Lage hain chup karane me, yahan is inkalabi ko,
Yeh shor hukmraano ka, sunai nahi deta,
jute hai rehnumai me, kuch firka-paraston ki,
dard mazloom janta ka, sunai nahi deta.
Chale hai balti lekar, bujhane aag gulshan ki,
ghar me uthata hua dhuan, dikhai nahi deta,
koi kehta hara hai yeh, koi kehta hai kaisariya,
lahoo ka rang laal ab to kahin, dikhai nahi deta.
-Akash
Politics
Save trees, save earth
Seeing the same exercise for about a month, I decided to take a step forward and start encouraging colleagues to stop/lessen the use of paper tissues in washrooms. You can't spread the message verbally to a large audience, so I printed 2 notices for encouraging people to lessen their soft tissues usage and use hand dryers* in washrooms. I asked the house keeping guys to paste this poster in the washrooms at my floors with the purpose of noticing people’s reaction to extend the same in all washrooms across the building. To my surprise, the house-keeping guy was smart, he got the notice photocopied and put those in all the washrooms.It got a mixed reaction, some people appreciate the work and instead suggested using handkerchiefs in pace of hand-dryers but some was there to make fun of it. Some showed their calligraphic talents on the notices and some told me that "Jaante hai ki tum bahut bade samaaj-sevak ho...".
As everything needs time to make a sizable effect, it isn't an exception. But believe me that in long term, it will have a positive effect over more people. As an analysis, if there are 10 washrooms in a building and approximately 40 persons use a washroom on an average. If your notice can take attention of a mere 10%**, 4 persons start contributing in saving trees. Assuming that a person use 5*** tissues daily on an average, then you are saving 10*4*5 = 200 tissues daily. This not only save your operational expenditure but you will also get a positive feeling of saving trees.
I have talked to some of my friend in some bigger organization and they are also ready to shoot a mail to their admin/HR to implement the same in their offices :-)
So guys, what are you waiting for? Use HANDKERCHIEFS and save TREES.
* You may argue that hand dryer will use electricity, which is generated using thermal power but that costs much less trees than soft tissues.
** Lately, this figure will grow for sure.
*** It is the minimum number of tissues, an average person uses daily.
QWERTY
Quentin, he sits next to Will.
Veronica sits next to Bill.
Graham sits just right of Fred,
And Mortimer sits next to Ned.
Charlie sits just under Fred,
And under Dave, it could be said.
Yasmin's sitting right of Trevor,
And Will and Edgar sit together.
PS: Look at your keypad; first letter of each name is the letter on each key.
Chrome Ad for TV
Google is taking the help of TV to promote their new browser - Google Chrome - which has the fourth largest market share after IE, Firefox and Safari. The video was created by Japanese Googlers for YouTube. They came up with a very good ad and you may like that. Below is a video of the same and watching it in full screen mode is a pleasure in itself.
(Press HD button to view it in high quality mode)
Interview
आज लेने पहुचे हम एक नेता का साक्षात्कार,
खा गए चक्कर देख कर उनका आकार,
वैसे तो वो सिर्फ़ ग्यारह बच्चो के अब्बा थे,
पर साइज़ में पूरा रेल का डब्बा थे,
लगता था कि पूरे देश का चारा उन्होंने ही खाया था,
भैस तो भैस, बकरियों को भी डराया था,
अब ज्यादा क्या कहे उनकी हैल्थ को लेकर,
सोचा, निकालेगे हकीकत उनकी अनसोशल वेल्थ को लेकर ।
मैंने अपना पहला प्रश्न पुछा,
आपकी सरकार में कितने मंत्री रिश्वतखोर है?
वो बोले, क्या कर लोगे अगर सब के सब चोर है?
में डर गया, फिर भी अपना दूसरा प्रश्न दागा,
पर किस्मत थी ख़राब, फिर फँस गया मैं अभागा,
पूछा, आपकी सम्पत्तीं कितनी है?
