Faiz Ahmed Faiz ke deewan se ek nazm, Naye Saal Per.

Ae Naye Saal Bata Tujh Mein Naya Kia Hai? 
Har Taraf Khalq Nay Kyun Shor Macha Rakha Hai

Roshni Din Ki Wohi Taron Bhari Raat Wohi 
Aaj Hum Ko Nazar Aati Hai Har Baat Wohi

Aasman Badla Hai Afsoos, Na Badli Hai Zameen 
Aik Hindsay Ka Badalna Koi Jiddat To Nahi

Aglay Barson Ki Tarah Hongay Qareenay Teray 
Kisay Maloom Nahi Barah Mahinay Teray

January, February Or March Mein Paray Sardee 
Or April, May, June Mein Hogee Garmee

Tera Mun Dehar Mein Kuch Khoye Ga Kuch Paye Ga 
Apni Miyad Basar Karkay Chala Jaye Ga

Tu Naya Hai To Dikha Subah Nayi, Shaam Nayi 
Warna In Aankhon Nay Dekhay Hain Naye Saal Kayi

Be-Sabab Daitay Hain Kiun Log Mubarakbadain 
Ghaliban Bhool Gaye Waqt Ki Karwi Yaadain

Teri Aamad Say Ghati Umr, Jahan Mein Sub Ki 
Faiz Nay Likhi Hai Yeh Nazm Niralay Dhab Ki

WHETHER PEACE LOVING MUSLIMS ?

On December 19, a terrorist ploughed a lorry into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12 people and wounding a dozen others.

On July 18, an Afghan teenager used an axe to launch attacks on a train in the German town of Wuerzburg.

On July 22, a teenager of Iranian origin shot dead nine people in Munich.

On July 24, a Syrian refugee killed a woman with a machete and another Syrian refugee exploded himself in the German town of Ansbach.

SARCASTICALLY YOURS, MARKANDEY KATJU !

Markandey Katju

Why I am a Hindu 
I am an atheist, but if I had to choose my religion, I would have chosen Hinduism. That is because while in other religions there is only one God, in Hinduism there are 330 million gods. So you can choose the god who suits your temperament as your.'Ishta Devta'
If you are fond of drugs and alcohol, you can choose Lord Shiva ( he is said to be fond of bhaang, dhatura, etc ). If you are fond of many women, you can choose Lord Krishna ( the gopis of Vrindaban were very fond of him and he allegedly married 16000 women at a time ), but if you are devoted to one single woman, which you should be ( 'ek hi naari sada brahmachari', as I used to say in court while deciding bigamy cases ) you should choose Lord Rama.
You can select a god with the head of an elephant ( Ganesh ), or of a monkey ( Hanuman ) or even a pig ( Varaha devata ).. You can select a god with 4 heads ( Brahma ), though sadly the chap has few worshippers, and there is reportedly only one temple in his honour ( at Pushkar, near Ajmer ) in India. You can worship Kali or Murugan or whatever you like.
Or you can be an atheist like me, denounce all sacred books as containing nonsense and all religions to be superstitions and false, and yet remain a Hindu .
Hari Om

RATIONALIST INQUISITIVENESS !
Rationalism promotes inquisitiveness and scientific temper.Thus it is opposed to any kind of dogmatic and metaphysical assumptions,religious prejudice and conservatism. Mere negation of hypothesis about supposed 'god' and its associated religiosity is not rationalism.One has to be rational ,in practice and perception in all aspects of our day to day life.I have come across rationalist friends,who quite inexplicably support regressive and reactionary socio-political concepts. .Rationalism is in,tune with scientific temper and accept in any intellectual pursuit,spirit of inquiry,commitment to truth and a well calculated method to give progressive knowledge of facts.Rationalism accepts a naturalistic order and aims at human well being and happiness in this world.The idea of an other worldly supra mundane disembodied existence is a myth. The idea of heaven,hell,day of judgment,liberation,disembodied existence etc are religious beliefs and not proven facts.

Law for whom?

