राम कहानी

  प्रश्न उठा.. कि राम कौन है...रावण कौन है... ये निष्कर्ष निकला की..असल में ये दोनों हमारे अंदर ही हैं...जब मैं ऐसा सोचने लगी तब मुझे लगा की स्प्लिट पर्सनालिटी टाइप का कुछ फील कर रही हूँ..वैसे तो मैं ना ही राम हूँ ना ही रावण,सीता भी नहीं... मैं तो सिर्फ़ मैं हूँ.और ये प्रश्न सिर्फ दशहरा दिवाली तक ही तो पूछे जाएंगे..फिर सब अपनी डफ़ली अपना राग...फिर वही राम रहीम का न्यूज़ और भविष्य में श्री लंका के साथ मैच...हाँ इस बीच बनारस के लंका में भी काफी हंगामा हुआ है...तो उसकी खबर भी ली जाएगी...मैं ज्यादा दिमाग नहीं लगाती...होंगे कोई राम होगा कोई रावण..दस सर किसके होते हैं...मुझे अकल्पनीय लगता है..हाँ एक इंसान के दस तरह के विचार ज़रूर हो सकते हैं.....राम होंगे अच्छे इंसान..पर मैं उन्हें अपना आदर्श क्यों मानूं..मैं उन्हें पूजूँ क्यूँ...एक अन्य धर्म के इंसान के लिए राम कौन है... कोई भी नहीं.शायद सिर्फ एक पात्र एक कहानी के..दुर्गा कौन हैं..एक स्त्री जिनकी सब पूजा करते हैं उनसे डरते हैं, पूजा के बाद नदी में बहा देते हैं..वो मूर्ति जिसको आपने इतना मान सम्मान दिया वो बह कर किस नाले में चली गयी आपको पता भी नहीं चला..या शायद चला..पर क्या फर्क पड़ता है..९ दिन तो हमने पूजा कर ली न..माँ खुश हो गयी होंगी...अब तो दिवाली आ रही है..बहुत सी खरीदारी करनी है..घर सजाना है..लाइट्स खरीदनी हैं...बस हो गयी प्रिऑरिटीज़ चेंज....क्या हैं ये त्यौहार..क्यों मना रहे हैं लोग हज़ारो सालों से..क्यों सामान खरीदने पर इतना ज़ोर दिया जाता है.क्यों परिवार से मिलने जुलने पर ज़ोर दिया जाता है..... बहुत से सवाल हैं मेरे मन में...बहुत के जवाब खुद ही मिल जाते हैं..कुछ सवालों को सवाल रहने देना ही अच्छा है...वो भ्रम अगर टूट जायेगा तो बहुत तकलीफ होगी..हाँ त्यौहारों का एक फ़ायदा मुझे ज़रूर दिखता है कि इंसान इसी बहाने अपने प्रियजनों को याद करता है...कई बार गिले शिकवे भी भुला देता है...बच्चों को खेलने और घूमने का एक बहाना मिल जाता है,महिलाओं को घर की सफ़ाई ,नये कपड़े गहनों का बहाना,पुरुषों को आराम और स्वादिष्ट खाने का बहाना ..हो सकता है यही कारण रहा हो..पूर्वजों द्वारा त्योहारों की रचना करने का..पता नहीं,एक सवाल ये भी है..पर त्योहार अच्छे हैं...कारण कुछ भी हो..हमें तो खुशी देतें ही हैं साथ ही हम सबकी खुशी चाहने लगते हैं...

सर्वे भवन्तु सुखिनः सर्वे सन्तु निरामया ।
सर्वे भद्राणि पश्यन्तु मा कश्चित् दुःखभाग् भवेत् ।।

