Music in my soul.

I on my occasions come across this problem of what song to listen to and I know a lot of my friends come across the same situation and even if you don't, I hope you like what I have done here. I asked a lot of people to name their 3 favourite songs, most of them could'nt pick 3 and I dont blame them so they just gave the names of 3 songs that came to their mind. I have made a list of the songs below so that everyone may come across certain new songs which they might like. Even if you don't come across new songs, I have made a YouTube playlist corresponding to this list so that you can just have a list of some of the best songs at the ready whenever you want to listen to them. On top of that I myself have selected the names of 100 of my favorite songs, or rather songs that came to my mind and made a playlist for the same. The links for both the playlists are here and at the bottom and I hope you enjoy your music. A big thank you to everyone who contributed in making this list.
Everyone's List
My List
Everyone’s List.

1.    You’re beautiful-James Blunt

2.   Phir le aaya- Arijit Singh

3.   The Scientist- Coldplay

4.    Save The World- Swedish House Mafia.

5.   Phir Le Aaaya Dil –Rekha Bharadwaj

6.   Tum Itna Jo Muskurarahe ho- Jagjit singh

7.   Kabhi Jo Badal Barse- Arijit Singh

8.   Uska He Bana- Arijit Singh

9.   Somebody’s Me – Enrique

10.                              Hey Jude- The Beatles

11.                              Let it go- Frozen Soundtrack

12.                              Ye Dil- Sonu Nigam

13.                              Gospel of John Hurt- Alt J

14.                              From Eden- Hozier

15.                              All I want- Kodaline

16.                              Tum Ho- Mohit Chauhan

17.                              She will be loved –Maroon 5

18.                              Here Without You- 3 doors down

19.                              Thinking  out loud – Ed Sheeran

20.                              Pyaar Deewana Hota Hai- Kishore Kumar

21.                              Storm- Lifehouse

22.                              Dil le gai Kudi Gujraat di

23.                              Hips Don’t Lie-  Shakira

24.                              Tujhe Dekha toh ye jaana sanam- Ddlj

25.                              Kabira- Arijit Singh

26.                              Iktara- Wake Up Sid

27.                              Feel again- One Republic

28.                              Gym Class Heroes- The fighter

29.                              Dilli waali girlfriend- Yeh Jawani Hai Deewani

30.                              Tera naam japdi phira- Cocktail

31.                              Four Five Seconds- Rihanna

32.                              Electric Hearts- Sia

33.                              Take me to church- Hozier

34.                              Fool on the Hill- The Beatles

35.                              Waves- Robin Schulz mix

36.                              I’m Sexy and I know it- LMFAO

37.                              Us against the world –Coldplay

38.                              This is my life- Edward Maya

39.                              Toh fir aao- Aawarapan

40.                              Magic –Coldplay

41.                              Drive By-Train

42.                              Hal e Dil- Murder 2

43.                              One more night – Maroon 5

44.                              Stereo Love – Edward Maya

45.                              Lag ja Gale- Sanam Puri

46.                              Fix You- Coldplay

47.                              Maaeri –Euphoria

48.                              Breezeblocks- Alt j

49.                              Socha Hai- Rock On

50.                              Summer of 69.-Bryan Adams

51.                              Bolo Na- Sona Mohapatra

52.                              All of me- John  Legend

53.                              Counting Stars- One Republic

54.                              Lego House- Ed Sheeran

55.                              Hearts a mess- Gotye

56.                              Lips of an Angel –Hinder

57.                              Tu Kuja- Highway

58.                              Every Breath You Take- Sting and the police

59.                              Sway- Michael Buble

60.                              I’m not the only one –Sam Smith

61.                              If you ever want to be in love- James Bay

62.                              Often- The weekend

63.                              Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen

