पैसे ये पैसे

ये कैसे कैसे हैं पैसे,
     समझना बड़ा मुश्किल है वैसे।
 रुपया, डॉलर और यूरो,
          सभी कहलाते हैं क्यों ये पैसे।
कभी चेक में, तो कभी ड्राफ्ट में,
  कभी एटीएम कार्ड में होते हैं ये पैसे।
सफ़ेद भी होते हैं ये पैसे,
     तो कभी काले हो जाते हैं पैसे।
मेहनते के होते हैं वैसे,
  पर रिश्वत में भी मिलते हैं पैसे।

क्या क्या कराते हैं पैसे,
    समझना बड़ा मुश्किल है वैसे।
लगे रहते हैं सब  गधे के जैसे,
          करते रहते हैं बस पैसे पैसे।
अच्छे काम भी कराते हैं बहुत से,
       तो बुरे में और मिल जाते हैं पैसे।
कितना भी जोड़ लो वो पैसे,
      कम क्यों पड़ जाते हैं ये वैसे।
पीछे लगे रहते हैं सब इसके जैसे तैसे,
        कहीं कम ना पड़ जाएँ वो पैसे।

क्यों चाहिए इतने सारे  पैसे,
    समझना बड़ा मुश्किल है वैसे।
खुशियां ही चाहिए जिंदगी में वैसे,
    तो नहीं चाहिए बहुत से पैसे।
 न सोचो कि बनाये इनको कैसे कैसे,
    जिंदगी से बढ़कर नहीं हैं ये पैसे।
गर काम करोगे कुछ अच्छा जैसे,
   मिलेगा सब कुछ, भले कम हो पैसे। 
ऐसे ही हैं भाई ये पैसे,
   समझना बड़ा मुश्किल है वैसे।

एक गुस्ताखी !

एक गुस्ताखी माफ़ कर मौला,पर इतनी तकदीर दिला दे,
जन्नत न मिले तो एक प्यारा सा जहान दिखा दे |

सूरज का प्रकाश न सही, चिरागों की रोशनी फैला दे,
कम से कम इस अंधेरे में कुछ उजाला तो करा दे|

प्यार न मिले तो सही पर वो नफ़रत तो मिटा दे,
अपने परायो के भेद की जगह सबके दिल वो मिला दे|

सबको अमीर न बना सके पर वो गरीबी मिटा दे,
हर इंसान, हर काम को एक सी इज्जत दिला दे|

जब दवा न दे सके तो कमसकम वो दारू पिला दे,
इस जखम का मर्ज न सही,  तो दर्द ही मिटा दे|

उन सितारों की जगह हो सके तो कुछ जुगनू दिला दे,
अँधेरी रात में मेरे आँगन को ऐसे ही झिलमिला दे|

कोई फ़रिश्ता न सही तो एक अच्छा इंसान बना दे,
खुदाई न सही तो कम से कम इंसानियत सिखा दे|

मैं फिर जी लेना चाहता हूँ

कुछ पंक्तियाँ समर्पित है मेरे दोस्तों को और उन सभी लोगों को जो अपने हॉस्टल और कॉलेज के दिनों को याद करते हैं।

उन 4 सालों की यादों को, उन बेशकीमती लम्हो को,
उन अनगिनत रातो को, उन अनकही बातो को,
मैं फिर जी लेना चाहता हूँ।
चंद पल मैं ऐसे चाहता हूँ, मैं फिर जी लेना चाहता हूँ।

यारों से मिलना चाहता हूँ, गले लगाना चाहता हूँ,
संग उनके खेलना चाहता हूँ, खेल के झगड़ना चाहता हूँ,
वो तू तू मैं मैं चाहता हूँ, फिर गले लगाना चाहता हूँ,
चंद पल मैं ऐसे चाहता हूँ, मैं फिर जी लेना चाहता हूँ।

उन चाय के स्टॉलों में, उन गुमनाम आहतों में,
उन बेपरवाह कशों में, उन मदमस्त नशों में,
मैं फिर जी लेना चाहता हूँ।
चंद पल मैं ऐसे चाहता हूँ, मैं फिर जी लेना चाहता हूँ।

यारों से मिलना चाहता हूँ, मिल के हँसना चाहता हूँ,
हँस के पीना चाहता हूँ, पी के फिर रोना चाहता हूँ,
रो के फिर हँसना चाहता हूँ, हँस के फिर जीना चाहता हूँ।
चंद पल मैं ऐसे चाहता हूँ, मैं फिर जी लेना चाहता हूँ।

उस दीवानगी में, उस पागलपन में,
उस मस्ती में, उस उन्मुक्त गगन में,
मैं फिर जी लेना चाहता हूँ।
चंद पल मैं ऐसे चाहता हूँ, मैं फिर जी लेना चाहता हूँ।

We the people

                                                                 

Why we the people, are so much divided on the basis of political party? If somebody from one party whom we don't follow, do something good, we would like to sit tight and not prefer to clap. But if somebody from that party does something wrong, we will start criticizing him to any extent. We do the same thing from a party which we support. We don't criticize the leaders for doing wrong, implementing wrong policies and try to defend him, but he does something small and do market that piece well, we follow him to spread that piece of work as if that is world's 8th wonder. 