Our law enforcing agencies are either toothless or not dutifully capable. Law prescribes that no Chinese kite strings are to be used, but youngsters use these with impunity, resulting in serious injuries, even death. No stubble is to be burnt, but people resort to it, unmindful of its ill-effects. Triple riding on two-wheelers is a no-no, but youngsters do it all the time, even as they ride without helmet. Load carriers are not supposed to carry passengers, but we find many of these carrying passengers for some events, dera gatherings, or religious pilgrimage. Gun culture is evident at marriage palaces and gang wars are openly taking place. The police is helpless because the culprits are well connected. Buses, specially those run by politicians, speed with scant regard to road sense or traffic rules. Many lives have thus been lost. The government, I feel, is the real culprit. Are we living in an uncivilised society, or the government and law enforcing agencies are mute spectators?

#BORDER_LINE_STUPIDITY

India's flag fails 

+ In November 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi created a storm when he accidentally posed with an upside down tricolour flag while shaking hands with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

+ Embattled Union HRD minister Smriti Irani raked up another controversy in January 2016 when she unfurled the national flag upside down in Hardoi where she went to lay the foundation stone of a Kendriya Vidyalaya building.

+ In May 2016, Jalandhar mayor Sunil Jyoti of the BJP posed for several photos, as he was sitting in front of a tricolour flag that was hanging upside down at his office. 

+Latest one !Minister of state home Hansraj Gangaram Ahir took salute at the 51st rising day parade of the BSF with India's tricolour upside down.

Could it happen for their own Bhagwa[RSS] flag ???

OBSCURANTIST INTOLERANT PAROCHIAL!
History and today's day to day experience has established that religion is ineffective and weak in spreading the message of peace and love.As a matter of fact religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.Whether it is Christianity or Islam or Hinduism,every religion has inculcated an intolerant spirit among its followers which has resulted in bloody clashes,murder and torture of all those who do not submit to that particular faith.Theism teaches man to love "god" so much so that they begin to hate,abhor, and outlaw those,who honestly and sincerely cannot accept the 'incredible' doctrine.It is all due to the fact that all religions are wedded to fanatical intolerance.Today all religions are classical example of sectarian trends and loyalties.It is not one or two instances in the history of religion that 'prove'this or that religion is not secular.The history of every religion is the history of intolerance.So called 'modern and progressive'religious scholars may quote verses here and there from their respective 'holy' scriptures in order to prove 'secular spirit'of their religion. Such passages are very rare and out of context as for as today's subjective and objective conditions are concerned.On the contrary the known verses and the action of the followers,in accordance to the basic spirit of those verses, are the only 'inspiration' for credulous and gullible followers.All religions are same:the Muslims fight with the cry Allah ho Akbar,the Christians in the name of Christ and Hindus with the slogan,Har Har Mahadev.In this context it is interesting to note that when rationalistic doctrines,backed by scientific truth and supremacy of reason and logic,criticize the theism[religions] for their intolerance,irrationality,adamant and uncompromising attitude,religious protectors raise their heads with their 'new' findings and interpretations in order to reestablish so called tolerant and secular spirit of their respective religious dogma.
Illa Wheeler Wilcox,has put the same thought in plainer words:
"so many gods,so many creeds,so many paths that wind and wind;
when just the art of being kind is all that the sad world needs."

The BJP itself continues to take cash donations and shift goalposts. When the demonetisation was announced, they said it was meant to attack black money and counterfeit currency. Once it became apparent that those reasons were nonsense, the government tried to change the narrative into one about a cashless society. Within a fortnight of that, they are already backtracking and saying they meant ‘less cash’ when they said ‘cashless’. The truth is this: demonetisation is a humanitarian disaster that is crippling our economy, and no matter how many times Modi and Co try to rationalise it, it cannot be done. One day, these men will stop trying. When they cannot justify any more, they will distract.

WHETHER CASH LESS SOCIETY ?
Well orchestrated canard is being patronized by ruling polity that cashless society is the ultimate financial panacea for the establishment of Ram Rajya oriented welfare state.Order of the day is :that there is something drastically wrong with using cash and that we should head towards being a cshless society.A cashless society will be disaster for Indian economy .Here is why :-
1.Once cashless society is established it will lead to significant erosion of your privacy.There would be digital trail of each of your purchases and transfers whether you purchase aids medication or a porn magzine.It will be very pertinent to point out here that India has no privacy laws and data protection is also big worry.
2.Establishment of cashless society will lead to erosion of the right to dissent.The state can use any data it gathers against you.They could make any opponent a pauper with one key stroke freezing your bank account while they investigate alleged misdeeds.
3.A fully cashless society endangers freedom.Cash is empowerment :ask the young wife who saves spare cash from her alcoholic husband :or the old mother who stuffs spare notes under the mattress for years because it gives her a sense of autonomy.Indeed,in a misogynist country like India,cashlessness would hit women the hardest.

