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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/rss2full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:13:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>आम्ही कोण?</title><description>लिहिणा-याने लिहित जावे...</description><link>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Mayur Lankeshwar)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>39</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss" type="application/rss+xml" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-4804051157271392918</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 08:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-12T00:36:56.695+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मिरज दंगल</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Miraj Riots</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">English</category><title>Inheritors of Afzalkhan’s legacy</title><description>During the last few days of the Ganesh festival celebrations in Miraj, a town in western Maharashtra, festering tensions gave way to arson and rioting. These riots spread like wild fire throughout western Maharashtra. Cities like Sangli,Kolhapur,Satara,Solapur,Ichalkaranji and adjoining rural areas got engulfed in communal violence. Curfew has been imposed in many areas and the situation is still very tense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One might wonder as to what might be the reason behind this seemingly sudden eruption of violence in a generally peaceful region. A welcome arch depicting the slaying of Afzalkhan by Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj was erected by a local Ganesh Mandal.  Afzalkhan was a general in the Adilshahi court of Bijapur who had invaded Swarajya with the motive of assassinating Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj.  Permission was sought from the police and district adminitration for erecting the welcome arch, which was initially denied, but was granted afterwards. This initial denial itself is inexplicable. A day before the Ganesh immersion on Anant Chaturdashi, a Muslim mob gathered in the town for protests and demonstrations, apparently offended by the arch. A Hindu mob gathered in response. This stand-off resulted in stone pelting and the police started lathi-charge in order to disperse the crowds. While running away from the police, some miscreants from the Muslim mob attacked a Ganesh pandal, threw stones at the Ganesh idol and desecrated it. The subsequent rioting resulted in destruction and desecration of many Ganesh idols. News of these incidents spread quickly and violence erupted throughout Western Maharashtra. Many Muslim places of worship were attacked in retaliatory attacks.&lt;br /&gt;Meanwhile, Ganesh mandal volunteers demanded that the miscreants responsible for idol desecration be arrested with immediate effect, and that the immersion would not take place until the law proceeds against them. But the police resorted to arm twisting tactics and forcibly conducted the immersion of some of the desecrated Ganesh idols. The hoarding depicting the Afzalkhan slaying was also forcibly removed from the welcome arch. These actions fanned deep resentment among the people and continue to add fuel to the fire. The dominant feeling among the people is that police have employed brute force against innocents while miscreants continue to act with impunity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Expected reactions from politicians of certain quarters and mass media have started to flow। The notion of political correctness has dominated this discourse. This notion of “political correctness”, though having originated in the west, has been mastered by few other people than our own. Maharashtra Chief Minister, respected Mr. Ashokrao Chavan has inaugurated this discourse with a quote that there is a “political conspiracy” behind the riots. Many popular Hindi films have depicted corrupt politicians stoking hatred between people of different communities and exploiting the divisions to their benefit. This “spectacular revelation” by the honourable Chief Minister can lead one to only one definite conclusion that he is an avid follower of mainstream Hindi cinema and supposes that people of the country who might be interested in his valuable insight of the issue too are gullible enough to accept this theory without considering any other angle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A major portion of main stream print and television media also suffers from this skewed understanding of the notion of political correctness. News reports refrain from making critical observations; analyses stop at drawing conclusions which are trite and hesitate from pinpointing the culprits. The self-styled editors of newly started news channels repeat platitudes ad-nauseam and resort to cheap theatrics. Their “holier than thou” attitude is sickening. National main stream media has virtually refused to take cognizance of these incidents. There are numerous examples wherein minor events provoke a deluge of media attention and overnight the whole media machinery turns into a “guardian of democracy and secularism” which seeks to defend the "hapless minorities” from a being persecuted by an “evil majority”. The outrages such as Miraj riots and the causes behind it disturb their worldview, lack such “glamour”, offer no opportunities for media chivalry,  and hence warrant ignorance and contempt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These are attempts to raise a storm of dust, to confuse people and seek to deny the existence of the elephant in the room.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who are these people whose feelings are violated by the spectacle of Afzalkhan’s guts being wrenched out?What kind of traitors are they who empathize with cruel,barbarous invaders?  Who are these people who are enraged and infuriated by the depiction of the proud past of the nation ?&lt;br /&gt;Is the provocation so grave that they are impelled to hurl stones at Lord Ganesh, adored and revered by crores of our people? Which is this insane, evil, diabolical force that attempts to desecrate one of the most sacred icon of our culture and civilization? What kind of a monster is this that musters the courage to lay waste to our festivities?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No one ventures to answer these easy yet difficult questions.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peoples’ anger is focused on the police force, on account of their attitude and actions during this carnage. The popular impression is that “vote-bank politics“has raised its ugly head. Culprits are allowed to go scot free while innocents are being hunted down. A huge hue and cry of a “political conspiracy” is being raised to drown the public outcry. The police chief, who the people hold responsible for the mishandling of the situation, is busy lecturing the people on virtuous conduct or “dharma”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This incident in Miraj is by no means an isolated one. For many years now, these kinds of crimes are being perpetrated in various regions of Maharashtra and elsewhere in the country to deliberately poison festivities like Ganeshotsav, Navaratri or Diwali. These are nothing but attempts to blackmail the people of the country, to terrify us and make it impossible to follow our way of life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The region of western Maharashtra has seen very few communal clashes and has a distinguished tradition of harmony and peace. The mosques in the town of Kurundwad host Lord Ganesh during Ganeshotsav and the “urs” ,or the festivities in the remembrance of Muslim holy men, are indistinguishable from any other Hindu festivals. Such has been the state of affairs so far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who are these forces which seek to destroy it? It has been reported that radicals from elsewhere have been detained along with a huge cache of arms. This is a thoroughly alarming situation. It can be discerned that the parts of the Muslim community in India and elsewhere are being radicalized by means of propaganda. The so called atrocities perpetrated on them by others are being used as a fuel in this in insidious design.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This plain truth which the common man is intelligent enough to interpret using “common sense”, is being sought to be dumped in a garbage pile of political correctness. For the lust of power, people responsible for running the affairs of state turn a blind eye towards it, owing to the cynical calculations of vote-bank politics. Elements from mass media, for want of acceptability and glamour, are party to this perversion. This has become the mainstay of our socio-political discourse.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These incidences of rioting and violence are like wounds on the nation’s body.  They have to be treated with utmost urgency and sincerity. Medication may cause temporary irritation and discomfort. But ignorance and lack of treatment may be a fatal choice, and sometimes survival might necessitate “severing of infected body parts”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;How many more times are we ready put the nation’s survival at risk? &lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-4804051157271392918?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/NOpfMP3FZRE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/NOpfMP3FZRE/inheritors-of-afzalkhans-legacy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NIKHIL PUJARI)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/09/inheritors-of-afzalkhans-legacy.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-1475245229806461219</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:52:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-09T02:35:46.065+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मराठी</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मिरज दंगल</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Miraj Riots</category><title>अफझलखानी प्रवृत्ति आणि त्यांचे हितचिंतक</title><description>मिरज येथे गणपति उत्सवाच्या शेवटच्या काही दिवसात तणावाची स्थिति उत्पन्न होउन त्याचे रूपांतर दंगलीत झाले.  त्याचे लोण पूर्ण पश्चिम महाराष्ट्रभर पसरले. सांगली, कोल्हापूर, इचलकरंजी, सातारा,सोलापूर इत्यादि शहरे आणि ग्रामीण भागामध्ये हिंसाचार आणि जाळपोळीच्या घटना घडल्या. अजुनही वातावरण पूर्णतः शांत झालेले नसून काही ठिकाणी संचारबंदी लागू आहे.&lt;br /&gt; या सर्व गोष्टींना कारण काय घडले? मिरज शहरामध्ये एका सार्वजनिक गणेश मंडळाने अफझलखान वधाची कमान उभारली. ती कमान उभी करण्यास आधी पोलिस व जिल्हा प्रशासनाने परवानगी नाकारली होती, परंतु नंतर ती परवानगी देण्यात आली. त्यानंतर,  अनंत चतुर्दशीच्या आदल्या दिवशी मिरजेत मुस्लिम जमावाने निदर्शने केली. या गोष्टीला कारण ती कमान ठरली. त्या जमावाला उत्तर म्हणुन हिंदू जमाव एकत्रित झाला आणि दगडफेक सुरु झाली. पोलिसांनी लाठीमार सुरु केला. पळून जाता जाता त्या मुस्लिम जमावातिल काही माथेफिरूंनी एका गणेश मंडळाच्या गणेशमूर्तीवर दगडफेक करून मूर्तीची विटंबना केली. त्या नंतर भडकलेल्या दंगलीत अनेक गणेशमूर्तिंची तोडफोड आणि विटंबना करण्यात आली. या बातम्या वेगाने पसरल्या आणि त्याचे रूपांतर पूर्ण पश्चिम महाराष्ट्रात दंगल आणि तणावाची स्थिति उत्पन्न होण्यात झाले. मुस्लिम प्रार्थनास्थळे प्रत्युत्तरादाखल करण्यात आलेल्या हल्ल्यांचे लक्ष्य झाली. &lt;br /&gt;दरम्यान, मिरजेत गणेश मंडळांनी गणेशमूर्तिंची विटंबना करणा-या हल्लेखोरांवर पोलिस कारवाई झाल्याशिवाय मूर्ती विसर्जन करणार नाही अशी भूमिका घेतली. पोलिसांनी शक्तिप्रयोग करून काही गणेशमूर्तिंचे विसर्जन करवले. तसेच त्या कमानी वरील जे अफझलखान वधाचे चित्र ही जबरदस्तीने उतरविण्यात आले. ही गोष्ट लोकक्षोभाला कारण ठरली व ठरत आहे. या प्रकरणामध्ये पोलिसांनी घेतलेली एकंदर भूमिका ही दमनकारी आणि अन्याय्य असल्याची तीव्र भावना लोकांमध्ये आहे. चोर सोडून संन्याशाला फाशी असे पोलिसी कारवाईचे वर्णन केले जात आहे. &lt;br /&gt; भारतामध्ये राजकीय दृष्टया सोयीची अशी एक बोलण्याची पद्धत झाली आहे. त्याला इंग्रजी मध्ये "political correctness" असे म्हणतात. तसे पाहता ही संकल्पना पाश्चात्य आहे, पण त्यावर आपल्या लोकांइतके प्रभुत्व जगात इतर कुणाला जमले असेल असे वाटत नाही.  &lt;br /&gt; फक्त राजकारणीच नव्हे तर सर्वच क्षेत्रातील लोक त्या पद्धतीचा वापर करतात. खास करून प्रसार माध्यमातील लोकांनी त्यामध्ये विशेष प्राविण्य मिळवलेले असल्याचे सहज दिसून येते.  &lt;br /&gt;आता प्रसारमाध्यमे आणि काही राजकारणी यांनी अशाच सोयीच्या भूमिका या प्रकरणी घेणे सुरु केले आहे. महाराष्ट्र राज्याचे मुख्यमंत्री आदरणीय अशोकराव चव्हाण यांनी याचा शुभारंभ केला. निवडणुका जवळ आल्याने काही राजकीय शक्तिन्नी राज्यामध्ये जातीय तणाव पसरवण्याचे षडयंत्र आखल्याचा निष्कर्ष त्यांनी काढला आहे. हे कितपत खरेखोटे हे परमेश्वर जाणो, पण श्री.चव्हाण हिंदी चित्रपटांचे निस्सीम चाहते असल्याचा निष्कर्ष मात्र यातून नक्कीच निघतो. आपण अनेक हिंदी चित्रपटात पाहत आलोच  आहोत, की कसे भ्रष्ट राजकारणी जातीय तणाव पेटवून भावा-भावाचे सख्य असणा-या लोकांमध्ये फूट पडतात आणि त्यांना मूर्ख बनवून आपल्या राजकीय स्वार्थाची पोळी भाजतात.  &lt;br /&gt;काही वर्तमानपत्रे  परिस्थितीचे मोघम वर्णन करीत दोन्ही बाजूंची तितकीच चूक आहे असे भासवण्याचा प्रयत्न करतात. नव्याने सुरु झालेल्या टीव्ही चॅनेल वरील वृत्त निवेदक व संपादक, जे  स्वत:ला  नव्या युगातील बाळशास्त्री जाम्भेकर किंवा आगरकर समजतात,  नाट्यमयरित्या हे असले शोध लावण्याचा आव आणतात आणि ढुढ्ढाचार्यासारखे लोकांना शांतता राखण्याची आवाहने करतात.&lt;br /&gt;पण हे का घडले याचे प्रामाणिक विश्लेषण करण्याची इच्छा फार थोडे लोक दाखवतात. दंगलग्रस्त भागातील सामान्य माणूस जे सामान्य ज्ञान वापरून विश्लेषण करतो, ज्याला इंग्रजी भाषेत "common sense"  म्हणतात ते या थोर मुत्सद्दी आणि महाज्ञानी पत्रकार लोकांच्यासाठी सोयीचे नसते. &lt;br /&gt;श्री छत्रपति शिवाजी महाराजांनी अफझलखानाचा कोथळा बाहेर काढल्याचे जे चित्र लावण्यात आले होते त्याने कुणाच्या भावना दुखावल्या गेल्या? आणि त्या इतक्या काय भयंकर दुखावल्या गेल्या की गणेशमूर्तिंवर दगडफेक करण्यास, त्यांची विटंबना करण्यास प्रवृत्त व्हावे? ही कोणती राक्षसी प्रवृत्ति आहे जी श्री गणेशाच्या गोंडस प्रतिमांवर असे पिसाट, रानटी हल्ले करू धजते?  हे प्रश्न का विचारले जात नाही आहेत? &lt;br /&gt;जनभावना अशी झालेली आहे की एकगठ्ठा मतांच्या साठी दोषी लोकांकडे दुर्लक्ष केले जात आहे आणि विरोधी पक्षाच्या लोकांची लांडगेतोड केली जात आहे. त्याचवेळी "षडयंत्र, षडयंत्र" अशी कोल्हेकुई करून गोंधळाची स्थिति उत्पन्न करण्याचा प्रयत्न होत आहे.  जे पोलिसप्रमुख, ज्यांचा वर लोकांच्या रागाचा रोख आहे, ते महात्मा गांधींचा आव आणित लोकांना "कर्तव्य हाच धर्म" वगैरे उपदेश करीत आहेत. &lt;br /&gt;मिरजेतिल ही घटना काही अशा स्वरूपाची एकमात्र घटना नव्हे.  गेले काही वर्षे महाराष्ट्रात सणासुदीच्या काळात अशांतता माजवण्याचे अनेक प्रकार घडत आहेत. एकूण देशालाच वेठीस धरण्याचा हा प्रकार अतिशय तिरस्करणीय असून, काही लोकांच्या अतिशय सहजपणे दुखावल्या जाणा-या भावना या सर्वसामान्य जनजीवन धोक्यात टाकत आहेत.&lt;br /&gt;पश्चिम महाराष्ट्राला, काही थोडी गावे वगळता, जातीय संघर्षाची पार्श्वभूमी बिलकुल नाही.  अगदी रामजन्मभूमि आंदोलन जोरात सुरु असताना सुद्धा या भागात कोणत्याही अप्रिय घटना घडल्या नव्हत्या. कुरूंदवाड गावामध्ये गणेशोत्सवात मशिदींमध्ये सुद्धा गणपति बसवतात. कित्येक उरुस हे पूर्णतः हिंदू सणांप्रमाणे साजरे केले जातात.&lt;br /&gt;इथे विष कोणत्या प्रवृत्ति कालवत आहेत? इतर ठिकाणांहून शस्त्रसाठा घेउन आलेले लोक मिरज व इतर ठिकाणी  पकडले गेल्याच्या बातम्या अतिशय भीतीदायक आहेत. &lt;br /&gt;गेले काही वर्षे भारतात आणि जगाच्या काही इतर भागांमध्ये सुद्धा मुसलमानांमध्ये कट्टरवादाचा प्रादुर्भाव होतो आहे. त्यांच्यावर भारतात आणि जगात इतरत्र होणा-या तथाकथित अन्यायाचे भांडवल करून माथी भडकवली जात आहेत. हे सूर्यप्रकाशाइतके सत्य फार थोडे लोक स्पष्टपणे बोलण्याचे धाडस करीत आहेत. आमचे धोरणी राज्यकर्ते सत्तासुंदरीच्या आशेने हे सत्य झाकण्याचा व्यभिचार अनेक वर्षे करीत आहेत. प्रतिष्ठा आणि मान्यतेच्या हव्यासापोटी बहुतेक प्रसारमाध्यमेही या व्यभिचाराच्या आहारी गेली आहेत. याचा अतिरेक इतका झाला आहे की हा किळसवाणा प्रकार या लोकांचा स्थायीभाव झालेला आहे. &lt;br /&gt;या अशा घटना राष्ट्राच्या शरीराला झालेल्या जखमा आहेत. यावर वेळीच इलाज केला पाहिजे. औषधाने थोडे चुरचुरते, त्रास होतो, पथ्य पाळावे लागते. थोडा त्रास होतो पण अंतिमत: ते आरोग्यकारकच असते. पण दुर्लक्ष केले तर जखमा चिघळून जीव जाण्याची शक्यता असते. अशा वेळी जीव वाचवण्यासाठी सडका अवयव कापून टाकावा लागतो.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;या जीवघेण्या परिस्थितीतून आपल्याला आणखी किती वेळा जायचे आहे?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-1475245229806461219?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/EHuJVIk42Rs" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/EHuJVIk42Rs/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NIKHIL PUJARI)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/09/blog-post.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-1323523592823858581</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-19T18:47:05.951+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मराठी</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">India</category><title>'एकादशीच्या घरी शिवरात्र'</title><description>जसवतसिंगांची हकालपट्टी झालीच शेवटी. हे तसे तर फार आधीपासूनच ठरले होते. लोकसभा निवडणूकीतल्या मानहानीजनक पराभवानंतर बहुतांश भाजप नेत्यांचे डोके फिरल्यागतच झाले होते. जसवंतसिंगानीही त्याच न्यायाने वागत जराश्या वेगळ्या पद्धतीने त्यावर शिक्कामोर्तब केले इतकेच. तसे पाहिले तर लोकसभा निवडणूकांनंतर पक्षश्रेष्ठींना पत्रे पाठवून त्यांनी भाजपाच्या चिंतनशीलतेविषयी, पराभवाच्या जबाबदारीविषयी जेव्हा प्रश्ने उपस्थित केली तेव्हाच कमळावरचे भुंगे चिडले. हकालपट्टीच्या निर्णय म्हणजे सगळ्या भुंग्यांनी एका फरफटलेल्या दुस-या भुंग्याला चावा घेतला असेच म्हणावयास हवे! पुस्तकांच्या रूपाने प्रसिद्धी स्वतःकडे खेचून घेणे जसवंतसिंघांना काही नवीन नाही. ए कॉल टू हॉनरःइन सर्विस ऑफ इमर्जंट इंडिया ह्या पुस्तकातही त्यांनी वादग्रस्त विधाने खळबळ उडवून दिलीच होती. हातात सत्ता नसली म्हणजे लेखणी सुद्धा फरफटते हयाचेच हे द्योतक आहे. जिना आणि फाळणीचा चघळून चघळूनही न संपलेला प्रश्न पुन्हा उपस्थित करून जसवंतसिंघांनी नेमके काय साधले कुणास ठावूक?  त्यांच्या ह्या असल्या आशाळभूत वर्तनावर ताशेरे ओढणे साहजिकच होते. पण एक बाब इथे लक्षात घ्यावयास हवी ती अशी की संघाची पार्श्वभूमी नसणारा नेता जेव्हा असे काही बोलतो तेव्हा त्याला लगेच दार दाखवले जाते. पण हाच नियम अडवाणींना का लागू का झाला नाही? अडवाणींना पार्टी अध्यक्ष पद सोडावे लागले होते हे खरे पण असा डायरेक्ट दाराबाहेरचा फुफांट रस्ता त्यांना पाहावा लागला नाही. अर्थात भाजपाची अवस्था फाटलेल्या गोधडीसारखी झाली आहे. त्यातून किती अन् काय काय ठिगळे बाहेर पडणार हे येणारा काळच सांगेल. जसवंतसिंघांच्या हकालपट्टीने भाजपाला फारसा काही फरक पडणार नाही. पण संघाकडून केली जाणारी घुसमट अशी वेगळ्या रूपाने बाहेर पडतेय हे कोण दुर्लक्षित करेल? जेव्हा &lt;span&gt;भगवे&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;पणा&lt;/span&gt; काम करणे बंद करतो तेव्हा विचारक्षीणतेपायी असल्या धर्मनिरपेक्षीय मर्कटलीलांचा आधार घ्यावा लागतो. एकवेळ कॉंग्रेसी नेत्याच्या तोंडी हे जिनापुराण नेहरूंना वजा करून शोभलेही असते. पण संघाच्या भगवेपणाशी हा हिरवा अट्टाहास कदापिही जुळत नाही. जुळणार नाही. तात्पर्य भाजपाची अवस्था 'एकादशीच्या &lt;span style="visibility: visible;" id="main"&gt;&lt;span style="visibility: visible;" id="search"&gt;घरी&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; शिवरात्र' असल्यासारखी झाली आहे. ज्या पक्षाने खरे तर जबाबदार विरोधकाची भूमिका बजावून जनतेच्या मनात पुन्हा रुजायला हवे; त्याच पक्षात सध्या सुरू असलेल्या बिनफडाच्या कुस्त्या पाहून कॉंग्रेसी सरकारवर अंकुश ठेवण्याइतपत समजुतदारपणा भाजपाच्या अंगी अजून नाही ह्याचेच वाईट वाटते.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-1323523592823858581?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/ibm2Db7C9MM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/ibm2Db7C9MM/blog-post_19.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mayur Lankeshwar)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post_19.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-7478011411678179632</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-14T16:16:48.730+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मराठी</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">कविता</category><title>कोणी कुणाचा नातलग लागू नये</title><description>&lt;div class="entrybody"&gt;    &lt;div class="snap_preview"&gt;&lt;p&gt;कोणी कुणाचा नातलग लागू नये,&lt;br /&gt;तरीही प्रापंचिक अपघातात&lt;br /&gt;फ्रॅक्चर झालेल्या खांद्यावरून&lt;br /&gt;जमेल तितक्यांच्या वजनदार तिरडयांना&lt;br /&gt;शेवटचे गावदर्शन करवून&lt;br /&gt;सुखरूप पोहोचवून यावे&lt;br /&gt;सरकारी स्मशानात.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;कोणी आपल्या एकटेपणाचा&lt;br /&gt;सबळ पुरावा मागीतलाच&lt;br /&gt;तर लिहून दाखवाव्यात त्याला अश्या कविता&lt;br /&gt;स्वत:च्या सहीनिशी झोकदार.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;किंवा&lt;br /&gt;वर्षातून एकदा एकटेच&lt;br /&gt;देहू,आळंदी,पंढरपूर ची&lt;br /&gt;करावी आत्मशोधार्थ वारी.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;तरीही त्यांतल्या त्यांत&lt;br /&gt;चार बळकट खांद्यांची&lt;br /&gt;सांधेदुखी जिद्दीने पोसावी -&lt;br /&gt;आपल्या एकांत-मढ्याचा&lt;br /&gt;भार बळजबरीने सोसणारी.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-7478011411678179632?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/1o3qlKR5pr0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/1o3qlKR5pr0/blog-post_14.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mayur Lankeshwar)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post_14.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-3976633627173662639</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-14T16:13:04.510+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मराठी</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">India</category><title>"वरातीमागून घोडे"</title><description>"वरातीमागून घोडे" ह्या म्हणीचा प्रत्यय पुन्हा गेल्या आठवड्याभरात सगळयांनाच आला असेल. देशात आणि विशेषतः पुण्यात स्वाईन फ्लू चे जे थैमान चालू आहे त्याने सरकार जनतेच्या आरोग्याविषयी किती संवेदनशील आहे हेच दिसून येते. कोणी म्हणेल सरसकट &lt;span&gt;नेहमीच&lt;/span&gt; सरकारी यंत्रणेवर खापर फोडून आपण मोकळे होते. पण हे तसे नाही. लोकांनी कुणाकडे बघायचे? का नशिबाला दोष देत डोके फोडत बसायचे?  ज्या वेळेस ही साथ अमेरिका, मेक्सिको मध्ये सक्रिय होती तेव्हाच तातडीने काही उपाय योजले असते तर आज ही भित भित जगायची वेळ आलीच नसती. पण आम्ही, आमचे सगळे चॅनेल्स राखी सावंतचे लगीन होईल् का, कोणासोबत होईल ह्यातच आपले सगळे कव्हरेज खर्ची घालत होते. "जनजागॄती"ची प्रक्रिया ही काही एकदोन दिवसांची नसते. तिला ठोस कार्यक्रम असावा लागतो हे ना आमच्या राज्यकर्त्यांना कधी कळले ना जनतेने कधी स्वतःहून त्यात उत्साह दाखविला. आज देशाच्या महत्वाच्या एकामागून एक शहरात स्वाईन फ्लू चे हातपाय पसरत चालले आहेत. अपुरी यंत्रणा, प्रचंड लोकसंख्या, औषधांचा तुटवडा, धास्तावलेली जनता ह्यामुळे हे चित्र अत्यंत विदारक झाले आहे. शाळा बंद ठेवाव्यात की नाही, त्यासाठीच्या कौलासाठी जनतेकडून एसेमेस मागवून घ्यावेत की नाही ह्या आणि अश्या अनेक प्रश्नांना राजकीय परिमाणे देण्यातच सगळा वेळ खर्ची चालला आहे. मुंबईच्या आयुक्तांना सुचलेले शहाणपण पाहून तर हसावे की रडावे हेच कळत नव्हते.  शाळा महत्वाच्या आहेतच ह्यात काही वाद नाही पण त्याहून अधिक विद्यार्थ्यांचे आयुष्य महत्त्वाचे आहे हे उमजायला लोकांच्या भावनांचा एसेमेस पाठवून कौल घेण्याचा विदूषकपणा विरळच! केंद्रिय आरोग्यमंत्र्यांनी तर आधीच वादग्रस्त विधाने करून अश्या नाजूक वेळेस लागणारे तारतम्य अजून आमच्या राजकीय यंत्रणेत नाही हेच दाखवून दिले. तरी ब-याच दही-हंडी मंडळांनी यावेळेसचा कार्यक्रमच रद्द करण्याचा घेतलेला निर्णय स्वागतार्ह आणि आशादायक म्हणावा लागेल.