Friday, July 16, 2010

Its not raining here at Pune

History is repeating itself. This year too, Pune has received scanty rainfall till now and the water level in four dams (which supplied drinking water to city) has gone down rapidly to create drinking water scarcity in city. Same thing happened last year. That time government authorities promised and declared that they have made plans on paper to handle this kind of problem very efficiently in future but then nothing happened. As soon as monsoon arrived in August/September last year, all plans on paper got washed away with rain water flow in dams. Compared to November 2008, we had more water reserved in dams in November 2009 and also municipal corporation has reduced water supply significantly to city, then too we have only around 1.5 TMC water left in dams and we are going to face acute water crisis in coming days. Issues are still same:
1. Water distribution system here at Pune is faulty and need revamp. 25%-30% water get wasted in distribution. Some areas get more than average quota and some don't even get 50% of average quota.
2. Authorities are busy in making money or at least busy in trying to find out a situation to make more money. They are not serious to really take on this situation and work out for a good robust solution which will work for long term. Might be they are thinking that rain god became happy in August/September last year and same pattern may follow this year too so why to put extra efforts.
3. Citizen are wasting water to their full capacity and don't understand (or don't want to understand) the importance of natural resources. We feel happy in keeping ourselves educated illiterates.

All eyes on rain god. Who knows he may become happy soon and all dams will get enough water for next one year. Lets prepare for YAGNA to make rain god happy......

Monday, July 12, 2010

Spain is champion

Spain won FIFA world cup 2010. They were a good side and played very good football throughout the tournament. Octopus Paul was correct when it predicted Spain as a winner couple of days back :)
In hogh voltage tournament like World Cup, patience, consistency, teamwork matter more than individual talent. I have seen Spain coming to WC with player like Raul and not making big impacts. This time players like Xavi, Villa were bit low profile but left a huge impact in this tournament.
Celebration on for Spain........
Wait for WC 2014 started.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Its Spain vs Holland

FIFA world cup 2010 is at final stage. European teams Spain and Holland will fight for lifting the cup. At quarter final stage, out of 8 teams, 4 were south Americans but only one reached semi final and now its all European final at world cup. The question that whether they deserved or not is useless at this stage and we must accept that both teams must have played some extra ordinary football consistently and thus they will fight for the crown. It must be a classical final if both team continue the rhythm.

Monday, July 5, 2010

And they lost.....

They started very well. Throughout the first half Brazil played like a winner. Robinho scored a timely goal and created some opportunity for Kaka who missed two chances. Overall Brazil was on fire. Robinho was hitting top form. There were glimpses of Joga Bonito. Fabiano was colorless though. Then came the second half, a complete goof up between defender and goal keeper and equalizer goal. The story got a dramatic turn from here. Brazil started playing like a looser and conceded another goal to make score 1-2 against them. They started committing too many fouls which eventually saw Felip Melo out of the ground with a red card. With 10 players it was difficult to score another goal. Fabiano was completely out of touch. Dunga sent Milmar which could do very little to bother Holland's defence.

At last Brazil lost and now are out of WC 2010. Did they play very bad in quarter final against Holland? No. Absolutely not. If you see the statistics, ball possession, hit on target, corners in every department they were better than Holland but they lost confidence in second half and that causes them match. Romario in his recent article says it was over confidence but I felt it was a bad strategy to tackle Holland's player Robben which eventually cost them the match. They unnecessarily committed too many fouls against Arjen Robben. Dutch think tank was probably aware of Dunga's strategy to closely mark Robben and they exploited that. Every time Robben was tackled, he fell down on the ground like he got heavily injured.

Lastly even after getting reduced to 10 players, they had chances but no one at forward line could use those opportunity to score an equaliser. Kaka was playing very average. Robinho was playing well but heavily marked. Maicon was good but couldn't create impact. Elano was missing because of injury. Bastos was busy in committing fouls than playing to his potential. Lucio and Juan looked confused after Dutch equalizer.

On other hand Argentina played a very average level match against Germany and lost very badly.

Thursday, July 1, 2010

एक पुरानी कविता - दीप बन जले हम

आओ दीप बन जले हम
तम को संपूर्ण शक्ति भर
एक हो छले हम
आओ दीप बन जले हम !

श्रृंखला बद्ध हो एक कतार में
आँधियों के तीव्र वार में,
वृष्टि , तूफानों के संसार में
दर्प अंधियारे का दले हम
आओ दीप बन जले हम !

झोपड़ी में या महलों में
निर्बल में या सबलों में
आत्मा लेकर कर कमलों में
नव विद्युत् बन चले हम
आओ दीप बन जले हम !

पाप जलेगा पुन्य मिलेगा
ब्रह्माण्ड का शून्य मिलेगा
सद्कर्मो का पुन्य मिलेगा
पवित्र श्रम से पले हम
आओ दीप बन जले हम !

उलूक चढ़ कर देवी लक्ष्मी
आकर देखे रात में रश्मि
मुदित वो फिर कैसी कमी
देवी वर से फूले फले हम
आओ दीप बन जले हम !


-- श्याम प्रकाश झा

एक पुरानी कविता - शक्ति पुंज

मुट्ठी भर
बिखरी हुई ज्योति
बिखेरा था जिसे
सैकड़ों दियों ने,
पुरजोर कोशिश कर
चुल्लू भर तेल के सहारे;

वही ज्योति शनै: शनै:
हुई लुप्त
घटता गया शौर्य उन दीयों का
और सर्वत्र व्याप्त हुआ
घुप्प अन्धेरा !

सुबह पांव फटने से पहले
फट गयी छाती उसी अँधेरे की
छिटकने लगी सूर्य की किरणे
यत्र तत्र सर्वत्र
हुआ लोप अकस्मात्
कुहनियों के बल रेंगता अँधेरा ;

सैकड़ों दीप नहीं
एक और बस एक
शक्ति पुंज
शौर्य प्रतीक
सूर्य को लालायित संपूर्ण विश्व ...... !

--- श्याम प्रकाश झा