Romil Javed

design + journalism experiments

Category: Interests

  • Arbeit macht frei – The story of an inverted “B”

    Arbeit macht frei – The story of an inverted “B”

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    As soon as you pass the entry blocks at the Auschwitz concentration camp and assemble for your guide to brief the group, you’ll notice written arching over the main iron gate: Arbeit Macht Frei. It loosely translates into English as “Work sets you free.” A cynical lie that the Nazis propagated, as they starved, tortured, maimed…

  • तो ज़िंदा हो तुम…

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    Film: Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara, Written by Javed Akhtar, Recited by Farhan Akhtar दिलों में तुम अपनी बेताबियाँ लेके चल रहे हो, तो ज़िंदा हो तुम नज़र में ख्वाबों की बिजलियाँ लेके चल रहे हो, तो ज़िंदा हो तुम हवा के झोकों के जैसे आज़ाद रहना सीखो तुम एक दरिया के जैसे लहरों में बहना सीखो हर एक…

  • दौर-ए-तरक्की

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    इस दौर-ए-तरक्की में कब किस से मिलें, जब खुद से ही मिलने का एक वक़्त मुक्कर्र हो साभार – राम किशोर 

  • Journey

    Journey

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  • A season of astronomical delights!

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    I dearly missed two things in the last two days: Owning a aperture-rich Telescope and being at a place with minimal light pollution. I am a casual skywatcher and this month, specially, last two days have been nonetheless quite delightful for me! Although the planets near to earth (Mars, Venus, Mercury and Jupiter) are visible to naked…

  • Windmills of Your Mind

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    ~Romil Windmills of Your Mind ~ Sting [The Thomas Crown Affair] Round, like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel. Never ending or beginning, On an ever spinning reel Like a snowball down a mountain Or a carnival balloon Like a carousel that’s turning Running rings around the moon Like a…

  • Signs of Life – Pink Floyd

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    David Jon Gilmour is great! This song, the opening to my favorite Pink Floyd album, A Momentary Lapse of Reason is a mysterious yet soothing instrumental piece. Gilmour is great with guitar as usual. The album has a background voice by Nick Mason, faint and almost negligible though. If Wikipedia article is correct, the person…

  • Woodstock, its been 40 years

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    I heard about it only when I grew up, but, a long time has passed since those three dirty, sunny, music-soaked days in the town of Woodstock, Bethel, N.Y. Detailed post due.

  • Daag – Dilip Kumar

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    I have a very faint and fleeting memories of this song, my father used to humm in one of those fine mornings while getting ready for work. Talat Mehmood has given his mellow and famously trembling voice to legendary Dilip Kumar (aka Yusuf Khan) in the 1952 romantic classic called Daag (Film by Amiya Chakrabarty).…