&lt;br /&gt;गर्दी करू नये हे सांगतानाच गर्दी जमेल अश्या स्वरूपाचे समारंभही करणे टाळले पाहिजे हेही महत्वाचे आहे. पुण्या-मुंबईत ब-याच ठिकाणी नामवंत मंडळांनी दही-हंडी रद्द करन्याचा निर्णय घेतला आहे. पण तरीही ब-याच अतिहौशी खटपट्यांना "पारंपारिक" पद्धतीने सण साजरा करायची हुक्की आली आहेच हे डोळ्याआड करून चालणार नाही. "पारंपारिक" म्हणजे काय नेमके करणार ह्याविषयी कुणी चकार शब्द बोलत नाही. राजकीय शक्तीप्रदर्शनाच्या नादात जनतेच्याच शक्तीचा -हास करण्याचा अट्टाहास आणि वरून "आम्ही सगळ्यांना मास्क देवू" चा फाजीलपणा पाहून पैशाची धुंदी म्हणजे काय ह्याचाच प्रत्यय येत आहे. मास्क जर द्यायचेच होते तर ह्याआधीच देता आले नसते का? का त्या साठी दही-हंडीच्या गर्दीत सामील होण्याचे "धाडस"च दाखवायला पाहिजे? महाराष्ट्रात विशेषतः पुण्यात आणि मुंबईत सर्वात वाईट परिस्थिती गणेशोत्सवात उद्भवण्याचा धोका आहे. कारण ह्या काळात ह्या दोन्ही शहरात जी अभूतपूर्व गर्दी जमत असते तिच्याने स्वाईन फ्लू चा राक्षसी विळखा अधिकच बळकट होण्याची चिन्हे आहेत. परंपरा , उत्सव हे मानवी आयुष्याचा अविभाज्य भाग आहेत हे मान्य. परंतू जर मानवी आयुष्याला त्यामुळे बाधा पोहोचत असेल तर जनतेनेच शहाणे होऊन हे उत्सवांचे पिक आटोक्यात आणणे गरजेचे आहे. निदान ह्यावेळेस तरी हीच खरी गरज आहे. अन्यथा दुष्काळ तर आहेच त्यात तेरावा महिना अधिक साथीची साडेसाती असा काळ भोगावा लागल्यावर कसले आलेयत सण?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-3976633627173662639?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/T9j4rIKcxiE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/T9j4rIKcxiE/blog-post_13.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mayur Lankeshwar)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post_13.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-9043054810416440561</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:40:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-02T02:17:50.350+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मराठी</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">कविता</category><title>शहर</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="entrybody"&gt;    &lt;div class="snap_preview"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;ठरलंच होतं तुझं माझं…&lt;br /&gt;आपल्या दोघांच्या दोन विभिन्न&lt;br /&gt;शहराच्या मध्ये जी (मन)मोकळी&lt;br /&gt;अफाट जागा दिसते,&lt;br /&gt;जो प्रदेश दिसतो&lt;br /&gt;क्षितीजापार भिडलेला…&lt;br /&gt;जे स्वच्छंदी रान दिसतं&lt;br /&gt;वार्‍याच्या स्पर्शाने अक्षरश: विनाकारण हसणारं,&lt;br /&gt;नसलेल्या ओठांतून जिथे चुंबनाचे पक्षी&lt;br /&gt;उडतात आणि&lt;br /&gt;शब्दांचे दाणे टिपून&lt;br /&gt;नसलेल्या घरट्यात परततात…&lt;br /&gt;तश्या त्या तिथे&lt;br /&gt;अगदी तुझ्या माझ्या मधोमध&lt;br /&gt;एक शहर वसवायचं…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;ठरलंच होतं तुझं माझं&lt;br /&gt;अलिखीत करारानुसार.&lt;br /&gt;तसा ‘आराखडा’ वगैरे तयार&lt;br /&gt;करणं काहीच अवघड नव्हतं…&lt;br /&gt;‘ तू तिकडून जसं हवं तसं बांधत ये,&lt;br /&gt; मी इकडून बांधत येईन&lt;br /&gt; आयुष्याचे जन्मदत्त सात-बारा उतारे&lt;br /&gt; अभ्यासून.&lt;br /&gt; कुठे मध्य नाही ,कुठे अंत नाही.&lt;br /&gt; फक्त प्रारंभ केल्याच्या मजकूरवजा इशारा&lt;br /&gt; असणार्‍या चिठ्ठ्या&lt;br /&gt; पाठवायच्या वरील पक्ष्यांमार्फत.&lt;br /&gt; बांधता बांधता  अनाहूतपणे&lt;br /&gt; तुझ्या माझ्या काही इमारती  आरपार भिडल्या&lt;br /&gt; तरी मंजूर अतिक्रमण.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; कुणाचीच चूक नाही,&lt;br /&gt; कुणीच बरोबर नाही,&lt;br /&gt; ह्या तत्वाच्या ठिसूळ पायावर बांधत राहणे नितांत.&lt;br /&gt; आणि शेवटच्या विटेवर&lt;br /&gt; ’माणूस’ उभा करायचा&lt;br /&gt; जागच्या जागी अनादीकार.&lt;br /&gt; ’&lt;br /&gt;ठरलंच होतं तुझं माझं…&lt;br /&gt;तसं ठरल्याप्रमाणे बांधूनही झालं,&lt;br /&gt;त्यागाकारापासून भोगाकारापर्यंत&lt;br /&gt;विविध आकारांच्या वास्तूंची उडाली&lt;br /&gt;मन:पूर्वक धांदल ह्या नव्या शहरात.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;राहता राहिला प्रश्न माणसाचा…&lt;br /&gt;आणि नव्या मेट्रोस्टाईलने आपण एकमेकांना&lt;br /&gt;हाका मारीत राहिलो,&lt;br /&gt;पण विटांमध्ये चिणलेल्या कुठल्याच दिशेने&lt;br /&gt;‘ओ’ आली नाही माणसांसारखी.&lt;br /&gt;शेवटी रात्र होण्याआधीच आपण&lt;br /&gt;इच्छांचा गाशा गुंडाळून इथून रिटर्न&lt;br /&gt;आपापल्या ओरीजनल शहरात&lt;br /&gt;माणसाच्या चिरंतन शोधात.&lt;br /&gt;हे देखील ठरलंच होतं तुझं माझं…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;आता निर्मनुष्य नव्या शहराच्या गर्भातून&lt;br /&gt;जन्म घेताहेत अंतर्यामी चकवे,&lt;br /&gt;पूर्वीच्या स्वच्छंदी रानाच्या थडग्यावर&lt;br /&gt;शांत बसून असतात वरील पक्षी&lt;br /&gt;आपल्या दोघांसकट माणसाच्या ‘माणूस’पणाची वाट पाहत!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;ठरलंच होतं तुझं माझं…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-9043054810416440561?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/YkkcesndabM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/YkkcesndabM/blog-post_6377.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mayur Lankeshwar)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post_6377.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-9203814840206585702</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-02T02:17:50.350+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मराठी</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">कविता</category><title>नकळत</title><description>&lt;div class="entrybody"&gt;    &lt;div class="snap_preview"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span class="ut1"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;जास्त काही मागितलं नव्हतं तुझ्या जवळ…&lt;br /&gt;अगदी जमल्यासच (आणि लक्षात राहिलंच तर)&lt;br /&gt;फक्त तुझ्या श्वासांची&lt;br /&gt;एक पाकळी पाठवून दे माझ्याकडे&lt;br /&gt;असं म्हणालो होतो माझ्याही नकळत.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ut1"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ut1"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;माझं हे ‘नकळत’पणच&lt;br /&gt;तू इतकं मनावर घेतलंस की,&lt;br /&gt;समर्पणाची देठं लावलेल्या&lt;br /&gt;लक्षावधी फुलांची  वादळं&lt;br /&gt;घेऊन आलीस माझ्या देहाच्या देशात!&lt;br /&gt;जास्त काही मागितलं नव्हतं तुझ्या जवळ…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-9203814840206585702?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/fLRM9iZnfqA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/fLRM9iZnfqA/blog-post_2222.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mayur Lankeshwar)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post_2222.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-1686653597043875960</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-02T02:17:50.350+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मराठी</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">कविता</category><title>मुक्ती-२</title><description>&lt;div class="entrybody"&gt;    &lt;div class="snap_preview"&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;मरणोत्तर मुक्तीच्या&lt;br /&gt;माझ्या घरापर्यंत चालत आलेल्या&lt;br /&gt;ऑफर्स मी लावतोय धुडकावून.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;जगण्याची बंधनं समजून घेतानाच्या&lt;br /&gt;होणार्‍या दमछाकीला&lt;br /&gt;आता कुठे उकलताहेत&lt;br /&gt;माझ्या श्वासांच्या गाठी.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;स्वातंत्र्याच्या गर्भातली ऊब&lt;br /&gt;मी नव्याने अनुभवतोय&lt;br /&gt;पूर्वीपेक्षा जास्ती प्रेमाने.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;प्रिय वास्तवा,&lt;br /&gt;माझ्या शापित कवितेला&lt;br /&gt;लाभू दे नितांत सुंदर उ:शाप&lt;br /&gt;अश्वत्थाम्याच्या चिरंतन जखमेचा.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-1686653597043875960?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/AM7pYeUWJSY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/AM7pYeUWJSY/blog-post_02.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mayur Lankeshwar)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post_02.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-2092899079867153779</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-08-02T02:17:50.351+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मराठी</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">कविता</category><title>मुक्ती-१</title><description>&lt;div class="entrybody"&gt;    &lt;div class="snap_preview"&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;हल्ली,&lt;br /&gt;शब्दांच्या पिंडाला&lt;br /&gt;शिवता शिवत नाहीत&lt;br /&gt;अर्थाचे कावळे&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;आणि&lt;br /&gt;भाषेच्या श्राद्धवजा पुण्यस्मरणाची&lt;br /&gt;तयारी करून&lt;br /&gt;कवितेचा मुक्तीसाठीचा धिंगाणा&lt;br /&gt;विखुरतोय जगण्याच्या स्मशानभर!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/div&gt;     &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-2092899079867153779?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/ii1fIELhZY4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/ii1fIELhZY4/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mayur Lankeshwar)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-3328327935735862828</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:51:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-30T23:19:54.867+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मराठी</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">कविता</category><title>मी दावा करत नाही असा की...</title><description>मी दावा करत नाही असा की&lt;br /&gt;सगळेच्या सगळे प्रश्न सुटतील&lt;br /&gt;शब्दांच्या एका फटका-यानिशी...&lt;br /&gt;किंवा नेहमीच माझ्यापाशी असलेल्या&lt;br /&gt;शाईतून उचंबळून प्रसवतील&lt;br /&gt;सगळीच्या सगळी असलेल्या नसलेल्या&lt;br /&gt;प्रश्नांची सगळीच उत्तरं...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;मी प्रश्नांची माळ ओवण्यासाठी&lt;br /&gt;लिहित नाही कविता फावल्या वेळातल्या&lt;br /&gt;एखाद्या बेकार छंदासाठी...&lt;br /&gt;किंवा माझी कविता मागेही लागत नाही उत्तरांच्या&lt;br /&gt;हात धुवून चार घासांची ढेकर दिल्याशिवाय.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;पण, लपतछपत का होईना;&lt;br /&gt;माझी कविता कुरतडू पाहते माझ्यावरच्या&lt;br /&gt;सतराशेसाठ मध्यमवर्गीय अवस्थांचे आवरण&lt;br /&gt;आणि पांघरून देते मला एखाद्या चिलखतासारखी -&lt;br /&gt;जिथं मी अनुभवू शकतो&lt;br /&gt;आईच्या गर्भातली माझ्या हक्काची उब...&lt;br /&gt;निर्भय ,निरंतर आणि निष्पाप!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-3328327935735862828?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/yRtkxVjewTg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/yRtkxVjewTg/blog-post_30.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mayur Lankeshwar)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post_30.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-7109147301104740673</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-30T23:21:57.432+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मराठी</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">कविता</category><title>दार</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;नाही&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;वाटंत&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;असं&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;आजकाल&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;की&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;घटनांच्या&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;काळ्यापांढर्&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;या&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;कागदावर&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;उमटवून&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;द्यायलाच&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;हवेत&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;शब्दांचे&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;शतरंगी&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;शिक्के&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;'&lt;span&gt;आहे&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;हे&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;असं&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;आहे&lt;/span&gt;' &lt;span&gt;असंच&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;मानून&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;चालायचं&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;तर&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;मग&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;बसतीलच&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;कसे&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;अपेक्षाभंगाचे&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;अनपेक्षित&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;धक्के&lt;/span&gt;?