Bachchon ka doodh - Dinkar

dont remember the entire poem and could not find anywhere. With my memory I could capture few lines from Dinkar's heart touching poem:

jeth ho ki ho poos, humaare krishakon ko aaraam nahin hai
chhothe kabhi sung bailon ka, aisa koi yaam nahin hai

mukh mein jeebh, shakti bhuj mein jeevan mein sukh ka naam nahin hai
vasan kahaan? sookhi roti bhi milti donon shaam nahin hai

bailon ke yeh bandhu varsha bhar kya jaane kaise jeete hain
bandhi jeebh, aankhe vishann gum khaa shayad aanso peete hain

par shishu ka kya, seekh na paaya abhi jo aansoo peena
choos choos sukha stan maa ka, so jaata ro vilap nagina

vivash dekhti ma, anchal se nanhi jaan tarap ur jaati
apna rakt pila deti yadi phatati aaj vajra ki chhati

kabra kabra mein abudh baalakon ki bhookhi haddi roti hai
"doodh doodh" ki kadam kadam par saari raat sada hoti hai

"doodh doodh" o vats! mandiron mein bahre paashaan yahaan hain
"doodh doodh" taare bolo in bachhon ke bhagwaan kahaan hain

"doodh doodh" ganga tu hi apani pani ko doodh bana de
"doodh doodh" uf koi hai to in bhookhe murdon ko jara mana de

"doodh doodh" duniya soti hai, laaoon doodh kahaan kis ghar se
"doodh doodh" he dev gagan ke, kuchh boond tapka ambar se

haton vyon mein se megh panth se swarg lootane hum aate hain
"doodh doodh" ae vats tumhara doodh khojane hum jate hain

That first day of ragging.....

(This is some part of my upcoming novel and all characters in this small story are fictitious)

...........and then all of them lined up in front of their 2nd year seniors in that small room of one of the senior around 10 O Clock in night. Second year and first years folks had finished their dinner together but seniors looked hungry because juniors joined college a little bit late and so they had a delayed start for ragging session. Some of them in seniors were quite excited to start the session. Mota sardar was the ring leader from seniors. Juniors were bit puzzled. No one was sure that how will it start and what will happen? How long it will go? All kinds of questions were jumping in their young engineering minds but no one had enough courage to ask to any senior. Chachwa (from first year) looked over aged and so first all of the senior laughed at him and asked juniors to also laugh. Delhite (He had already proven his singing talent in front of seniors earlier in some of the mock-up ragging sessions earlier) was asked to laugh in a tune of famous song of singer Mukesh "Kahin door jab din dhal jaye.........". He quickly followed the dictat.

and then, all of the sudden..... Patalu Khas shouted and asked everyone to stop laughing.

A pin drop silence everywhere and then Patalu pulled Moti Bekar out of the queue.
"Where is the girl who was supposed to join Comp Sc in your batch"? – Patalu shouted. His throat was almost out of his mouth.
Moti didn’t move an inch. No reaction from Moti. He didn’t utter a single word. Juniors were puzzled.
Seems Moti told seniors that he has a confirmed news that a girl is going to join in this batch for comp sc and after hearing this news seniors were happy. This was very rare that a girl joining this college from that part of country and they probably thought that at least they have opportunities to talk to a girl now. But when they saw a lean and thin black guy joining instead of a girl in comp sc, seniors already had planned to teach Moti a lesson. They felt Moti has made them fool to escape ragging.
Moti thought it’s better to explain them how it went wrong than keeping silent and started explaining.
Moti had all kind of explanation but could not escape slaps and kicks from seniors. Seniors didn’t get convinced with his explanations and everyone of them took pride in assaulting that chap.

After that beating session of Moti, again all juniors were lined up. Moti was still not recovered from trauma and sobbing quitly in corner. Juniors were standing quite and looked scared. All of the sudden Laund Boss came out of line and pulled a small letter from his pocket. He offered that letter to Mota from his right hand and in respect held his right hand elbow with his left hand. He told Mota Sardar that he has a letter for all of them. Seems Laund got a letter written from a senior from other engineering college and he had firm believe that after reading this letter, seniors will not rag him (poor chap......). In fact other juniors were feeling jealous of him because of that letter. Mota sardar very politely took letter and started reading loudly. In letter, the sender has asked seniors to not rag Laund Boss. After reading letter, all seniors started acting like they are going to follow instruction as per the letter and wont rag Laund. Poor Laund felt his letter trick worked and was happy. Other juniors were still feeling jealous of him. And then... all of the sudden.... more than one seniors under the leadership of Patalu jumped over Laund and started beating him mercilessly...........

It was a horrible start of ragging for those new comers of that engineering college.....

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मन .... रे तू काहे न धीर धरे....

Last saturday, Baba Ramdev started fast in Ramlila maidan with his supporters against black money and corruption issues and by late night police came to forcibly evict him. No one knows how long Baba would have continued his fast but Government was in hurry.