 We the people, have so much power in the democracy. Why have we become follower of one party or one philosophy? For example, as a right wing follower one must oppose BJP's FDI policy. BJP has changed their stand on FDI just to oppose Congress. One must oppose the inclusion of people like Yedurappa in BJP. But we the people who follow BJP just want to follow what the leadership of this party says, not the actual philosophy of the party or not what one think is good for country. As a follower of AAP, one should protest the kind of drama they have done in name of protest against police. They should oppose the method of madness followed by the leadership of the party, unruly and unlawful behavior. 

We the people must not be follower of one particular party or leader. We the people are sentinel of democracy and judging these politicians and parties all the time and send them right signals. We don’t need to promote a particular political party but we should be promoting the idea of India. The true democracy relies on how vibrant and dynamic we, the people are.

आज

कुछ पंक्तियाँ समर्पित है मेरे दूरदर्शी  और महत्वाकांझी दोस्तों के लिए।

कल के चक्कर में क्यों लगे  हो यारों आज,
कि  कल किये होते कुछ तो अच्छा होता आज।
या कल को बनाना है तो गंवाना होगा आज,
जब खो गया होगा कल तो क्या मिल जायेगा  आज।
वो कल तुम्हारा नहीं है जिसके लिए बना रहे हो ताज़,
जो कुछ भी तुम्हारा है वो है सिर्फ आज।
कहता हूँ एक बात जो है जीवन का  राज,
कल कभी नहीं लौट के आएगा आज।
जो कल तुम ढूंढ रहे हो वो भी है आज,
जी लो रे भैया जी भर के जिंदगी आज,
जो भी है, वो सब है, केवल आज केवल आज॥

It’s Biased Media Vs. Biased Social Media in India ...

When I was in school, I had very limited resources like some newspapers; some weekly magazines and I could only watch few TV programs to find out about the world. They all had their inclination either towards left, right or center. I used to like some of them and not agree with some of them and  I still had to make choices about the papers, editors and authors from a very limited pool. Today we have abundance of information but the problem today is  that I don’t know which information is right or wrong, genuine or propaganda, advertisement or paid news, from a hater or lover. Nowadays, there are elements in the society of India which try to spread out the wrong information or sometime right information to incite people or information which is of no value to society for the sake of TRP, money, power, ideology, religion, region, cast or just the entertainment. This includes main stream media and social media.

Main stream media is a one of the important pillar of democracy. There has been a trend in social media to discredit the media for their so-called biased reporting which they do sometimes. An unbiased media reporting is must for a healthy democracy. 

But unfortunately the sections of Media in India have been involved in corrupt practices which has undermined the democratic processes and norms. These media houses generally take higher moral ground but do several kinds of immoral practices. People must have known about Radia tape which had phone conversation of prominent journalists where they had compromise their professional integrity. Zee news editors have seen involved in a sting where they demanded advertisement for covering up a story of an MP. There has been incident of paid news all over the country during elections.

There are issues with Main stream media and those are being scrutinized seriously nowadays by everybody. But the conduct of certain people, organization on social media is more worrisome. I hardly see any news on social media as truth and genuine unless I verify that with some good sources. A culture has been developed on social media to discredit the main stream media, politician except they favor one. Politician and parties are running campaign to establish their ideology through social media. There has been a tendency to go below the belt to people/ ideology that they don’t agree with.  Social media has become a tool of advertisement and a place where Mobocracy is trying to take place of Democracy. 

Sometimes I wonder why people are not bothering to verify the authenticity of the information which they are sharing and promoting. There has been lot of false information about the individuals, organization and events circulating in social media. For example,  I have seen people sharing Japan tsunami video saying this is what happened in Kedarnath.Social media is being used by spammers/campaigners of certain ideology  to spread the wrong information and people are being fooled and become the part of the chain to spread it further. Some people are sharing the information against some political group, people which are hardly true and no legitimate source of that misinformation.  Backwardness and superstitious is being spread by the social media, there has been increasing trend of sharing something related to religion/God and asking to share immediately otherwise pay the consequences. Social media is also being used to mobilize the people, start the communal tension and the riot whether it was London or Muzaffarnagar. 