DENIGRATION OF WOMEN BY CHANAKYA IN CHANAKYANITI DARPANA;
Chanakyaniti has an important place among the volumes describing ethics and morality in ancient Sanskrit literature.Known as Rajniti Samuchya also,there are 334 hymns divided in 17 chapters.Some of the hymns have been repeated from Manusmrti, Mahabharata and Purana.
It is significant to observe that denigration and character assassination of women has been 'glaring' aspect of ancient Hindu scriptures right from earliest Vedas to somewhat latest Ramcharitmanas [Tulsi Ramayan]. Was Chanakya too classified misogynist and male chauvinistic like other contemporaries around his time ?It is beyond any logic and comprehension that what on earth led Chanakya to believe that women en mass are not to be trusted due to inherent tendencies of "falsehood and low moral character",though he is often hailed as great visionary.There are ample references in said scripture,which reflect and symbolize his prejudice and hatred against women.
*nakhinan ch...stresho rajkulesho ch [Chanakyaniti Darpana,1/15]. Exposition :-The beings which have nails,rivers,the beings which have horns and the persons which hold arms should not be relied on. Similarly women and the royal clan should also not to be relied on.
*strinam dvigunam aharo...kamashch ashtguna smrata [ibid 1/17]. Exposition :-The diet of women than man is two times more,the savvy four times,the courage six times and the desire for sex,eight times more than man.
*anrtam sahasam...dosha swobhavjha [ibid 2/1] :-Fallacy in expression and fortitude,manipulation,foolishness,aggravated greed,untidy and cruelty are the usual defects in the personality of women.[It will be pertinent to point out here that Manu in Manusmrti and Tulsidas in Ramcharitmanas have also described six and eight demerits respectively found in women. Adi Shankracharya has in questionnaire said-"what is the main and sole door to hell?"Its answer is-"the women".]
*ikhudandstila..kanta...mardanam gunvardnam [ibid 9/13]. Exposition :-sugarcane, sesame,stupid,women,gold,land,sandal,curd and betel should be thrashed severely because in proportion to thrashing,their qualities get enhancement. [Tulsidas too has repeated said infamous concept-"dhol,ganwar,sudra,pasu,nari,sakal tadna kay adhikari.[sunderkand RCM].
*vinyam...stribhya shekhet kaitvam [ibid 12/18]. Exposition :-One should learn the art of talking humbly and aptly from the princes,intellectual communication from scholars,fallacy from gamblers and manipulation and intrigue from women.
*atyasna....striya [ibid 14/11]. Exposition :-The king,fire,the teacher and the women should be dealt with the middle way as their existence is useless while at a distance and their proximity becomes cause of death.
*agnir apa striyo...pranharani shat {ibid 14/12]. Exposition :-The fire,the water,women,stupid,snake and the royal family should be dealt most cautiously because they may become cause of death even when slight omission is committed.
*jalpante...na strinam aikto rati [ibid 17/2]. Exposition :-The women flirt with someone in conversation,watch at other while posture and gesture in body,keep someone deep in heart and think about someone else in their mind.
ashakhasto...vradha nari pativrata [ibid 17/6]. Exposition :-The weak men becomes saint,the pauper a celibate,patient a devotee to god and women becomes chaste in her old age.
*patyur...nare narkam vrajet [ibid 17/9]. Exposition :-the women who observes fast without getting permission of her husband,causes reduction of the age of her husband and is placed in hell after her death.
*na danaih...pad odakair yatha [ibid 17/10]. Exposition :-The water percolated from the feet of husband[when the wife washes them and use the same for bathing and other purpose] is the best purifier and service to the husband. At the same time said ordained act is greater than donation,observing hundred fasts and visiting pilgrimages.