&lt;/span&gt;‍&lt;/p&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;आपण&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;आपलं&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;एक&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;स्थितप्रज्ञ&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;दार&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;व्हावं&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;कोसळलेल्या&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;भिंतींमधलं&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;म्हणजे&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;कसं&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;होईल&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;की&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'&lt;span&gt;नसलेल्या&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;घरात&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;अमुक&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;अमुक&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;दिशेनेच&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;पाऊल&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;टाकायला&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;हवं&lt;/span&gt;' &lt;span&gt;ह्या&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;परंपरेतून&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;सुटका&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;होईल&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;नसलेल्या&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;घरात&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;येणार्&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;यांची&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;आणि&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;नसलेल्या&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;घरातून&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;बाहेर&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;जाणार्&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;यांची&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;तरीही&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;तोपर्यंत&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;मोक्ष&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;मिळाल्याचा&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;दावा&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;करू&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;नये&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;आपण&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;जोपर्यंत&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;कोणी&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;बांधत&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;नाही&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;दाराला&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;एखाद्या&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;कवितेचं&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;तोरण&lt;/span&gt;!&lt;/span&gt;‍‍&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-7109147301104740673?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/B65QdU07Ekg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/B65QdU07Ekg/blog-post_7051.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mayur Lankeshwar)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post_7051.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-193633025134722569</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-29T23:34:05.633+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मराठी</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">कविता</category><title>आठवण</title><description>&lt;p&gt;ही भरदुपारची आठववेळ...&lt;br /&gt;कोणत्यातरी अमलताशला खुपावी&lt;br /&gt;नितांत पिवळ्याधमक फुलांची रास&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;तश्या तुझ्या आठवणी&lt;br /&gt;माझ्या मीभर पसरलेल्या.&lt;/p&gt; आताशा मी उन्हाकडे&lt;br /&gt;तक्रार करत नाही कसलीच,&lt;br /&gt;जळणार्‍या भोवतालात माझं हे असं&lt;br /&gt;एकटयाचं लाहीलाही उमलून फुलणं...&lt;br /&gt;पानगळीला पोरकं होणं!&lt;br /&gt;मी फक्त वाट पाहत राहतो&lt;br /&gt;आतून आतून आतून खचण्याची.&lt;br /&gt;तू मला एकदातरी वेचण्याची.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-193633025134722569?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/3aIA0i8QoGY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/3aIA0i8QoGY/blog-post_8534.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mayur Lankeshwar)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post_8534.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-6215012797622181458</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-29T23:34:05.634+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मराठी</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">कविता</category><title>संचित</title><description>तितक्याच जोमाने कोसळत राहतील&lt;br /&gt;पायांशी मावळतीची उन्हं...&lt;br /&gt;तितक्याच जोमाने उसळत राहतील&lt;br /&gt;काजळ रात्री हळवे चंद्र...&lt;br /&gt;वेचू वेचू म्हणता म्हणता&lt;br /&gt;पानझडीसारखी साचत जातील वर्षामागून वर्ष,&lt;br /&gt;आणि कुजबुजत राहतील अंगणात तितक्याच हळुवारपणाने&lt;br /&gt;वादळ होऊन होऊन थकलेल्या वा-याशी...&lt;br /&gt;ऋतूंमागून ऋतू... दगडांमागून माती...&lt;br /&gt;पुन्हा दगड... पुन्हा माती...&lt;br /&gt;हे अंस खूप काही जसंच्या तसं किंवा&lt;br /&gt;थोड्याफार फरकाने फिरत राहील&lt;br /&gt;इथल्या अनंत वावटळीसोबत.&lt;br /&gt;भोवतालच्या प्रत्येक अणुरेणूचा&lt;br /&gt;मागोवा घेईनच म्हणतो असे नाही...&lt;br /&gt;हात अपुरे पडतात इथल्या जगण्याचं संचित&lt;br /&gt;वेड्यागत गोळा करताना...&lt;br /&gt;सुचण्याआधीच दाद घेऊन संपलेल्या कवितेसारखी&lt;br /&gt;का वाटू लागते ही आयुष्याची जडणघडण?&lt;br /&gt;का समजत नाही कोणत्या धुंदीत अंगांगावर&lt;br /&gt;गोंदवले जातात इतके शून्यामागून शून्य?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-6215012797622181458?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/5G8ZGvzqDds" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/5G8ZGvzqDds/blog-post_4621.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mayur Lankeshwar)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post_4621.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-5525992821476621046</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-29T23:34:05.634+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मराठी</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">कविता</category><title>हे असं नशीबाशी ऍग्रीमेन्ट करून</title><description>&lt;div class="content"&gt;     &lt;p&gt;हे असं नशीबाशी ऍग्रीमेन्ट करून&lt;br /&gt;आयुष्य जगवत राहाणं भाडेक-यासारखं... &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;थकूनभागून घरी यावं आणि पडून राहण्याचा&lt;br /&gt;प्रयत्न करावा शांतपणे इथल्या गदारोळात...&lt;br /&gt;किंवा लॅपटॉपवर पाहावीत चित्र, ऐकावीत गाणी,&lt;br /&gt;टीव्ही वर ठासून पाहाव्यात ब्रेकींग न्यूज,&lt;br /&gt;जाळपोळ, दगडफेक, दंगल, उभे आडवे सेन्सेक्सचे ग्राफ्स&lt;br /&gt;रियालीटी शोजची नेहमीची किचकिच&lt;br /&gt;आणि झोपून जावे अंधाराच्या कुशीत&lt;br /&gt;सेटलमेन्टची बापजादी खानदानी स्वप्ने&lt;br /&gt;मळक्या उशीप्रमाणे डोक्याखाली घेत&lt;br /&gt;सकाळच्या अलार्मसाठी मोबाईलमधला 'नाशिक ढोल' जागता ठेवून...&lt;br /&gt;आपला असा होऊन गेलेला एक मशिनमय अवतार...&lt;br /&gt;विचारू नये कधी स्वतःलाही प्रश्न की -&lt;br /&gt;कोणत्या पिढीजात इंधनावर निरंतर धावपळ करतात,&lt;br /&gt;चालू राहतात माणसं? दुःखाचा FSI  तरी किती?&lt;br /&gt;आपल्या एक्सपायरी डेटच्या अगोदर&lt;br /&gt;शक्य तितके पाहून घ्यावेत माणसांचे वॉलपेपर,&lt;br /&gt;'चिमणी चिमणी खोपा दे' म्हणत&lt;br /&gt;फेडत राहावीत शक्य तितकी कर्जं.&lt;br /&gt;उघडून पाहाव्यात नव्या जुन्या इच्छांच्या फाईल्स&lt;br /&gt;आणि टेबलच्या ड्रॉवरमधल्या काळोखात&lt;br /&gt;ठेवून द्याव्यात घुसमटून.&lt;br /&gt;दिवस असे लादल्यासारखे येतात आणि&lt;br /&gt;निघूनही जातात संथ लाटेसारखे -&lt;br /&gt;आपल्या वीतभर किना-यावर वाळूची नक्षी मांडून…&lt;br /&gt;आपण शक्य तोवर उमटवत ठेवावेत&lt;br /&gt;तळपायांचे ठसे...&lt;br /&gt;न जाणो शतकांच्या उत्खननानंतर तरी गवसतील&lt;br /&gt;आपल्या चाकरमानी आयुष्याच्या भाकरीएवढ्या कथा!&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-5525992821476621046?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/dftGJOOQ8nE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/dftGJOOQ8nE/blog-post_29.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mayur Lankeshwar)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post_29.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-8324865909881203817</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:41:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-18T00:55:45.814+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मराठी</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">कविता</category><title>निःपक्ष</title><description>&lt;div style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;वेळ लागतो जोखायला पाऊस,&lt;br /&gt;त्याची एकेक सर..त्याचा एकेक थेंब..&lt;br /&gt;जोडू म्हणता &lt;span&gt;म्हणता &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;काळाचा तडा गेलेला आरसा &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;होत नाही पुन्हा नव्याने पूर्ववत...&lt;br /&gt;पायांखालची जमीन सांधता सांधता&lt;br /&gt;दुभंगतो चेहरामोहरा नखशिखांत!&lt;br /&gt;नुसत्या क्लिकवर स्वॅप करता येत नाही &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;कल्पना आणि वास्तव...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;कंटाळा येतो सगळ्याच शब्दांचा,&lt;br /&gt;कविता रेटण्याचा,&lt;br /&gt;फूल, पाणी, चंद्र, नदी, मी, तू ...&lt;br /&gt;'अ' 'अ' 'आई'चा गिरवता गिरवता&lt;br /&gt;मशिन्सच्या लगद्यात कुठे हरवून जातात &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;जगण्यातील निरागस निःपक्ष अक्षरं?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-8324865909881203817?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/zaduOAqVXFw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/zaduOAqVXFw/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mayur Lankeshwar)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/07/blog-post.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-1871364144738673329</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-29T23:35:30.491+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मराठी</category><title>बोन्साय - 2</title><description>&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;बोन्साय ला काल जवळजवळ आगच लागली. जंगलात वणवा लागतो. इथं फक्त चरचराट झाला नुसता.हल्ली फार काम नाही कंपनीत. पगार अजून तरी चालूच आहे हीच काय तेवढी समाधानाची बाब. अश्या दिवसात बोन्साय फारच बहरतात. नको तितके. बोन्सायचीही पानगळ होतेच कधातरी. पण पानंच सगळीच्या सगळी प्लॅस्टिकची लावली असल्यावर कसली आलीय डोंबलाची पानगळ? अश्या प्लॅस्टिकला वास नसतो. फक्त रंग असतो. विकत घेतलेल्या स्प्रेचे दोन चार फवारे..तेवढाच काय तो वास. बाकीचं सगळं काही गंधहीन. प्रतिष्ठेच्या रंगात डुचमळलेलं... इथं कसल्याच गोष्टीत नैसर्गिकता नाही. सगळं कसं ओढून ताणून फिट्ट बसवल्यासारखं वाटतं. कंटाळा येतो अश्या अवस्थेचा. मी फार फार तर दोन दिवस जपून पाहतो अश्या सगळ्या गोष्टी. हा हॅंगओव्हरचा वारसा बापजाद्यांपासून चालत आलेला. मी म्हटलं झालं ते खूप झालं. च्यायला! किती दिवस मी तरी गोड न राहिलेल्या सारखेची, खारट न राहिलेल्या मिठाची, तिखट न राहिलेल्या चटणीची तीच तीच तीच तीच शिळी रेसिपि आचेवर धुमसत ठेवू? काही दिवसांपूर्वी मीच स्वतः लिहिलं होतं की हल्ली स्वतःच्या आयुष्याविषयी तिरस्कृत लिहिण्याची फॅशनच झाली आहे. आज पुन्हा तेच. पण मी तरी काय करू? अस्सल तिरस्कार आणि मारून मुटकून कण्हून आणलेला तिरस्कार ह्यांच्यात कसा फरक करणार?