Ghar se mazjid hai bahut dur, chalo yun kerlen…
Kisi rotey hue bacche ko hasaya jaye!

--By Nida Fazli

Ensure no function at parks without sanction: HC to MCD

Press Trust of India
Posted online: Monday , October 15, 2007 at 12:00:00
Updated: Sunday , October 14, 2007 at 11:07:48
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New Delhi, October 14 The Delhi High Court has asked the MCD to ensure that no social and religious functions, including the ongoing Dussehra, are organised without its permission in a Shalimar Bagh park in north-west Delhi, which was recently declared as an ornamental park.

“The MCD shall ensure that no function is conducted on the central park (in B-block) without its permission,” Justice Gita Mittal said, while admitting a petition filed by a residents welfare association.

“In case the MCD is approached, permission would be considered for conduct for same in any appropriate place as per policy,” the court said.

The RWA, in its petition, alleged the park was declared as an ornamental park by the civic agency last year, and no socio-religious function could be allowed there.

Anuj Agarwal, appearing for the RWA, submitted that ‘Mata Bhagwati Durga Puja Samiti’, which had been organising Dussehra in the park for five years, distributed invitation cards containing the name of the park as venue for the puja.

The court, on being informed by MCD that the Puja Samiti did not seek permission from it, asked the civic agency to ensure that no such activities are carried out without its prior sanction.

-Indian Express

my poison is my poverty!

My father is dead...my mother keeps crying...I have one younger brother who doesn’t even cry anymore...and I a man of 8 years of age...

When I went to school the teacher opposed me-"You have not paid your fees, Go home!"...

I worked in a plastic factory at the age of six...I lost one arm in the gas furnace, so sahibji said they do no require me anymore...

Now a days I am begging on the streets...Police wala says, “you are not allowed to beg in my area”...so I regularly pay him a share of my income...

I was sent to a factory because I was poor...but i will always remain poor...i will always be unwanted...“not allowed”...

I am dying since the day i was born...and my poison is my poverty!

a true story

A man came out of his home to admire his new truck. To his puzzlement, his three-year-old son was happily hammering dents into the shiny paint of the truck. The man ran to his son, knocked him away, hammered the little boy's hands into pulp as punishment.

When the father calmed down, he rushed his son to the hospital. Although the doctor tried desperately to save the crushed bones, he finally had to amputate the fingers from both the boy's hands.

When the boy woke up from the surgery & saw his bandaged stubs, he innocently said, " Daddy, I'm sorry about your truck." Then he asked, "but when are my fingers going to grow back?"

The father went home & committed suicide.

--by Anonymous

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
are losing theirs and blaming it on you...

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you
but make allowance for their doubting too...

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
or being hated, don't give way to hating,
and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise...

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master...
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim...

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
and treat those two impostors just the same...

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
and stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools...

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
and lose, and start again at your beginnings,
and never breathe a word about your loss...

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
to serve your turn long after they are gone,
and so hold on when there is nothing in you
except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"...

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch...

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you...
If all men count with you, but none too much...
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
with sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
and, which is more, you'll be a Man, my son!
....by Rudyard Kipling

Another irony of life...

We crave for the worthless...
We contempt the precious!

We condemn show off...
We promote the same!

We want to be a crusader...
We look for others to lead!

We think to change the way we behave...
We change the way we think!

We perceive the hypocrisy in society...
We nonetheless find another irony of life!

When all is said...

“When all is said and done, no matter what you have achieved, no matter how many summer homes you own, no matter how many cars sit in your driveway, the quality of your life will come down to the quality of your contribution.”

--The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

“yes !! i m an atheist”

@ VIDHI

“Peace of mind” is serenity.

“Some force which helps us stand by the difficult times” could be an impulse, an emotion or determination.

“Commitment to stand like a man with an erect head to the last, even on the gallows" is a pledge/promise.

“YOU” could be anuj or vidhi or something/someone which exists and marks its presence in realistic world.

There is a particular word for everything that is known and there will be a word for everything that is still unknown.

I believe that there are two ways of unveiling the unknown. One is by knowing (insight) and the other one is by having a short cut i.e.. naming every thing unknown to be GOD, just because it is unknown/unveiled.

Categorizing the known things like “peace of mind”, “some force”, “commitment”, “you” as GOD is something against pragmatism…. And categorizing all the unknown/unexplained things under the head of “GOD” is something which should not be done because of the very nature of the connotations flowing from the word “GOD”…omnipotence, omnipresence, omniscience…

yes !! i m an atheist

ATHEIST is the one who do not believe in the presence of any omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient God.

An atheist is not the one who is rival of God and nor the one who believes or declares himself to be the supreme human being (God). This is so because in both the cases an existence to God is provided which is an antithesis of atheism.

But let me make it clear that it is the insecurity or weaknesses in the human minds to shoulder the responsibility and face the distress which make them bow their heads. In other words it could be said that human has created the god and not the otherwise.

It could be said by few that it is due to vanity (ahankaar) a person pretends to give up the faith in God. But it is not so. It is in fact the self confidence to face the worst to worst situations without sharing the burden with any self –created, non-existing and hypothetic power or person.

Yes I m an atheist and committed to stand like a man with an erect head to the last, even on the gallows.

-Inspired from an Article by Bhagat Singh "Why i am an atheist?"

“Some are more equal than others”…

Although the members of a society, group, etc appear to be equal some, in fact, get better treatment than others.
This phrase is used by one of the pigs in the book ‘Animal Farm’ by George Orwell:'all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.’

In spite of my conscience agreeing to the fact that this should not be done, I admit the fact that this is done … done everywhere in society … school, college, village, city, states… everywhere in this secular country.

Is there any religion or caste above humanity??? Can there be any demarcating line among the human beings that could repute a person higher or lower merely because one belongs to a particular religion or caste???

Could it make a difference to the real character of a person if he is a Hindu or Muslim or Brahmin or Baniya or Chamaar or Schedule Caste or Schedule Tribe??? “Chamaar” is a word which is used as a taboo word… why???

What is this schedule caste/tribe???The only thing I know is that there are few castes/tribes that are notified by the President of India as Schedule Castes/Tribes that it considers being socially and economically backward [Articles 341 and 342 of the constitution]. Objective is just to uplift these castes/tribes socially and economically.

Is demarcation of human being necessary to serve this righteous objective??Yes!! certainly yes. But not on the basis caste or tribe. This demarcation has merely revived Casteism which the Constitution of India vigorously intended to end. Castes are anti-national; they bring about separation in social life and generate jealousy between caste and caste.

People of so-called-higher-caste treat so-called-lower-caste as beings given the body of humans but with polluted blood. [Note: “beings of polluted blood” …these are not my word. These are the word from a person belonging to so called higher caste]

Now the question of demarcation:-The demarcation of human beings is necessary to uplift the real deprived people…. people who really needs reservation. These people form a class in them selves… i.e. a class of “HAVE NOTS”. And so the demarcating line should also be purely on economic basis irrespective of any religion, caste and tribe.

Reservation :-I m not against reservation … and I m not going into the question that what percentage of seats should be reserved. Reservation is meant for uplifting the deprived and underprivileged class. It is not meant for economically sound bunch of people belonging to so-called-lower-caste (creamy layer).
Because this is a vivid fact, that although the objective of reservation is genuine and vital, the fruits of reservation are gulped by the people belonging to strong economic stand i.e. creamy layer. And people who are in fact targeted by the reservation do not get any benefit out of it.

So the only way out is CLASS demarcation and abolition of CASTE hypocrisy.