64.                              Baba O’riely- The Who

65.                              The Perfect Rave –Soniq Vision

66.                              Dance with the devil- Immortal Technique

67.                              Lost Stars- Adam Levine (Begin Again soundtrack)

68.                              Wish you were here – Pink Floyd

69.                              Happy- Pharrel Williams

70.                              Love Dose – Yo Yo Honey Singh

71.                              Fireball- Pitbull

72.                              Let Her Go- Passenger

73.                              Photograph- Ed Sheeran

74.                              Dua- Shanghai

75.                              Budapest –George Enzra

76.                              Chamba- Local Himachali track

77.                              Ishq Di Booti- Arbar-ul-Haq

78.                              Lai Beqadran – Naal Yaari

79.                              Baari Barsi- Josh

80.                              Stairway To Heaven- Led Zepplin

81.                              Chandelier- Sia

82.                              Bye bye love- Simon and Garfunkel

83.                              I don’t wanna miss a thing- Aerosmith

84.                              Always – Bon Jovi

85.                              Far away- Nickelback

86.                              Jeena Jeena- Atif Aslam

87.                              Saari Raat- Noori

88.                              Bheeegi Bheegi- Gangster

89.                              Sun Raha hai na tu- AAshiqi 2 (female)

90.                              Just In time- Nina Simone

91.                              Turn Around- Enigma

92.                              Heartbeats- Knife

93.                              So High- Ghost Loft

94.                              This is the life- Amy Macdonald

95.                              Thinking out Loud- Ed Sheeran

96.                              Baby Can I hold you- Tracy Chapman

97.                              O sanam- Lucky Ali

98.                              Meine Hoton se lagai toh- Queen

99.                              If I lose myself- One republic

100.                        Tu bin bataye- Rang De basanti

101.                        Breathless- Shankar Mahadevan

102.                        Sirens- Pearl Jam

103.                        Radioactive- Imagine Dragons

104.                        What goes around comes around- Justin Timberlake

105.                        Violet Hill- Coldplay

My List.

