Sanjeev Sharma

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[Raj Thackeray @RajThackeray]

ज्येष्ठ भाषातज्ज्ञ आणि मराठी व्याकरणाच्या अभ्यासक डॉ. यास्मिन शेख यांचं निधन झालं. यास्मिन बाई या जन्माने ज्यू आणि कर्माने अस्सल मराठी होत्या.

यास्मिनबाईंसारख्या व्यक्तींबद्दल मला कमालीचं कुतूहल आणि आदर आहे. ते फक्त त्या ज्यू आणि तरीही मराठी भाषेसाठी आयुष्य वाहिलं म्हणून नाही. पण एखादी भाषा आणि तिचा आत्मा टिकून रहावा या आग्रहासाठी संपूर्ण आयुष्य देणं हे विलक्षण आहे आणि आजच्या काळात अद्भूत आहे.

जन्माने ज्यू असलेल्या जेरुशा रुबेन यांनी अझीझ शेख यांच्याशी विवाह केला आणि त्या यास्मिन शेख झाल्या. ज्यू कुटुंबात जन्मलेल्या आणि मुस्लिम व्यक्तीशी संसार केलेल्या या विदुषीने आपलं आयुष्य मात्र मराठी भाषेच्या अभ्यासासाठी आणि तिच्या शुद्धतेसाठी वाहून घेतलं.
खरंतर महाराष्ट्र म्हणजे काय आणि मराठीपण म्हणजे काय, याचं उत्तर त्यांच्या या आयुष्याच्या प्रवासातच दडलेलं आहे. मराठीपण ही जन्माने मिळणारी मक्तेदारी नाही; मराठी भाषा, संस्कृती आणि महाराष्ट्राशी असलेल्या निष्ठेतून ती कमवावी लागते. आणि आजच्या काळात आपण आपल्या भाषेला ज्या पद्धतीने गृहीत धरतोय त्यावरून तर मी अगदी ठामपणे म्हणेन की आपल्याला आपली भाषा टिकवण्यासाठी, वृद्धिंगत करण्यासाठी सगळ्यांना कष्ट करावेच लागतील. असो

यास्मिनबाई ज्या काळात घडल्या, त्या काळात भाषा शुद्ध लिहिणं, योग्य उच्चारण करणं आणि व्याकरणाचे नियम पाळणं याला एक शिस्त होती आणि ती पाळणाऱ्यांबद्दल आदर होता. आज संवादाची साधनं अफाट वाढली, प्रत्येकाच्या हातात लिहिण्याचं माध्यम आलं; पण दुर्दैवाने भाषेबद्दलचा तो काटेकोरपणा मात्र कमी होत गेला. 'अर्थ समजला ना, मग झालं' इतक्यावर भाषा चालत नाही. भाषा ही एका संस्कृतीची स्मृती असते आणि म्हणूनच तिची काळजी घ्यावी लागते.

विशेष म्हणजे यास्मिनबाईंचा आग्रह भाषा आहे तशीच राहिली पाहिजे, तिच्यात नवे प्रवाह नवे शब्द येऊ नयेत असा कधीच नव्हता. भाषा बदलणार, नवी भाषा नवे शब्द स्वीकारणार हे त्यांना मान्य होतं; पण तो बदल विचारपूर्वक व्हावा, भाषेचा मूळ बाज आणि तिची रचना टिकावी , ती बिघडू नये हा त्यांचा आग्रह होता.

भाषा ही प्रवाही असते. ती इतर भाषांमधले शब्द स्वीकारणार, काळानुसार बदलणार आणि तिची नवी रूपंही तयार होणार. त्याला विरोध करण्याचं कारण नाही. पण भाषा बदलणं आणि भाषेवरचं प्रभुत्व गमावणं या दोन वेगळ्या गोष्टी आहेत. बोलीभाषा कितीही समृद्ध होत राहोत, पण त्या भाषेची एक प्रमाणभाषा टिकली पाहिजे आणि विशेषतः ज्यांची ती मातृभाषा आहे, त्यांना ती उत्तम बोलता, वाचता आणि लिहिता आली पाहिजे. प्रमाणभाषेचा आग्रह हा भाषेच्या शुद्धतेचा अट्टहास नसतो; तो त्या भाषेच्या अभिव्यक्तीची ताकद टिकवण्याचा आग्रह असतो. हा आग्रह धरणाऱ्या शेवटच्या दुव्यांपैकी यास्मिनबाई एक.

