“Love Forbidden”

“Love Forbidden”

Last night, very last night,

It was raining all, over the green valleys,

The music of rain,

Made my heart heavy and pensive.

I was asking those wayward drops,

“Why make my eyes raining endless”?

I couldn’t feel your warmth, oh drops!

Unlike past monsoon, Why me so alone?

All those wayward drops were singing insane.

The ruthless drops were haunting at night,

With thunders and sparkles, noisy sky so lit,

Piercing my loving heart,

And tearing it apart…

Yes, I fell in love once more,

I loved music of rain, again and again,

I got showers in monsoons, now and then,

I committed that sin,

Sin of “love forbidden”.

My love, that eternal love,

Left me alone very alone,

I am paying, for the music of rain,

What I relished during the “love forbidden”.

I confessed my love, so eternal,

But the wayward drops, too much fatal,

Haunting my heart, with the music of rain,

I am in pain, now and then,

Love, though eternal, but very forbidden…(26/08/2011)

India needs Social, Political and Electoral Reforms…

India needs Social, Political and Electoral Reforms…

India Observes 65^th Independence Day (II)

          Anna Hazare’s war to bring out a “Jan Lokapal Bill” in order to contain the corruption at every level of Indian Democracy including bureaucracy, judiciary and governance has compelled the Indians to give a thought to it. This bill is not a newborn one. It was born since 1961 but failed to see the light of enforcement yet. So much tug of war has already been played between Anna’s “Civil Society” and the ruling “UPA” government lead by Congress Party. Why do not the MPs of opposition sit on fast-to-death in support of a Lokpal Bill? Why should Anna Hazare and his team members do this for us? Is it exclusively, the responsibility of a civilian like Anna or someone else?

          Today politicians, judges, bureaucrats, officers, clerks, even peons are found at neck-deep in corruption. We need a strong and flawless Lokpal in order to bring them into justice and set examples that the guilty will not be spared. India’s faulty political and judiciary system is providing a very conducive environment to multi crore scams to happen. It also allows the bigger corrupts to escape easily. Corruption at every level has definitely eroded the socio-political system of India. Could we be honest in taking moral responsibility as electorate of this country in electing those politicians who had ruined/are ruining the Democratic System of this country??? The unaware,uneducated Indians before voting and the corrupt, rascal politicians after voting ruin and damage the democracy. Democracy would have been at its best if both voters and politicians were chosen through electoral reforms. Too much of democracy is bad. Universal right of voting also proved bad. Voting power should go to those citizens who are able to answer and understand the country's democratic system. To me, right to vote must not be universal since Indian voters have proved their immaturity from getting the very right to vote and elect…  

          Is every Indian voter aware of corruption prevailing in our system? Is every Indian voter is well conversed with the political history and political system of this country? The answer is obvious, “No”. If they enjoy the “Right to Vote”, the onus is theirs to elect the best candidate. Why they are electing such a person who commits only scams, betrayal…Why are they failing in selecting the Right person for the right job??? Because they are preoccupied with “feeling good factor” with the tag of a particular party ie. Congress, BJP, CPI etc…Most voters in India feel proud when they are described as a Congressman, a BJPian, a Communist etc…etc…If 51% of votes go to a candidate, it does not mean that the elected one is Mr Perfect/Mr Right. My point is the voter should be well educated, well informed about the candidates before stamping the ballot paper.  A poor, illiterate, unaware, uninformed voter who can’t think beyond "Roti, Kapda aur Makaan" has also a right to vote, but he/she is more likely to commit a mistake in choosing Mr Right. So this discussion advocates against making the “Right to vote” universal for all Indian citizens. The citizens who could pass a series of test questionnaires based on India’s Democratic system and Nation’s evolution will only be allowed the “right to vote”. I have seen many voters in my own village who are voting since independence are least bothered about bofors deal, 2G Scam, Mining scam etc. To my best of conscience, I appeal Election Commission of India to withdraw the “right to vote” from them. I agree, Indian Constitution has declared equality, equity to every Indian in all terms. They can’t become wise voters unless they become equally educated and knowledgeable. Mere being knowledgeable doesn't guarantee wisdom. To become wise, they should get themselves informed about happenings around their world. Knowledge, Information together bring about Wisdom in a Voter to act correctly what our voter/electorate needs to get reformed. My friends from USA report that poverty is still prevailing there but their voters are wiser than their Indian counterparts. Poverty is not an excuse for obtaining knowledge, information and wisdom. Right to vote will go to educated, informed and wise citizens of India. This is a part of electoral reforms…

