Bitter medicine

Many years ago, when I was an intern, the college held a debate on “Should doctors marry only doctors” I spoke then for the motion, but for totally different reasons. I was familiar with the wife of one of our senior very prominent professors, who happened to be in charge of the Adult education department of thee Rajasthan University. I just happened to ask her how it felt to be married to such an eminent doctor. Her answer didn’t quite intrigue me, for she felt that the doctors are the most insipid dry and drab kind of persons…the most unclubbable people of the lot. I voiced these very sentiments and offered that the only and easiest way to put an end to the lot was for them to marry each other, and thus ruin just one family and household rather than two. To top it off I concluded with a question to those doctors in the audience who were married to doctors whether given a second chance they would commit the same folly again. My speech was greeted with a deafening silence.

Reunions are such great occasions Remember the movie Pyaasa? Guru Dutt sees Mala Sinha entering the class  और एक शेर कह देते हैं "जब हम चलें तो साया भी अपना ना साथ दे जब तुम चलो तो ज़मीन चले आसमान चले जब हम रुकें तो साथ रुके शामें  बेकसि जब तुम रुको तो बहार रुके चाँद रुके" Years later, it is the college reunion वही शायर है अन्दाज़ बदल गया "तंग आ चुके हैं कश्मकशे ज़िंदगी से हम ठुकरा ना दे जहाँ को कहीं बेदिली से हम उभरेंगे एक बार अभी दिल के वलवले माना कि दब गए हैं गमे ज़िंदगी से हम" कोई नहि पूछता तुम कहाँ थे कहाँ रहे साहिब एक दूसरी फ़िल्म पर चलते हैं Dharmendra की सबसे बहतरीं film Satyakaam क्लास बस में पिकनिक पर जा रही है "आदमी है क्या, आदमी है बंदर रोटी उठा के भागे कपड़े चुरा के भागें कहलाय वो Sikander! बन्दर नहीं है ,आदमी का क्या कहना प्यार मोहब्बत फ़ितरत उसकी दोस्ती मझहब उसका"  सालों बाद  यार से reunion वही अन्दाज़. कुछ नहीं बदला, यार बदल गया "समझ नहीं आता की मैं बदल गया या यह दुनिया बदल गयी आज कल ऐसा लगता है जैसे बुरा