त्यांच्या जाण्याने केवळ एक व्याकरणतज्ज्ञ गेल्या असं नाही, तर भाषेवर प्रेम करणं म्हणजे तिच्याशी काटेकोर राहणं असं मानणाऱ्या एका पिढीचा आणखी एक दुवा निखळला.

यास्मिन शेख यांना महाराष्ट्र नवनिर्माण सेनेची भावपूर्ण श्रद्धांजली.

राज ठाकरे ।

[Neil Borate @ActusDei]

Saurabh Mukherjea gets a lot of hate but frankly a lot of what he has said in the book - the crisis of the Indian middle class is actually playing out.
1) Jobs have stalled. 8.7 crore youth not studying or working.
2) Going abroad isn't as easy as it once was. The West is making it harder to immigrate there.
2) Social media fuels unrealistic aspirations. So the youth borrow to finance consumption. Notice the incident in Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar about the boy taking his own life, seemingly over an iPhone EMI.
3) The youth turn to F&O. 43% of traders are below the age of 30. They lose money there as well (88% making loses, per the Sebi study).
4) A govt job is seen as another escape from poverty and unemployment. Except that paper leaks lay waste to months of effort.
The result? A tinder box. More protests over various (seemingly different) issues - paper leaks, reservations and much else. The underlying cause is the same, a 'fastest growing' economy that isn't creating enough jobs.

I don't know if there's a solution. Supply-side remedies that can solve it, take time to play out. Less red tape, free capital, labour and land reforms. Even if done now, I don't know if the youth of India have time on their hands.

[Sanjeev Sharma @sanjsharma]

@anujtiwari11 Please don’t apologise. I wish authorities wake up and enough doctors call it out so people realise the pandemic. There will always be few to believe in no need to mask up obviously.

[Sanjeev Sharma @sanjsharma]

@SoniaGandhi_FC Waiting to read this book.

[Sonia Gandhi💎 @SoniaGandhi_FC]

A story of love.
A life of courage.
A legacy of strength.

[Dr. Anuj @anujtiwari11]

Its a dengue / Influenza epidemic! Crazy numbers! Stay safe! Time to mask up and get the N95 back!
#Mumbai

[Sanjeev Sharma @sanjsharma]

@_pallavighosh So congress in power was better for journalists?

[Sanjeev Sharma @sanjsharma]

@suchetadalal Shame

[Sucheta Dalal @suchetadalal]

This is what we have come to as a country!

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Mama,

I last saw you and Papa together more than 35 years ago. Since the day Papa left, I have watched you face everything life threw at you with never-ending courage and dignity. Only Priyanka and I really know what you have been through, and how difficult your life after Papa truly was.

I am happy, and so proud, that your story - “Belonging: A Journey of Love” - will finally be read by the millions of people who love you. I know how hard it was for someone as private as you to tell the world your beautiful story.

Today, on his birthday, I can see Papa smiling and looking down proudly at his beautiful Sonia.

Love,
Rahul

[Sanjeev Sharma @sanjsharma]

@sweta0615 @j_garima_j Shame. Disgusting to see a young girl tormented for life.

[Sanjeev Sharma @sanjsharma]

@AdityaRajKaul Shame left you a long time ago.

[Sanjeev Sharma @sanjsharma]

@tugberk37 God bless your child.

[Tuğberk @tugberk37]

İspanyalı futbolcu Cucurella:

“Otizmli bir oğlum var, keşke hiç param olmasaydı da oğlum sağlıklı olsaydı.

Saçlarımı o sevdiği için uzatıyorum; bir de bir an beni unutursa tanıyabilsin diye…”

Sen Filistinli çocukların yanında oldun, dilerim senin de çocuğun hep mutlu olur..