There are  things which are really good in both the media. There are lots of good people working day and night to do the reporting as true Journalists in main stream media. People should give them little respect what they deserve. At the same time, Social media is just a tool and it is highly depend on the content what people are sharing. There are positives around the social media. The most important aspect is that it gives the opportunity to exercise the very fundamental right to express. The human aspects of it to able see the updates of your friends all over the world. It has been a symbol of woman liberalization in India which is an important aspect of it too. I got to see some important and good information around all sections of news, jokes cartoons and sarcasm. But when I need to filter out these information from some misinformation, then I realize that  its long way to go when  people will start using these tool positively and constructively !!

Swine Flu in India: Don't panic

I have been following the news about outbreak of swine flu in India. The media reporting and government handling of the issue till the moment is disappointing. There seems to be panic about the swine flu in all around India especially in Pune. I have been living in US since the Swine flu was started spreading and haven’t seen kind of panic, which is there in back home. Government and media needs to be more sensible and should do more to make people aware about the flu's symptoms, information about testing and testing centers across the country, protection and cure of the disease than spreading panic.
Government was good in checking this disease so long because of the precautions taken on airport and other port of entries. But now when swine flu has spread in Indian cities and in a country of 12 billion populations, where contagious disease like swine flu may spread in millions of people, Government needs better planning and coordination with all states. As Health is the state matter and center govt. can issue advisory to states, Center Government needs to take all steps to insure proper implementation of the swine flu advisory by all state government.
Closing down schools, colleges and malls is not a long term solution to the problem. This outbreak is not going to stop in few days. Government needs to make people aware. People who are suffering from any kind of influenza ,should avoid social contacts. People are getting into queue for testing of swine flu that is the result of panic. People should avoid test if they have simple flu, sneezing or fever until they have 4-5 symptoms of swine flu. In US around 45000 had been affected and cured. 300 people died, most of them in the initial stage of the swine flu, when the information was not available. India has the advantage of more information available about this epidemic than any other country but result of the more information seems to be an over-reaction.
Media is playing kind of negative role. Instead of making people more aware, they are running attention seeking breaking news, which is causing more panic. They need to run good information which can really help people like help line numbers and precautions, care.
What I want to highlight here that actually the secondary diseases are causing death with swine flu. Swine flu may impact mild or severe and a person with weak immune system can have the multiple problems from which he is already suffering ,then swine flu can be fatal. Special care needs to be taken for children and elderly people and people with major medical history.
Everybody should try to be healthy and should take healthy diet, more fluids. They should use sanitizers every hour. I think mask is only needed for person with illness or person who is in contact with flu affected person.

Finally I want to add that Swine flu is not the only danger in India as for as medical and health problems are concerned. There are many more diseases dangerous than this. It is the panic which is causing fear among every of us. It is a contagious disease but can be curable in most of the times. We should stress more on making ourself aware about it,checking it and not spreading it than fearing about it.

Here is the information for the H1N1 flu which can be useful for everybody about swine flu. (Source: http://www.cdc.gov/ )

Symptoms:
The symptoms of H1N1 flu virus in people are similar to the symptoms of seasonal flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. A significant number of people who have been infected with H1N1 flu virus also have reported diarrhea and vomiting.

If you are sick:
If you are sick, you may be ill for a week or longer. You should stay home and keep away from others as much as possible, including avoiding travel and not going to work or school, for at least 24 hours after your fever is gone except to get medical care or for other necessities. (Your fever should be gone without the use of fever-reducing medicine.) If you leave the house to seek medical care, wear a facemask, if available and tolerable, and cover your coughs and sneezes with a tissue. In general, you should avoid contact with other people as much as possible to keep from spreading your illness, especially people at increased risk of severe illness from influenza.
If you have severe illness or you are at high risk for flu complications (for younger, elder or person with medical problems), you should contact doctor or hospital to get tested and treated for the swine flu.

Emergency Warning Signs
If you become ill and experience any of the following warning signs, seek emergency medical care.

In children, emergency warning signs that need urgent medical attention include:

Fast breathing or trouble breathing
Bluish or gray skin color
Not drinking enough fluids
Severe or persistent vomiting
Not waking up or not interacting
Being so irritable that the child does not want to be held
Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough

In adults, emergency warning signs that need urgent medical attention include:

Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath
Pain or pressure in the chest or abdomen
Sudden dizziness
Confusion
Severe or persistent vomiting
Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough
Protect Yourself, Your Family, and Community