Being A Rebel

Aurangzeb was the most fanatic among mughal rulers, his Islamic expansion madness resulted in the conversion of Hindus into Islam all across the India. His religious intolerance is the darkest chapter in Indian medieval history. Not satisfied with mass demolition of temples and forceful mass conversion of Hindu, He decided thet if he could convert the revered Brahmin Pandits of Kashmir that millions of followers would then easily be converted. He issues orders to Kashmiri Pandits, convert to Islam or die... Threatened with conversion or death, the Pandits panicked. They came in a delegation to Chakk Nanaki, Pargana Kahlur and requested Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji to help them. Hearing the serious nature of the conversation, Guru Ji's nine year old son Gobind Rai Ji told his father what the problem was. After hearing Pandits' trouble, Guru ji asked for the possible ways to deal with the problem. His son Gobind Rai responded "Who would be better than you to defend t...

मर्ज़ भी है पता और दवा भी मालूम है, फिर भी ये दर्द पलना चाहता है। बड़ा नादाँ है ये दिल, ग़म की आग   चाहता है। नादानियों के बिना जिंदगी मुकम्मल कहाँ बड़े शिद्दत से नाकामियों की ओर  चलना चाहता है। लोग सयाने हो गए, रिश्तो का हिसाब लगते हैं कोई गिला नहीं दुनिया से, बस अपनापन बदलना चाहता है। बड़ा नादाँ है ये दिल, अपने ही ढंग में ढलना चाहता है। Marz bhi hai pata aur dawa bhi malum hai... Fir bhi ye dard palna chahta hai.. Bada nadan hai ye dil, Gam ki aag main jalna chahata hai... Nadaniyo ke bina jindagi mukkammal kaha, Bade siddat se nakamiyo ki oor chalna chahta hai... Log sayane ho gaye, Risto ka hisab lagate hain... Koi gila nahi duniya se bas apnapan badlna chahta hai, Bada nadan hai ye dil, Apane hi dhang mein dhalna chahata hai... (Ghazal Composed on 23 Nov 2012, by my introspective blues... ) Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel

'Yunan Misr Roman, sab mit gaye jaha se, Ab tak magar hai baaki namo nisaan humara...' Though above line were written by great urdu poet Iqbaal, who turned into a Jihadi soon after the movement of a separate Islamic state. However, these lines tell the truth about human civilization. Every other civilization vanished after upcoming/invasion of new one. At same time Bharatiya civilization continued since the time eternal and will be there till the eternity owing its natural ways and the ultimate resilience. Since the times before Harappa and Saraswati River civilization and till current 21st century, the Diya of Deepawali has been lightening the land of Bharatvarsh every year. This Deepawali has always brought Ram Rajya and prosperity to the Bharatiyas. Maryada Purushottam Shri Ram came back to Ayodhya on this great day, Shri Krishana relieved the people from the tyranny from great asuras. And even today, each and every household of Bharatvarsh welcomes the homeco...

Once upon a time a big monk and a little monk were traveling together. They came to the bank of a river and found the bridge was damaged. They had to wade across the river. There was a pretty lady who was stuck at the damaged bridge and couldn't cross the river. The big monk offered to carry her across the river on his back to which the lady accepted. The little monk was shocked by the move of the big monk and was thinking " How can big brother carry a lady when we are supposed to avoid all intimacy with females? " But he kept quiet. The big monk carried the lady across the river and the small monk followed unhappily. When they crossed the river, the big monk let the lady down and they parted ways with her. All along the way for several miles, the little monk was very unhappy with the act of the big monk. He was making up all kinds of accusations about big monk in his head. This got him madder and madder. But he still kept quiet. And the big monk had no inclination to...

Six years ago, I conceptualized this idea SimpyYuva.com to empower youths about their electoral rights, employment, society and the culture. http://simplyyuva.com when I researched about existing Youth portal I found the element missing. Hence I am re-introducing it with more objectives. Authors, bloggers, poet, cartoonists and photographers are most welcome as contributor. Feel free to write: simplyyuva@gmail.com Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel

Arranged marriage is -  "While you are walking unfortunately a snake bites you."  But Love marriage is - "Dancing in front of a cobra and singing, chuma chuma de de..."  This joke is clearly telling about the freedom lost after a marriage. Being a single and never married person, I am no idea about happily married people as I have seen them very rarely. But as it comes to marrying someone, it gets very tricky. I think, calculations work in both process. Why to become choosy about things, if you able to spot you lover marry with the person... If not, you have system to find. :) Sent from BlackBerry® on Airtel Shaadi.com Indian Matrimonials

When a public figure, whom millions of people consider their ideal and inspiration, takes a step, it worth a million steps as people starts taking similar steps. In this context Aamir Khan and his Satyamev Jayate   successfully demonstrates the celebrity power to a corruption and hopelessness ridden nation. Needless to say the aforesaid programme is not totally ‘social’ per say, it is more than a commercial program with double advantage of making image of Mr Khan along with the financial gains. But the issue of this article is not about the programme and its beneficiary, but the mindset of the mass and the media is main issue.  For a man of celebrity status, It is easy to make issue out of everything. But for a non-celebrity but expert of social matter, neither common man nor media is bothered.  With name Satyameva Jayate , a great thinker, political activist and author Shri B Shantanu have been voicing against the evils of politics and governance since y...

