayyari

Pata hai hume ki man ko ateet me le jaoge kabhi

Un galiyon me sair karte huye hame mil jaoge kabhi

Do baatein keh ke, do kadam saath chal ke

Laut jana waapis sagar ki owr

Miti miti si yaadon ko pyaas bhar ke peene do

Kheech lena phir tum itihaas ki dor

Himmat hai abhi baaki ki intezaar kare tera

Sansen chalengi ye waada hai mera

Prakash thoda dikh raha hai, geet koi likh raha hai

Yellow si light me tumhaare joint ka dhuan dikh raha hai

shayad tum yahi par ho

Baarish

Galti hai teri nazaron ki jo badalon ko sharminda karti hai

Unke dil me khud sa banne ki chahato ko zinda karti hai

Surkh syah sa, krishna ke tan jaisa karp swaroop

aas paas mandraati, athkheliyan leti naram dhoop

Parvat ki shikha pakad kar chori se chhup ke

nihaarta in naino ko, in jaisa banne ki chahat me

Kabhi aage kabhi peechhe hawa se jhagadte huye

waqt se mangta hai aur thoda waqt, guzarte huye

Kabhi lomdi sa niharta hua, kabhi singh sa dahadta hua

Kabhi khargosh sa bach ke uchhalta hua, dheemi chaal se pighalta hua

tere naino ki shama me parwaane ki tarah jalta hua

tere chehre ki ye muskaan paake khushi se uchhalta hua

Galti hai teri nazron ki par hum unhe maaf karte hain

Kyuki teri bheegi palken (alag hi daastan bayan karti hain) kehti hain ek aur hi kahani

Society: A lost cause(?)

"To call this population of strangers in the midst of which we live "society" is such a usurpation that even sociologists wonder if they should abandon a con­cept that was, for a century, their bread and butter.

Now they prefer the metaphor of a network to describe the connection of cybernetic solitudes, the inter-meshing of weak interactions under names like "colleague," "contact," "buddy," "acquaintance," or "date." Such networks sometimes condense into a milieu, where nothing is shared but codes, and where nothing is played out except the incessant recomposition of identity."

-- shared via a professor I revere.

Philosophy through Technology

There is so much that can be learnt everyday. How is there so much knowledge? What is the source of this knowledge which is exponentially increasing as the days are going by?

Each brain is at work to produce new knowledge and rest are busy acquiring it. Well, at least some are. So why not take a closer look at the source. The Brain. Everyone has got one (?). What is this part which is so powerful, its running this whole world. Why humans got command of running the world? Why not dogs? Imagine a world where dogs are forming the government and humans are slaughtered in China to serve rich dogs.

So coming to the topic, how is it that our technologies are no match for our brain? It has got THE most powerful pattern recognition engine. And we are trying hard to replicate it, but getting nowhere closer to it. As one of my Prof. says, “There is no FFT in brain”. Hmm...So our brain has got a super-perfect all-powerful all-knowing neural network. Our computational neuroscience guys are trying to study small parts of it and coming up with different models. These models can be programmed and a new type of neural net is born. Everyone attacks it to solve their problems. Somewhere they perform exceptionally well and somewhere they fail miserably. But how come a human brain with billions and trillions of interconnecting neurons is capable of performing exceptionally well in all situations. Or is it just our perception. A flawed human perception created by the master, the all-knowing “brain”.

How can we really understand the philosophy of all this? Certainly not just by being a Doctor of Philosophy. Aristotle, Plato, Kant and my favorite, Nietzsche, were all philosophers. But some of them were exceptional scientists too. They were real Doctors of Philosophy. Today, philosophy has a whole different meaning. Probably you are a lunatic if you have interest in it. It has lost its lustre. Well, if I have to connect the dots between philosophy and science today, then I would go deep into the brain, rather than searching it outside.

What if we are all subjects of a grand experiment where we all possess slightly different tweaked version of same network. Running around, playing, working, creating softwares, testing them, studying ourselves, making more like us, falling in love, writing poems, blogs, observing nature, yada yada yada. A perfect machine doing its work. Achieving high performance, failing hard, maybe this is the way to find ourselves. Maybe this is how we learn the Philosophy.