मुळात मनुष्यात तिरस्काराची बीजे कशी रोवली जातात हे फारच इंटरेस्टींग असतं. म्हणजे असं होतं - तुम्ही स्वप्नं बघता मोठी मोठी एखाद्या फ्रायडे नाईटला. आणि मन्डे मॉर्निंग येता येता जमिनीवर येता.पुढचे दिवस पाय कधी मातीवर, कधी मातीखाली, कधी थोबाड फुटेल हे माहीत असतानाही हवेत गडबडतात. 'असं आपण किती दिवस जगू शकतो?' हा प्रश्न विचारत असतोच आपण स्वतःला. पण फेअर ऍन्ड लवली लावून गो-या झालेल्या कावळ्यासारखा रूबाब घेऊन वावरणारे आपण... दिवसादोन दिवसांत मेक-अप उतरतोच की!!! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;आयुष्य = करिअर(माणसाला इतर उपयोगी काहीच कामधंदा नसताना केलेला खटाटोप) + &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;               &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;कुटूंब&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt; (2 बीएचके साठी सुटेबल असणारं) + &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;               &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;अप्रेझल्स&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt; (ची वाट पाहत राहणं) +  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;               &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;इन्शुरन्स&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt; (उद्याच्या शर्यतीत टिकून राहावं म्हणून आजच् कुबड्यांची व्यवस्था करणं) +&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;              &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;लोडशेडिंग&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt; (आमच्याकडे इनव्हर्टर आहे हे सांगण्यासाठीचे प्रतिष्ठीत कारण) + &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;              &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;कधीमधी&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt; भरून येणार गळा(हॉटेलात पोटभर जेवून पान खाल्ल्यावर येणारा माज)&lt;br /&gt;            रस्त्यावरच्या&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;दारिद्र्यासाठी&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt; + &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;             &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;चारदोन&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt; शिव्या सिस्टीमच्या नावाने&lt;br /&gt;           (आजूबाजूला चोर,पोलीस, गुंड कोणी नसताना दिलेल्या) +&lt;br /&gt;            &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;बरंच&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt; काही...बरंच काही...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;हे म्हणजे आयुष्य?? की अजून दुसरं काय? बोन्साय बहरतात म्हटलं हे चुकलंच!!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;बोन्साय बहरत नसतात कधीच. बोन्साय वारसाहक्काची निशानी असतात. पिढीदर पिढी पानं उगवतात आणि गळवतात. एकूण पानांची संख्या नेहमी जवळपास सारखीच!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255);font-size:100%;" &gt;तिरस्कार आयुष्याविषयी नाही. ज्याला आपण आयुष्य समजून स्वतःची नसलेली इभ्रत परंपरेच्या लॉकरमध्ये ठेवून देतो...तिरस्कार ह्याचा वाटतो!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-1871364144738673329?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/J396m0ee-dU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/J396m0ee-dU/2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mayur Lankeshwar)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/07/2.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-1464904192823889163</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:17:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-06T17:21:41.264+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">India</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">English</category><title>National honour and the foreign origin</title><description>&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 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(http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200906051481.htm)
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The Nationalist Congress party was formed in 1999, by a few prominent leaders of the Indian National Congress, on the issue of the foreign origin of the party president. In a moving letter, they requested her to honour India’s national pride and renounce the claim on the office of the Prime Minister, should the party come to power. Let me quote a passage from the letter(http://www.ncp.org.in/sonia1.htm) itself,&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;“Madam President, India is a country with a history and tradition going back for 1000's of years. It is a confident culture and a proud nation. Above all it is a country which is self sufficient in every sense of the word. India has always lived in the spirit of the Mahatma's words "Let the winds from all over sweep into my room" but again he said "I will not be swept off my feet". We accept with interest and humility the best which we can gather from the North, South, East or West and we absorb them into our soil.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;But our inspiration, our soul, our honour, our pride, our dignity, is rooted in our soil. It has to be of this earth. Soniaji you have became a part of us because you have all along respected this. We therefore find it strange that you should allow yourself to forget it at this crucial juncture. It is not possible that a country of 980 million, with a wealth of education, competence and ability, can have anyone other than an Indian, born of Indian soil, to head its government.”&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Every word of this passage embodies the truest spirit of nationalism. After receiving the letter, a hurt Congress President offered to resign. Strong voices of protest arose from rank and file of the Indian National Congress, the president was convinced to stay on and the writers of the letter were expelled from the party along with their supporters. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;There can be a cynical interpretation of the whole episode, which many would say is the correct one. After its defeat in 1996 elections the Congress party seemed to be in a state of terminal decline. The party had lost successive elections with unprecedented fall in the number of Loksabha seats and loss of presence in large swathes of the country. The Bharatiya Janata Party on the other hand seemed to be the party destined to rule India for the times to come, on the tide of an overwhelming popular support. The writers of letter estimated that the issue of the foreign origin of the Congress President would probably be the last nail in the coffin of the Indian National Congress. One of the ambitious leaders of the group sensed an opportunity he had been waiting for long. He probably thought that if the issue was raised in the party, the morose Congressmen probably would swallow his argument and choose him instead, as their leader. But the endeavour backfired and they were expelled.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;There might have been several miscalculations, which I dare not claim they did not consider. It was a calculated risk on their part. They knew that they were up against a formidable challenge of overthrowing a dynasty which had been the life blood of the Indian National Congress for the history of independent India. They knew the complete subservience of the party to the family, after all, taller leaders were vanquished earlier when they dared to confront it. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Most importantly, they might have miscalculated the potency of the issue of foreign origin itself, as many of Indians did. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;For nationalists, even the existence of this issue can simply be described as, complete national disgrace.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The party which claimed to be the harbinger of freedom from colonialism and foreign occupation, having a person of foreign origin - whose only competency was membership of a particular family - to be a potential candidate for the post of prime minister of India, was the ultimate irony. This should never happen to a great, sovereign nation boasting of a rich civilization and millennia of history. The sense of national consciousness and pride should never have let it happen. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Sadly, there are other powerful factors. The effects of centuries of colonial and alien occupation have not completely subsided yet. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The other powerful leaders of the Indian National Congress might have sensed the ulterior motives, if they can be so called, of the dissenting leaders. The principle of “let us be equal slaves, instead of unequal neighbours”, which has been an important factor throughout India’s history of her struggle with foreign invaders might have played its part. One of the most important leaders of the coup had been a major aspirant for the top post in the party and hence its candidate for the post of Prime Minister, but his bid was thwarted each time so far. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Many of his colleagues thought of him as a person of dubious integrity, an opportunist, and unfit for the top post bypassing them.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Hence their expectation that, the party, at least its significant part, would rally behind them, was frustrated. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;Neither of their hopes, the fear of complete defeat at the hands of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the minds of the top Congress leaders (on the account of this issue), or the nationalism of common Congress workers, would aid them, fructified. Also, they had limited popular support from only certain parts of the country. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Since then lot of water has flown from the Himalaya and Sahyadri to the oceans and the  wheel of fortune has now turned in the favour of the Indian National Congress under the leadership of the same president.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The Nationalist Congress Party subsequently aligned itself with the Indian National Congress in the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha elections and the 2004 Loksabha elections. For the Vidhan Sabha, there was no issue of foreign origin as no person of foreign origin was a potential candidate for chief minister’s post in Maharashtra. For the Loksabha, the stand was that the issue of prime minister was to be settled after the election results were out. After the results were declared, it was clear that National Democratic Alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, the expected winner, was defeated and it was possible for the United Progressive Alliance under the leadership of the Indian National Congress to form the government with outside support of the left front. This unexpected victory led to an upsurge of support for the Indian National Congress President. There was an unprecedented scene in the central hall of the Parliament, in which the entire Congress Party, most shamefully, prostrated in front of its president of foreign origin requesting her to accept the ultimate prize of victory, the post of the Prime Minister of India. Even the allies of the Indian National Congress made a beeline to tender that request. But then the inner voice spoke and thus the honour of the nation was saved by the potential offender herself.