सलाम दोस्ती!

हर एक हिन्दुस्तानी की तरह, पिछले कुछ दिनों से मुझे भी एक अजीब सी घुटन महसूस हो रही थी कभी-कभी तो ऐसा लगता है मानो ये देश लोकतंत्र नहीं, अपितु भयतंत्र, भूखतंत्र या भ्रष्टाचार तंत्र हो जिसमे जिसकी लाठी उसकी भैंस वाली कहावत पल-पल चरितार्थ हो रही है
ये देश लोकतंत्र न हो के एक ऐसा तंत्र बन गया है जहाँ ताकतवर जो चाहे कर सकता है, जिसे चाहे जान से मार सकता है, जिसे चाहे धमका सकता है, और न जाने क्या - क्या कर सकता है, जो आपकी और मेरी कल्पना से भी परे हैं मैंने कुछ चीजो को कल्पना से परे इसलिए बताया क्योंकि, कोई मनुष्य योनी में जन्मा व्यक्ति क्या अपनी बेटी से भी कम उम्र की लड़की को वासना की दृष्टि से देख सकता है ? हम कहेंगे नहीं , ये तो पशु पक्षियों में ही हो सकता है, लेकिन इस देश में जो सनातन परमपरा का अनुयायी होने का दंभ भरता है एसेलोग भी हैं और वो इतने ताकतवर है की न्यायपालिका उनके हाथों की कठपुतली और अफसर शाही उनकी नौकर है विधान पालिका मानो उनकी किसी पूर्व जन्म से ही कर्जदार है इसलिए उनके सामने बोलने यो तो उनकी खिलाफत करने का साहस उसमे नहीं है संसद में एसे मुदों पे बहस के दोरान हमारे प्रतिनिधि एसे प्रतिक्रिया करते हैं जैसे मंदारी का खेल देख कर तमाशबीन
पिछले वर्ष एक गुर्जर आन्दोलन के दोरान हुई कुछ आगजनी की घटनाओ को देख कर उच्चतम न्यायलय ने उसे राष्ट्रीय शर्म की संज्ञा दी थी क्या उससे पहले कभी किसी ने राष्ट्र को शर्मिंदा नहीं किया, और क्या उस दिन के बाद हम, हमारे राष्ट्र और समाज की इज्जत करना सिख गए हैं, तो फिर आज वो न्यायालय क्यों चुप है ये घटना राष्ट्र के लिए नहीं बल्कि मानवता के लिए शर्म है जिस न्याय व्यवस्था की उचतम न्यालय अगवाई करता है उस पूरी की पूरी व्यवस्था के लिए घोर शर्म है ये व्यवस्था कभी किसी कमजोर को न्याय दे ही नहीं सकती क्योंकि यहाँ ताकतवरों की लिस्ट इतनी लम्बी है की उनका बचाव करते करते ही सालों साल बीत जाते हैं डॉक्टर पंवार ने कितना सही लिखा है ' जी करता है फूल चढ़ा दूँ, लोक तंत्र की अर्थी पर'

लेकिन इन सब के बीच कोई ऐसा भी है जो पिछले दो दशकों से इस अर्ध मृत पड़े तंत्र को जगाने की कोशीश कर रही हैं अति विपरीत परिस्तिथियों में रह कर उन्हें सह कर भी जिन्होंने एक दोस्त का फ़र्ज़ निभाया जिन्होंने लगातार १९ साल तक न्याय के बंद पड़े दरवाजों में से भी हम सब को इक रौशनी की किरण दिखाई धन्य है रुचिका जिसे आराधना जैसी दोस्त मिली, सलाम दोस्ती !!!

Small states vs. Large states

There is an old proverb which says United we stand together, divided we fell apart. But at times, life poses such a peculiar condition in front of us that we find it not only difficult but harmful to stay together. Current developments in Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh state have created the more or less the same kind of situation. People of one part of the state want, united Andhra, whereas those belonging to telangana region want their region to be declared as a separate state, which prior to the consolidation of Andhra region was a different territory having under the Nizam of Hyderabad.
Since independence we have seen many movements seeking separate statehood, mostly on the basis of language, which resulted in the formation of state re organization committee and then different states on the basis of language.
When this absurd and divisive idea of division on the basis of language started falling apart, then a new wave of creation of separate states on the basis of developmental issues arouse. Remember, the main divisive power in Europe was the languages and despite that, while dividing states on linguistic basis our democracy didn’t learn any lesson and agreed upon to divide the country on the basis of language.
This ‘hit and trial’ and proactive approach has created nothing but chaos in our society. Had we decided to resolve any issue at one go despite solving only a part of it and tried to analyze the root cause of a particular problem, we as a nation would have been a more robust and cohesive society. But, this approach of taking political benefit out of any issue, irrespective of the volatility of the matter has left us so divided and frustrated that I don’t see any chance of reversing it (under current circumstances).

This is for the kind information of all of those intellectuals, who say that how many parts we are going to create out of this nation, that United States of America having a population of only around 300 millions has a setup of 50 states. Some of the European countries are in fact smaller than most of our states.
I belong to a state, which is projected as one of the developed state in our country; still a part of it (Ahirwal) is one of the most backward regions of this nation. Believe me or not, this backwardness is among all sphere of life be it educational, economical or political. So, if a part of such a small state can be left underdeveloped, I can very well imagine the condition of Vidarbh, Telangana or Bundelkhand.
I am not saying that creation of smaller states is the only option, but creation of a cadre of value based politician who are unbiased and impartial in their approach of development seems to be quite futuristic. We need a brand of politician who don’t categorize on the basis of constituency, region, language, caste and religion but consider the entire state as their own, especially when they become CM or ministers. In current scenario, any minister or CM could not rise above their own constituencies; forget about the region around that particular constituency to be developed.

