ज़िंदगी……

ज़िंदगी……: जितना जी चाहे ,तुम खूब मेरा इम्तहान लेना
ज़िंदगी, पहले तुम मुझे जीने का सामान देना


मैं छोड़ सकूँ अपने निशाँ मंज़िल के सीने पे
मेरी राहों में थोड़ी हँसी, थोड़ी मुस्कान देना

न चुप हो जाऊँ कभी भी किसी सितमसाई पे
गर मुँह दिया है  तो जरूर सच्ची ज़ुबान देना

ज़माने का शक्ल झुलसा हुआ है,  देर लगेगी
मरम्मत के लिए मेरी रूह को  इत्मीनान देना

मैं जीत जाऊँ  ये  जंग मोहब्बत के कशीदों से
पर जरूरत पड़े तो बाक़ायदा तीर-कमान देना



#सलिल सरोज




नई दिल्ली

ज़िंदगी……

ज़िंदगी……: जितना जी चाहे ,तुम खूब मेरा इम्तहान लेना
ज़िंदगी, पहले तुम मुझे जीने का सामान देना


मैं छोड़ सकूँ अपने निशाँ मंज़िल के सीने पे
मेरी राहों में थोड़ी हँसी, थोड़ी मुस्कान देना

न चुप हो जाऊँ कभी भी किसी सितमसाई पे
गर मुँह दिया है  तो जरूर सच्ची ज़ुबान देना

ज़माने का शक्ल झुलसा हुआ है,  देर लगेगी
मरम्मत के लिए मेरी रूह को  इत्मीनान देना

मैं जीत जाऊँ  ये  जंग मोहब्बत के कशीदों से
पर जरूरत पड़े तो बाक़ायदा तीर-कमान देना