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;What prompted her to take that decision is not clear. Was it a genuine feeling of agreement with her opponents, of not subjecting an independent and sovereign India to a rule by a person of foreign origin? If yes, why did she not hear this inner voice earlier, when she was repeatedly projected as the candidate for the Prime Minister’s post? Was it a fear of the dire fate which some her close family members, her husband and mother in law met?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;But one cannot deny the fact that only she was in a position to save India’s honour and dignity at that point of time and she did. She also has conducted herself in the most dignified manner subsequent to that incident, and has earned the respect of people across the country by nominating one of best leaders to lead the nation. &lt;span style=""&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The political power and authority flows from her to the government. This is not to claim that the day-to-day activities and decision making process is interfered with by her, or each decision is ratified by her and then implemented. But a major part of the credit of whatever success the government claims to have achieved, is attributed to her. The policy and agenda of the government is said to have her imprint, and popular programmes started by the government are said to be her pet projects. This makes her the supreme extra-constitutional power center and with the Prime Minister acknowledging that he enjoys no mass base, makes her the primary authority if not the chief executive. This satisfies the nationalists’ demand that no person of foreign origin should hold the high office, in letter, but violates it in spirit. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;How much of the blame for this should pass to her? Is she responsible for it or is the rest of the party, for which devotion to the family is the life blood with sycophancy as the haemoglobin? One can compare this with the issue of replacement of Marathi by Hindi in public spaces in Maharashtra’s cities. Who is responsible? If all Marathi speaking people used Marathi in public arena, wouldn’t it make the adoption of Marathi by others possible? Others would speak Marathi if Marathi speakers did so. If the Congress Party behaved in accordance with the principles of national dignity, her elevation to a position of the supreme leader of the nation would not have been possible. Our own people, of the Congress Party, have not been exorcized of the ghost of feudal mindset and colonial hangover.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Staunch supporters of the Indian National Congress President loudly claim that the opposition’s argument on this issue has been conclusively defeated. This has left many nationalists completely disillusioned and many claim that the issue of foreign origin is now dead.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;The Nationalist Congress Party itself says that since she has declined to accept the post the issue is now not relevant, but they have never reiterated their original stand of opposing a person of foreign origin from holding the office of the Prime Minister. Now, they have dropped the pretense completely and say that the issue is closed. There are reports that there may be a merger with the parent party, now that the future of the Nationalist Congress Party looks dim.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;Has the nationalists’ stand on the issue of foreign origin really been defeated? The fact that the Indian National Congress won the elections under her leadership does not prove that. The elections to the parliament are by no means a referendum on a particular issue.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;One has to acknowledge that this was not the only issue which decided which way people voted, for either side. People have voted on many issues, and some issues on which they perceived that the nationalist side was not the best option, they went for the Indian National Congress.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;There are other issues, bread and butter issues, which people feel are more pressing. There is a significant trust deficit between the nationalists and large sections of society on many accounts, which needs to be addressed. These issues are much higher in the hierarchy of issues which enables people to decide which way to go. Also, they lack presence in significant parts of the country. Had these issues been solved, one is certain that people of India would have voted positively on this issue, and the national honour would have been restored in a much clearer way, if this alone was a major issue in the elections.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;(Except in the first sentence, wherever I refer to “nationalists” they are not the Nationalist Congress Party, but the Bharatiya Janata Party and its affiliate organizations which are the perceived right wing nationalists of India.)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;Nikhil Pujari.
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt; &lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-1464904192823889163?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/pZgzCU_9LFE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/pZgzCU_9LFE/national-honour-and-foreign-origin.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NIKHIL PUJARI)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/06/national-honour-and-foreign-origin.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-3827867188055403671</guid><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 13:47:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-18T19:32:59.520+05:30</atom:updated><title>भारतीय राष्ट्रवादाचा पराभव</title><description>लोकसभा निवडणुकीत भारतीय राष्ट्रवादी शक्तींचा अभूतपूर्व पराभव झाला. धक्का फार मोठा आहे.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;धक्का फक्त या पराभवाचा नाही. मूळ विश्वास, आस्था आणि श्रद्धांचा आहे. आम्ही ज्या गोष्टींवर मनापासून श्रद्धा ठेवतो, ज्या काही गोष्टी आमच्या जीवनातील मूलभूत सत्ये आहेत, मातृभूमिचे एक राष्ट्र हे स्वरुप आम्ही मनी बाळगतो, ते सर्व खरोखरीच अस्तित्वात आहे का? त्याला वास्तवामध्ये काही आधार आहे का? का ते सर्व फक्त आमच्या स्वप्नसृष्टितच आहे,  आमच्या पुरतेच सत्य आहे ? Do our beliefs have any relevance?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;मुळापासून विचार करावा लागेल.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;RSS आणि संघ परिवार हे काही सर्वगुणसम्पन्न मर्यादा पुरुषोत्तमांचे समूह नाहीत. कलियुगात कोणीच तसे नाही. पण आमच्या बहुदा कल्पनाविश्वातच असलेल्या राष्ट्रीय सत्वाचे - वास्तवात असणा-या शक्तिंमध्ये - सर्वात जवळचे असे वारसदार आणि संरक्षक नक्कीच आहेत. They are the closest approximation of the national essence of India of our time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;म्हणुन त्यांच्या पराभवाने मन विषण्ण होते.&lt;br /&gt;एक तर हे आहे किंवा आम्ही मानतो ते राष्ट्रीय सत्व नाहीच. कधीच नव्हते. किंवा पूर्वी कधीकाळी असेलही पण आता ते नाही आणि आमच्या सारखे लोक ते समजू किंवा पचवू शकलेले नाहीत.&lt;br /&gt;जगात विचार,राष्ट्रे आणि संस्कृति नाहिशा होत असतात. तो जगाचा नियम आहे. आमची ती वेळ आली आहे का? का आमची वेळ कधिचिच होउन गेलेली आहे, आणि आम्हाला समजलेच नाही?&lt;br /&gt;भारतीय जनता पार्टी सारख्या &lt;span&gt;एका&lt;/span&gt; य:कश्चित् समूहाच्या पराभवाने संपेल इतके छोटे ते कधीच नव्हते. यापूर्वीही अनेक पराभव झालेले आहेत. प्रचंड पराभव झालेले आहेत. त्यावेळी ते संपले नाही. &lt;br /&gt;पण हा पराभव त्या अंताचे एक लक्षण आहे का? अशी भीती वाटते.&lt;br /&gt;आशेचे किरण सध्यातरी कुठेही दिसत नाहीत.&lt;br /&gt;कॉंग्रेस आल्याने कदाचित काही चांगल्या गोष्टी घडतील. भौतिक प्रगति काही दिशांमध्ये होइल ही. पण तो एक सर्वस्वी निराळा मुद्दा आहे.&lt;br /&gt;या वेळी आम्ही शाळेत शिकलेली कै.हरिवंशराय बच्चन यांची एक कविता आठवते. आमच्या बालमनावर त्या कवितेचा फार प्रभाव पडला होता.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;नीड का निर्माण फिर फिर&lt;br /&gt;नेह का आव्हान फिर फिर&lt;br /&gt;यह उठी आँधी कि नभ में&lt;br /&gt;छा गया सहसा अँधेरा&lt;br /&gt;धूलि धूसर बादलों ने&lt;br /&gt;भूमि को इस भाँती घेरा&lt;br /&gt;रात सा दिन हो गया&lt;br /&gt;फिर रात आई और काली&lt;br /&gt;लग रहा था अब न होगा&lt;br /&gt;इस निशा का फिर सवेरा&lt;br /&gt;रात के उत्पात भय से&lt;br /&gt;भीत जन जन भीत कण कण&lt;br /&gt;किंतु प्राची से उषा की&lt;br /&gt;मोहिनी मुस्कान फिर फिर&lt;br /&gt;नीड का निर्माण फिर फिर&lt;br /&gt;नेह का आव्हान फिर फिर&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;क्रुद्ध नभ के वज्र दंतों में&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;उषा है मुसकराती&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;घोर गर्जनमय गगन के&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;कंठ में खग पंक्ति गाती&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;एक चिडिया चोंच में तिनका लिए &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;जो जा रही है&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;वह सहज में ही पवन&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;उनचास को नीचा दिखा रही है &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;नाश के दुःख से कभी &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;दबता नहीं निर्माण का सुख &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;प्रलय की निस्तब्धता में &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=""&gt;सृष्टि का नवगान फिर फिर &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;नीड का निर्माण फिर फिर&lt;br /&gt;नेह का आव्हान फिर फिर॥&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-3827867188055403671?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/PT4L8MvDbqg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/PT4L8MvDbqg/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NIKHIL PUJARI)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-1120711263738760453</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 05:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-13T11:18:33.417+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">India</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">English</category><title>Refuting the Aryan theory</title><description>&lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt; &lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The &lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:12;" &gt;debate&lt;/span&gt; on the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Invasion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;/Migration &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; has been a historic one. The idea was first propounded by Max Muller, a german philologist who studied the vedas and found similarities between Sanskrit and european languages like greek and latin.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The basic premise of the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; was that Indians being a primitive people and racially inferior to the Europeans could not be the authors of civilization in India and civilization in India had to be introduced from outside. Before Max Muller, when western academia did not know of ancient India, the mainstream thought was that civilization was introduced to India by Alexander of Macedonia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The introduction of Indic Studies and ancient texts like the vedas in europe prompted the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Invasion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; hypothesis.