सेल्फ़ी युग

हाँ मैं सुंदर हूँ...ये तीन शब्द हर कोई अपने आप को कहना चाहता है...और खुद को हम कितना महत्व देते हैं..वो इस बात से पता चलता की ग्रुप फोटो में हम सबसे पहले.अपने आप को देखते हैं.. अगर हमारी पिक अच्छी आयी है तो हम कहते हैं अच्छी फ़ोटो है...नहीं तो हम कहते हैं की कितनी बेकार फ़ोटो है..और सेल्फी का चलन जबसे चला है तब से लोगो ने मुँह टेढ़ा करना शुरू कर दिया है...अपने होठों को गोल कर के पिक खींचने वाली लड़कियां मतलब कभी तो अपने आप को ग़ौर से देखो तुम कितनी अजीब लगती हो ऐसी शक्ल बना कर.. भगवान से डरो.. अच्छी खा़सी शक्ल को तुमने कब गुलेल जैसा बना लिया तुम्हे पता भी नहीं चला..मुझे लगता है लोग अपनी शक्ल शायद इसलिए टेढ़ी करते हैं की वो कैमरा में दुबले लगे..और कोई कारण तो मुझे नहीं समझ आता..भला करे ऊपर वाला उनका।
ऊपर वाले से याद आया बुद्ध द्वारा कही गयी ये पंक्ति "आत्म दीपो भव:"...क्या मुश्किल है इस काम को करना.. कि हम स्वयं अपने दीपक बन जाये..हम तो सिर्फ अपना आइना ही बने हुए हैं इस सेल्फी के युग में..और अगर हम अँधेरे में हैं तो हमारा आइना भी हमें अँधेरा ही दिखाएगा...अपने आप को दिया बना लेने का क्या उपाय है... कि हम अपनी ही रौशनी में आगे बढ़ जाएँ..किसी और के मोहताज़ न रहें...वैसे बातें बहुत होती हैं व्हाट्सप्प पर...कोई एक इंसान हाथ खड़ा करे जिसने अपने अंदर के रावण को मार लिया है...आपको अपने आप में कोई बुराई दिखेगी तब तो आप उसे ख़त्म करोगे न.. मुझे बस एक बात समझ आती है की आपको रोज़ बढ़ना चाहिए...तन से नहीं मन से..बुद्धि से..ज्यादा नहीं तो चुटकी भर...क्यूँकि एक चुटकी बढ़त की कीमत बहुत है व्हाट्सप्प बाबू

Facebookऔर जिंदगी

क्या आपने कभी फेसबुक के किसी पेज के कमेंट्स सेक्शन को पढ़ा है..सच में बहुत मज़ा आता है...एक पिक पोस्ट कर दो..फिर देखो कितने तरह के लोग होते हैं दुनिया में....एक पेशेंट बच्चा...नाक में नली डाल कर बोल रहा है आमीन बोलने..सभी लोग आमीन बोलते हैं... आमीन का मतलब पता हो या न हो..५ साल पहले ही वो बच्चा..जो की किसी नॉन सीरियस बीमारी से पीड़ित था.. ठीक हो गया पर आमीन का सिलसिला अब तक चल रहा है....७ लाख लाइक्स २ लाख कमेंट्स..सोचती हूँ कौन हैं ये लोग,कहाँ से आते हैं....दुर्गा माँ की पिक के नीचे 'जय माता दी' लिखने वाले...दुर्गा माँ ने ज़रूर देख लिया होगा..आप पर बस अब कृपा बरसने ही वाली है....किसी छोटी सी लड़की की तस्वीर..ये लिखा होता है आप मुझे बर्थडे विश नहीं करोगे..और बस लोग इमोशनल हो कर विश करने लग जाते हैं...चाहे उसका बर्थडे हो या न हो..उसकी प्रोफाइल भी ओरिजिनल हो या न हो...भारतीय सेना का तो बाका़यदा पेज है..पता नहीं किसने बनाया है...इंडो -पाकिस्तान वॉर की झलक देखनी है तो वह ज़रूर जाएँ..लोगो के खून में दौड़ती देश भक्ति देखें और आनंद ले..एक और प्रकार के लोग होते हैं...जादू देखने के इच्छुक ..नंबर ३ लिखिए और जादू देखिये ..इस पर तो मैंने बड़े बड़े सूरमाओं को कमेंट करते देखा है...पूछना चाहती हूँ कि आपको जादू दिख या नहीं..शायद हर कोई इस वर्चुअल दुनिया में एक जादू के तलाश में ही भटक रहा है...की एक चमत्कार हो जाये और हमारी सारी समस्याएं ख़त्म हो जाएँ...पर समस्या ये है की इस समस्या का कोई अंत नहीं है....ज़िन्दगी तो ज़िंदादिली से जीते जाने का नाम है..हाँ इस तेज़ी से दौड़ती दुनिया में आपको अपने लिए और सिर्फ अपने लिए टाइम ज़रूर निकालना चाहिए...दिन का एक छोटा हिस्सा सिर्फ आपके लिए... ज़िन्दगी बहुत बेहतर लगने लगेगी.