#सलिल सरोज 




नई दिल्ली

A MOTHER ABOUT HER SON....................
I became complete and my motherhood got the invincible definition in Toto as soon as my eardrums got the announcement of the sweetest cry and the heartiest laughter in the maternity ward ..........
the 9-month of inscrutable and agonising pain shaped into the loveliest baby, as perceived by every mother; and my son made his announcement heard to sundry and motley. the joys knew no boundary and expressions to emotions became scarce in quantity but not in quality.
"what's in the name?"-that's what Shakespeare said, let the context and epoch vary but the essence is still as fragrant as the first rose of the spring, as fresh as the first dew on the mountains and as scintillating as the first drop of rain trickling down the new leaves of young saplings. my baby might have been called by a multitude' of names and adjectival but what made the distinction with the soul of a mother was that I was always able to identify the apple of eyes with all the innovative nouns.
I might not be as sophisticated and urbane as other modern and educated mothers are of today, but still i can take pride of the fact that i produced a son who became a human being rather than getting being trapped in any kind of 'ISM'.
MY HUSBAND AND HIS FATHER MADE AN EVERLASTING IMPRESSION ON HIS PERSONALITY AND THINKING PATTERN BUT THE ABLE SUPPORT HIDDEN UNDER THE INCOMPARABLE LOVE CEMENTED THAT FEELING. the pupil of my eye learnt to learn by observing and not by rotting, accept by debating than by bowing down to traditional mayhem and cultural impact, deserve first and desire at the last.
I never knew where my boy learnt the heaviest philosophies of life so early from; i never ever tried to do that although.
"LIFE IS SUM TOTAL OF ALL YOUR ACTS. YOU CAN EXPECT FROM LIFE IN RETURN WHAT YOU GIVE TO IT. EVERY ACT OF HELP WILL BE REWARDED IN APLOMB AND EACH ACT OF SIN WILL BE PUNISHED NOT IN LESSER OF AN IOTA. IF YOU GO DOING THING WHICH NOT, ATLEAST, HURT THE -FEELINGS OF OTHERS, YOU REMAIN POSITIVE AND YOU CAN ALWAYS BE HOPEFUL OF GAINING SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE AN SOME WAY'-that's how , i feel my son has been grooming since the very first day, he started getting the things under his nerves.
Being a mother, I never expect any material gain from my children but i was overwhelmed by the "eye-moistening" acts of my son. out of fun, he started earning a bit, but the first salary of his was devoted to my saree,and his father's shawl. never ever a single anniversary or birthdays passed when he forgot to gift; he was just as apt as one can be. he knows how to win hearts and that he has been doing since time -immemorial, if it is not taken as an exaggeration.
I, being an uneducated mother,can never truly value his educational abilities yet i can read him that he is growing as a person as any mother wishes to. my son taught me that god doesn't reside in any temple or any other such sacred buildings but he says his parents are his god in particular and every person is a god in general. I can't give a miss to his quotes, which he keeps repeating:
my son always believed that a person is endowed with 7 to 8 qualities and the only thing required to be master of those qualities is to just nurture them or give them a push. his die hard approach-
"EVEN IF DEATH COMES,
BEFORE I PROVE MY WORTH,
I BET,
I SHALL KILL THE DEATH."
has evolved in him a poet, a writer, a player, a teacher, a cartoonist, a calligrapher and a slapstick comedian.
H.W.LONGFELLOW MIGHT HAVE SAID
"A THOUSANDS OF DAFFODILS ,
I SAW AT A GLANCE."
for his beloved but I can surely quote it for my dynamic son. 9he never said that he had been doing all these, but the magazines and his friends updated me of his achievements and all these unique qualities.
he is one of those kinds of son, who every mother would like to be proud of. he always believes in sharing his clothes, toys, books, and himself during examinations and many other important events, that sometimes give me goosebumps about his health but his paramountcy of dedication defeats the motherly caring attitude of mine.
"THE WOODS ARE LOVELY. DARK AND DEEP,
BUT I HAVE PROMISES MADE TO KEEP,
AND MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP,
AND MILES TO GO BEFORE I SLEEP."
Robert Frost has gone deep down the spine of my champion son and may he be treading on the same path for ever. nobody is perfect and mother's can't find or the MOTHERS are not meant to find faults and that too in their own children. and it becomes even more impossible to see his pitfalls if others don't come with any grievances.
my son wishes to serve his motherland as like his mother and the golden 4 lines mentioned below always keep him motivated-
"IF I DIE IN THE BATTLEFIELD,
PUT MY MEDALS ON THE CHEST,
AND TELL MY MOM THAT,
I DID THE BEST,"
DEAR SON, YOU MAY NOT BE AS PROUD TO GET ME AS YOUR MOTHER AS PROUD AND ASCETIC I AM HAVING FOUND YOU AS MY SON. MAY YOU BECOME MY ONLY SON, WHENEVER I BECOME A MOTHER.

WAS TAGORE OR GEETANJALI REALLY WORTH THE "NOBEL PRIZE?"

NOBEL PRIZE FOR RABINDRANATH TAGORE IN 1913- SOME UNTOLD STORIES

Rabindranath Tagore was the greatest of all great Bengali writers. But it is sad to note that the learned Bengali readers and writers kept many facts about Tagore’s winning of Nobel Prize in 1913 are kept secret. Some such facts are given below:

A. Rabindranath Tagore was more than many Nobel Laureates. But his winning of the Nobel Prize was a political consolation for the Hindu terrorist movements launched in Bengal in the early days of the 20th century.

B. Rabindranth Tagore was not the recommendation of the Nobel Committee. The Nobel Committee named somebody else. The name of Rabindranath Tagore was not even in the short list of the Nobel Committee.

C. Rabindranth Tagore was awarded the Nobel Prize neither as a Bengalee nor as an Indian. He was awarded the prize as an “Anglo-Indian”.

D. Rabindranth Tagore never made any so-called prize receiving speech.

E. Rabindranth Tagore only sent a two line prize acceptance message.

F. The prize was accepted by the British Ambassador and it was delivered to the poet in Calcutta.

G. It appears from the information, now available, that Rabindranath Tagore was awarded Nobel Prize in consideration of his successful attempt to intermingle the Western Christian-Hindu philosophy.

I shall very much welcome exact and objective reply from the esteemed readers of this Group.

