Sunday, June 30, 2013

Snakes and Leaders

I recently came across a story about a snake who was hit by a car.
To be continued...

"The UPA Government is the government of the aam aadmi."
-Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, September 2012

"We all know corruption is a disease, a cancer. Who does it affect the most, it is the poor. No other party has done what UPA has done to fight corruption. We brought the RTI because we genuinely want to fight corruption"
-Sonia Gandhi, October 2012

"No rational person pays the slightest attention to declarations of benign intent on the part of leaders, no matter who they are."
-Noam Chomsky

Story continued...
A snake was hit by a car. A woman picks him up, feeds him, and gets him to a full state of  health. But then he bites her, injecting her with her deadly poison. On her death bed, she asks, "after all I did why me?"
To be continued...

"The non-Hindu people of Hindustan must either adopt Hindu culture and language, must learn and respect and hold in reverence the Hindu religion, must entertain no idea but of those of glorification of the Hindu race and culture ...In a word they must cease to be foreigners, or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges, far less any preferential treatment—not even citizens' rights."
-M.S. Golwalkar, Sarsanghchalak(Supreme Chief) of RSS from 1940-73
(Source: Wikipedia)

"In two years, the VHP will have a presence in all 18,000 villages of Gujarat and by 2015, we will declare Gujarat a Hindu state"
-Pravin Togadia, VHP, March 2013

Of course, BJP did the formality of disagreeing with his words which was very cute and touching, considering their association with RSS, VHP and the likes.

Story continued...
On her death bed, she asked, "after all I did why me?"
The snake responds "you knew I was a snake when you picked me up". 
The End

Perhaps we will never understand what the lady felt on hearing this simple truth, or maybe we will...

I have a very simple definition of secularism: India First. In whatever we do or decide India must get priority
-Narendra Modi, March 2013

Perhaps we will never understand how much someone's idea of India matched with Golwalkar's, or maybe we will...





Saturday, June 22, 2013

क्षितिज की तलाश में...


उनकी आखों को अब कहाँ नींद नसीब होगी,
जो डूबे हैं बेउम्मीद ख्वाहिशों के ख्वाबों में 

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जो ये कायनात मिल भी जाये तो मेरे तोहफे खाली हो जायेंगे,
जो सब सपने सच हो भी जायें तो मेरी नींदें तन्हा रह जाएँगी

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कोरे कागज़ का सफ़ेद बर्दाश्त नहीं 
लिखे हुए की स्याही भी गवारा नहीं   
फिर जो इक तस्वीर में रंग भरे तो 
तुझे उसके रंगों पर भी ऐतबार नहीं 

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खोये हुए हैं ज़मीन पर गिरे सफ़ेद काले कंकर सजाने में, 
नज़रें ऊपर उठाकर इन्द्रधनुष देखने का अब होश कहाँ 

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