“Either you give me my share, as I deserve or let the division to be a learning experience”

Policemen or hooligans

Dated: 25th & 26th July 2005.
I wrote these feelings about four & half years back on 25/26.07.2005 when, my pain and revolt against the system was at its peak. Yesterday while searching some of my old documents, I found this paper and decided to put it on the blog so that I can consolidate my previous writings at one place.

“A few months back, an MNC had suspended its four workers and relieved nearly forty workers from their job. The so called negotiation took place between workers and the company in the presence of state government. But as we know, any negotiation between the powerful and under privileged had to be in the favour of powerful.
After this failure of negotiation, nobody had expected that any demonstration of this scale would take place and would take a violent turn.
Now, what happened at the demonstration site is strongly condemnable and unjustified as there is no place for violence in a peaceful demonstration. So, I totally condemn the act of workers when they beat up some policemen and DSP who, at that point in time were on duty. But this also shows a sheer lack of proper planning and anticipation about the scale of demonstration. At the first place, police could have used water cannon or tear gas or any other appropriate medium to disperse the workers gathering when they started getting violent. On the contrary what they did is the most brutal act of police on common men, showing Live on television.
This incident reminded me the brutality and inhuman approach of British police in Jalianwala Bagh. I can establish a simple analogy between the incidents which took place 86 years ago and on 25.07.2005. Police of the so called ‘largest democracy’ of the world acted in the most brutal and barbaric way on such a gathering of people. But what happened on next day i.e. 26th July is just stunning. I have never seen such kind of irresponsible statement in Loksabha. Mr. Home Minister described the damage of Police but did not mention about the condition of workers who are lying in various hospitals and relative of some workers searching for their family members in nearby hospitals. I think prior to making the statement in Loksabha he should have watched the media clips of the incident, because the clips are showing hundreds of workers were beaten up by the police.
One more point which is to be noted over here is that in a state like Haryana, where police barely get the freedom/ option to use its force excessively, so when they got it they did not want to waste it. Let this platoon / battalion of HP be stationed anywhere in J&K, NE or Naxalite affected areas so that the policemen can know the real meaning of policing. Otherwise also, our CPFs are finding it very difficult to cope with terrains of insurgent areas so why not these policemen of HP be posted there because they seems to be very aggressive and active in their duty. Then we’ll see their activeness and aggression.
This incident clearly shows how the capitalist, through the political establishment have captured the power and how our machinery act on the hands of capitalists. Although we are making economic development but the social and political development are no where in the scene. Unless and until we achieve the latter, India, which our freedom fighters have dreamt about, shall remain a dream.”

VIPs & The common citizen of India

Today morning when I tuned in my television set for morning news, I got shocked. Well this was a new low in the so called VIP culture which has been flourishing in this supposed to be a people's ‘Democracy’.
A kidney patient died outside the PGI Chandigarh because, security personnel did not allow him to move in hospital. And the reason behind this denial for entry is that security was tightened and common citizens were not allowed to enter in hospital because of the Mr. Prime Minister’s visit to the Panjab University.
I know Mr. Prime Minister is such a great and simple person that, if he had got any whisper about these restrictions of common people entry in hospital, he would have intervened. But most of bureaucrats and legislature have forgotten the constitutional privilege given to ordinary citizen. These government officials follow red-tapism at its extreme and today it took a life. Shouldn’t all these guilty officials should be booked for culpable homicide.

Although constitution provides equal rights to each one of us but we have been treated differently depending upon our access to money or power. We can justify some sort of security reason for some of our higher dignitaries and special attention given to them. But nothing can be justifiable be it security reason or something else at the cost of a human life.
Not only this, in our society we create our own VIPs depending on the occasion and capacity of organizer and VIP. Be it a religious place or any other small gathering we create our own VIPs and treat them differently at the cost of inconvenience to common man. It is a matter of great surprise that some VIPs who are treated differently at a small function may not be a VIP at all in any other function. I think it is high time that we abandon this culture totally, remove VIP chairs, VIP gallery, VIP pass, VIP roads (marg)! And start treating every one as same citizen under the law of constitution. Only those having security threats should be allowed to take the privilege of these VIP benefits rest all of us are same and ought to be treated as same.

Enough is enough...

I don’t know what I should call it... But when I saw those images of PT Usha, I did not feel sad in fact I felt humiliated as if we have lost a big tournament against pakistan.
These bureaucrats who were involved in this bizarre should not be let off for just apologies but should be punished. They haven’t mistreated PT Usha only but the entire nation has felt bad and humiliated. Every Indian has given her such a respect & love that we call her udanpari. If someone like her stature is getting this kind of treatment from these SAI officials who consider themselves as the all & all of SAI, we can easily imagine the treatment which other youngsters receive form the administration.
After the incident, do these apologies make any sense, I don’t think so. On the one hand we are wasting millions of rupees on the commonwealth games whereas on the other hand we can’t give accommodation to one of our best athlete. Isn’t it ridiculous and painful? There is no use of wasting millions of rupees in the so called pride of India unless we develop a sporting culture here, which seems to be very futuristic.