Freewill..

asmaan ke kinare khade hain yoon hi,
aaj girne ko jee chahta hai..

pairon ke pankh bandhe the kabse,
ab khol ke udne ko jee chahta hai..

khayalon ko roka tha zindagi ke darr ne,
ab thoda sa darr ke bhi jeene ko jee chahta hai..

kinare pe khade yoon dekhte hi rahe hum,
ab kood ke tair jaane ko jee chahta hai..

na chaha tha tune, na hum kuch bole,
aaj fir bhi sab kuch keh jane ko jee chahta hai.

ruka tha main, jo tune bola,
aaj chalte rehne ka jee chahta hai..

zindagi hai ek,
bas jee jaane ko jee chahta hai.
chahe jaisi bhi ho,
bas jee jaane ko jee chahta hai..

khade the asmaan ke kinare,
ab gir ke udte rehne ka jee chahta hai..

The Verdict

I just got a message on my phone sent in public interest by Vodafone (I guess!!!), it read, “Do not react to senseless SMS targeted to create rift in the name of 24th Verdict.” Verdict!? For what!? Killing thousands of people in the name of something intangible? Couldn’t we very well see that certain people were getting annihilated for having a name which sounded a little different from somebody else’s. Do we need a 20 year long trial for genocide?
The whole country is looking forward to or maybe not, the verdict on Babri Masjid(oh, or am I supposed to refer to it as Shri Ram Janam Bhoomi?). Instead of accepting the verdict by the country’s judiciary system, our noted leader, Mr. L K Advani has already stated that they would move to the apex court. I just hope they do that rather than annihilating scores of innocent people (cos I don’t wanna get killed for keeping a French beard and saying salaam aleykum(which literally means may peace be upon you)) for their voracious appetite for power or money or whatever. Can’t he see that we have bigger problems in our country like illiteracy, farmer suicide, food-water shortage, unemployment, famines, floods, insanitary living conditions? Why are our politicians so blind? Or I guess they are just not into it!!!
However, I guess I have gamut of ‘maybe’ solutions post-24th verdict to save innocent lives from these blood sucking monsters.
1) UID!! This can be a solution!! Maybe we can assign numbers to people, so then they won’t be judged by their names and killed. “Hi I am 50047612458, please don’t kill me.”
2) Maybe we can have a school or a hospital named, Ram-Rahim hospital, or maybe inscribe Ram-Rahim on every brick that is used to lay the building. Maybe that will make them think twice before tearing down the building.
3) Maybe we can follow the genocidal path of our great leaders and give them a taste of their own modus operandi. Kill-em all, our great leaders, our legal extremist groups, groups which spread communal discord, ones who sell death in the name of god, corrupt officials etc. and make the world a better place to live in.
Maybe then I’ll get a message from Vodafone as a public notice. “Welcome to the new world order, a better place to live in.”

WHAT IF WE COULD EAT MONEY?