Just, let's find out how many MPs have been elected to the Parliament since general elections are in force in this country? And how many of them had/have come forward in support of a Jan Lokpal till this date? What’s the percentage of politicians currently active in politics are free of doing any sort of corruption? Those who say everything is fair in politics, it is ridiculous to expect them to raise either voice or sit on fast to death for a Lokpal. It is also ridiculous to expect the guidelines/laws from those to punish thieves where most of them are themselves so... At the time of writing this article, many MPs' houses throughout country are gheraoed by agitating public to force them to support Anna’s version of Lokpal and must be. MPs like Satrughan Sinha, Sanjai Nirupam etc(I am not mentioning the parties of MPs since Lokpal is for greater interest of India and above all parties) declared to go with Anna Hazare. if more and more MPs come forwards with Anna, it will create pressure on government to enforce Lokpal. Time has come for politicians of this country to get changed. It is better late than never… A strong Jan Lokpal is need of hour to destroy the empire of corruption in India. The current government may be trying to make the Lokpal a slave of the ruling party and their Lokpal will become the savior of the guilty favored by the ruling party... If this happens, it will be worse than the British Raj.... Beware the citizens of India...beware of it…

There should be a national referendum if at all the parliamentary standing committee and the UPA Government do not accept the team Anna's version of Jan Lokpal Bill and vice versa. In referendum those citizens will only be allowed who will pass a test questionnaires based on Indian democratic system and political history.As per my version stated above the well educated, well informed, well aware and wise voters must be allowed to participate in referendum only. Not those who vote for a 100 rupee note in return...just at the eve of an election and who don’t have the abc of information about the scams committed in this country’s political history…

India at this nick of time strongly needs electoral, political and social reforms. Team Anna is working for the political one. If current political situation in our country improves, most of the issues will start improving automatically. Anna is not a person now a days, he has become simply a thought or a movement…For electoral and social reforms every member of the society has to start changing himself/herself. They have to educate themselves. They have to get proper and adequate information about all of the misdeeds their dear, beloved politicians were/are committing. In this country, there are many people who like to feed their pet dogs or street dogs. But they will deny a loaf of bread to a hungry beggar standing in front of their gates. If at all we can’t get into the roots of hunger deep, we can at least make a beggar’s stomach filled up for a day(I am not advocating for beggary and for those beggars “including ruthless eunuchs in public places” who have a functional body with 100% fit 4 limbs). These are matters of our social attitude and behaviors. We shall discuss next…

I am very much thankful to these Indian Browsers of “Facebook” in supplying me “food for a thought” (Satya Ranjan Patra,Jitamitra Mishra, Siva Kota , Manish Kumar, Ashish Sahasmal).

India Observes 65th Independence Day (I)...

India Observes 65^th Independence Day (I)…

The story starts with quoting the historical remarks on facebook-social network made by the then Prime Minister of England, Winston Churchill in 1940s, against Independence to India. He said, "Power will go to the hands of rascals, rogues, free booters of low caliber, men of straw with sweet tongues and silly hearts. They will fight amongst themselves for caste religion, power and even for no reasons! India will be lost in political squabbles. A day would come when even Air and Water would be taxed in India. Indians are definitely not yet qualified and prepared, to manage their Independence responsibly".

