Sajeda

She's an old soul with young eyes, a vintage heart, and a beautiful mind.
- Nicole Lyons

[Sajeda @saj_bibliophile]

I wonder if you talked about me, as
you went home, or thought of me when the moon rose…

Virginia Woolf, Letters

[Sajeda @saj_bibliophile]

इस
कठिन समय में
तुम्हारे आने के ख़्याल भी
सुख देते हैं

~निलय उपाध्याय

@Kitabganj1

[D Prasanth Nair @DPrasanthNair]

The movie "Anand" hurts differently once you grow older.

As children, you notice Rajesh Khanna’s charm.
That smile. That warmth. That impossible ability to make even illness look full of life.

Then adulthood arrives and suddenly Babu Moshai starts making sense too.

Amitabh Bachchan’s silence in that film is extraordinary. He spends half the movie watching Anand live loudly while quietly preparing himself for loss. And somewhere between them, Hrishikesh Mukherjee creates one of Hindi cinema’s gentlest heartbreaks.

“Babumoshai… zindagi badi honi chahiye, lambi nahin.”

That dialogue survived generations for a reason.

Notice how simple the film looks today.
No manipulative background score screaming for tears. No dramatic hospital glamour. Just conversations, humanity and the unbearable knowledge that some people enter life briefly only to leave permanent emotional damage behind.

Even the ending feels strangely quiet.
Like somebody important just left the room… but their voice is still floating around somewhere.

Rcvd from WA (courtesy FB page Timeless Indian Melodies)
@SanjayMuthal

[Sajeda @saj_bibliophile]

Someone will outshine you in borrowed light,
but none will carry your shadows with grace.

~ unknown

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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”

— Anaïs Nin

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“If you are alone, you belong entirely to yourself.”

― Leonardo da Vinci

[Sajeda @saj_bibliophile]

जिन्हें इंतजार आता है,
उन तक बसंत खुद चल कर आता है।

@Kitabganj1

[Sajeda @saj_bibliophile]

दुनिया को अपने रंग खोने से बचना होगा!
~ अज्ञात

[Sajeda @saj_bibliophile]

उसके घर का पता
अब भी
एक फूल है।।

@Kitabganj1

[Sajeda @saj_bibliophile]

ज़िंदगी और हैं कितने, तेरे चेहरे ये बता,
तुझसे इक उम्र की हालाँकि शनासाई है।

#मुखौटा #अमीर_क़ज़लबाश
(शनासाई: जान पहचान)
Via @AbidZaidi1

[Sajeda @saj_bibliophile]

“I know I'll always think of you with something like hurt & nostalgia — and a great deal of love.”

~ Sylvia Plath, Letters

[Sajeda @saj_bibliophile]

“In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.”

― Jonas Mekas

@Kitabganj1

[Sajeda @saj_bibliophile]

लोग नए साल में बहुत कुछ नया मांगेंगे
पर मुझे वही पुराना तुम्हारा साथ चाहिए

~ गुलज़ार

[Sajeda @saj_bibliophile]

इक दीवार पे चाँद टिका था
मैं ये समझा तुम बैठे हो

उजले उजले फूल खिले थे
बिल्कुल जैसे तुम हँसते हो

मुझ को शाम बता देती है
तुम कैसे कपड़े पहने हो

~बशीर बद्र

[Sajeda @saj_bibliophile]

@Tere_do_nainaaa

[Sajeda @saj_bibliophile]

@Tere_do_nainaaa

[Sajeda @saj_bibliophile]

तुम
सर्द पड़ते
इस शहर में

एक गर्म अफ़वाह हो।।

@Kitabganj1

[Sajeda @saj_bibliophile]

कितना उम्मीद भरा होता है,
किसी भी शहर में
फूलों को बिकते देखना..

कि

इस शहर में प्रेम अब तलक
गैरकानूनी नहीं हुआ..

@Kitabganj1

[Sajeda @saj_bibliophile]

Never underestimate the power of kindness, empathy, and compassion in your interactions with others.

—Ratan Tata

[Sajeda @saj_bibliophile]

Never tell a young person that anything can not be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

G. M. Trevelyan