भूमिका: गत दिनों मुनव्वर राना साहब NDTV के एक कार्यक्रम पर आये. मैं उनकी शायरी का बहुत बड़ा प्रशंसक हुआ करता था. ये जनाब राय बरेली के हैं, और शायरी में बेजोड़ हैं. अपने समय के शीर्ष शायरों में इनको शुमार किया जाता है.     लेकिन उस NDTV वाले कार्यक्रम में मैंने इनका एक अलग ही चेहरा देखा. जो जिन्ना और तालिबान का मिला जुला प्रतीत हुआ: "तुम्हे हुकूमत मिली तुम गुजरात बनाते हो,  हमें  हुकूमत मिली हम दिल्ली बनाते हैं... हम  औरंगजेब हैं, हम अपनी खिचड़ी खुद पकाते हैं" मुनव्वर साब से ये मुल्लागिरी की उम्मीद नहीं थी. बहरहाल, उनको जवाब मिलना चाहिए: गुजरात याद रखते हो, काश्मीर भूल जाते हो,  कैसे सेकुलर हो अपना नाम भूल जाते हो... पोलिटिकली कर्रेक्ट होना तो बहुत आसान है,  हैरानी है कि हजारों की गयी जान भूल जाते हो... मज़हब की दूकान सरेआम चला लेते हो,  लेकिन अपना फ़र्ज़ और इमान भूल जाते हो... नोआखाली से रावलपिंडी तक कौम बना लेते हो,  और लाखों की गयी जान भूल जाते हो... आगजनी और लूट का अधिकार याद रखते हो,  और अपनी जमीं अपना हिंदुस्त...

Officially the first citizen of India and the supreme commander of Indian Armed forces, the president is not more than a rubber stamp. Since it is symbolically important to the image and nature of the nation, it reflect the ruling regime and also the electoral fallacy or electoral wisdom. Last president, allegedly a cook of Gandhi dynasty, reflected India's timid and remote controlled image for 5 years. Today, new president election results are to be declared. And to keep its tradition, UPA is making another dynasty loyalist Pranab who has a long history as crooked!  Here are some of his hight level corruption charges: 1. He was holding 'office of profit' at the time he filled nominations. 2. Shah commission, which was made to examine the culprits of Emergency 1975, found Pranab as one of the main power exploiter. 3. As per Frontline : "The commission noted in great detail that Pranab had played a great role in unceremoniously removi...

This time I am not going to ask myself: 'Who am I' Budhha did that and he gave a solution to us: the middle path. I would rather ask 'where am I?' Not at this place where caste, religion identities are the only thing that matter... Not at this place where I am a part of huge crowd, trying to live like a commoner... Was not contained by the ambitions or dream, Hence this place where I am, Does not impress with its outlook of identities, rush or crime. I am well behold by my karma and thought. Seeking own salvation, but in my own way. Wherever I am, I there to extend helping hands to my extent. Understanding them but not being their part. They can create troubles in their ways... But I have my own path of vogue, and I must go on. Some nice people called me friend... Some not so nice people saw me as enemy. But I am what I am. It might take a bit longer... As I am by my own. I must carry own. I am not here to stay,...

On 29th June, 2012 One more year passed by,  while I remained the one... Staying and counting by. Life has been a space in time.. Where people come and go,  They have to go and they do so. While being me, most of the time, into the thoughts and reality...  I Seldom forgot,  when to dim, when to shine.  It was only me,  lived in dark age and waited for the renaissance..  held on ups and stood through down, Lived through guilt,  Survived thorough innocence  who am I? the dream chaser? or own record breaker... Let it be, imperfect me with myself,  (just like this poem) Incomplete yet total in run, Let life be "coming soon" with fun...

“Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star”  ~ Confucius Starting with this quote of Confucius, I wanted to draw our attention on the ignorance we are carrying forward in our daily life. It is not about being a pessimist or being a critique, but an observation from real life situation.  Talking about our society and country... a high level of ignorance could be found at every aspect. It is not only political, economic but also societal and personal. One of the most common attribute to the ‘educated’ class, when you talk about ‘politics’ or ‘public policy’ they make face of disgust. It a fashion and its contagious. They would flaunt it and say, ‘I hate politics’. Majority of them, never go and vote. However, they never miss a chance to cruse and abuse the criminal type political leader who was elected due to ignorance of such people. But they love their ignorance! And you cant convince them to do... not to blame.  The...