[Sachin Haralkar @sachin_haralkar]

Youth Protest at Shivaji Park Pic / Sachin Haralkar

[grandson @Grandsoncr7]

🗣️ Luis de la Fuente:

“I’m so happy we won the World Cup. This is the happiest day of my life, thanks to Ferran Torres’ goal. But we also need to talk about the VAR and the referee. I have never seen a bigger robbery in my coaching career than this. It looked like they wanted Argentina and Lionel Messi to win it again so badly.

The referee was practically Argentina’s 12th man on the pitch. In the first half, there were several fouls that he ignored, but the worst was the challenge on Dani Olmo. Mac Allister tackled him with both feet, which is a red-card offense, but the referee and VAR ignored it.

There was also the challenge on Yamal, where a player stepped on his ankle from behind. The referee ignored it, and VAR didn’t intervene either.

Argentina should be ashamed of receiving such favoritism in a World Cup final. They had the officials on their side, but we were fully prepared for everything. In the end, football won.”

[Herod Priovolos @herodpriovolos]

Dear Christopher Nolan,
My name is Herod Priovolos and I want to tell you what #TheOdyssey truly means to me and to generations of Greeks who grew up with Homer’s story.
Homer did not sing of Odysseus simply to entertain us with ships, storms, gods and monsters. He told the story because he understood what war, time, distance and loss can do to the human soul.
Odysseus leaves Ithaca as a king, a husband and a father. He returns twenty years later alone, exhausted and disguised as a beggar, carrying the memory of every companion who never made it home.
The monsters are not merely creatures created for spectacle.
The Cyclops is power without justice. The Sirens are the beautiful voices that tempt a person to abandon their purpose. Circe represents the danger of losing our humanity. Calypso offers Odysseus immortality, but even eternal life becomes a prison when the price is forgetting his wife, his son, his homeland and his own identity.
And Ithaca is not merely an island.
Ithaca is the place that remembers you when the world no longer recognizes your face. It is the home that remains alive inside you after everything else has been taken away. It is Penelope growing older while she waits. It is Telemachus becoming a man without his father. It is Argos surviving long enough to recognize his master one final time.
Odysseus is not great simply because he defeats monsters. He is great because he is proud, frightened, wounded, clever, imperfect and deeply human. He loses his companions, his youth, his name and twenty years of his life, yet he refuses to forget who he is.
When he finally returns, Penelope does not recognize him through strength, glory or appearance. She tests him. Odysseus proves his identity by remembering the bed they built together around the roots of a living olive tree.
That is the heart of The Odyssey.
Not the battles.
Not the ships.
Not the monsters.
Two people standing before each other after twenty years, asking whether love, memory and identity can survive everything time has done to them.
That is why this poem has survived for almost 3,000 years. Every human being is trying to return to something: a home, a person, a lost part of themselves, or the life they had before the world changed them.
So use Homer’s seas, gods, heroes and monsters. But please understand what you are touching.
The Odyssey was never truly about how far a man could travel.
It was about how much the world could take from him before he stopped being himself, and whether, after losing almost everything, he could still find his way home.

[Kylian Mbappé @KMbappe]

Aujourd’hui est ta dernière danse.

Toi qui nous as tant donné.
Nous aurions dû t’offrir une meilleure fin, mais nous avons échoué.
Mettre des mots sur ce que tu as apporté pendant 14 ans est très difficile, tant tu as été un acteur majeur du renouveau de cette équipe. Les gens n’ont pas toujours su apprécier ta grandeur, mais le temps et l’histoire s’en chargeront…
Merci de m’avoir donné la chance et l’opportunité de représenter mon pays sur la plus grande scène pendant tant d’années.
Je me sens privilégié d’avoir pu être aux côtés de l’une des plus grandes légendes de notre pays, et je ne garde que d’excellents souvenirs de tout ce que nous avons vécu et accompli ensemble.
Je te souhaite le meilleur dans ta nouvelle aventure, et encore merci pour tout ce que tu as apporté à ce maillot qui compte tant pour nous.

👑