How wonderful and how efficient a fortune teller Churchill was!!!  Let’s introspect… Does Churchill hold good and correct today? Was he correct in his demonstration? Perhaps we Indians, demonstrated ourselves and made him correct. Who is responsible for it??? Who created this type of faulty system? Who is running this system???Most of us will answer “the politicians”. It is a pity that we are part and parcel of this system.  But most of us will not disagree that most of Indians are qualified and intelligent. But the majority of them are not so, who are ruling India. If we look back at post-independent political history of India, It is the fact that they made us always fight for religion, power, money…Could we blame them for this type of nonsense??? My answer is a big “NO”. Because we have a right to vote them to rule us… The next question is what is the “%age” of the voters who cast their votes for a mandate? How many of them are truly educated to judge the pros and cons of a candidate standing in for mandate? How many of the truly educated voters are truly analytical before casting their votes? Many of us who are complaining against do not even go to vote? But “why”???  If we are not getting a perfect candidate let’s cast our ballot blank. We are allowing these politicians to emerge victor directly/indirectly in elections and to commit all the misdeeds, mis-governance, corruption, betrayal … We are not creating the system itself but we are allowing someone to create it for us. We can not only blame the political system of this country for this. We all are corrupt equally. If, by bribing/backing (sifarish), we get our work done, most of us prefer that way. We use every means whenever we have some favor to get.Even if it is not supposed to be done. Yes, if bribing is a part of corruption, we are definitely corrupt. But this type of corruption might be invisible in comparison to the corruption made by the politicians, bureaucrats, officers, professionals etc …Directly/indirectly a common man is forced and helpless to commit to be corrupt. He/she is simply engulfed by the system. A statistics shows that 85% of Indians are less privileged to possess 15% of gross national property while 15% are more privileged to possess 85% of the total Indian property. Money deposited by the later group of Indians in different banks will run the budget of India more than 20-30 years. Why such difference and who produced it? You find out your own answers…  

India has come a long way. We should feel proud whatever we have achieved in last 64 years. If we failed, it was not because of politicians only. It might be you, me and others who are part of a faulty, selfish, uneducated, unaware society. We bribed that’s why they took it. We voted that’s why they looted our national property. Merely observing one hour darkness on the eve of 15th of August will not solve our problem. No “Jan Lokpal Bill” will show the way out there, if we are blind and unaware about happenings around us. We have to become our own “Lokapal”. We are independent so far as sovereignty is concerned but we are slaves of corruption, hypocrisy, exploitation, immorales etc in our social, political, professiona​l and personal life. If politicians are only the solution to above all problems, then let’s increase the education and awareness level of our poor voters who make the way for a blooming politician…Let’s stop the voter whose vote costs not more than two pegs of liquor/100 rupee note. The cost of the vote is decided by the candidates who are fighting elections. Of course we are not creating it but we are voting those who are creating all these nonsense. If we have a right to vote them, shouldn't we get a right to kill them if they produce these rubbishes???

And I am not getting my blood feeling hot by sayings of an old foreigner like Churchill who was ruling us also at the time of making the above statement. Most of Indians will be very hesitant in accepting the "hard truth". And, painfully we have learnt to live with it since years. We got flown away by all of the misdeeds, corruption, exploitation, mis-governance... how many of us truly possess that courage to stand against all odds? How many of us are truly interested to become true and trademark ambassador of honesty, truth, morale etc in our own social and personal life? How many of us are truly daring to become a part of the political system and bring the change forwards? If we can't, none can do it for us. We are independent so far as sovereignty is concerned but we are slaves of corruption, hypocrisy, exploitation, immorales etc in our socio-politico-professiona​l  and personal life. If we are really interested let's prepare ourselves and get ready for all changes needed for a Developed India.  Let’s start  changing ourselves.

Let’s salute all our martyrs who had sacrificed for our nation on this auspicious day. Let’s wipe out every type of corruption in our social and personal life. One India, a Shining India, a Developed India . Let's give a thought to it.

         I am thankful to these Indian Think-tanks (Kalai Vanan,Sugyan Mohanty,Arunesh Kumar, Amanjot Chahal, Amanjot Chahal, Varinder Bamrah, Sumit Garg, Abinash Mohapatra, Trishkova Kataria, : all of these are facebook browsers.) and others who think and dream about One India, Shining India and a Developed India…

“Hypocrisy : It Prevails Everywhere”

“Hypocrisy : It Prevails Everywhere”    

Hypocrisy, literally defining, is the state of pretending and executing in a manner to have beliefs, opinions, virtues, feelings, qualities or standards that one does not actually have. Among different human attributes, practiced by men and women, hypocrisy might be the most practiced one. It is omnipresent and it prevails everywhere. It has become as if “a boon to survive”. As if we are using it for our survival and very existence. Like “charity begins at home” we inculcate this attribute during our formative days at home. We learn and acquire it from our parents, siblings, cousins, seniors, teachers, friends, peers etc. And we carry it forwards with us to our personal as well as public life. Hypocrisy is not simply failing to practice those virtues that one preaches. Hypocrisy is all about one’s expression of sincere zeal for those virtues which one himself/herself neglects to practice in one’s own life. Sometimes we may be adequately convinced of the advantages of conquering and overcoming our passions, drawbacks, inefficiencies without having yet obtained the victory over them. It is nothing but the overpowering hypocrisy inside us. A man may be confident of the advantages of a voyage, or a journey, without having courage or industry to undertake it, and is honestly recommending to others, those attempts which he avoids and makes excuses for them himself. It is just like “devil’s advocacy for divinity”.

