These are random thoughts of a sensitive and uncoventional person. Do not read, if at all you choose to do so, for literary or journalistic taste...that ways it is just rubbish
Poly (Many)
Ticks (Any of two families of small parasitic arachnids with barbed proboscis; feed on blood of warm-blooded animals)
Politics = Poly + Ticks = At least holds very good for Indian Politics....These politicians are sucking out blood like ticks only. They never miss a chance to launch their vote campaign ..nomatter if it a sensitive matter like 'Mumbai Terror'. Do we need terrorits, we are our own enemies and in this regard, politicians have left no stone unturned in all these years, what we are reaping today is what these politicians have been sowing. Starting from Partition, Emergency, Babru-Masjid, Godhra Kaand etc etc..they have served nothing but hatred...and we have been electing them time and again..expecting some magic to happen...
They say..We must Vote and exercise our right for Nation Building...CAn these politicians build India..then they say...at least, we can choose 'best among the available', in other words "andhon mein kana raja"..will this do...is this is a choice or a compromise..will this kind of democracy work...do we deserve democracy first of all..considering the unimaginable crimes, terrors, frauds etc. we witnessed in all these years...we may have become comparatively prosper but at what cost...list is huge..but we will not change...like always, we will give them chance of Governance alternatively time and again...being most optimist country...this is expected from us...if we do not have a right to reject any candidate, right for selection is dreadful...Please Vote in the interest of the country, knowing fully well..the consequences of your selection...your historical liking and cultural bias can drag you or your loved ones to similar situation like the one suffered by the people of Mumbai, Assam, Delhi, Godhra etc etc.
Though this view may sound unpleasant, uncivilized, irrational and full of ignorance, but your contribution in a defective Governance is not less criminal in any way...Voting is much more that Tata Tea advertisement..Jago India or whatever...Even I want to reinterate, Jago India...and know the value of your Vote..you still want this dirt around you...though nearly impossible, but political system is to be changed...mushrooming political parties (count may be more than the population of any county), their affluent candidates (without their money - parties can not buy votes), impressive track record (most of them have been jailed- not for social cause, but other obvious reasons), academic qualification (80% of them have not even passed matriculation)...this is the lot from where you have to choose and exercise your most precious right of Voting...
If Sahir couldn't do anything about this...I am just another blogger..vomiting my own stupid views and dissatisfaction...
zulm phir zulm hai, baRhta hai to miT jaataa hai
Khoon phir Khoon hai, Tapkega to jam jaayega
Khaak-e-sehra pe jame yaa kaf-e-qaatil pe jame
farq-e-insaaf pe yaa paa-e-salaasal pe jame
teGh-e-bedaad pe yaa laasha-e-bismil pe jame
Khoon phir Khoon hai Tapkega to jam jaayega
laakh baiThe koi chhup chhup ke kameeN gaahoN meiN
Khoon Khud deta hai jalaadoN ke maskan ka suraaGh
saazisheiN laaKh uRaati raheiN zulmat ka naqaab
le ke har booNd nikalti hai hatheli pe chiraaGh
zulm kii qismat-e-nakaarah-o-rusvaa se kaho
jab’r kii hikmat-e-purkaar ke eema se kaho (eema = permission)
mehmal-e-majlis-e-aqwaam kii laila se kaho
Khoon diiwana hai, daaman pe lapak sakta hai
shola-e-tuNd hai, Khirman pe lapak sakta hai
tum ne jis Khoon ko maqtal meiN dabaanaa chaaha
aaj vo kuchaa-o-bazaar meiN aa nikla hai
kahiiN shola kahiiN naarah kahiiN patthar ban ke
Khoon chalta hai to rukta nahiiN sangeeno se
sar jo uThtaa hai to dabtaa nahiiN aaeeno se
zulm ki baat hi kya, zulm ki auqaat hi kya
zulm bas zulm hai, aaGhaaz se anjaam talak
Khoon phir Khoon hai, so shakl badal sakta hai
aisi shakleiN ke miTaaoo to miTaaye na bane
aise shole k bujhaao to bujhaaye na bane
aise naare k dabaao to dabaaye na bane..........................Sahir Ludhianvi
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Here’s a translation of the nazm by Satish Kumar Shukla Sahib. Enjoy
BLOOD IS BUT BLOOD !
A slain Lumumba is by far mightier than a living Lumumba -Nehru
Repression is sill repression
Rising, it must flop
Blood is sill blood
Spilling it must clot.
Whether it clots on desert sands
Or upon assassin’s hands
On justice’s head or around shackled feet
On injustice’s sword or on the wounded corpse
Blood is still blood
Spilling, it must clot.
However much one lies in ambush
Blood betrays butcher’s hideout
Conspiracies may veil in thousand darkly mask
Each blood drop ventures out with burning lamp on its palm.
Tell oppression’s vain and blemished fate
Tell cruelty’s crafty Imam
Tell the UN Security Council
Blood is crazy
It can leap up to the cloak
It is inferno, it can flare up to burn grain-stock.
The blood you sought to suppress in abattoir
Today that blood moves out into street
Here an ember, there a slogan, there a stone
Once blood comes to flows
Bayonets are no avail
Head, once it is raised
Is not downed by law’s hail.
What is about oppression?
What is with its impression?
Oppression is, all of it, but oppression
From beginning to end
Blood is still blood
Myriad form it can assume
Forms such as are indelible
Embers such as are inextinguishable
Slogans such as are irrepressible.....................Dr. Satish Shukla
