Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Excerpts from Bhagat Singh's last petition ...

Excerpts:
"... Let us declare that the state of war does exist and shall exist so long as the Indian toiling masses and the natural resources are being exploited by a handful of parasites. They may be purely British Capitalist or mixed British and Indian or even purely Indian. They may be carrying on their insidious exploitation through mixed or even on purely Indian bureaucratic apparatus. All these things make no difference ..."


What a great visionary he was to foresee that the exploitation of toiling masses was not going to stop with just the British leaving India and power coming into Indian Hands - when rest of India, almost in entirety, believed so.

Also, though most of you guys may not feel comfortable in accepting it, Aren't Arundhati Roys and Medha Patkars the ones furthering the cause Bhagat Singh lived for, and died for ... :(

Another quote from it is "... power is the greatest justification in this world ..." - coincidently the subject of my previous blog entry "Six Day War ... " :(

PS: http://www.shahidbhagatsingh.org/ has a lot of such material on Bhagat Singh (in case you want to visit), which I had been looking for, on the internet, but was not getting anywhere, this site included. I think recently they have updated it with all these contents.

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Monday, June 18, 2007

Bahut bade nalayaq ho.
Gadhe ho ek number ke.
Kisi kaam ke nahi ho.
Tumahara kuchh nahi ho sakta.
Ye Kyon kar rahe ho?
Vo kyon nahi kiya?
Chup chaap nahi baith sakte?
Ye time hai ghar aane ka?
Jab main tumahri umar ka thha ...

All you Guys:
Imagine the one person who comes to mind while reading the above (married guys: think other than your wives) ...
Invariably, most of us would answer ... DAD ...
:)

I asked only the guys above cause gals somehow never get to experience this. I can't understand, how come God has spared the daughters of this daily daant-phatkaar-hadkaana etc ... :(
Why should only the males have to get blasted ... for first half of there lives from there Dads, and for the remaining half, from their wives ... :( ... Only the interval, when one goes to college / onsite, offers a badly needed breather.

Karan Johar, in KKHH defines Moms very beautifully. In one of the scenes, "Maan voh hai, jo hamein yeh ehsaas dilati hai ki ham kitne achche hain, hamse achcha koi hai hi nahi"

All these days and years I used to wonder how he could get the definition of Moms so very wonderful and so very correct ... I realized a couple of days back ... during the hues and cries of father's day ... :).

He must have just thought of a definition for Dads, and inversed it ... :)
"Baap voh hai, jo zindagi ke har qadam par, hamein yeh ehsaas dilane ka koi mauqa nahi chookte, ki ham kitne nalayaq hain, hamse nalayaq koi hai hi nahi" :)

Some of the quotes I have heard from friends of mine over the last few years, will prove the above definition :), if at all such a universal truth needs any proof.
  • Ashu Gupta (~6 years back): Yaar, !%^#$, Har baap chahta hai ki uska beta amitabh bachchan ho ... Ab other than Amitabh's, duniya kar har baap apne bete se dissatisfied rahe ga ki nahi ...
  • Aftab (2 days back - which triggered this blog): Yaar shad bhai, I was not getting job and was feeling utterly butterly frustrated those days - and then I used to think, ki lagta hai, Papa ki bad-dua qubool ho hi gayee ... :)
  • From a friend's slam book: Against the most irritating person in life, one of our friends has put his Dad ... and then he justified it - "abbe haan yaar, pareshaan kiye rahte hain, dimagh ka dahi kar diya hai, ye course kar lo, yahan ka form bhar do ... vahan ka entrance de do etc etc " ... [those were the days we were in 12th and our futures (to which we were indifferent, but our Dads weren't) looked insecure]
  • Another friend told this joke: A Dad was scolding his son - When Shiva Ji was your age he had already won 3 forts ... Son: When Shiva Ji's Dad was your age, he was governor of a province ... :)
  • Another time during one of the parties in Wipro I had taken more on my plate than I could possibly finish (literally :)) ... A senior of mine comforted me by saying "Don't worry, your Dad is not here to scold you as to why you did not finish" :)
Khair ... the stuff above was (obviously :)), in light humor ...
Coming to a serious note, Dads are our ideals. For most of us - for things we want to do / become, and for some of us - things we do not want to do / become ... :)

Like every good thing, this blog is coming to an end now ... however, before that, the cause of writing it should be justified ... so ...

Happy Father's Day ...

:)

Friday, June 01, 2007

Six day war - 40 Years on ...

To all of us who hope and expect that problem in west Asia may be resolved ...
I share the hope - earnestly, but not the expectation ... here is why:

Negotiations happen only between people will comparable power … they can happen between US and Russia, India and Pakistan, where the powers, though not same, but are of same order of magnitude … but not between a WWF champ and myself, with my 5'8'' frame …

There is an exception though .. if the entities are living in a society … civil society …

The basis of society (from which man being a 'social' animal is derived) is that society sees to it that negotiations / peaceful and just resolution of conflicts happen between people irrespective the difference in power they weild … If a society can not guarrant it, it is not worthy of being called a society … it is a jungle …

Unfortunately, this is what the world of international politics today is … :(

An urdu couplet comes to mind,

Ye Daur bhi dekha hai taareekh ki nazron ne
Lamhon ne khata ki thhee, sadiyon ne saza payee

[History has been a witness to an age like this ...
When mistake which lasted moments made the centuries suffer ... ]

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