The Denied Justice

The center of the storm Juvenile Justice Act was instituted so that any minor is not treated harshly for any mistake.Below 18 years of age,a boy or girl has not yet developed requisite wisdom of taking all decisions correct.So,his case must be seen under the frame-work of a mistake rather than a crime and he must be provided a chance to reform.But is rape just a mistake.There are numerous youths who desire to satisfy their libido but are under-control due to stringent laws of country and society.If at an age of under-eighteen,and how the age is ascertained,by the school-certificate of an illiterate,one can have the girl of their choice,we should remove all veils of shame and start participating in naked-dance of childhood.A 17 years boy is is no way ignorant or even child in the twenty-first century.He knows everything and even in larger magnitude that 34 years old man.Everyone had been seventeen,and everyone knows the simple maturity of that age.Not in terms of business dealing but in matters of social conduct.Even if one holds the hand of a beloved in social place,he is put to shame by others.And if he is 7,he can certainly do the same carefree.
The brutality and the magnitude of crime in Delhi Gang Rape has been monstrous and monster had been involved in the crime.To talk about the human rights of any of them is a crime.The only eye-witness told the media that it was the juvenile who was the worst criminals among all the guilty.He wooed the girl into the bus,aided the rape and finally inserted the rod to murder her.Three years punishment is a mockery of the plight of Nirbhaya.See might be Nirbhaya but the verdict suggests that the criminals are the ones who should actually feel Nirbhaya,which literally transforms into without fear.Did not the criminal knew what he was doing?Raping and murdering an innocent girl.He was all the time understanding the gravity of the situation.Afterall,how many 17 year boys go on to rape a girl!But,the decision is a welcome step for all of them who are fearing law and society.
The court had limited scope in the wake of constitutional provisions.But the Parliament could have certainly amended the provision.Atleast they could have removed rape crimes from the protection of Juvenile Act.But this time,there wont be any consensus in the Parliament.But bring a bill to keep political parties out of the ambit of RTI or to increase the pay off of MPs,then see the general calm and serenity in the procedure.If they can not make a law offering proper punishment to the rapists,they do better hang the people who had dared the government during the agitation for justice to Nirbhaya.They must be today feeling lost and cheated.How can afterall we live with such a huge weight over our soles?Justice has been delivered and maximum punishment offered.Somewhere,down the lane a drunk youth is singing "Jinhe Naaz Hai Hind Per Wo Kaha Hai"(Where are the ones who took proud in India).

जन्मों का संगम

वो बाबुल की गलियाँ
वो  माटी का घरोंदा
छोड़ चल अब सजनी
की आयी मिलन की बेला

देख तेरा गुड्डा अकेला खड़ा
गुडिया से दुर जा अड़ा
पलट-पलट ना याद कर
वो यादों का खिलौना

कसक दिल मे लिए
होंठों को भी सिये
जाएगी कितनी दुर
जिंदगी के रास्ते है टेढ़े

जब नए घर मे पाँव धरेगी
अकेले ही दुनिया से लड़ेगी
 नाज़ुक हाथों से है अभी तो
अपनी गृहस्ती तुझे बनाना

और कितनी देर अश्क बहाएगी
कजली को गालों पे लगाएगी
नवीन नयनों से ये दुनिया देख
अभी बहुत कुछ है रखा हुआ

चल सजनी ये गाँव हुआ पुराना
नया तुझको दीखऊं अब ठिकाना
इस क़दर भी ना शरमा हमसे
जनम-जनम का साथ है अब से

Control is the Call

Words delude me.Night after night,the trauma haunts back.But the loss of words continue unabridged.Whenever the feeling of reaching the ultimate slope pains,some other major accident takes away the little delight of feeling that things can only improve from here onwards.The win or defeat with life is a trifling matter.The long and painful journey of Indian courts are a morbid.Legal aspects bore us down.But the nerve breaking fear for the better creatures pain me.Homo Sapiens,that is what be are.Human is a term that exist only in history books.The need is to study science of anthropology afresh.The wind has been so much churned by our activity that good thoughts come seldom in our lives.The evil is in mind.Cleaning it up will take time.Huge gaps have been created in our sole.Swami Dayanand message to return to the Vedas sound hollow.Indian culture doesn't needs to go that back.Recaptualiating the post-independence era is enough.
   
