Mukhtasar Si Baat with Shailja

Re-uploading Episode 9 as a small portion somehow got trimmed during previous upload.

This week on Mukhtasar Si Baat - an idea that stalked me from the pages of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and 'A Suitable Boy'...all the way to the beautiful love story of Amrita-Sahir-Imroz...#RanjhaYaRabBekhud karne waale logon se aap bhi mile honge? Share with me.Also remembering Amrita Pritam on her birthday on 31st August…#AmritaPritam #MirTaqiMir #Gulzar #AnnaKarenina #ASuitableBoy #Khayyam #JohnOdonohue #Bazaar #Rumi #Hafiz #Triveni #longing #belonging #home #edgeoftheexperience

This week on Mukhtasar Si Baat - an idea that stalked me from the pages of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and 'A Suitable Boy'...all the way to the beautiful love story of Amrita-Sahir-Imroz...#RanjhaYaRab

Bekhud karne waale logon se aap bhi mile honge? Share with me.Also remembering Amrita Pritam on her birthday on 31st August…

#AmritaPritam #MirTaqiMir #Gulzar #AnnaKarenina #ASuitableBoy #Khayyam #JohnOdonohue #Bazaar #Rumi #Hafiz #Triveni #longing #belonging #home #edgeoftheexperience

Wishing Gulzar Saab a very happy birthday! Forever grateful for the presence of his noor in my life. Also In this episode, celebrating the hidden gifts of serendipity and our undeniable urge to discover them. Featuring Tum Aa gaye Ho Noor Aa Gaya Hai.

#Gulzar #SusanOrleans #JaunElia #Serendipity #RightBrain #ConnectingDots #meaning #sensemaking #RDBurman #magic #synchronicity #gratitude #cosmos #Aandhi

On how we tend to quickly label people in our attempt to understand them. “I am Large, I contain multitudes”! With contradictions and multitudes within us, would it be fair to assign a single label to describe or understand someone? Featuring Waseem Berelvi's 'Main Chahta Bhi Yahi Tha' sung by Jagjit Singh, this episode makes a case for putting in more nuanced effort to truly understand the multiple colours and depths of personalities.

#WaseemBerelvi #JagjitSingh #WaltWhitman #Contradictions #personality #JaunElia #MalcolmGladwell #MyerBriggs #NidaFazli #Shaharyar #PersonalityTypes #Growth #Evolution #Echoes #JagjitChitraSingh

https://malcolmgladwell.bulletin.com/154118803499880?fbclid=IwAR1MU82Tfuquf76GyCAZko72kRn2ITH_9hhi89uOCtrb38lkSdtJoUKa1IM

On how our belongings, possessions and our saamaan convey about who we are. And what about the unseen 'saamaan' of our inner world that we keep collecting - without that, wouldn’t the colours of our identity remain incomplete? 

Featuring ‘mere ghar se tumko kuchh saamaan milega’ (Main Shayar Badnaam by Anand Bakshi).

#Gulzar #AnandBakshi #RDBurman #RajendraNathRahbar #belongings #Connection #Home #InnerWorld #identity #merekuchhsaaman #things #possessions #thingsilove #thingsthatmatter #windowtothesoul #NamakHaram

On how our emotionality and being jazbaati can be a bedrock for the most beautiful and authentic connections - yet why is it so hard to remain a jazbaati person in this hard-hearted sangdil world? Featuring Sahir's 'Rang aur noor ki baarat kise pesh karun', and words of Waseem Berlevi, Anais Nin, Parveen Shakir and Gulzar. Aks-e-khushboo hoon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=numv7-hqpH4https://www.brainpickings.org/2012/09/03/anais-nin-on-emotion-and-writing/https://blog.rekhta.org/parveen-shakir-khushbuon-aur-khwabon-ki-shayara/#SahirLudhianvi #ParveenShakir #Gulzar #AnaisNin #WaseemBerelvi #DedhIshqiya #VishalBhardwaj #MadanMohan #Gazal #emotionalmaturity #emotionalintelligence #judgement #vulnerability #selfcare #selflove #love#emotions #emotionalhealth #selfawareness #feelings #healing #inspiration #personalgrowth #compassion #wellbeing #empathy#emotionalwellbeing #loveyourself #relationships #emotionalhealing #peace #emotionalabuse #emotionalsupport #selfacceptance #emotionalfullness #rekhta #blog #BreneBrown

When new people come in our lives, they bring us in touch with new layers of our own identity, which were dormant before. And if and when they leave, a piece of us goes with them. Featuring 'Teri Yaad Dil Se', and words of William James, Iftikhar Imam Siddiqui and Dan Gilbert. 

#identity #friendship #friends #breakup #letgo #williamjames #NasirKazmi #Shailendra #Mukesh #DanGilbert #WilliamJames #IftikharImamSiddiqui #HariyaliAurRasta

On how time flattens the overwhelming details and complex layers of life's incidents and traumas so that with time all we have left is a waaqiya or an anecdote. But does Time really manage to lessen the pain? Featuring 'Tu nahin to zindagi me' and 'Jana tha hum se door fasane bana diye'

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/think-act-be/201903/the-healing-power-telling-your-trauma-story#IftikharImamSiddiqi #Gulzar #AajBichhdeHain #RoseFitzgeraldKennedy #Timeheals

#trauma #mentalhealth #ptsd #anxiety #healing #therapy #selfcare #traumarecovery #recovery #selflove #love #traumahealing #survivor #wellness #traumainformed 

On the illusions of Arrival Fallacy and the wheel of hazaraon khwahishen. On how our arzuyen, seeking make us alive and seed our growth and blossoming.

Featuring 'Aye Dil-e-nadan' (by Abhaas Joshi) and 'Ek Akela Is Shehar Me' by Gulzar.

#TalBenShahar #Harvard #Gulzar #JanNisarAkhtar #Khayyam #ArrivalFallacy #Arrival #Gharonda #MirzaGhalib #RaatPashmineKi #RaziaSultan #HazaronKhwahishenAisee #AbhasJoshi #humancondition #humanity 

Aye Dil-e-nadan by Abhas Joshi: https://youtu.be/RCy4RmyqmS4

How getting what one wants is as big a tragedy as not getting what one wants! Qaribi me doori aur paane me khona - this tyranny of Waqt can be beautiful and generative! Featuring 'Kyun Zindagi Ki Raah Me' and Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Haseen Sitam by Kaifi Azmi.

Links: https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/02/12/the-missing-piece-meets-the-big-o-shel-silverstein/

#KaifiAzmi #Gulzar #JavedAkhtar #JoanElia #KhalilGibran #Relationship #Heartbreaking #OscarWilde#relationships #love #relationshipgoals #relationship #couples #dating #marriage #relationshipquotes #couplegoals #life #lovequotes #quotes #couple #romance #selflove #family #follow #goals #happy #instagood #like #girlfriend #happiness #together