1.   Kansas- Dust in The Wind

2.   Sandman- America

3.   The Scientist- Coldplay

4.   Yellow – Coldplay

5.    Here Without You-  3 doors down

6.   Lazarus –Porcupine Tree

7.   Norwegian Wood – The Beatles

8.   Jolene –  Dolly Patron

9.   The gospel of John Hurt – alt j

10.                              Geronimo- Sheppard

11.                              Daughters- John Mayer

12.                              Photograph- Ed Sheeran

13.                              Lego house- Ed Sheeran

14.                              Heavyweight- Infected Mushroom

15.                              Incomplete- BackstreetBoys

16.                              The Perfect Rave – Soniq Vision

17.                              Always In My Head- Coldplay

18.                              Rehna Tu- Delhi 6

19.                              Arziyan – Delhi 6

20.                              Hunger of the Pine- Alt J

21.                              Demons- Imagine Dragons

22.                              Kya Karoon- Wake Up Sid

23.                              Yeh Dil- Sonu Nigam

24.                              Mitti Di Khushboo- Ayushman Khurana

25.                              This is What it feels like-  Armin Van  Buuren

26.                              Miliya Miliya- Rekha Bharadwaj

27.                              Tum Tak- Ranjhaana

28.                              Ishq Bulava

29.                              Edge of Desire- John Mayer

30.                              Shikayatein- Lootera

31.                              Stairway To Heaven- Led Zepplin

32.                              Like a stone- Audioslave

33.                              Through the glass- Stonesour

34.                              Love the way you lie pt2- Rihanna ft Eminem

35.                              Fast car- Tracy Chapman

36.                              Desert Rose – Sting

37.                              The Reason- Hoobastank

38.                              Don’t stop believing - Journey

39.                              I’m yours- Jason Mraz

40.                              Hold Back the river- James Bay

41.                              Lost But Won- Hans Zimmer

42.                              Love me again- John Newman

43.                              Use Somebody- Kings of Leon

44.                              Headlights- Morning Parade

45.                              Coward- Hans Zimmer (1 hour soundtrack from interstellar)

46.                              Secrets- One Republic

47.                              Hey There Delilah- Plain White Tees

48.                              To the moon and back- Savage Garden

49.                              Chasing Cars- Snow Patrol

50.                              Snow- Red Hot Chilli Peppers

51.                              Free Falling- Tom Petty

52.                              Intro- The Xx

53.                              How to save a life- The Fray

54.                              Careless Whisper- Seether

55.                              Broken- Seether

56.                              Hasta Manana- ABBA

57.                              I Don’t wanna miss a thing- Aerosmith

58.                              I’d love you to want me- Lobo

59.                              Crazy- Gnarls Barkley

60.                              Afterglow- INXS

61.                              Suzana- Art Company

62.                              R U MINE- Arctic Monkeys

63.                              Do I wanna know- Arctic Monkeys

64.                              Its my life – Jon Bon Jovi

65.                              Maria Maria-  Carlos Santana

66.                              Magic- Coldplay

67.                              Miracles- Coldplay (Unbroken soundtrack)

68.                              Zombie- Cranberries

69.                              I will survive- Gloriya Gayner

70.                              Forsaken- Dream Theatre

71.                              Soul Sister- Train

72.                              Lemon Tree- Fool’s Garden

73.                              Knockin on Heaven’s Door- Guns n Roses

74.                              Nothing Else Matters- Metallica

75.                              Tears and rain- James Blunt

76.                              In the end - Linkin Park

77.                              I will wait- Mumford and Sons

78.                              Comfortably Numb- Pink Floyd

79.                              The Call- Regina Skeptor

80.                              Angels- Robbie Williams

81.                              The Garden that you planted- Seawolf

82.                              Dooriyan- Love Aaj KAl

83.                              Allah ke bande- Kailash Kher

84.                              Summer Wine- Nancy Sinatara and Lee Hazlewood

85.                              There She Goes- The LA’s

86.                              Yesterday Once More- The Carpenters

87.                              She’s got the look- Roxette

88.                              Kun Faya Kun- Rockstar

89.                              Nahin Saamne- Taal

90.                              Nasha- Blank Noize

91.                              Through the trees- Low Shoulder

92.                              My Passion- Akcent

93.                              Jiya Laage Na- Sona Mohapatra

94.                              Another Day in Paradise- Phil Collins

95.                              Pyaar humei kis mod pe le aaya- Satte Pe satta

96.                              West Coast- Lana Del Rey

97.                              Tu hai ki nahi- Ankit Tiwari

98.                              Main Laut Aaunga- Kaash

99.                              Sultans of Swing- Dire Straits

100.                        Stay With Me- Sam Smith

101.                        Wont go home without you- Maroon 5

102.                        Friction- Imagine Dragons

103.                        Blame- Calvin Harris ft John Newman

104.                        Thinking out Loud- Ed Sheeran

105.                        Duur- Strings

Everyone's List

My List.

Thank You.

Hasaya toh phasgaya!

India 2015: Welcome to the world where girls don’t wear short skirts. Why? Because that invites rape. But now that girls have made every guy there “bhaiya” that problem has been solved and rapes have become nonexistent today.  So has poverty been eradicated and illiteracy rates have plummeted to almost zero. Only few unsocial elements remain and that we will deal with very shortly? How dare they make fun of people with their consent and make people laugh.

 Indian democracy has reached a very low point. Now even to make people laugh we have to think twice.  Okay lets analyze what set this heated discussion off. What was so wrong about the roast that AIB had to take it down among furor in the nation? Did it have obscenity? Yes. Was it abusive?  Yes. Were you forced to see it? No.  Did it have age and vulgarity warnings? Yes.  Yet many people, most of whom had the argument that it was against Hindu culture (hardline hindutva groups) forced it off the net, demanded an apology of those involved and even threatened to ban the films of the actors and many more threats followed. Sometimes I believe as India’s literacy rate grows and people start seeing through this religious fanatics and godmen, that these people have to find and create issues out of nothing in a desperate attempt to stay relevant.  What’s even more ironic is the silence of these people on issues like rape. The only assumption is that they believe these things to be pro their religion and plus of course it was the girls fault like always. The silence is deafening when their own leaders are charged for rape, in some cases they will literally lay down their lives in a bid to stop the police from getting their godmen.  But one cannot blame them, their purpose is achieved always. Tell a large number of people in a totally convincing manner using all your oratory skills that xyz is destroying their religion and then even if the crowd has not seen or doesn’t know what xyz has done they still get all agitated, patriotic and religious. These groups don’t gather the same crowds when for instance their very holy rivers are being polluted and killed. People need to see through these publicity gimmicks.

 Having said that, its not hard to imagine normal sensible people to have a problem with the roast. It was abusive and it was carried away and a lot of people would not have liked listening to it. But then you cannot just ban the video! Free speech is everyone’s right. You have a problem with the video then you mail the makers, comment on YouTube, use strong language against AIB, write against it and voice your dissent. If you have the choice of disliking the video then others may have the choice of liking it. As long as no one is forcing you to watch what you don’t want to then I guess its okay. The terrifying part is that the sense of humor levels of the country has fallen down appallingly.  Cartoonists are getting arrested for being anti-national; comedians are being forced to take videos off. Very soon we will go back to two flowers touching each other to depict intimate scenes in movies. What’s the harm in laughing at your own self. I don’t think there is anything better than being your own source of happiness or laughter.

Please people don’t just follow a group or crowd that seems to be defending your religion or value system. Are you so weak that you cannot do that yourself? Is your religion so weak that it will be destroyed by some stupid video on YouTube? If that is the case then I think you need to look in the mirror while pointing a finger.  My only suggestion is lighten up, life is too serious in any case, and if not then atleast let others have that choice.