Ranga-Billa was the name which haunted Indian society for decades.How did it happen?Can man fall so down?No soothing answer were ever discovered for these questions.The case shocked the country as much as a visit to the house of victim Sanjay and Geeta Chopra by the then President failed to let the incident slide back in public memory.Delhi overnight became an unsafe city.Having an escort in the form of a young boy was not enough.The public cry was huge but fell almost in deaf years.Guidelines regarding girls and women safety were issued.National Bravery Award for children under 16 years was instituted the same year in 1978 dedicated to the name of victims as Sanjay Chopra Award and Geeta Chopra Award.Under strong pressure,police and government reacted sharply.The culprits were notched and subsequently hanged.Strong policing and under-fire government did not allowed a recursion of the heinous crime.Almost 35 years later the question raised then remain more or less same.For the public outrage,carving an exact or about comparison is tough.But one thing can not be ruled out.The protests against rape was one of the most blatant display of public emotions in recent era.That too by a generation coaxed by modern gadgets and too much westernized to respect the Indian culture of worshiping women.And therein lies the most painful difference filling the heart red and stretching in the red corridors of power.The police is showing a complete indifference to the magnitude of crime involved.Instead of cracking upon the criminals,it ends up cracking upon the justice-seekers.Its a part of their duty,what for they take their salary,vardi ki laaj and all those high flying oaths and principle can be forgotten and dumped alright.But are they human?No,they are not.They are just homo sapiens.Science might go on proving their characteristics and identities but the truth cannot be ruled out.They are just a species eating and defecating.The guardians of Indian Constitution much stressed on the superiority of public leadership.Its the people who rule themselves through elected representative.These popular leaders will take the last call in a democratic system.Remember the iconic song from Satya,the leader comes and dance with the gangster and his wife.Later,when the gangster is not powerful enough to garner votes,the dancing and jollying gave way to his murder.At elections,the politicians with garlands and folded hands pay their respects to the janta-janardan.These same leaders,instead of apologizing for the ghastly state of law and order,preach the girls how to dress?If they show much expertise in girls dresses why not stage a dance show to lift the gloom.For preaching,we Indians do have lot of baba-logs floating around.We also have some baby and baby in political circles.

A leader should mean a strict business.You were elected to rule and provide the rule of law.If law is being broken,no matter how difficult the situation is spinning,you must make arrangements for its control.Blaming society,morality,education,law-bindings and the not-to-forget western dresses will provide no help.Whatever be the cost,whatever be the way,legal or illegal,this cease to matter.Anger is in streets and pain is in heart.The situation must be bought under control.Why no one dare touches a politician's family?Fear.The word must ring in every criminals mind.The law was never tough enough,in any era of history,to ring this bell.It was the ruler who took shot.That leadership is missing in the horizon.Some leaders,they must be eliminated before criminals,always try to divert focus from this burning issues by evoking regionalism and communalism.This naked dance of politics should be burnt together in the pyre with human values.The question of growth or survival is late to come.If girls,in this land of Radha and Seeta,fail to retain their honour,its worthless to sustain this glorious country.