I have been planning to publish a very small book on the subject: Nobel Prize for Rabindranath Tagore in 1913: some untold stories. All the points raised in my message are based on facts. But I would like to get more information on the subject. Help from others will greatly help in the publication of the book with more information.

However, for the information of all concerned, I would like to point out that Rabindranath was a Brahmo ( a reformed group of Brahmins of the so-called Hindu community of India).

The word ‘Hindu’ never existed to identify any religion before the emergence of the British Raj in India. It was invented by Raja Ram Mohan Roy in collaboration with the British colonial rulers. This the Britishers did with a view to getting the united massive force together against the defeated Muslim rulers of the then India.

As such, until the early last century, we find that 99% civil servants, lawyers, judges, engineers, doctors, professors etc. under the British Raj in India were from the Hindu community only. The fourth class employees like peons, messengers, bearers or guards are not included.

Brahmos allowed the conversion of even the low caste Sudras. But in fact, all Brahmos were Hindus. This was well understood by the British Rulers of India.

Rabindranath Tagore was not very vast in literary productions in the first decade of the last century. In fact, excepting the limited 250-copy English edition of Gitanjali, hardly there was any English version of Rabindranath Tagore’s other books. Not to speak of any Asian, until 1913 even any American was not awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Rabindranath Tagore was in the spiritual lineage of Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Swami Vivekananda, Ramakrishna and others. In the lyrical lineage he was obviously reflecting D.L. Roy, Lalon Fakir, Atul Prasad Sen and others.

Rabindranath Tagore was a pro-British wealthy successor to the vast property left by his grand father Dwarakanath Tagore. In the first decade of the 20th Century he was the leading-most Bengalee intellectual friend of the British Rulers in India.

During the last decades of the 19th century and in the early 20th century there were popular uprisings, known as the ‘Terroist Movement’ in Bengal. Khudiram Bose was young recruit by such leaders of ‘Terroist Movement’ in Bengal. The British Rulers were very much disturbed by the widespread activities of the volunteers of ‘Terroist Movement’. They needed to pacify the Bengalees. Nobel Prize for Rabindranath Tagore was an attempt in that direction.

Rabindranath Tagore was not known to the West in the first decade of the 20thth century; hardly any body could have had access to his English edition of Gitanjali; this is obvious from the fact that Rabindranath Tagore was named in the short list of the Nobel Committee for the award of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913. It was said that Rabindranath Tagore was knwn to the Swidish Academy as an ‘Anglo-Indian poet’ and not either as an Indian or as a Bengalee.

In addition, Rabindranath Tagore did not visit Sweden or Norway before or after being awarded the Nobel Prize. The British Ambassador received the prize for and on behalf of Rabindranath Tagore and it was confidentially delivered to Rabindranath Tagore at his Jorasanko residence in Calcutta.

Had there been no Khudiram Bose or ‘Terrorist Movement’, perhaps there would have been no Nobel Prize for Rabindranath Tagore. Even hundreds of Gitanjali could never open the passage of Nobel Prize for Rabindranath Tagore for Literature in 1913.

Of course, the high diplomatic circles and political decision makers in London did not like to take any risk and responsibilities and they decided, more or less during the same period, to shift the capital of the British Raj from Calcutta to New Delhi in 1911.

एक सच ये भी........

१.देशके मेगा स्टार अमिताभ बच्चन के पास समय ही समय ही शम्मी कपूर की मौत पे दुःख व्यक्त करने से , ब्लॉग लिखने से तथा उनके शव को कन्धा लगाने तक को पर उनकी व्यस्त जिंदगी में एक घंटा नहीं है अन्ना के साथ खड़े होने को या उनके समर्थन में कुछ बोलने को....ये हालत साले फिल्म कलाकारों की है...जब उनकी फिल्म पर प्रतिबन्ध लग जाती है तब समझ में आता है की हमारी स्वतंत्र का हनन हो रहा है लेकिन जब पूरा देश इस से गुजर रहा है तब उसके कान पर जूँ तक नहीं रेंगती.आपको भी पता है मिस्टर बच्चन की आप आएंगें तो आधा देश आ जाएगा पर अगर आपको अब भी अपने मेगा स्टार का लालच खीच रहा है तो भाँड में जाएये