The Detourists

­­                                               The Detourists

 

I coined a new word recently and that is ‘detourist’ . According to me a tourist when takes a long trip other than the way he was supposed to travel ,performing his tasks too, he becomes a detourist. I along with my husband and my parents-in-law travelled a long route and besides my husband also appeared for his exams, so this is how we became detourists.

The journey starts with the train to Puri which we took at Aligarh station..The waiting hall had a very cozy environment. School going kids made the room full of life. And women sitting around had the Aligarhi touch of panache. Very soon we boarded our Puri express.

Train journeys always have so many similarities .Since childhood getting a window seat is like a dream coming true. So many stories are around to be heard from the co-passengers. A pleasurable weather outside increases the fun. Raindrops outside the window make the creative mind go gaga. Sleeping is another delight for the mind and the body. Everyone in the bogey looks tranquil until  someone with an irksome ringtone comes in and also if he is a ‘mobile’ music lover then forget about the sound sleep and only think of sounds. A cry baby will make you think to teach his parents a full chapter of baby care. People peering inside the curtains make you feel trespassed, but strange it is that when there were no curtains there were no such issues.

Trains on or before time definitely make you proud but at the same time when it stretches unnecessarily, you start looking for the driver. Railway staffs are treated like kings of some sort. When I got the vacant mobile charging point, it did make me feel like a queen, for some time though. Trains crossing next to ours give a nice thriller movie experience. Vendors of different types of Dolby sounds make entries. Chaiwalas all over the country has the same voice and rest have varieties according to place like jhaalmudi,idli ,dosa etc.

Cuttack is about to arrive and the scenery outside has changed from UP to Odissa .But rains are everywhere. Rivers have turned brownish. Houses are different .Every single one has a temple on top  .The bogey attendant is on alert duty now. He came so many times looking for taking back the bedrolls , especially towels. He looks like he hasn’t slept the whole night. His eyes are wide awake because there are people who take his white assets to give him black nights. One attendant I met when way back from Puri to Jaipur was very disciplined as a worker but was extremely thin. I came to know about his poor health while we were on the train. There were no pantry car and it was unbelievable that no paniwala or chaiwala came in the 36 hour of the journey. Only once a khanawala came with the left one plate of food which was shared by the four of us. The journey squeezed the water outside our bodies and it was weird , outside the grounds were full of water but inside there was a dearth.

The stay at Puri was enjoyable .A great time at Jagannath temple and the beach. The environment inside the temple left me with many questions about religion and spiritualism. The priests asked for money, as we were obliged to them or they have copyrights of God. It was the weather which made the place more beautiful. The way to Bhubaneswar was full of greenery and the villages around created the magical view of a calendar. After the two days stay at Bhubaneswar we left for Jodhpur.

Jaipur was the place where we had to wait for 5 hours for the next train to Jodhpur. The waiting hall again had a different view than that of Aligarh. Everyone looked happy for some unknown reason. Announcer had pierced the eardrums repeating the same thing the millionth time. A television was hung and songs (liked commonly by drivers )  were being played .Duo of sisters were making fun of the songs. Kids (from different parents) were snatching each other’s toys. God, when it will be midnight, so that our train comes and we could sleep for some time.

Jodhpur was a place with antiqueness and a colour of rock spread ubiquitously on the buildings. We could see the Mehrangarh fort from our hotel.The trip to Fort and palace completed our journey. Fifteen days out of home and dependence on the outside food increased the value of homemade food quadruple times and finally when our tour ended we had the feeling while having homemade food  ,what will be the total cost of the food together with taxes?

