Test 2 from my iPad for pics

Why doesn't blogger have a way to post pics via iPad? More importantly, why doesn't blogger have an iPad app for posting to blogger? Just downloaded diigo, to see if I posting pics from a different browser would work any better...no luck! Very frustrating!

Test post from iPad

Just a quick test to see if this works from my iPad. First with text.

Poem by Shiv Kumar Batalvi

Mainu tera shabab lai baitha

Mainu tera shabab lai baitha,
Rang gora gulab lai baitha,
Mainu tera shabab lai baitha,
Mainu tera shabab lai baitha
Kini Piti te kini baaki eh,
Kini Piti te kini baaki eh,
Mainu eho hisaab lai baitha,
Mainu tera shabab lai baitha

Wel jad vi mili hai farza taun,

Wel jad vi mili hai farza taun,

Tere mukh di kitaab lai baitha,

Tere mukh di kitaab lai baitha

Mainu jad vi tusi ho yaad aye,

Mainu jad vi tusi ho yaad aye,

Din dihaade sharab lai baitha,

Din dihaade sharab lai baitha

Changa hunda je sawaal na poochda,
Changa hunda je sawaal na poochda,
Mainu tera jawaab lai baitha,
Mainu tera shabab lai baitha

Mainu tera shabab lai baitha,

Mainu tera shabab lai baitha.

~  Shiv Kumar Batalvi

You can hear this sung by Jagjit Singh here.

Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Ik Shikra Yaar

Jagjit Singh R.I.P.

 

I have long loved the ghazals sung by the venerable Jagjit Singh.  I've never missed an opportunity to see him when he was in town.  I had been looking forward to hearing him in concert again.  Today, while listening to Maye Ni Maye, Main Ek Shikra Yaar Banaya, to assuage my own sadness, I came across a comment: "RIP, Jagjit Singh ji" below the video.  I quickly searched Google News and found the reports of the Maestro's death.  Here's a piece written by Neha Thirani for the New York Times:

Delhi “turned some of us lonelier by the day. We fell in love, suffered in love, lost our near and dear ones, made careers, or what is perceived to be a career. Our hair went gray. Emotions lost their edge.
But on some balmy night, when there was no one else to go to, we would seek refuge in Jagjit Singh’s voice. Long ago, he sang these lines of Ghalib’s: “Maut se pehle aadmi, gam se nijaat paaye kyun…” (Before death, why does man want relief from sorrow). Sitting in a metro train, when I learnt about his death, I hoped that in death my friend would be rid of life’s sorrows.”
-- NY TIMES

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Source:NY Times.com

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read the original article here, or the quick and free version quoted above.