The question seems to be coming back to me time and again. Can we eat money? Would the Homo-Sapiens finally evolve to the point where all they can eat is money or as a matter of fact gold, silver, platinum or diamonds or may be designer clothes, shoes, fancy handbags??!(Hey, McDonalds is just round the corner man!! What are you talking about?? ).Would we have food problems then? Probably then we would be assured that generations to come would have enough to survive (we can print our own money can’t we?! Then there is always some mendicancy)
After working for almost 2 years in an MNC, I went back to my native place and finally decided to pay a visit to my long forgotten village. Enthralled with memories of green tracts of land, fresh air and running water from the tubewell filled me with puerile excitement. However I was appalled to see demarcations for new residential and industrial plots being done right through the fertile arable land. Upon talking to the denizens I got to know that the government was buying the land forcefully from the farmers and giving them marginal amount for a specified unit of land. A cousin of mine also pointed out to a house built in the demarcated area, which was apparently archaic, torn down and the occupants forced to move out after being paid compensation for that. How much worth can you give for the memories of your homeland??
My question was, what about farmers with a marginal piece of land and a family to feed?? Where would he go? What would he eat? What would the cities eat? What would the country eat? What would the coming generations eat? May be we are evolving and it’s just me who can’t observe it. May be I am against the development and I am too afraid to accept the change. I also scorned after spotting a makeshift bank in the village, where there is hardly any sanitation system or water or even a proper hospital. The farmers (ex-farmers) are getting rich by selling their land, so they need a bank now. The irony is that the uninformed and ignorant farmer thinks that it’s good to have a lump sum amount of money rather than his own land, however he has no idea what to do with it (which obviously won’t last long) and our apparently well informed brass is trying to cope with problems of food security and imports as more than half the population goes hungry, it is still busy taking up arable land to give to industries and make houses(shooting in the foot literally!!!). Not to mentions just few days back our noted leader quoted that land acquisition would be restricted to unfertile land for industrial setup.(Hah!!! examples Galore!!)
I recently saw this movie Peepli Live, however there were not many takers for it as unlike to the phenomenal non-sensical hit which has just hit the box-office! But those who have seen the former might know what I am talking about. Ignorance is bliss, that’s all I can feel right now.
My question is for how long? How long before we realize that there are over half a billion people in this country who sleep without food at night? How long before we realize that lakhs of metric tonnes of food is rotting in open? How long before we realize that we can’t eat money? How long before we realize that future generations would curse us? How long before we realize that we might starve ourselves to death before an Armageddon?
But then I think. What if we could eat money? May be i'll give it a try...

hawa saa ban jab udta tha main...

baarish ki un boondon main jab,


hum wo bheega karte the,


har shaam dhale hum uske aanchal,


main hi khela karte the.




Suraj ki kirano ki wo,


kilkariyan jo chubha karti thi,


har shaam dhale hum,


yoon hi chup kar unko dhoondha karte the.




Mann tha tab thoda sa chanchal,


thodi hulchul ab bhi si hai,


thode hum the pagal tab se,


par shayad ab kasar nahi hai.




bejaan hai tu,


ya hum hi thame hain,


anjaan hai tu,


ya hum hi pare hain.


tere iss intezaar main,


lagta hai ki hum hi khade hain.




Tere hi uss aangan se hum,


dhoop sameta karte the,


jaane wo sab kahan gaya,


jab ghaas main leta karte the.




baarish ki wo boondein thi wo,


jinko hum pakda karte the,


shayad wo ik hawa si hai ab,


jispe hum jiya sa karte the.




mann tha tab thoda sa chanchaal,


thodi hulchul ab bhi si hai,


thode hum the pagal tab se,


par shayad ab kasar nahi hai

ghost of the unborn

peeping through the windows of the world
i see what you cant see.
Never been there
will never be.
Never worn a piece
never torn a peace
neither m tired
nor m worn.
you will never see me,
cos m the ghost of the unborn.

hatred and fallacy
i have never seen.
i could have been you
or may be even me.
but never got a chance
to be what you could never be.

I sit here all alone
away from the
misery of the world so torn.
but m still m there for u cant see,
cos m the ghost of the unborn.

i might have lived to be born,
but m jst the ghost of the unborn.

impetus

looking in the eye.
m not afraid.
u be death. u be life.
m not scared.
give me worse n i'll rise through.
give me the pain, it ll subdue.
shattered and broken u see me.
jst an illusion.
take a look and fall out of delusion.

m the force you ve never seen.
m d place u ve never been.
m d beast inside ur head.
n d priest over ur shade.

bow down.
give in to the ghoul,
give me ur soul n ill devour.
feeding the thought and savourin d desire.
i'll break u out of existence.
and wipe the faith of ur persistence.
shattered and broken u see me.
jst an illusion.
take a look and fall out of delusion.

CoNJuGatiOn

emBRaCinG;OverWHelMING..
thE DaRKness SO sOOTHing...
touches the light within,

engulfing it in itself..
drinking every drop of it
the darkness turns light itself

not to dim
not to benight
but to keep it vivid and bright...

drinking the darkness
eating the light
standing on the brink of day and night....

Burning the self,
for churning the light.
enwrapping the self

for hiding the sight,
of whats that is there
deep down inside,

the DArkness within
or
the FiRe InSiDe....