वो बोले, नेता बनने के पहला या उसके बाद,
अच्छा-अच्छा लिखना, वरना कर दूगा तुझे बरबाद ।
तभी मुझे याद आया, और मैंने उन्हें बताया,
कि आने वाला है इलेक्शन,
अब तो बदलो अपनी आवाज़ का सेक्शन,
फिर क्या था, मेरे ही सवाल थे और मेरे ही जवाब,
में था उनकी कुर्सी पर, खड़े हुए थे जनाब,
अब वो मेरे सवालो पर अच्छे से विचार कर रहे थे,
और साथ-साथ अपने पार्टी मेनिफेस्टो का प्रचार कर रहे थे ।
देखा आपने, कि कितने रंग कि होती है इन नेताओं की खाल,
और मुझे तो शक है, की इनका खून भी नही होता लाल,
तो मेरे देश के बच्चों, बूडो और नौजवानों, अब तो अपनी आँखें खोलो,
कुछ न कर सको तो, विरोध के स्वर ही बोलो,
ताकि ये देश, अपने देशवासियों के दम पर कुछ कर दिखाए,
और अपना प्यारा भारत फिर से विश्व गुरु कहलाये ।
-आकाश
PS: Above was my first poem, I have written in college time. It was written as a humorous critic on political leaders. This poem should have come on this blog before general election 2009 to act more aptly.
Disclaimer: This poem is not targeted at any particular politician but at all politician leaders in general. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
7 Sixes
Everyone was stunned to see those 7 sixes in a row and bhabhi started arguing that we should cancel 6 sixes and only one six should be considered valid. You might know that if one gets 3 consecutive sixes in ludo they get canceled. On the same ground, bhabhi was arguing to cancel first 6 sixes and considering only last six as valid. But that time bhai was considered for his consent and he has given his decision in my favor :)
Ultimately, it was a close game and I won just by a ONE.
Goverdhan Parikrama
1) At Vaishno Devi, you have to climb up a mountain so that is more tiring and time taking but here is a plane walk. Still, it's not easy coz you are supposed to walk bare feet and these guys made a full concrete road only to increase your pain. My brother got his feet blooded as he did already have some allergy but still he showed great enthusiasm and didn't give up.
2) In Vaishno Devi, you can't find any shop selling articles of personal interest but here, there was a shop at every 20 steps selling ciggis and tobacco. I was surprised when I saw a restaurant on the way with a board "THANDI BEER UPLABHADH HAI".
3) As I have mentioned here, at Vaishno Devi the spirit of devotees for making jaikaras were missing, but here it was on full show. Also you can not find a place in the way where you can't here the sound of Bhajans coming out of shops.
4) Vaishno Devi has been commercialized a lot over past few years. Brands like CCD have already marked their presence there but here it is still missing.
5) At Vaishno Devi, you will hardly find a beggar but here you will certainly loose your count if you start.
So these were some differences but the power of bhakti has no comparison anywhere. Overall, I enjoyed here, the walk, the bath at Mansi Ganga, the food, the drive (500 kms in total) and on the top of that the presence of everyone.
PS: I would also like to share my earlier experience at Goverdhan. I, my brother, Mom and Dad were there. I and my brother were walking too fast and left Mom n Dad miles back. But when we were almost at the finish, we got a call from Mom that she is missed and there was no info from Dad's end. Finally after a lot of chaos, we all were able to meet. So this time, all of us made sure that everyone would carry his/her cell and we will walk together :)
Rishte
-आकाश
It's like a double-edged sword, either you can use it as a criticism on current political scenario where parties are making and breaking alliances. Or you can treat is as an sentimental poem targeted at human relationship.
Itni jaan baaki hai...
For change of mood:
Gum gaye saare shahenshah,
ek huzoor baaki hai,
udd gaya saara nasha,
tera suroor baaki hai,
bik gaye mulk-o-siyasat,
tera nishan baaki hai,
teri aakhon se mein pi loon,
bas itni jaan baaki hai,
tu ek baar laut ke aaja,
ki itni aa.ns baaki hai,
tere hothon ko mein chakh loon,
bas itni saa.ns baaki hai.
-Akash
