poems

Sunday 28 February, 2010

Clashes of societies

       For heavens sake don’t misinterpret me as a bigot. A Hindu by birth I’ve equal place for all religions. I believe firmly they are all one. I never visit a place of worship as a routine, as I know He is every where. I don’t sit and pray to help the sun rise and set, as I think that He wants submission and not the flattery. But I close my eyes and touch my forehead when ever I pass a temple, mosque, gurudwara or any other place of worship, but again this is not binding to me. God is mine and I am his. Oh God! I know, you don love them who leave their job to sit and chant Your name neither you love those who pray morning and evening but lie whole day, cheat whole life and betray every one who trust them. And hey I know You never love these religious frenzy so called followers of faith who have always sowed the seeds of hatred in the form of conversion, defiling others sacred places, disrupting others from professing their religion and burning public property to save the “Honour” of their God and god men. Country, particularly north India, has not yet recovered from the hoogliganism that followed Jesus’ picture, another spree of burning the buses and destroying Govt. property started and the cause being almost same. Filing of fresh charges against Sant Gurmeet Singh Ram Rrahim of Dera Sachcha Sauda by CBI in a murder case.
       Human society is always changing from Abraham, Buddha, Mahavir Swami, Christ, Zoroaster, Paigamber Mohammad, Nanak…. They all came to cleanse the society, to show the people, the correct path, the true faith and what happened finally they had a large following and the followers fight with each other to prove whose faith is great. And some modern avtaras like Swaminarayan, Nirankaris, Jai Gurudev, Asaram, Gurmeet Singh Ram Rahim, Satpal Maharaj …… oh list is long. They ve their followers, to argue with each other, to fight, to burn public property and so on. Each faith finally ends up with the same evils which it sought to remove.

Saturday 27 February, 2010

human behaviour....... so complex!!!

       A section of society was judged as untouchable by the other section, millenniums back. Another section of society was judged as backward by a commission appointed by a so called democratic society. Now these “Untouchables” and “Backwards” are taking a sort of revenge from the “Highs or Forwards” as they have been oppressed for thousands of years. Funny…… no! A man rarely lives for 100 yrs nowadays and the revenge goes to thousands years. How can the young generations forget that their forefathers (and not they) were oppressed by the high classes of ‘forwards’? Very good man remembers history very well.
       A section of society was forcefully converted in to Islam some hundreds yrs back by some bigot rulers who believed they are following order of God. Another section of society was lured with money, hospitals and English education by missionaries and converted in to Christianity. And the converters believed that they are obeying the order of God. The young generation does not want to remember, what is similarity between Basher Batt and Balram Batt, Shahid Bhati and Satish Bhati, Michel Marandi and Mahesh Marandi or Pradeep James and Pradeep Kumar!! Very good man forgets history so soon.
       Human behavior, so complex……..isn’t it!!!!!!!!

Tuesday 23 February, 2010

jesus pic on text books

Batala, a town in Punjab, and other places are facing communal clashes over a controversy of a picture of Jesus holding a cigarette and a beer can. These books are not prescribed by the Meghalaya Board of school education. But are ones chosen by the schools, most of them are missionary and run by Christians themselves. Was it just ignorance or a deliberate attempt to make a controversy? Had the schools been sensible, the controversy could be averted. Publisher blames it to the designer. As a publisher, I can understand how a designer can do that, mostly they are less educated and adopt pictures in their designs which attract their attention. But where publisher and school administration were sleeping! A publisher being a businessman can’t do such thing deliberately. The responsibility lies more on the schools than the publisher as they are the specialist people and know the magnitude of the errors. Let it be but the act is as bad as painting goddess Saraswati's objectionable paintings or painting Lord Ganesha on under wears.

Saturday 20 February, 2010

mobile ban

Kannur. An 18-year-old school girl and her paramour allegedly committed suicide after video clippings of her kissing a classmate were posted on the internet.The school had since banned use of mobile phone by students.
...........Thank u master ji for not banning the kissing.....

Friday 19 February, 2010

नवपरिवर्तन

परिवर्तन की चाह तुम्हें है, बलिदानों से डरते हो!
क्यूँ कहते हो जीना इस को जब पल पल तुम मरते हो!!


कब चमकी हैं उषा की किरणें बिना तिमिर का नाश किये!
दीपक जलता रात-रात भर स्वर्ण सुबह की आस लिए!
धरा नापना तुम चाहो पर चलने से डरते हो!
परिवर्तन की चाह तुम्हे है, बलिदानों से डरते हो!!


दी आहुति कितनों ने , परिवर्तन की राहों में!
निकले थे पाने विजयश्री, पर सोये मृत्यु की बाँहों में!
सूरज को तुम छूना चाहो, 'पर' जलने से डरते हो!
परिवर्तन की चाह तुम्हे है, बलिदानों से डरते हो!!


परिवर्तन सौगात किसी को उपहारों में नहीं मिली !
जिसने भी अपना हक मांगा पायी उसने ही सूली !
परिवर्तन के हवन कुण्ड में जब कर दोगे सब कुछ अर्पण !
तब आएगी नयी सुबह तब आएगा 'नवपरिवर्तन' !!

