Poetriture

आज, 68 साल से लोह पुरुष की अनुपस्थिति, के बावजूद भी उनकी उपस्थिति सच्चे भारतीयों के हृदय में अनुभव होती है. हमारा निराला भारत, जब अंग्रेज छोड़ कर गए तब ऐसी परिस्थिति में था कि मानो किसी ने गोलियों से छलनी कर दिया हो. 562 अलग रजवाड़े, सभी स्वतंत्र होना चाहते थे भारत से, और ऐसी परिस्थिति को सुधारने का बृहतकाय काम केवल एक ही पुरुष को दिया जा सकता था. एक उच्च कोटि के वकील, अति प्रभावी वक्ता, लोह सी इच्छाशक्ति रखने वाले और भारत माता के सबसे समर्पित पुत्र, श्री सरदार वल्लभभाई पटेल, को दिया गया. उन्हे निर्णायक कहा जाता हैं. उनके बारे में केवल पढ़ने से भी उनके लिए सम्मान जागता है. उनके चतुर विचारो और शीघ्र समय में निर्णय लेने की क्षमता के कारण जोधपुर के महाराजा हनवंत, मोहम्मद अली जिन्ना के पाकिस्तान में जुड़ने के ब्लैंक चेक को मना कर सके. वे समझौता करने की कला में इतने निपुण थे कि उन्होने उस राज्य के लोगो को आनेवाला सालो के अत्याचारों से बचा लिया जो पाकिस्तान आज तक पाकिस्तानी हिंदुओं के साथ करता आया है. ऐसीही निपुणता उनकी लोक प्रशासन में भी प्रदर्शित हुई जब वे जूनागढ़ को पाकिस्तान के चं...

Today, even after 68 years of absence of The Iron Man of Bharat, his presence is still felt in the hearts of true Indians. Our wonderful country, when left by the British, was in such a state, that if looked at the map of India, it would look as if someone had shot my India with a machine gun. 562 different states, were all expecting dominion status from Bharat when the British left, and the herculean task of unifying all of them was given to the only man, who could have possibly done it. It was given to an impeccable lawyer, excellent orator, iron willed statesman and the most devoted son of Bharat, Shri. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. He was called the Man of Action, and the Man of Decision. Just by reading about him, we feel proud for him. His quick thinking, and decisions regarding intregration of Jodhpur, made the Maharaja Hanvant Singh to forego the "blank cheque" offer of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, to secede it into Pakistan. The negotiational skills of Sardarji were so p...

Stop glorifying Ravan into a hero. He is not a hero, he is not a victim. He is not a person vs God figure. That self-important fiend was a villain, more cruel than Hitler. Raavan killed numerous innocent people just because he could, to test his might. He spilled urine into yagna kunds and killed the poojaris, he killed the yogis who never hurt a single creature. The egocentric fanatic also broke down so many temples. He raped so many girls and women, unmarried, married, widowed, everyone. He killed children in front of their parents, he killed parents in front of children. He was no hero. He was a sick and egomaniacal monster, who had become so narcissistic towards the end of his life, that he could not even see himself igniting his own funeral pyre. The usual arguments against all this is that he was a yogi, sanyasi, or whatever the word the person chooses to diefy him. He was a brilliant learner, a good astronomy student, and he did refine a few laws in Lanka and in his ini...

"When we think we know, we cease to learn." this idiom is said by a 16 times Nobel Prize nominee for literature, and 11 times Nobel Prize nominee for peace, along with being awarded Bharat Ratna, and a knighthood, holding the title of ex-president, and the first Vice-President of India, Dr. Radhakrishnan Sarvepalli. The westerners awarded Dr. Sarvepalli, because he criticized their philosophy, and did so with so much artistry and proficiency that he was one of the first person viewed from the East, as an authority on the Western philosophy. Though he studied in an evangelical Convent, he was a Hindu to his core. And it was his core beilefs that made him question and subsequently answer the profound questions raised by the Hindu theology, undertaken by him. He could easily breakdown any form of a critique on Hindu, which was a spectacle in his time. He reverted the western thinking, that Hinduism was superstitious and narcissistic, by showing them that their own philosoph...

When you read the letters on a page, you don't find meaning in the individual letters, but in the collection of letters called words. So dissecting a word to find its meaning may seem obtrusive to our aim. The meaning of the letters has now transcended into the words. So now, even if you know the individual letters, you still need to know the meaning of the word as a whole to understand it. This is understood by the society. As this society and culture is the transcendence of meaning from individuals, to a bigger whole. A collective meaning higher than the sum of its individual parts. Similarly an individual, has a bigger meaning than its individual organs, because now are not simply the assembly of organs, but we are also the interactions between them, and it's the personification of those interactions, which is you. Or if we continue on this path, we may reach atoms. Individual atoms, having zero meaning on its own. But when put together, they can study themselves i...

The emptiness that we feel in our lives, the ebb and flow of temporary satisfaction that we get from our routine, and the conformationally biased understanding of reality all propose the same thing that we do not know anything for real. The constant mugging up of the facts, is not even information in its definitive sense. That is just data, unprocessed, meaningless, raw data. The human brain is a far better judge of this concept. We tend to realize this fact, quite early, during our student years, that we don't even know the reason why we are studying the things that, we are studying. We just fall in like sheep, while consciously being painfully aware of our 'sheepness', and still follow a specific protocol of actions, this flawed society has imposed upon us. We are far better than this, and we have had proofs of it. People letting go of conventional education turning out to be absolute masterpieces of their time. They made this world a better place than when they f...

When we observe the definition of a monster, different dictionaries give different definitions, but they all circle around a few specific words. Huge, ugly, evil, imaginary, angry and troublesome, are the adjectives commonly used to describe them. Also, when we take up the quest of searching where these monsters are found, they are found everywhere, i.e: monster of the seas, monster of the forest, etc. These examples, are enough to conjure up very vivid descriptions of monsters, though different for each of us, will all be in similar veins. But when that gaze is directed inwards, we also find some of it inside us. Anger, greed, lust, and so on. So we ultimately infer that monsters dwell in each and everyone of us. We are all capable of being bad. And not just plain old bad, we are capable of being absolutely inhumane, cruel and evil. History has enough examples of that. The monsters existing in each one of us, is the reflection of what is the worst that we can become. When small c...

We can easily imagine nature to be a detached, cold entity. It does not concern itself with the lives of so many that thrive in it. A sudden earthquake and a million lives lost, all to be seen blankly by the cold eyes of Nature. Important personalities, villages, humongous cities all turning to dust. A few good cultures survive for some time, then even they crumble before the strength of time. This is one species, entire kingdoms fall, none can be said to be permanent. All this is seen by the nature to be a mere passing of a flock of pigeons to us. From this one infers that, the nature is a disinterested power, merely waiting for all the life to end. And not just life, all things to end. The only constant entity that exists from the beginning of the universe. It sits there, observing without interfering the mechanisms of the growth of grass, flap of wings of birds, to the explosions of supernovae. None seem to stimulate a reply from the nature. There seems no way from which we ...