COMPENDIUM OF CURRICULUM TAUGHT AT RSS RUN SCHOOLS IN THE COUNTRY !
* On mythology :-The Mahabharata and the Ramayana are not myths but true accounts of history.There were cars and plans in ancient India.Saraswati is not a mythical river. The Ganga and Yamuna originated from it.
* On the Aryan invasion theory :-The Aryan race originated in India.They migrated from India.The north pole was somewhere near present day Orissa and Bihar.
* On dalits :- They were created by Muslim invaders during the medieval period.Casts such as Valmiki and Sudarshan resulted from atrocities meted out to Brahmins and Kshatriyas by Muslim invaders.
* On Indian civilization:- India is the most ancient country in the world. When civilization had not developed in many countries,India's rishi-munis brought the light of culture and civilization to them.The languages of the native Indians in north America were derived from ancient Indian languages. The decimal system and the zero were an invention of the vedic civilization.
* On monuments :-Delhi's Qutab Minar is famous as Qutubuddin Aibak's creation. However,it was actually built by emperor Samudragupta .Its original name was Vishnu Stambha.
* On Buddhism :-The preaching of non-violence by Ashoka weakened north India.Cowardice spread throughout the kingdom and the state bore the burden of providing food to Buddhist monks.
* On dynasty :-Hem Chandra Vikramaditya was the last Hindu emperor of Delhi.

वेदों में "विज्ञान "-मिथ्या आत्मसंतोष एवं आत्मवंचना। 
केन्द्र और कुछ राज्यों में आर एस एस नियंत्रित भाजपा सरकारों के आधिपत्य के साथ ही प्राचीन "हिंदू विज्ञान "की सरकारी चर्चा का मीडिया में बोल बाला खूब ज़ोरों से चल रहा है, विशेष रुप से वेदों में तथाकथित विज्ञान की। मैं विनम्रतापूर्वक "वैदिक वैज्ञानिकों "से जानना चाहता हूँ :-
*यदि वेदों में वास्तविक विज्ञान था तो हज़ार सातों से उन्हें पढने, कंठस्थ करने और उन पर भाष्य लिखने वालों विद्वानों ने कोई भी आविष्कार विदेशी वैज्ञानिकों से पहले क्यों नही किया?
*यदि वेदों में विज्ञान था तो प्राचीन काल में बड़े बड़े वेदज्ञ विद्वानों में से किसी ने भी इस का उल्लेख क्यों नही किया? वेदों के जो प्राचीन भाष्य मिलते हैं जिन में एक एक शब्द की विस्तृत व्याख्या की गई है, उन में वेद मंत्रों के जो अर्थ किए गए हैं उन में से किसी वैज्ञानिक सत्य का परिचय क्यों नही मिलता?
*क्या 18-19वीं शताब्दी के मध्य तक सभी वेदज्ञ विद्वान मूर्ख थे जो उन्हें वेदों के मंत्रों के ठीक अर्थ न सूझ सके और वह उन में से विज्ञान न निकाल सके?
*वेदों के कुछ महान असाधारण अविष्कार :-
1.पृथ्वी गतिहीन और खड़ी है।
2.घूमता सूर्य सात घोड़ों के रथ पर सवार होकर पृथ्वी के चारों ओर परिभ्रमण करता है।
3.चंद्रलोक पृथ्वी के चारों ओर घूमता है।
4.सूर्य ग्रहण के समय सूर्य को स्वभार्नु नामक आसुर आ दबोचना है और अत्रि व अत्रिपुत्र उसे उस आसुर से मुक्त करते हैं।
#हरिॐ

चाहे हो वो बैंक कोई, या हो कोई एटीएम,
मिलेगी या तो लाइन लंबी, या मिलेंगे ना रकम,
चेक की बत्ती बना हम, कान अपना खुजायेंगे,
पर खाते में पैसे रहें फिर भी निकाल न पाएंगे।

जिन्हें क्लेश करना था कम, वो कर रहे हैं कैश कम,
जिसे चुना था देश ने, वो रहा है विदेश घूम,
लाइन में लगवा, जमा जनता के पैसे कराएँगे,
और लोन अपने मित्रों के, माफ़ करते जाएंगे।

जनता तेरी सिसकियों पे, न मोदी रोने आएगा,
भाषणों में घड़ी-घड़ी, घड़ियाली आंसू बहायेगा,
पनामा पेपर वालों को, वो हाथ न लगाएंगे,
आम जनता पिसे, वो मटरगश्ती उड़ाएंगे।

काले धन की मोदी को, परवाह कहाँ है मेरी जाँ,
स्विस बैंकों में पड़े-पड़े, वो चौगुने हो जाएंगे,
पंद्रह लाख के वादे को, चुनावी जुमला बताएँगे,
और हमें ठेंगा दिखाकर खिलखिलाते जाएंगे !