Friday, September 11, 2009
Rumi
then put in a fire of agonies
as I won the masteryof the beloved
the beloved dropped me
and was gone
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Ghalib on visit to Delhi after 15th Lok Sabha elections
वगरना शहर में गालिब की आबरू क्या है
अगर और जीते रहते यही इन्तज़ार होता
कागज़ी है पैरहन हर पैकर ए तस्वीर का
कोई मेरे दिल से पूछे तेरे तीर ए नीमकश को
ये खलिश कहाँ से होती जो जिगर के पार होता
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
कब याद में तेरा साथ नहीं
सद शुक्र के अपनी रातों में अब हिज्र की कोई रात नहीं
मुश्किल हैं अगर हालात वहाँ दिल बेच आयेँ जाँ दे आयेँ
दिल वालो कूचा-ए-जानाँ में क्या ऐसे भी हालात नहीं
जिस धज से कोई मक़तल में गया वो शान सलामत रहती है
ये जान तो आनी जानी है इस जाँ की तो कोई बात नाहीं
मैदान-ए-वफ़ा दर्बार नहिओं याँ नाम-ओ-नसब की पूछ कहाँ
आशिक़ तो किसी का नाम नहीं कुछ इश्क़ किसी की ज़ात नहीं
गर बाज़ी इश्क़ की बाज़ी है जो चाहो लगा दो डर कैसा
गर जीत गए तो क्या कहना हारे भी तो मात नहीं
-- फ़ैज़ अहमद फ़ैज़
Wanted, a painter for the BJP
Never before the vacuum was so prominent. After its rout in the 15th Lok Sabha elections the BJP is searching for another Vajpayee. A leader who will not only be acceptable to all the groups and classes of Indian masses but will also lay down a different trajectory for the party to follow in future. A man who can give the BJP a vision and wisdom.
By now the BJP would have realized that laptops and blogs do not take you to the inroads of India. The youth, today, lives not only in their inboxes but thinks out of the box. Internet is just a medium, an interest of youngs today. It is not the end. Every generation is a change of its predecessors; every generation’s changes will be changed by its successors.
Advani is not the face of the youth of today, just not because he is physically old but also because of number of ideas and ideology which half the voters of the country cannot relate with. Age has nothing to do with physical strength; it has everything to do with vision. Rahul Gandhi’s rise as a youth icon in politics has its reasons. Youngs relate to him, not because he is half the age of Advani but because he thinks on the same lines as half the population in the country does.
The dismal performance by the saffron party washed off various hues mixed assiduously by Atal Bihari Vajpayee. These hues essentially were the staircase which could lead the BJP on the flights of power. The BJP quintessentially is the most progressive party we have. It has all the ingredients of a party which knows its history but will also work for the future. It rose as a party of the fanatics, but Vajpayee transformed it into a party of middle classes. Even the elites cannot ignore the roots it had among the masses. It is this root which has to be nurtured again to keep the party in the canvas of Indian politics.
A painter who can once again mix these colours of India, can be a leader of not only Hindus but Indians is needed by the BJP. Congress has many young leaders and Rahul Gandhi is seen as the new face of leadership in India. But the Congress has its limitations. It gained votes not because of its five-year term but because of BJP’s absence of solid projections as alternate government. BJP has five years. If in next general elections it does not find a leader of the masses, it should very well get ready to go to the gallows.
Monday, May 18, 2009
कांग्रेस की जीत या भाजपा की हार
तिस पर राज्यों में ढीले चुनावी प्रचार भी भाजपा को कमज़ोर करते गये। राज्यों में जहाँ हर पार्टी ने जाति-गत राजनीति का खेल खूब जम कर खेला और जाति-गत मुद्दों के चलते फायदा भी कमाया, भाजपा बङे-बङे राष्ट्रीय मुद्दों में ही उलझी रही। राजस्थान में जहाँ पार्टी को स्थानीय मुश्किलों को उभारना चाहिये था वहीं वो जसवंत सिंह के पाकिस्तान के साथ रिश्तों के पापङ सेंक रही थी।
मध्य प्रदेश और गुजरात में भी स्थिति ऐसी ही थी। नतीजा ये हुआ कि भाजपा के हाथ सिर्फ पापङ आया, व्यन्जन तो कांग्रेस खा गई।पिछली बार जब कांग्रेस सत्तारूढ हुई थी तो भाजपा नें ये कहा था कि वो २००९ के चुनावों की तैयारियाँ करेगी। अब ये चुनाव भी बीत गये, भाजपा अगर आज से ही २०१४ के चुनावों की तैयारियों में जुट जाये तो बेहतर है वर्ना शायद अगली बार के बाद उसे तैयारी का भी समय ना मिले।
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Who is a better fanatic?
While going through an article written by Dawn correspondent based in New Delhi, I realised that reality pinches and it pinches hard if it comes from the unexpected corners. I agree with the writer that social inequities are everywhere. I agree that Indians are no less barbaric when it comes to saving their honour (it is not honourable to kill daughters by the way) and protecting their customs but defending what the Taliban did to the 17-year-old girl in the not so far corners of your country is not justified.
What the author meant to say was that Indian media should mind their own ‘honour-killing’ and ‘non-pub culture’ business rather than creating brouhaha out of the whole issue of Chand Bibi been lashed by custodians of Islamic law in Swat. Instead of defending them by painting an Indian barbaric picture of the whole episode, it would have been better for the journalist to actually condemn the act objectively.
Bigotry has been a part of cultures of the world, almost all the cultures of the world. It is with time and development that these prejudices are overcome. Zealots are born out of insecurity, not by religion.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
surviving
Today, man is alive. He lives by himself. The (glorious) thousand of years old civilizations does not infuse confidence in him which can make him dream again, realize again, discover again. The man was born, he lived. Now, he fights to survive. The man born thousand of years ago is lost in the fight to life.