A Love Story.

July 2007: A young boy is playing football in school; however he is not sweating as much as he wants to. Yes you read that right he isn’t sweating as much as he wants to.  He is in grade 8 and it’s the last class of the day and its games. His cousin in the school across has told him that one of her friends finds him cute and she’ll make him meet her after school near the place where all the buses stand.  He had somewhere heard that all girls like macho bad guys so he wanted to be all sweaty, but somehow he failed, so when the bell rang he ran to the washroom and literally gallons of water on himself, that much water would have been enough for a family of 5 for a week maybe. Yet he wanted to show that he has played football and now he is sweating like the total badass he is. So he goes and meets his cousin and she introduces him to the girl and all he says is the fastest “hi” in the history of human communication and then after exchanging pleasantries with his sister he goes. Why would he behave so rudely? He thought girls would have liked an attitude.  The girl however thought of him as it was later learnt as a boy with chubby cheeks and a small belly protruding out who looked very dirty and was very rude. Well that was that, the girl moved to another city and the boy carried on in the same school still under the impression that he gave a macho impression to a girl who had forgotten all about him. He adds the girl on Facebook after a while, though neither of them clearly remembers it was the same people who met outside of school that day. Apart for a brief conversation online they don’t speak.

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July 2009: The boy is in his bus and as the bus starts leaving he is looking outside the window and he sees two girls fighting like Lions over Zebra for a 5 rupee orange bar, its clear that they are friends though. Then suddenly he sees the face of one of the girls and it takes him a split second but then it hits him like a thunderbolt that it’s the same girl from 2 years ago that he met at that very spot. A self made up sense of destiny and her smile after winning her ultimate prize made him realize that if there was ever such a thing as love at second sight he surely was experiencing it. He got home, looked up the girl on Facebook and surely she was back in the same city and in the same school. She was 10 feet away and yet a 1000 miles away at the same time. All this while she had no clue that a guy who she met for 60 seconds and spoke online for maybe 10 minutes was now in love with her.

    He saw a couple of wall posts between his cousin sister and the girl where something like a phone was mentioned. That’s when it happened one of the most embarrassing moments of his life. He had to ask for her number and he did so in the most unabashed way possible. He inboxed her saying “ Wow, you gave your number to my cousin (who has been her friend for 4-5 years and her best friend that too) but you didn’t give your number to me  ( who you have spoken to for eleven minutes in three years, how could she?). However even though he is still ashamed of this moment to date, It worked and she gave her number. Probably the worst decision of her life.
    Why? Because from now he texted her as soon as he got back from school he would text her for hours on end, sometimes she would talk(as later she would say she did only out of courtesy)  at others only one word replies, politely signaling me to fuck off. But she was the girl and couldn’t be lost.  Also he was behaving this way because he hardly had any experience of chatting up girls and he was too excited. Excited is an understatement as within 2 days of taking her number he asked her out (all this while she was hoping and signaling that he shouldn’t message her so much, its annoying). She said no, obviously. But what’s worse is that she was dating someone for 7-8 months. As they say “uski toh band bajgayi”. Yet what made him love her even more was that the norm those days was if someone asks you out and you say no, you guys usually stop talking or atleast get awkward but she would have none of it. She said he was her friend and nothing will change that.  He was happy that he atleast graduated to be her friend but was devastated at being “friendzoned” in the face.

  They continued to talk or rather he continued to talk and she continued to reply. Looking back she was being a sweetheart because the amount he used to annoy her with endless texts after texts and stupid jokes on which even Sidhu would not laugh she never told him to buzz off and the reasons for that are unkown to this day.

A month after this scene they decided to meet after school somewhere where  they could sit and talk and grab a meal. They lived far off from each other so she said lets meet  in the middle and that’s what they did. They met 10 mins from her house and 50 mins from his. At a later time she made him meet someone who was her closest friend and would eventually also turn out to be his closest friend, Avani was her name. The first time he met Avani was at the metro station where she danced on ‘apni pode’ and climbed on the wrong metro. One of the craziest, funniest and mad creatures they both know.

   Even though she would reply only in one word and who could blame her he sent her atleast about 75000000 texts a day, he figured out it wasn’t working so he started to call her, and being the polite person she is, she would pick up. But once she picked up she did the thing he likes about her the most. She talked, and she talked and she kept on talking. Nonstop stories about random people he hadn’t the faintest idea about, a trait which never left her and he would somehow enjoy all this beyond limit, a trait which never left him.