  

UNFAIR & UNLOVELY ????

•  A very 'Lame & Folly' concept of getting 'Fair & Lovely' makes my mind goes 'Flail & Lively' for writing something 'Funny & Leatherly'.

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•  The story goes like, a girl is sad because of her dark complexion,a fair girl ,actually not fair but the fairest (as she uses 'Fair & Lovely') advises her to use 'Fair & Lovely' cream ,so that she becomes another fairest girl in 4 weeks.

• Now the first fairest girl meets another sad dark girl and tells her that 'Fair & Lovely' company makes face wash too,so 'ab nikhar dugna'.God !! fairer than the fairest, even thinking about that makes my eyes go 'split wide open'.

• Next the first fairest girl meets a girl who is afraid of using a cream in the winter thinking it might make her fairness go down but the first fairest girl tells her 'ab nikhar ghatega nahi badhega 'by using 'Fair & Lovely' winter cream..OK the first fairest girl is really smart.

• Now ,there is a twist in the story as the fairest girl is wearing sunglasses inside the room too.Her old friend ,whom she turned into another fairest, asks why these sunglasses to which she replies that she has dark  circles...WHAT?????HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE? She uses 'Fair & Lovely' cream,'Fair & Lovely'face wash,and 'Fair & Lovely' winter cream too,then how could she have dark circles.It means either the brand is not effective or the smart girl is not that smart but dumb and un-updated as she doesn't know about her favorite company's latest product. 

• In the latest ad there is a fair girl asking God to lessen her marks ,at first the viewers would think she is talking about her grades but later it is made clear that she is talking about her facial  marks .OK ..I thought the first fairest girl will come with an anti marks cream but NOOOO..a dark girl comes with 'Fair & Lovely' anti marks cream.Why girl??? Didn't  you use any of the 'Fair & Lovely' products ?tch tch..:(

• Now the male part of this  story , a pehelwan is using 'Fair & Lovely' cream to increase his fairness.Suddenly Shahrukh khan comes there and tells him to use 'Fair & Handsome' cream. Shahrukh, don't you know 90% of the cosmetics market is based on female customers and it is them who go and buy  groceries ,so most chances are that men will have to adjust with 'Fair & Lovely' cream only ,so don't unnecessarily awake men's ego.And also it was you in 'Lux' soap ad some years back with 4-5 top heroines, what happened why dint you launch a male version of 'Lux' then and one more question ,when the pehelwan applies the cream on his face ,how his whole body becomes fair & glowing ,did he use some body lotion too ,you dint tell us about that lotion neither that fairest girl did and if the pehelwan rubbed 'Fair & Handsome' all over his body then how is this cream economical. It will be consumed in one day only and you say we are supposed to use it for 4 weeks.

• Anyways, my question is why not all the fair people of the world are lovely and do the owners of the company also use that 'Fair & Lovely'cream and are they that fair too,if not then why do we believe them and buy such racist products.In the end its the fairness of the soul which matters and not the skin.

JO WADA KIYA WO.....:p

 

   This song perfectly suits my dear hubby, as he promised me once that he will take me to the Taj Mahal and you know how difficult it is for a man to escape his promise.:)

   We both have been there separately, so I wanted to visit it with him .This Sunday he finally agreed to go there.I don't know why but he was not as excited as me.:(..Anyways finally we left for the white wonder of the world..

   When we reached at the gate we started looking for some vehicle to go inside.Soon we got a rickshaw.The rickshaw puller seemed to be quite expert of his job.He asked if we would like to know about the structures which come on the way and he will charge 20 more bucks for it.We told him that we were not interested. But as he was quite professional he insisted that we should do that ,then avoiding more conversation with him we agreed. Like a tape recorder he told us everything and in between he used to rebuked us when we talked with each other saying" hello bhaisab idhar suno" and YE LO we reached at the entrance in two minutes just like instant noodles.We thought, was that all?? 

