Gaurav Dholakiya

Cinephile | Minimalist

[Gaurav Dholakiya @ISelfGaurav]

Have tu gai chhe pele paar
Kai rite Olangu aa Sarhad ?

Tare Pradesh Jauu to
pachha avay nahi
Tara Pradesh ma tane
Shodhvi kya ?

Virus💙

[Gaurav Dholakiya @ISelfGaurav]

HBD to Kareena.

[Gaurav Dholakiya @ISelfGaurav]

HBD to timeless Lucky Ali.

[ϯαηѵεεɾ @KindaSabrful]

Cinema literacy matters because sometimes sanghis can't differentiate between a character's POV and a movie's message. i bet these sanghi want to call My Name Is Khan a propaganda movie, but they're too afraid to say it, just to save their image. this was Irrfan's last monologue.

[Gaurav Dholakiya @ISelfGaurav]

Remembering Rituparno Ghosh on his birth anniversary.

Forever grateful for this.

[Gaurav Dholakiya @ISelfGaurav]

Those good old days when salim marchent gave his voice to hindi music.
Courtesy : Paathhaala movie

[goma @soigomaa]

History is written by those who had power, not by those who were good. Winston Churchill deliberately starved millions of people because he believed them to be less than human. He let Bengalis die while stocking their grain. When Australia offered wheat and Canada offered grain as a free gift requiring no purchase, just shipping, he still blocked it. He sat in documented meetings and expressed no intention of letting millions of dying people interfere with his operations. Three million people died.
That man was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Not despite what he did, but while he was still doing it.
A man who died with the blood of millions on his hands, with a soul so rotten that whatever hell he ended up in probably still lingers with that stench, is remembered in statues, school curriculums, and Western nostalgia. His character is treated as a matter of perspective. It is not. It is a matter of truth

[Gaurav Dholakiya @ISelfGaurav]

Happy rakshabandhan.

[Lala_ki_beti @05Tejaswini]

भाइयों को यह वर्षों बाद
पता चलता
कि जिन घरों में
बहनों को दिया गया

वे घर तो
तमाम
मुसीबतों से
भरे हुए थे
और बहनों पर
यह ज़िम्मेदारी
आयद हुई
कि वे सविनय उद्यम के साथ
उन घरों को
सहने-रहने लायक़
बनाती रहें

और हम
उनकी इन मुश्किलों से बेपरवाह
अपनी ख़ुद की
गृहस्थी में
इतने मगन कि
भूल ही जाते थे
कि पृथ्वी के किसी कोने में
अभी जीवित बची हुई हैं
हमारी बहनें

बीच में इतने लंबे
ख़ामोश अंतराल होते ही थे
फिर वे किसी दृश्य में
किसी स्वप्न
किसी ख़ुशी
या संकट में
अचानक उपस्थित
हो जातीं
अपने होने के भ्रम को
पुख़्ता करतीं
हमें अपने किसी ऐसे
जीवन की याद
दिलातीं जो ख़त्म हो गया था
और उसका अभिलेखागार भी
किसी रहस्यमई आग में
जलकर कब का नष्ट हो चुका था

जब माँ और पिता
दोनों नहीं रहे
वे भाभियों में
खोजती रहीं
माँ
और भाइयों में
पिता
लेकिन भाई-भाभियों को
लगता कि वे जायदाद में
हिस्सा माँगने
की जुगत में हैं

फिर वे हताश
ग़ायब हो जातीं
अपने ही अरण्य में
और अंतराल
और लंबे
हो जाते
और अधिक ख़ामोश
लेकिन क्या था
इस ढहते हुए घर में
कि वे हमेशा
हँसते हुए आतीं
और रोते हुए जातीं
जबकि उनका अपना भी
एक घर-बार था