An Education Liberation

Life's greatest ironies are usually the most unnoticed incidents.Affecting life in no small way,the individual concerned is not supported by the society.Social acceptance of crime is the most worrying face of immorality.The great and largely written rich-poor divide is a consequence of the same.The poor has been subjected to long standing traditions of exploitation by the rich.Not until very recent economic liberation did poor ever question the masterly behaviour of the rich.Was he born to be subject?Or it was just a state of perpetual mindset to serve the rich.Neither for sure,when opportunity was created,many entrepreneurs broke away from generations of poverty to create their own class.What forced them to make such a path for oneself.The need to sustain or food.Certainly not.They were feed atleast as much was required to sustain.What was important that they dreamed beyond.They dreamed to live the life of the ruling class.And they put in effort,tremendous.If that wasn't enough,and it wasn't,as a matter of fact,they went in to challenge the law.The astronomical figures of corruption post 1991 era can somewhat be related to that challenge.But it was not evil.That was not just greed pushing them up.They had to expand their feet beyond the sheet.The law certainly allowed them to do so but the existing pattern of governance did not.They paid to grow.Decades of insecurity had given them much will-power.They just wanted growth,whatever be the price.New scope of business was flourishing with no previous jinx in competition.The sky was the limit.And what did the rich do.They too realized the change.Little late,bot not too much.They too joined the loot.Country was flourishing as far as economy was concerned.But the loot.In the bygone era,rich exploited the poor.It had the approval of society.So called Robinhood looted the rich,but not the whole society paraded with them.Not even the working class supported them.But,yes,few stood strongly by them.Not for their method of earning,but for the struggle against the rich.Few resorted to evil tactics,apart from looting the rich,they started ruling the common folks.But this was loathed away.And one was providing this light to the society of what is to be approved and what discarded away?It was a large variety of people.Lawyers,engineers,doctors,priests,people whom the society accepted not for their money but for their knowledge.This class of individuals have gone intellectually bankrupt would be a fat-fetched suggestion.On taking a closer look,something entirely different and deeply saddening have happened.They no more enjoy the confidence of commoners.Money is the new patriarch of society.Wether its the rich or the Robinhood,it no more matters.Who is making more is all everyone is respecting.By everyone,I mean the so-called light of the society.Rest are just following suit.Or does the reverse has happened.People have started worshiping money and the professionals have no escape but too follow the trend.You can't be sure of any of the aspect.May be both factors are working together.But certainly the losers the professionals.There hard earned impression built by generations of learnt achievers is being wasted in earning simply some coins.The onus of the retarded position could simply be put upon them.Why in the first instance did they support the rich and ruling class and discarded the rebel looters.Certainly some drastic and narrow interests played upon their mind.They have paid the cost undoubtedly.What else do they deserve,certainly,some bits of glory of the bygone era.Yes,we certainly need to restore back their light.The society has strayed away from goodwill.Restoring the old system wont certainly help.How could it,if it failed once,a repeat can not be ruled out.What is required is liberation.'Liberation' the term that defined the high flowing economy,the term which led to a change in years of class struggle and which is making money the new God of social morals and meanings.Liberate the professional class,not just from economic slavery but make it a more free and fair stage like economy.Allow everyone to compete and rise above the ashes.Then only they could take the driving seat in the society and economic prosperity goes together with economic boons to fulfill ambition of a modern and better society.Providing reservation is like providing crutches.Need is to be creating opportunity.Provide good quality education one and to all.Government free-ship programs like Sarv Siksha Abhiyan or RTI is chasing the dream but in limited scope.Creation of a HRD mega-scheme is the need of the day.Education must be accessible by those willing.Free education should be the right of a talented candidate.The resources required for higher education should not be too tough to yeild but it must come knocking on a deserving door.The product of such institute will certainly make the right balance between money and ethics.The class struggle will continue,of course,but the rules of the game will change.The struggle of class should not be the sole struggle,it must give make way for the clash of human mind.A India of dream will certainly be shaped,certainly by a few,but the best few encompassing the whole hues of society.

अनमोल बंधन

सुनी कलाईयाँ इस कदर रुलाती है
प्रदेश मे जब तेरी याद आती है
मनाते दिल मे तेरा प्यार लिये 'राखी' 
क्युँकि जहां प्यार है,वही त्योहार है

तुम्हे ये मन याद करता है
सिसक सिसक कर फरियाद करता है
सजती जब किसी भाई पे 'राखी'
फिर वही मासूमियत याद करता है

दुर है,तन्हा है,अकेला है
पर यादों से खाली नही है
कई बचपन बन्धी हाथों पे 'राखी'
मधूर मुस्कान से याद करता है

हर बन्धन से बढके है
बन्धन तेरे मेरे प्यार का है
डोरी से क्या बन्धेगी 'राखी'
तेरा मेरा जहां जो समेटती है

इस बरस कुछ तोहफा नही है
खूबसुरत रिश्तों का जो त्योहार है
अपनापन का जो मान है 'राखी'
पैसा दिया जाये तो उसक अपमान है

वो कही रहती है

तन्हा रातों मे रोती है
ऐसी भी पागल होती है 
वो किसी से मिलती नही
इन्तजार उसका जीवन है

सपनो का उसका राजकुमार है
सफेद घोडों पे चलता है
सजे बिन वो परिओं से कम नही
और सज जाये तो परी ही है

श्रृंगार उसका सादगी है
चरित्र ही अभिमान है
सुन्दरता का उसे होश नही
इठला के वो न चलती है

बच्चों सा भोलापन है
चंचलता पर तरुनि का है
सजने का उसे शौक नही
समझ पर पुरे यौवन का है 

हर गम सीने मे छुपाती है
किसी से वो न कहती है
दर्द उसे जमाने का नही
अपनों का ही दुख सहेजती है

मेरे गीत उसको समर्पित है
जो मेरे लिये जीती है
मेरे गम अब मेरे नही
उन्हे अपनी अमानत कहती है

