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Fehmida Riaz from Pakistan About What Is Happening In India



A beautiful poem by Fehmida Riaz from Pakistan about what is happening in India right now. The English translation is followed by the original in Devanagri script. 

“You are just like us.”
So it turned out you were just like us!
Where were you hiding all this time, buddy?
That stupidity, that ignorance
we wallowed in it for ages -
look, it arrived at your shores too!
Many congratulations to you!
Raising the flag of religion,
I guess now you’ll be setting up Hindu Raj?
You too will start muddling everything up
You, too, will ravage your beautiful garden.
You, too, will sit and ponder -
I can tell preparations are afoot -
who is [truly] Hindu, who is not.
I guess you’ll be passing fatwas soon!
Here, too, it will become hard to survive.
Here, too, you will sweat and bleed.
You’ll barely make do joylessly.
You will gasp for air like us.
I used to wonder with such deep sorrow.
And now, I laugh at the idea:
it turned out you were just like us!
We weren't two nations after all!
To hell with education and learning.
Let’s sing the praises of ignorance.
Don’t look at the potholes in your path:
bring back instead the times of yore!
Practice harder till you master
the skill of always walking backwards.
Let not a single thought of the present
break your focus upon the past!
Repeat the same thing over and over -
over and over, say only this:
How glorious was India in the past!
How sublime was India in days gone by!
Then, dear friends, you will arrive
and get to heaven after all.
Yep. We’ve been there for a while now.
Once you are there,
once you’re in the same hell-hole,
keep in touch and tell us how it goes!”

तुम बिल्कुल हम जैसे निकले, अब तक कहां छुपे थे भाई?
वह मूरखता, वह घामड़पन, जिसमें हमने सदी गंवाई.
आखिर पहुंची द्वार तुम्हारे, अरे बधाई, बहुत बधाई;
भूत धरम का नाच रहा है, कायम हिन्दू राज करोगे?
सारे उल्टे काज करोगे? अपना चमन नाराज करोगे?
तुम भी बैठे करोगे सोचा, पूरी है वैसी तैयारी,
कौन है हिन्दू कौन नहीं है, तुम भी करोगे फतवे जारी;
वहां भी मुश्किल होगा जीना, दांतो आ जाएगा पसीना.
जैसे-तैसे कटा करेगी, वहां भी सबकी सांस घुटेगी;
माथे पर सिंदूर की रेखा, कुछ भी नहीं पड़ोस से सीखा!
क्या हमने दुर्दशा बनायी, कुछ भी तुमको नज़र न आयी?
भाड़ में जाये शिक्षा-विक्षा, अब जाहिलपन के गुन गाना,
आगे गड्ढा है यह मत देखो, वापस लाओ गया जमाना;
हम जिन पर रोया करते थे, तुम ने भी वह बात अब की है.
बहुत मलाल है हमको, लेकिन हा हा हा हा हो हो ही ही,
कल दुख से सोचा करती थी, सोच के बहुत हँसी आज आयी.
तुम बिल्कुल हम जैसे निकले, हम दो कौम नहीं थे भाई;
मश्क करो तुम, आ जाएगा, उल्टे पांवों चलते जाना,
दूजा ध्यान न मन में आए, बस पीछे ही नज़र जमाना;
एक जाप-सा करते जाओ, बारम्बार यह ही दोहराओ.
कितना वीर महान था भारत! कैसा आलीशान था भारत!
फिर तुम लोग पहुंच जाओगे, बस परलोक पहुंच जाओगे!
हम तो हैं पहले से वहां पर, तुम भी समय निकालते रहना,

अब जिस नरक में जाओ, वहां से चिट्ठी-विट्ठी डालते रहना!

Regality Isn't A Matter Of Birth


Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip

Regality is not in being born a king or queen, but in behaving in a manner so as befitting a gentleman and lady in day to day dealings. You become what you think you are, so instead of whining that you are not born in a monarchy, like some of us, think of your home as your little kingdom, and your life as no less than that of a king and queen, and then see how you will find your life transformed for the better and find yourself much happier. 

Happiness is in the mind. It is not blue blood that makes you regal, it is your attitude and mannerisms that make you so.

PS - Who says only human beings have character. Images and objects too have character. 

WHY I LIKE STAMP COLLECTING - Ayn Rand


The pleasure lies in a certain special way of using one’s mind. Stamp collecting is a hobby for busy, purposeful, ambitious people – because, in patterns, it has the essential elements of a career, but transposed to a clearly delimited, intensely private world…. A career requires the ability to sustain a purpose over a long period of time, through many separate steps, choices, decisions, adding up to a steady progression to a goal…. Purposeful people cannot rest by doing nothing…. They seldom find pleasure in single occasions, such as a party or a show or even a vacation, a pleasure that ends right then and there, with no further consequences.

The minds of such people require continuity, integration, a sense of moving forward. They are accustomed to working long-range…. Yet they need relaxation and rest from their constant, single-tracked drive. What they need is another track, but for the same train – that is, a change of subject, but using part of the same method of mental functioning. Stamp collecting fulfills that need….


Ayn Rand on Stamp Collecting: (From “WHY I LIKE STAMP COLLECTING”)






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