जो भी थीं
जैसी भी थीं
सारी उम्मीदें उनकी
उसी घर में थीं
बावजूद इसके
कि उनकी दाढ़ें दुखती थीं
टूट रहे थे बाल
पीठ में उठती ही
रहती थी
दर्द की लहर
और जाँचों में
निकलते थे
नए-नए रोग
कभी-कभार
हमें भी
आ ही जाता था
याद
कि हाँ
इसी घर में
गिरती थीं रोशनियाँ
जिनमें बनती थीं
जीवंत परछाइयाँ

अब न यह
वैसा घर रहा
और न
रोशनियों के पर्दे
और न वे परछाइयाँ

जो दरअस्ल
हमारी बहनें थीं।

~कुमार अम्बुज 🌼💚
#Rakshabandhan #RakhiSpecial #celebrations🎉❤️

[Gaurav Dholakiya @ISelfGaurav]

HBD Legend K.K

[Gaurav Dholakiya @ISelfGaurav]

HBD to the legendary lyricist and Urdu poet Padma Bhushan shri Gulzar sahab.
Courtesy : Kaminey movie

[Gagan @talrejajeee]

6. Aaj independence day par parsai ka lekh ठिठुरता हुआ गणतंत्र padhne ka accha mauqa hai

https://t.co/3brZ0Zo4QA

[Kali Yuga Surfer @kaliyuga_surfer]

Found the Azad Hind national anthem, and honestly it sounds much better than Jana gana mana.

The lyrics are easily understandable, and does a better job of bringing out that sense of nationalism.

[Shah Rukh Khan @iamsrk]

A very Happy Independence Day to all..
There’s something special about being Indian...the colours, the contrasts, the beautiful differences, the spirit and above all, the feeling of belonging to something much bigger than ourselves...our Country.
May we always value what we have and do our little bit to make our country proud.
Proud to be an Indian and love being one. Jai Hind!

[Shah Rukh Khan @iamsrk]

Happy Independence Day to all…Jai Hind.

[daksh. @mythicbxrnn]

Javed Akhtar about how godse was funded by RSS and extreme hindutva leaders to kill the great gandhi ji🎙️:

" Godse did not want to kill the gandhi. He wanted to kill peace, respect , equality and secularism. that thought, that idea, that dream, that hope whose name was Gandhi. But desires, dreams, hopes, principles, and truths do not die with bullets. So, Gandhi is alive, and those who hate Gandhi know this better than you or I. They don't have the courage. That Gandhi whose murder they orchestrated, that Gandhi whose every ideal and principle they oppose, they cannot even speak ill of him. They still have to stand at Rajghat with folded hands. Gandhi will always alive and superior to all.

" Hoping that in 200-300 years, they will reduce the stature of this statue. That is not going to happen. Because Gandhi lives in every Indian, in some hearts less, in some more; in some thoughts less, in some more.

But let me tell you one thing: it is not just Gandhi who is alive. The man who killed Gandhi, who was hanged a few days later, he is also alive. Because he, too, was a thought. He, too, was an ideology. He was not just one man. It was not one man who fired the bullet; a socio-political ideology fired that shot. And that too is alive.

[Harsh 17  @harsh03443]

When an Introverted Man expresses his Love...

[The Nehru Blog 🇮🇳 @TheNehruBlog]

Today, it is birthday of historian Irfan Habib..

Petty jealousies of petty men might now remove Nehru's name from institutions and buildings, but so long as truth and reason still find an audience among his people, Nehru and his works can never be forgotten.
—Prof. Irfan Habib

[Srinivas singer @singersrinivas]

Dil chahta hai released this day 25 years back and I am still living that dream. This one song is enough for a lifetime. Thanks @Javedakhtarjadu @FarOutAkhtar @Shankar_Live @EhsaanNoorani Loy and everyone. Fills my heart always

[CinemaRare @CinemaRareIN]

We had culture. We had vision. We had no idea how good we had it.

[Gaurav Dholakiya @ISelfGaurav]

Ishq Majnu ki woh aavaz hai jiske aage koi Laila kisi deewaar se roki na gayi