 After taking the tickets we got lined up in the common queue , as few minutes passed a police man came asking me to go to the 'mahila line'.I got sad because I wanted to be with my dear hubby, so what if it was a queue.But due to the circumstances we had to get separated.Alas!!!!But it wasn't  that bad too..;p as I reached the premises pretty fast .The'mahila line' was divided into two parts ,one was for Indian Women and other was for 'high value ladies'(i.e.,for foreigner ladies).I told to myself even if I had taken the high value ticket I would have preferred going from the Indian women line only ,as it sounded decent.:P.Then after a decade or something my husband reached inside the premises and then we proceeded towards the monument of love.

  Some people ask me if i go to The Taj Mahal daily,as I stay in Agra.I want to tell them It was my first time after my marriage.:).I always imagined going there with my husband.As I had told you he wasn't that excited ,but who can remain uninterested after seeing the first look of the astonishing monument.He forgot everything and started enjoying seeing it.Soon a photographer came and asked us if we will take snaps clicked by him which will cost 50 bucks for each print and we had to take minimum six.As we are good bargainers :) (which we think we are)we convinced him for 3 prints.(Its a different thing that later we took all the ten prints as we really liked all the snaps taken by the clever photographer.;-).There were many things worth watching apart from the Taj.Good looking foreigner girls are one of them.I felt my dear hubby was looking at one.I asked if he was ,to which he smartly replied he was admiring The Great Shahjahan's creation behind and not some Brit's.:P

         After viewing and adoring The Great Taj Mahal we moved towards the gate where our photographer was waiting for us ,but we couldn't resist turning back and watching The Taj again for some more time.Altogether we spent a serene Sunday evening at the Taj appreciating its beauty.But I feel its actually the time we spent together made us feel special and not the monument, as we can have that nice feeling sitting at our terrace too.:)

Bhrashtachar ko namaskar...:)

Helloo frenz...I often get haunted with this question in my mind that why some people (Respected Anna & team)are sacrificing their sleep and comfort for eradicating a God gifted characteristic from people.I think you have guessed what I am talking about .Oh Yes,It's "corruption".
I think many of you will not agree with me but I feel that all of us are corrupt and that's God given.A kid wants to take a bigger share of chocolate than his sibling , even though he is assumed to be a form of God  .We don't mind if we get an unusual free recharge to our phone.We feel so happy that even start humming some song, like 'aaj main upar,aasman niche' types :P.I believe this is corruption because we want to enjoy the luxury of what is not supposed to be ours .But when this corruption takes an uglier form, it start harming other people and that is something which should not happen.So ,when some people are shouting and getting high blood pressure for eradicating this characteristic, I say that folks take a chill pill ,tussi thand rakho.Don't try to eradicate it, lets get befriended with it.Lets say when The Great Government give some department a huge amount of money ,let the officials enjoy it but the enjoyment should not hamper the plan of the government. Like if government is asking to make some park and give them 5 rs per brick, then let them have 1 re for themselves and as they can work in 3 rs (which they do and keep the 2 in their pocket ,sometimes they keep even 4 and to the worst they sometimes don't make the park and keep all the money in their potlis)the rest of the 1 re should go to the needy,the actual needy,whats bad in it?The billionaire businessmen also are scared of  God.They do social work to clad their meanness.So when some officer is keeping that 1 re, we should smile and say bhaisab you keep 1 re but do donate the rest of the 1 re to someone needy .We can also give them  suggestions (which we are expert  of)  like, you can manage with the allotted space for the park and make an extra footpath besides the park for beggars so that they also feel luxurious while begging or make an office for them so that they learn the proper way to beg.Just kidding.:P.But seriously a lot can be done with that amount.Many homeless can get a shelter and many more things.
In short, I want the corruption to be legalized as in the form of a bonus because if something is banned your urge to do it increases but when legalized it hardly matters whether you do it or not.Also beggars should also be kept in consideration as they are increasing with a quadruple speed .Also they should be provided with uniforms, to make them feel that government take care of them as well.:P.Okie enough of this crap, lets come to the  point
So, according to me, even if 'The Lokpal' comes, corruption is not going to be vanished.But yes it can always be transformed to some other virtue.As the law of thermodynamics says 'Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.'corruption for me is the same.wat say folks??
chow for now..:)