Bhagalpur Blinding and Durga Shakti Nagpal

Bihar,as many used to say,was a failed state.Much of this term owes to the so called  'Jungle Raj' period of Bihar's history in post-independence history.Before the setting of this Raj,something really controversial took place in Bhagalpur.Car acid was poured into the eyes of few jailed undertrials in a local police station.This terrifying incident had electrifying effect throughout the crime world in Bihar.The crime graph took a deep plunge.The government and law was not in a mood to relent the matter.Court took cognizance of the matter and for the first time monetary compensation were offered to the victims.Court considered the case as a violation of Article 21 of the constitution.It was claimed that the police-men involved had violated the basic human rights and constitution.The then CJI of India,Y V Chandrachud made an observation to this effect.The police-men came under huge pressure.But an important fact that remains is the huge public applaud gained by the officers.Public rallies were organized in their support and against any possible actions melted upon them.These rallies were not at all organized by some political party.It was the public's swift and spontaneous action against the growing crime in the state in post-emergency era.There was a public nod and approval to the 'inhuman' action.Wether the officers involved were guilty or not,could never be proved in any commission or court of law.Not even a single police-men was prosecuted.The people sternly choose lawlessness to criminality.And mind it people of Bihar are considered backward in their mindset.
Bringing the case to present scenario,an officer,IAS,known for her valour against mining-mafia has been suspended.Days became week,the whole country was in rage.Intellectuals,journalists,politicians and public throughout the country is demanding justice for the officer.But,a question arises,who benefited from the excellent works undertook by the officer.Certainly,the direct beneficiaries were the local people.Even a murmur of protest is missing from them.It seems,they have silently approved the action against her.Their leader is boasting in front of them how he got the officer suspended within an hour,and the people are simply cheering and clapping.Its a matter of choice.The incident took place in UP,a state enjoying a down-ride almost in all aspects of public welfare and administration.Several governments occupying the power have only played the caste-cards in this infamous caste-belt of Indian politics.The public is seemingly choosing caste against welfare.If the state is shrinking in lawlessness,mind-numbing poverty and joblessness without industrialization,should the rest of India worry.Afterall,its a people elected democratic government.Its bound to do everything along the lines of public mood.
Those who organized rallies in Bihar weren't of a high-class.They were mostly down-trodden,illiterate and innocent villagers.In UP,the incident has occured in regions touching Noida,the high-profile dream city of big and the rich.The education they undertook seems wasted against the injustice offered to their public servant.Something must be spoken about the time too.This two starkinlgy different incidents were separated by more than thirty years.Then the people stood for men against the law,only because the men were doing something remarkable for them.Many will agree that the police-men involved in the case were guilty,yet people saw their good and supported them.Here,in a modern city of 21st century,an officer is allegedly suspended for demolishing the walls of a mosque.If people are choosing a petty religious matter over welfare and good governance,they are not just backward by centuries.They are equal partners-in-crime with the mafia.If not for the injustice melted down to the officer,they could atleast have stood for their own good.Always complaining or grumbling against the government does not pays.Either you can make a change with your own hands,or you can wait for a missionary to undertook a fast for you where people can have their regular tamasha or play and fair.

ऐसी हो मेरी मेहबूबा

ऐसी हो मेरी मेहबूबा

मुस्कुराए तो कहीं फूल खिल जाये!

और जब रूठी नजर फेरे

तो दिलों पे बिजली दाल दे घेरे!!

हिमाचल के सेब भी हो फिकें 

गाल हो ऐसे सबनम के सलिके!

नागपुर क संतरे भुला दे

मखमलि होंठ से जो मुस्कुरा दे!!

पहने पटिआला का सलवार नीला

और दुपट्टा मलमल का पीला!

नजरे झुकाये जरा शर्माये

पैरों से मगर शरारत कर जाये!!

जताये वो मुझसे निगाहों से प्यार

मगर दुसरो को दिखाये हाथों का वार!

नजरें करे हर किसी से चार

मगर दिल से तो मेरी ही रहे यार!!

रेश्मि बाल हो बड़े बड़े

और आखें हिरणि से डरे डरे!

शरीर मे उसके हो वो बागपन

जल जाये देख हर किसी का मन!!

रहें उसकी बाहें गले मोहि

कलाईयाँ गोरी मैं चुमुँ थोरी!

मजा दिल से तो तब आये 

देख के पुरा शहर जल जाये!!