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;It basically stated that the dark skinned Indians before the arrival of the master european race of the Aryans were a primitive people who were introduced of civilization by the Aryans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; was the critical moral platform for colonial powers to enslave India and it also provided life blood for evil ideologies like Nazism.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This story took a different turn when the Indus Valley Civilization was discovered by John Marshall with the excavation of the ancient city of Harappa. The Indus Civilization was at its peak around 2500 BC and the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; that civilization was introduced by fair skinned europeans into India was no longer tenable, since the Indus Valley civilization was a contemporary of the Ancient Mesopotamian and Ancient egyptian civilization ( Fertile Cresent). ( The europeans would still not give Indians credit for their own ancient civilization, and the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; that Indus valley was actually an offshoot of the mesopotamian civilization was further propagated, which in face of overwhelming evidence against it, had to be abandoned.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;It was Marshall who was the real author of the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; "&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Invasion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;". He discovered a set of skeletons in the ruins of mohen jo daro and claimed that they were the Indus Valley People who were massacred by the invading aryans. He quoted some verses from the Rigveda which address Indra as the "Puramdara", destroyer of forts, and tried to reason that the forts meant the cities of Indus valley, and famously declared that "Indra stands accused" for the collapse of Indus Valley civilization.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;However, this popular &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Invasion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and the simplistic western models of &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;invasion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and subjugation have been rejected by mainstream academia in face of mounting evidence against it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The search for the Master European &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race, with blue eyes and blond hair, has been unsuccessful. No such race exists as acknowledged by archeologists and philologists. Even Max Muller subsequently abandoned this idea of language=race. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;There is no archeological proof of &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;invasion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of India around 1500 BC as per the current research. The archeological findings in the Indus Valley do not show any signs of warfare and the skeletons found in Mohenjodaro and elsewhere in Indus Valley were shown to be of people who died of natural causes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The most ancient veda, the rig veda, gives absolutely no account of an immigration, let alone an &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;invasion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, into India. The search of the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race in vedas and other ancient texts like the avesta and gathas has proved unfruitful.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This mainstream academic opinion can be best summarized as follows,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Jim Shaffer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; wrote, "Current archaeological data do not support the existence of an Indo-&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; or European &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;invasion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; into South Asia any time in the pre- or protohistoric periods. Instead, it is possible to document archaeologically a series of cultural changes reflecting indigenous cultural developments from prehistoric to historic periods".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;color:blue;" &gt;^&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; Jim Shaffer. &lt;i&gt;The Indo-&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; Invasions : Cultural Myth and Archaeological Reality&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Jim G. Shaffer is an &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;American&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;archaeologist&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and Professor of &lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Anthropology&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; at &lt;span style="color:blue;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Case Western Reserve University&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Shaffer holds a&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; BA&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt; (1965) and &lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;color:blue;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;M.A.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (1967) in &lt;i&gt;Anthropology&lt;/i&gt; from &lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;color:blue;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Arizona State University&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. He also has a &lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;color:blue;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Ph.D.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (1972) in &lt;i&gt;Anthropology&lt;/i&gt; from &lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;color:blue;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;University of Wisconsin-Madison&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. He is noted for his studies on the &lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;color:blue;" &gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Indus Valley Civilization&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;This was forseen by Revered Dr Ambedkar even when the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Invasion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; was very much in vogue and many Indians even supported it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;One can quote him from his book " Who were the Shudras?" which is an excellent study on the origins of the varna and the caste system in India. This study remains unparalled in academic pursuit in this subject.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Dr Ambedkar argues that Shudras were originally kshatriya clans of the solar race (sooryakula) whose social degradation was brought about by the bramhins who refused to perform vedic sacrifices and ceremonies for them. This academic feat by Dr Ambedkar remains an unattainable peak for the rest of the students of ancient India and indologists.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;I shall quote a few passages from the book.--&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;(1) Who were the Shudras? and (2) How they came to be the fourth Varna of the Indo-&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; society? My answers to them are summarised below :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;(1) The Shudras were one of the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; communities of the Solar race.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;(2) There was a time when the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; society recognised only three Varnas, namely. Brahmins, Kshatriyas and Vaishyas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;(3) The Shudras did not form a separate Varna. They ranked as part of the Kshatriya Varna in the Indo-&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; society.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;(4) There was a continuous feud between the Shudra kings and the Brahmins in which the Brahmins were subjected to many tyrannies and indignities.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;(5) As a result of the hatred towards the Shudras generated by their tyrannies and oppressions, the Brahmins refused to perform the Upanayana of the Shudras.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;(6) Owing to the denial of Upanayana, the Shudras who were Kshatriyas became socially degraded, fell below the rank of the Vaishyas and thus came to form the fourth Varna.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;WHO were the Shudras if they were not a non-&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; aboriginal race? This question must now be faced. The &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; I venture to advance may be stated in the following three propositions:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;(1) The Shudras were Aryans.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;(2) The Shudras belonged to the Kshatriya class.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;(3) The Shudras were so important a class of Kshatriyas that some of the most eminent and powerful kings of the ancient &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; communities were Shudras.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The primary piece of evidence on which this thesis rests is a passage which occurs in Verses 38-40 of Chapter 60 of the Shanti Parvan of the Mahabharata. It reads as follows :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;"It has been heard by us that in the days of old a Shudra of the name of Paijavana gave a Dakshina (in his own sacrifice) consisting of a hundred thousand Purnapatras according to the ordinance called Aindragni."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The Western writers have a definite &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; about the origin of the Shudras. Though all of them are not agreed upon every aspect of the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, there are points on which there seems to be a certain amount of unity among them. They comprise the following :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;1. The people who created the Vedic literature belonged to the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;2. This &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race came from outside India and invaded India.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;3. The natives of India were known as Dasas and Dasyus who&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;4. were racially different from the Aryans. (4) The Aryans were a white race. The Dasas and Dasyus were a dark race.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;5. The Aryans conquered the Dasas and Dasyus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;6. The Dasas and Dasyus after they were conquered and enslaved were called Shudras.