About a couple of months after he had asked her out he learnt that she had broken up and for good. (All those starting to think that here comes the happy ending, you couldn’t be more wrong) This was a potentially good situation from his point of view and yet he managed to screw it up again because of his happiness and inexperience with girls. He asked her out the very next day. Yeah he did. Well no prizes for guessing the answer. But yet again she did not break off links with him and no hints of awkwardness in the friendship.

 Time moved on and he began to accept that this was never going to be. He showed the happiest face but was distraught and heartbroken from inside. He looked for rebounds and even got one or two, which I will talk about later.

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    He finally began to accept the fact that she wasn’t his but deep down he knew that he wasn’t over her and so he started to look for rebounds to get over. But like the total screw up he is he began dating a classmate of hers only and even though everyone knew it was the most stupid relationship ever. Neither really had any feelings for the other and it lasted just 10 days in which they met once, nor was the maximum they said to each other “I like you.”  They both then wisely mutually decided to breakup, but then something major happened, that would change his life for a long long time. The day he broke up with her classmate he decided that enough was enough he will tell her everything he felt in one heartwarming message and he did, only she was in school and even if she had her phone would not be able to read it then. Then he gave his phone to a friend in the bus to listen to music and went off to sleep. Now that friend thought he was sad because of his breakup (when infact he was sad because she was not his and his heart was hers) so he like a good friend sent one big ‘Come back to me’ message to her classmate. Guess what? They both opened their phones together sitting on the same seat and both of them had a long text from his phone asking them to date him. The only thing was he only sent one. As you can guess all hell broke loose and a huge fight filled with abuses, insults,etc ensued and his friendship with her also ended and that too for one whole year. They both hated each other and that too with good cause. She hated him for a month maybe and then stopped caring; he hated her for 2 days maybe and started loving again (though she had much more reason to hate to be fair).

     Over the course of the next year he tried to get over her by dating other people, he had relationships. Three to be precise and they lasted for 14, 17 and 23 days respectively.  All of them cut short because he knew they weren’t the one and only she was. He was in 12^th so he decided to concentrate on studies and forget all this. He managed to do this, for a month. He then sent a text to her. No reply.  Same process went on for quite a while sending everything from ‘hi’ to ‘santa banta’ jokes. He went to her school fete and even saw her but didn’t muster the courage to talk because of all the bad blood he created. She messaged him that day saying she saw him and she liked his t-shirt. That made his day! She liked his t-shirt and she told him! He replied and they texted for a while after like 6 months. Awkward courtesy conversation, but a conversation all the same. The next day? Back to square one he texted no reply. The texting became nonexistent as time went by he stopped after a couple of days of trying. However his heart was not done and as the school timings got shifted he got off later than her school did so he used to bribe his gate keeper 50-100 rs a day just to go out and watch her leave in her bus. He did that everyday for a month and a half. He once thought of going to her place and sorting it out, and he did go also but froze as soon as he saw her and returned without her seeing him.  Many such incidents happened but he never spoke to her.                                                                                    

   Then the boards came and during the boards to wish her he tried her number everyday to wish her. Everyday it was switched off. Then one day after the boards it rang, oh yes it rang like Beethoven to his ears and he was so excited. She didn’t pick up but soon after he got a text saying hi and he replied with a hi. Everyone was joining coaching for entrance exams and he had an option between two equidistant places but one was more easily accessible. But the more tough to reach place was closer to her house and he assumed she would also take coaching in the area so he may bump into her. He did.

As time went by they became more than friends they were inseparable and this time she used to text him too. They were speaking exactly after one year and this time he kept his excitement in check and didn’t message all day. They hardly attended coaching and used to chill all day long. Eventually the liking started as much as he tried to control it, it was back. The difference was it was from both sides this time. Things he never experienced started, lovesongs being quoted on the sly to each other giving hints. Hints were not needed. They both knew they liked each other but neither said it. Lovely times. They got to the saying part also but still didn’t start dating.

  One fine day he decided enough was enough, he knew she liked lemon chocolates he went with his friend on his scooty. Roamed all of Delhi before finding them, picked up a rose, prepared a speech and went to meet her. When he finally got to asking her out  he got very nervous. After 4 years of meeting her and 2 years of liking her he finally had a fair chance of dating her. He was so nervous his heart was in his mouth. He forgot the emotional speech and just blurted out “will you go out with me?” (most unromantic ask out ever). Thank the heavens for him that she said yes and relief was all over his face. Finally she was his. Finally.

The End.