२.विजय माल्या का कहना है की हमें टीम अन्ना का नहीं बल्कि टीम इंडिया का समर्थन करना चाहिए. आप ऐसा कह सकते हैं क्यूँ आप ही तो देश चला रहें हैं. आप राज्य सभा के सदस्य है सो बुद्धिजीवी होना आपका धर्म है, भले आपको आपने मनुष्य धर्म का ज्ञान हो न हो.कल शम्मीजी की शवयात्रा में अनिल अम्बानी भी शागिर्द थे पर देश बचाओ आन्दोलन में मुँह छिपाते फिरते हैं.

३.हमारी "इन्तेलिजेंसिया" इस सब्द के मायने भूल गयी है. उन दिमाग सिर्फ उनिवेर्सित्य की काम्पुस तक ही काम करता है और तब ही काम करता है जब उनके इगो की तुष्टि होती हुई नज़र आती है. करोड़ों का फंड इधर से उधर हो जाता है,पर विद्यार्थी हमेशा की तरह मुह बाए ही खड़े रह जाते है.इन्हें भी अन्ना का काम एक छलाबा ही लगता है .

४.हमारी वो सारी कन्याएँ जो की सलटवाक् -बेशर्मी का मोर्चा में खुल के भाग लेती हैं , उन्हें अन्ना के इस प्रदर्शन की जानकारी नहीं होती है क्या?जब आप खुद को "पूरा का पूरा" दिखाने को तैयार है इस बेशर्मी के मोर्चे के इए तो"गर्व के साथ अन्ना समर्थन " के लिए कम से कम चेहरा तो दिखा ही सकती है.

क्यूँ मिले भारत रत्न ?

भारत में" क्रिकेट के मसीहा","यूथ आइकन "तथा "कोहिनूर" से संबोधित किये जाने वाले मशहूर खिलाड़ी सचिन तेंदुलकर को भारत रत्न दिलाने की कबायदें और तेज़ होती जा रही हैं.....पर ऐसा क्या कर डाला सचिन ने की अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी,सुब्रमण्यम स्वामी जैसे दिग्गज भी धराशाई होते नज़र आ रहे हैं? सचिन तेंदुलकर की देशभक्ति मैदान में घुसते के साथ और तिरंगा लगा हुआ हेलमेट पहनने के साथ ही शुरू होता है तथा मैदान से निकलते ही ये छू मंतर हो जाताहै.आज जब सारे देश की निगाह दूसरे स्वतंत्र संग्राम पे लगी है तब भी सचिन की दिन रात कोशिश है की १०० वां शतक कैसे पूरा हो ताकि जगह बची रहे वर्ना इस घटिया प्रदर्शन पे तो कपिल देव तक को नहीं बक्शा गया था.गौर तलब बात ये भी है की सचिन अपनी सहूलियत से खेलते हैं, समय की नजाकत से नहीं,ये सर्वविदित है.आये दिन कभी स्कुँद्रों लीडर तो कभी किसी और की उपाधि दी जाती है ये उनका सम्मान नहीं बल्कि उनका अपमान है जो इतनी कड़ी मेहनत के बाद उस उपाधि के लायक बन पाते हैं. अगर क्रिकेट खेलना ही सबसे बड़ी देशभक्ति है तो ऐसी देशभक्ति हर भारतीय करना चाहेगा.और देशभक्ति क्रिकेट खेलने तक ही सीमित है तो कल जब ये रिटायर्ड होंगे तो क्या इनकी जो भी देशभक्ति है, वो ख़त्म हो जाएगी. इतना कुछ हो जाने पे भी आपका एक भी बयान नहीं आता न ही आप खुल के अन्ना के समर्थन में बोलते हैं तो आप किस देशभक्ति का दंभ भरते हैं? जो लोग कहते हैं की संशोधन करके भी संविधान में सचिन को भारत रत्न मिले तो एक बार फिर से सोचें.हम सब को पता है अगर सचिन अन्ना के साथ खड़े हो जाएँ तो आधा भारत यूँ ही आ जाए पर "काश तो काश ही" है.