Wednesday 17 February, 2010

Acharya Pradyumn ji

Yog guru Baba Ramdev's birth place is less than 10 km from my home town. The gurukul where he took his education is even lesser. His Sanskrit guru Acharya Pradyumn ji is a great sanskirt scholar. It’s indeed an achievement for a guru that he is known by his disciple's name, acharya ji can be proud of this. But this ascetic is away from these worldly things. He is busy in gurukul's affairs. But now days I see him sharing his knowledge on Astha channel. It was last year, before the rainy season, when I last had opportunity to have an interaction with the holy soul. When we wanted to plant some pipal trees and wanted to know if there is some thing in our Vedic literature about pipal. Acharya ji wanted to know y only pipal. I replied that we would plant neem too. He was happy. But frankly I was and i still am, interested in planting pipal more than neem. As I find the man is the biggest enemy of plants. They smash them under their cars' tyres when they are plants. They cut them to widen roads, to built concrete jungles, to encroach public places when they are big trees. And I find man fearing from cutting or harming pipal trees. But I dint disclose this to acharya ji. May be I dint feel it appropriate to do so. Anyways, acharya ji just raised his hand to reach to his rack of books and took out a book, Srimad Bhagwad Geeta. Randomly turned some pages and a verse, which meant Lord Krishna saying Arjun "I m pipal tree amoung trees". Now nothing had left acharya ji told to elaborate it as much as we wished once Bhagwan compared pipal with him. Pipal is known for its enormous qualities and uses besides providing food and shelter to a lot of living beings. But my aim primarily was to protect it from damage by the human.

Before we left from there acharya ji said, "I see people so desperate about having children and why not they are for trees. If each person plants a tree, how many trees we shall have."

Saturday 13 February, 2010

my name is khan

Long ago I discovered that this world is a stage.. and one who is a good actor is successful... well probably I am not a good actor... but i m a good viewer... and y shud I act if we have great ones like... laloo ji, amar singh and thakreys.......... advertising business is running in thousands of crores but we have our own brand ambassadors... who work for free but they run their own shops and make others' run too... i dunno how much Chetan Bhagat benefited from 3 idiots controversy... but i found his book in question missing from the libraries and stalls... i hope SRKwill too b benefited from the ban by Shivsainiks......hey i too m doing the same as bala saheb has done!!!!!! Well any publicity is a gd publicity.

Wednesday 10 February, 2010

3 idiots....obsession is on

Once more landed in to 3 idiots…… well wats so nice abt this film..for me at least… was never a bright student if it came to grades. My physics lecturer cud never make me understand y steel is more elastic than rubber and hey I still do not know…..well may b I was never explained in rancho’s way lolz… I dint bother entering in to algebra as was never told y, a+b shud b replced by 2+3. Y shud I study trigonometry. Cud never recite like Chatur. Well from years I m planning to set up a sort of study place for kids and most probably it ll b in my ancestral village where I will try to educate them with models and play methods no recitation there….. All will be child’s play and they ll know y they r studying something for. Let’s c when it starts……..any helpers!!!!!!!!

Saturday 6 February, 2010

RAHUL GANDHI IN MUMBAI

Politics is a dramma they say correct…. A gentleman in white kurta payjama is traveling in the local trains of Mumbai.. some other stooges are giving new colors of this visit… a minister is carrying the chappals of the prince… congress always has been a party of flattery. Well the methods Rahul Gandhi is adopting are in deed unique and of course he is getting the attention of public too. His visits in UP have given new life to Congress. His mixing with public is attracting the youths. And I strongly believe that the politics in India can only come out of ditch only if youth participate in a large scale and adopt it as a career. Well this apart… I ve not yet stopped saying that I M LOOSING INTEREST IN DEMOCRACY.

Friday 5 February, 2010

3 idiots

Was thinking to write something abt 3idiots. Though nothing new, my liking the movie, every Tom Dick and Harry has seen the movie and every one’s liking it. But I should admit this was the only movie in my life I was least prepared for ‘The End’ and when the film was over I was really a sort of repenting. Well I firmly believe some books and plays ve brought about big changes in the society. Neel Darpan in late 19th century gave direction to a strong peasant movement. And gave us the Rashtra Geet, vande matram. Though I don believe that computers and films have phased out the books; I think they can never do. I never found an intimacy to read an article or smthg on computer, which I do in a book. But certain films can give direction to youth if not at a large extant then at least a part. And in recent past some gd movies ve done so. Munna bhai can b an example. Though I had been believing in Gandhism even b4 Munna did it. And the film certainly has changed perception of many in a country where cursing Gandhi is a fashion. I hope 3idiots will b successful to leave its mark on society. Wat education we are giving the kids now days. They r over burdened. How many parents now days wish their kid to b wild life photographer and not an engineer if it wishes so? And hey… how many trained engineers, doctors and other professionals are working among less privileged ppl, away from the glitters of Gurgaon, Bangalore or Pune like cities if not silicon valley Europe and Australia.