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Depression

 Few days ago, I was hearing a conversation on the table next to mine in the office cafeteria. They were a noisy bunch of Gen Z’s. What caught my attention was their use of the term 'depressed'. They were actually using it to express the word “difficulty”. While talking about the load of assignment in their project a girl said,   'What is this? So much work!? It’s depressing!" 'Depression', I'm depressed'. They repeated it so very often. But in that group was another girl telling her to stop saying it because she's invalidating people who actually suffer from depression. This is not an "only" example. We do see a lot of them. They just use this word to express “sadness” or “difficulty”. This is actually making life difficult for people who actually suffer from Medical Depressive Disorder (MDD). They get invalidated so hard because people now use it as a term that just signifies sadness. When they hear 'depression' the thing tha
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Kuchh Na Kaho - in Marathi

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I have attempted to translate my earlier post in Marathi Here is the previous post - https://unmeshpatil.blogspot.com/2017/11/kuchh-na-kaho-kuchh-bhi-na-kaho.html So why am I translating it? No reason really. “कुछ ना कहो” हे माझ्या आवडत्या गाण्यांपैकी एक आहे. आणि प्रत्येक वेळी जेव्हा मी ते ऐकतो तेव्हा त्याची एक नवीनच बाजू समोर येते चित्रपट - 1942 A Love Story　 या चित्रपटाला भारताच्या स्वातंत्र्यलढ्याची पार्श्वभूमी आहे. हे गाणे मनीषा कोईराला (रज्जो, गरीब स्वातंत्र्यसैनिकाची लाजाळू मुलगी म्हणून) आणि अनिल कपूर (नरेन, ब्रिटिश समर्थक जमिनदाराचा उमदा स्टायलिश मुलगा) यांच्यावर चित्रित करण्यात आले आहे. नरेनला रज्जो आवडली आहे आणि तो तिला आपलंसं करायच्या प्रयत्नात आहे.. तिला मात्र सामाजिक दबाव आणि त्यांच्या कुटुंबांमधील फूट याची जाणीव आहे. चित्रपटात हे गाणं रंगमंचावर एका नाटकाच्या सेटवर चित्रित करण्यात आले आहे. भानू दासगुप्ता यांचे Acoustic गिटार, रोनू मजुमदार यांचे बांबू बासरी, बीट्ससाठी हलकी तालवाद्ये, चेल्लो आणि Harmony व्हायोलिनची ही मुख्य वाद्ये आह
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Tu Baat Karein Ya Na Mujh Se

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  Tu Baat Karein Ya Na Mujh Se   This song from Yashraj's Salman-Anushka starrer “Sultan” stuck with me for a while. Sung by Papon, Lyrics of the song are by Irshad Kamil and music by Vishal-Shekhar.  The song is about love and devotion of the main character to his wife. The song makes reference to Bulleh Shah's poetry and spiritual teachings, as a way to express the deep emotions and longing of the characters in the film. So who is Bulleh Shah? His real name was Syed Abdullah Shah Qadri. He was popularly known as Baba Bulleh Shah and Bulleya. He was a 17th-century Punjabi revolutionary philosopher, reformist and Sufi poet, regarded as the "Poet of the People". He said he was willing to go to any extent to please his Lord- even willing to dress up as a woman and dance to show his love to his God. Sufism equates love for the beloved at the same level a person loves his God. Love is equal to divinity. Coming back to the film. Sultan played by Salman gets pull
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