A father advising his son not to consume tobacco which is very much injurious to health but the same father is being caught by the son smoking a cigarette with his friends in a public place. It is simply deceiving others. A husband praising another woman’s chastity before his own wife came out with hugely indulging himself with infidelity. A man/woman is equally expected to practice chastity as his/her partner in a conjugal life.A professor telling his students about sincerity and commitment towards studies but not attending a single students’ seminar and not giving them most important on-spot feedback for their further improvement. A feminist politician after becoming the chief minister of a state fails to contain and punish her own party MLAs being charged of the rapes/molestation. Currently, lovers are adopting it to experience the taste of multiple love affairs. A reality show titled “Emotional Atyachhar on Bindaas TV about deceiving lovers proves prevalence of hypocrisy in love-life. Our life in general is full of many such stories. It’s simply hypocrisy.

          Could we survive without practicing hypocrisy? A million dollar question! Sometimes, of course we do not follow what we preach. A smoking father advising son not to consume tobacco, though showing hypocrisy, is really interested for wellbeing and health of his child. It is hypocrisy but good one. Husband practicing infidelity but preaching chastity to wife is never good hypocrisy which sets the relationship on a live volcano. So to conclude, hypocrisy sometimes bears good fruits. But if we think about an alternate hypothesis where a father preaching  and advocating against smoking if really restrains himself from smoking will definitely boost the development of a stable personality in son unlike the son of a smoking father who is too confused  what to adopt the preaching or practice of his father. If a husband preaching chastity remains 100% faithful to his partner and vice versa will definitely lead to a blissful conjugal life and will help in decreasing the divorce rate.

          Our body, mind and soul undergo immense stress and loose a coordination if we think and say one method but fail to execute and perform in that way in our day to day life.As Boris Pasternak says, "Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike. Our nervous system isn't just fiction, it's part of our physical body, and it can't be forever violated with impunity". It may also corrode the well-being of those people who continually make or are forced to make use hypocrisy.The over-attribution of hypocrisy, however, could lead to excessive tolerance of deceit and destructive behavior. Hence sometimes practicing hypocrisy leads to our system failure and we become a complete different personality.

          Let’s discuss about a new entity “Pseudo-hypocrisy”. For example an alcoholic advocating restraint from alcohol in a drunken state would not be considered an act of hypocrisy rather of pseudo-hypocrisy. Sometimes we pretend arrogance, over ego, boasting to counteract the erratic behavior of a friend, sub-ordinate staff etc. We do it to prove them that we are not less than them if questions of boasting, arrogance and ego are there. When in real life we are never arrogant/ boastful/ egoistic. We adopt it for our existence and to make a point. It is pseudo-hypocrisy and many times it solves many a problems and crises.

          In our public life hypocrisy is though widely practiced, it is the mother of all  hatredness and jealousy in this world. Although a bit of hypocrisy greases the wheels of social life, we can survive and flourish without practicing it. Hypocrisy has been called "the tribute that vice pays to virtue".  

*** Could I Fly? ***

***Could I Fly???***

Could I fly?

Could I fly to that land of eternity,

To search for my lost love,

She might be waiting there,

I could listen her chirps in grief,

Since years, roaming there.

Yes, my Love,

She is longing and singing,

Those soulful songs of a broken heart,

Those soulful songs lost in this eternity,

Could I fly, to that land of eternity!

I could listen your twitter,

These dark clouds and wayward wind,

One day they all will disappear,
And the sky will be blue and clear,

I am always with you, oh! dear.

This land of eternity,

Calls me to be there,

I am striving but in vain…

Her soulful songs,

Makes me restless here.

Could I fly?

To that land of eternity,

My lost love, waiting for me,

Since years there,

I could fill her heart,

I could hold her firm,

I am striving but in vain,

From this far horizon,

Oh! Could I fly???