While all Indians are living uncomfortably under a scam ridden country, the trails of graft and scams are still coming with same speed.  For example, just one major 2G scam ($ 40 Million) is substantial portion of   India's GDP   ($1.73 Trillion). Since then huge scams like  Commonwealth Games Scam,  Coal Scam, KG Basin Oil Block selling, NRHM Scam, MNREGA Scam and IPL Scam are equally huge, the portion of black money is huge in proportion in Indian power game.  It is funny to see the top brass of government are not only covering up all he scams but also taking retrogressive steps to shoot down new business and start-ups.  The Annual Budget 2012-2013 of Indian Union presented by Finance Minister Pranab Mukharjee imposed a new tax ‘Startup Tax’. “It is proposed to insert a new clause in section 56(2). The new clause will apply where a company, not being a company in which the public are substantially interested, receives, in an...

I was told, truth prevails... But lairs got most of it. I was told honesty sails, But cheats made most of it. I was told, love wins all, But found it was nothing but calculations... They said, hard work pays, And by preaching they made millions. They call up on to help the suppressed, And they always wanted to be their leader... They call for justice, But saved the 'references' for own self purpose. They call up on revolution, But only as their power solution! Who are they?! Why can't they call the spade a spade?! They are made of all ourselves, The self core means and hidden agenda. The ethics are for 'others' 'Someone else' should speak the truth. Get me rich, suppressed will always be poor... That double faced bastard live though our situational hypocrisy. Let's get it straight, Be the mean but don't lie. Tell the truth that you do sell dreams... Tell people that one's self is best well-wishes. No preaching, no dream selling! Let...

While caste being less and less important in common lives of Indians, caste-politics is picking up and growing up to deeper depths. Education and appointments are totally casteists now, even the text book and examination papers are becoming tool for justification of caste politics and vote bank politics.             When India won freedom, entire population was poor and illiterate, regardless of its caste line. Reservations were far less and only in Electoral and public jobs. At present, 64 years down the line, Indian populous is richer and more literate and even more urban (where caste don’t even matter in real life), the caste quotas are must increased and infested all higher educational institutes even specialized agencies such as ISRO, NRSA, DRDO and all other government agencies. What is making this tendency stronger? Certainly nothing but the lust of power, which is being clinched through divisive vote bank policies....

Udayveer ji, talking about the caste should not be one sided. What Dr Ambedkar did was not Annihilation of caste but rather insitutionalization of caste. The worst form of caste discrimination, which is publish in the govt report or any other report - is not universal. Even today, 99% atcrocities against poor or dalits are done by the so called OBC castes, who gets more reservations than even dalits! Talking on Dr Ambedkar, he was an educated rhetoric. His father was working in army. Local king sponsered all education on Mr Ambedkar. Despite that, He never participated in freedom struggle, also demanded separate electoral. Political parties and govt documents often lie in order to maintain the political correctness, referring him as a freedom fighter. He was never one. Read and think. Let's talk about another great leader who also belong to same caste - Babu Jagjeevan Ram. He was a great freedom fighter, finest statesman and perhaps he inducted several dalits in main str...

It was a summer of our college days of JNU. While other guys went home in vacations, my entire class headed towards Himachal for the academic tour. And we have to study the physical geography. All of us were very excited as we were going to mighty Himalayas for the first time. Class was divided into several committees and I was convenor of academic committee, as I loved briefing my folks every morning about the tasks of the day. The tour was under supervision of our guru ji Prof Milap Chand Sharma, a world famous glaciers expert and our coolest professor. It was fun-learning experience as we learn geological history of the Himalayas along with the environmental importance of the mountains. We tracked up to the mouth of Beas river and also walked over the parent glacier of this river.  The natural beauty near Beas kund was amazing. Tough and rocky vertical tracking made it very adventurous. On due course, we met many mountaineering groups most on them were defence...

Being a Tech Entrepreneur, IT professional and Social Media enthusiast, technical things - smartphone, laptop and the related accessories have become integral part of personal and professional life. Even If I have to take it to public, these things are essential.    Even though such things have become need of life, living with those needs are really tiring. How much I wished to escape from such dependency.... but day by day it is growing deeper.  Simple Nokia 2300 was much better then Blackberry, at least it had everything I needed. I remember how we had ques in Hostel phone lines before the mobile started. That time we wished to have handsets. Growing needs also making the great contribution in technical vulnerability. My personal experience says this story of tech dependency and vulnerability. All jokes on blackberry addicts seem realistic when I am really busy posting on social media, specially on twitter . The emails and news related with industry and t...

With the largest number of Assembly and Parliament seats, Uttar Pradesh has always foretold the direction of Indian politics. Current assembly elections too are not an exception.   However, people of Uttar Pradesh dint participate much in polling until these 2012 Assembly elections. It was a huge increase at 59.48 %. Though It was bit lesser than the other four states such as Manipur (79.8), Uttarakhand  (67.22), Punjab (78.57) and Goa (81.74). As per election commission analysis UP observed highest number of increase in voters since last assembly elections, it was 45.81 % from the last assembly elections.  Credit goes to the election commission for getting maximum population of citizens into voter list. The campaign through several media helps in communicating election commission message across the masses.  Some political parties like BJP also run campaign among youths for voter awareness. Ramlakhanpal Sharma, young MLA of BJP, Varun Gandhi, you...