One of the biggest problem seen with this government is that if someone questions about the bad state of internal security, govt or congress party doesnt even bother. If someone starts agitation for onion price raise, again government or congress party doesn't bother (they easily distance themselves on the name of coalition). In those situation, they even don't respond. On those issues, they perhaps adopt no action theory of P V Narsimha Rao and hope to let these issues handled by themselves :). But as soon as anyone starts agitating about corruption issues, they become hyper active. चोर की दाढ़ी में तिनका Here too they did same. They started negotiating with Baba Ramdev initially (senior ministers went to airport initially and then they held several meetings in luxury hotels with Ramdev) and then when they felt that things are not going their way they took aggressive approach in 3-4 hours. Apart from evicting the crowd, Within 24 hours they attacked Baba Ramdev thru the verbal salvo of Diggi Raja, Manish Tiwary and everyone. They started proving Baba Ramdev and Hazare as RSS man and started linking these anti corruption movements with communal issues. They also called Baba Ramdev a cheat. I just dont understand one thing even if Baba Ramdev is cheat and criminal, issues he is raising are very much valid and if issues are valid why should not we support? Why government is not answering question on corruption issues and black money than proving Ramdev a criminal or cheat. Even if proven criminal will start these anti corruption campaign, we must support him/her to clean up the system. Why only a political leader can start these agitation? This is responsibility of each and every individual of this country to come up and speak against all which are taking our countries backward.

Ba Adab Ba Mulahiza Hoshiyar Yuvraj padhar rahe hain......

Yuvraj of congress party is in full form. He is really very active. Looks like he is rotating in the outermost orbit and trying to grab some threshold energy to come out of shell and get the crown. Sycophants are happy and enthusiastic. They are singing Yuvraj stuti day and night on podiums and on TV channels. Yuvraj is traveling to many places in India. He is going to big cities and all of the sudden sometime stops at a main market place and withdraws some money from ATM. He is alos going to remote villages and entering to poor people houses and eating with them. Shaking hands with common man and also sometime working with labors in fields with sports shoes and white spot less kurta payjama. Perhaps he took lesson from Mahatma Gandhis biography and wants to know India better before taking bigger responsibilities for nation and party.

Oh Yuvraj is so good.... He is dynamic, he is young and he is over enthusiastic. Initially I felt Yuvraj is honest too but slowly that image started vanishing. Yuvraj is yuvraj and his role is to demonstrate his interest towards nation and take over the crown. Yuvraj brought a lot of style & fashion statement in politics. When majority of politicians hesitated to go to poor villagers, Yuvraj didnt hesitate to meet them and shake hand. Bravo.... Chamchas are happy as usual. Chamchas become happy even if Neta fart. That's reality of world. Yuvraj doesn't know ABC of Indian economy or social structure or culture but he knows how to grab attention. Yuvraj came to watch India Pakistan cricket match at Mohali and at the final moments, he was standing on the grounds with Rajmata. I am sure Yuvraj even must not be knowing who all plays for India. But Yuvraj demostrated that he is too much in the match to support his nation and he is like a common Indian who gets excited when national team plays with Pakistan.

We too feel happy when Yuvraj comes near to us and ask useless questions like "How much per day you earn" or "where do you study?" or "don,t you have shoes". Sometimes he starts eating with us. Will all these gimmicks solve problems of India. Surely not but the... Yuvraj is yuvraj....

Ba Adab Ba Mulahiza Hoshiyar Yuvraj padhar rahe hain......

Way to go Yuvraj..........

Jagooo Mohan Pyare...

Lot of things are going on. Corruption charges and investigation. Blame game and justification. Everywhere there is noise, commotion about corruption at various level but our beloved Mohan is sleeping. He doesn't want to wake up and open his eyes. He has his own reasons. First he says that he himself is very clean and there might be some people in his team who may be corrupt or with very low on moral ground but why should he bother about others. He has maintained his clean image successfully. There is no allegation against him about any scam. Second he also says that all these corruption at various level were present with earlier setups also only difference is that now media is very active. Earlier there was only print media and no electronic media so even if things were murkier they were not reported at that time. Third he also believes that in coalition politics and government, some corrupt people can hold govt posts.

I just want to say Mohan ji you must demonstrated some kind of accountability. You cannot escape with these lame excuses and keep enjoying the benefits of highest office of country. Yes we all know that at your home your wife cooks meal for you and you have a very simple living but that is of no use if almost everyone else in your team is getting accused with some corruption charges very frequently. Time to wake up Mr Singh and take some stringent action to demonstrate your leadership skills in cleaning up the mess and give some clean image to your government and country. If you think clean governance is not possible in coalition government then feel free to leave this office and let someone else try to provide a clean setup. Who compelled congress or for that sake any political party to form a coalition government. If you believe that a clean government cannot be formed with coalition, don't form a government.

Jaggo Mohan pyare............

and they won

They started slow. Sometime they looked vulnerable. The strong batting lineup was not able to perform well in batting power plays. Bowling was looking dependent on a part time spin bowler. Then they lifted their game at right moment. Defeated all the previous world champions in 4 match stretch. They defeated 1975,1979 champion West Indies (in league match), Then they defeated 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 champion Australia. After that it was turn of 1992 WC champion Pakistan. In final they defeated 1996 WC champion Sri Lanka. First time a host nation won WC. Captain clicked in crunch game. Most prolific batsman scored consistently. Main bowler bowled to his caliber. Everyone pitched in whenever team needed them.

I still remember the night India lost to Australia in 2003 world cup. Rickey Ponting and Co thrashed Indian team left and right. Looked like Indian players were very nervous that day but things were different this time. They were full of confidence and played to their potential.

Way to Go....