धीरेंद्र शास्त्री जी ने बंगाल के हिंदुओं से नवरात्रि के दौरान दुर्गा-मूरत के समीप माँस न रखने की प्रार्थना की है। गला नहीं पकड़ा है और न ही कोई आदेश जारी किया है। केवल विनती की है।
क्या अब केवल दंगे-फ़साद और अराजकता ही अभिव्यक्ति की स्वतंत्रता है? प्रार्थना करना अपराध है?
This is your own country
This is your own Army
If you can’t respect your soldiers, atleast don’t shout on them
Be a citizen worth dying for!
Jai Hind 🇮🇳
Vande Mataram
This was the first Independence Day celebration after the full Vande Mataram recital was made mandatory. I am afraid I am not sold on the new rule. Mandating the full six stanzas and marching every school ground through it doesn't deepen anyone's love for the motherland. It just sets most of the country up to fumble.
Before anyone offers it, I don't buy the argument that a certain community has religious grounds to sit this out. Their hardliners were wailing about Vande Mataram back when we sang only the two gentle stanzas, the ones about rivers, fruit and cool breezes. If the short, sweet, unobjectionable version was already an offence to faith, the objection was never about the four stanzas nobody had heard. It was about the two everybody had. That objection has been less a theological argument and more about a temperament looking for a grievance.
I love the whole thing and still admit that "hard to sing correctly" is an appropriate description, not an insult. So if you are preparing to declare war on me for being anti-national, do read the previous sentences once again. Hard to sing, for a child at least. I stand by that description.
Here is the actual problem. For 100 years, we sang two stanzas because they sing: sujalam, suphalam. It would roll off a child's tongue like a nursery rhyme. Only a lot more soulful. And nationalist. The other four stanzas lift the composition, bring in Bangla, thicken the Sanskrit, change metre without indicating, and suddenly the child who was doing nicely is three syllables behind and sinking.
Bankim wrote a poem inside a novel, not a cadence for morning parade. So the two groups who will trip up are an odd couple: the 9-year-old who cannot yet manage the metre, and the professional objector who was never going to try. Everyone else, the vast singing middle, would learn the whole thing happily but will inadvertently end up messing up the song that we are all required to respect. And any disrespect in this case won't be taken casually.
The two stanzas we actually sing were the two chosen in 1937, on the advice of a poet named Tagore, precisely so the song could unite rather than divide. The correction we make now to celebrate the song is, in plain terms, the undoing of an edit made by the man who wrote the anthem. You can come down heavily on me for dragging Tagore into his whole thing and blame it on WhatsApp University knowledge. But you know thay you, not I, are being difficult here.
A nation is not more devoted because its 10-year-olds can hit the harder consonants, and it is not less devoted because they cannot. Make the whole song available, teach it, print it, sing it at ceremonies where trained voices can do it justice. But mandate it into every school ground and you have only found a new and creative way to make children afraid of her.
Vande Mataram.
Every stone that went into it is Indian.
Every hand that built it was Indian.
Every coin that was spent on it was Indian.
The flag hoisted on top of it is Indian.
The man hoisting it is Indian.
The only thing that isn’t Indian is you Mughalets.
इस आयु में लज्जा साथ छोड़ ही देती है। कॉन्ग्रेस ने संस्थान विवशता में बनाए क्योंकि शून्य के बाद एक ही आता है। अकेले मोदी ने जितना बना दिया है, वैसा तुम्हारी सात पुश्तों के प्रधानमंत्री में न तो साहस था, न विजन। लौंडियाबाजी और घोटालों के कारण साला देश को चाट कर बर्बाद कर गए और ज्ञान दे रहे हैं विकास का।
नहीं होगा। 25% क्षमता और 75% आरक्षण के कारण देश 2097 तक भी विकसित नहीं होगा। आपकी आत्मा मरने के बाद आपको कचोटेगी कि मेरे पास सब कुछ था, जनसमर्थन था, संख्या थी, विजन था और मैंने दलीत-पीड़ीत-शोषीत-वंचीत के नाम पर सब बर्बाद किया।
आपके अंबेडकर-फुले प्रेम ने इस देश को बर्बादी की राह पर डाल दिया है।
14 दिनों से भूख हड़ताल पर बैठे मेरे साथ आज पुलिस द्वारा धक्का-मुक्की और बलपूर्वक रोकने की कोशिश की गई। मेरे साथ मौजूद साथियों के साथ भी पुलिस द्वारा मारपीट की गई।
कई दिनों से भूखा होने के बावजूद मैं अपने अधिकार और जनता की आवाज़ के लिए खड़ा हूँ। हमें इस तरह रोककर हमारी आवाज़ को दबाया नहीं जा सकता।
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An Indian asked an American “How come you have such a phenomenal Indian talent pool in your country?
He answered “Because you Indians give jobs to so many ‘reserved’ Indians while we give it to the ‘deserved’ Indians.”
राँची में हजारों दलित और आदिवासी बच्चे परीक्षा धांधली के ख़िलाफ़ सड़कों पर हैं,
>लेकिन वहाँ पर फाइव स्टार होटल नहीं हैं,
>वहाँ पर भाजपा सरकार नहीं है
>वहाँ पर अच्छे रेस्टोरेंट नहीं है
>वहाँ पर आदिवासी और दलित बच्चे नहीं है
इसलिए कॉकरोच पार्टी के लोग वहाँ छात्रों की आवाज उठाने नहीं पहुँच सकते