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;7. The Aryans cherished colour prejudice and therefore formed the Chaturvarnya whereby they separated the white race from the black race such as the Dasas and the Dasyus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;What is however of particular importance is the opinion of Prof. Max Muller on the question of the &lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race. This is what he says on the subject:&lt;a href="http://l%20_msocom_4/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;color:#000000;" &gt;[f4]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;There is no &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race in blood; &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, in scientific language is utterly inapplicable to race. It means language and nothing but language; and if we speak of &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race at all, we should know that it means no more than... &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; speech.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;I have declared again and again that if I say Aryas, I mean neither blood nor bones, nor hair nor skull; I mean simply those who speak an &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; language. The same applies to Hindus, Greeks, Romans, Germans, Celts, and Slavs. When I speak of them I commit myself to no anatomical characteristics. The blue-eyed and fair-haired Scandinavians may have been conquerors or conquered, they may have adopted the language of their darker lords or their subjects, or vice versa. I assert nothing beyond their language, when I call them Hindus, Greeks, Romans, Germans, Celts and Slavs; and in that sense, and in that sense only, do I say that even the blackest Hindus represent an earlier stage of &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; speech and thought than the fairest Scandinavians.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;The value of this view of Prof. Max Muller will be appreciated by those who know that he was at one time a believer in the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race and was largely responsible for the propagation of it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;In this conflict of views one may well ask: what is the testimony of the Vedic literature? As examination of the Vedic literature shows that there occur two words in the Rig Veda—one is Arya with a short 'a' and the other is Arya with a long 'a'. The word Arya with a short 'a' is used in the Rig Veda&lt;a href="http://l%20_msocom_5/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;color:#000000;" &gt;[f5]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in 88 places. In what sense is it used? The word&lt;a href="http://l%20_msocom_6/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;color:#000000;" &gt;[f6]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is used in four different senses; as (1) enemy, (2) respectable person, (3) name for India, and (4) owner, Vaishya or citizen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;The word Arya with a long 'a' is used in the Rig Veda in 31 places &lt;a href="http://l%20_msocom_7/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;color:#000000;" &gt;[f7]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; . But in none of these is the word used in the sense of race.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;From the foregoing discussion, the one indisputable conclusion which follows is that the terms 'Arya' and 'Arya' which occur in the Vedas have not been used in the racial sense at all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;One may also ask: what is the evidence of anthropometry? the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race is described as long-headed. This description is not enough. For as will be seen from the table given by Prof. Ripley, there are two races which are long-headed. The question which of the two is the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race still remains open.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;( The study of Prof Ripley which Revered Dr Ambedkar refers to is given in detail in the book.)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;What evidence is there of the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;invasion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of India by the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race and the subjugation by it of the native tribes? So far as the Rig Veda is concerned, there is not a particle of evidence suggesting the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;invasion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of India by the Aryans from outside India. As Mr. P. T. Srinivasa lyengar&lt;a href="http://l%20_msocom_12/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;color:#000000;" &gt;[f12]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; points out:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;"A careful examination of the Manatras where the words Arya, Dasa and Dasyu occur, indicates that they refer not to race but to cult. These words occur mostly in Rig Veda Samhita where Arya occurs about 33 times in mantras which contain 153,972 words on the whole. The rare occurrence is itself a proof that the tribes that called themselves Aryas were not invaders that conquered the country and exterminated the people. For an invading tribe would naturally boast of its achievements constantly."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;So far the testimony of the Vedic literature is concerned, it is against the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; that the original home of the Aryans was outside India. The language in which reference to the seven rivers is made in the Rig. Veda (X.75.5) is very significant. As Prof. D. S. Triveda says&lt;a href="http://l%20_msocom_13/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;color:#000000;" &gt;[f13]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; —the rivers are addressed as 'my Ganges, my Yamuna, my Saraswati' and so on. No foreigner would ever address a river in such familiar and endearing terms unless by long association he had developed an emotion about it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;First is the paucity of references in the Rig Veda to wars between the Aryans on the one hand and the Dasas or Dasyus on the other. Out of the 33 places in which the word occurs in the Rig Veda only in 8 places is it used in opposition to Dasas and only in 7 places is it used in opposition to the word Dasyus. This may show the occurrence of sporadic riots between the two. It is certainly not evidence of a conquest or subjugation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;The second point about the Dasas is that whatever conflict there was between them and the Aryans, the two seem to have arrived at a mutual settlement, based on peace with honour. This is borne out by references in the Rig Veda showing how the Dasas and Aryans have stood as one united people against a common enemy. Note the following verses from the Rig Veda :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;Rig Veda - vi. 33.3; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;vii. 83.1; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;viii 51.9; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;x 102.3.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;The &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;invasion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; is an invention. This invention is necessary because of a gratuitous assumption which underlies the Western &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;. The assumption is that the Indo-Germanic people are the purest of the modern representatives of the original &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race. Its first home is assumed to have been somewhere in Europe. These assumptions raise a question: How could the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; speech have come to India: This question can be answered only by the supposition that the Aryans must have come into India from outside. Hence the necessity for inventing the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;invasion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;The third assumption is that the Aryans were a superior race. This &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; has its origin in the belief that the Aryans are a European race and as a European race it is presumed to be superior to the Asiatic races. Having assumed its superiority, the next logical step one is driven to take is to establish the fact of superiority. Knowing that nothing can prove the superiority of the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race better than &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;invasion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; and conquest of native races, the Western writers have proceeded to invent the story of the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;invasion&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of India by the Aryans and the conquest by them of the Dasas and Dasyus.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;The fourth assumption is that the European races were white&lt;a href="http://l%20_msocom_15/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;color:#000000;" &gt;[f15]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and had a colour prejudice against the dark races. The Aryans being a European race, it is assumed that it must have had colour prejudice. The &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; proceeds to find evidence for colour prejudice in the Aryans who came into India. This it finds in the Chaturvarnya— an institution by the established Indo-Aryans after they came to India and which according to these scholars is based upon Varna which is taken by them to mean colour.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;Not one of these assumptions is borne out by facts. Take the premise about the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race. The &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; does not take account of the possibility that the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race in the physiological sense is one thing and an &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race in the philological sense quite different, and that it is perfectly possible that the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race, if there is one, in the physiological sense may have its habitat in one place and that the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race, in the philological sense, in quite a different place. The &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race is based on the premise of a common language and it is supposed to be common because it has a structural affinity. The assertion that the Aryans came from outside and invaded India is not proved and the premise that the Dasas and Dasyus are aboriginal tribes&lt;a href="http://l%20_msocom_16/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;color:#000000;" &gt;[f16]&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; of India is demonstrably false.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;Again to say that the institution of Chaturvarnya is a reflection of the innate colour prejudice of the Aryans is really to assert too much. If colour is the origin of class distinction, there must be four different colours to account for the different classes which comprise Chaturvarnya. Nobody has said what those four colours are and who were the four coloured races who were welded together in Chaturvarnya. As it is, the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; starts with only two opposing people, Aryas and Dasas—one assumed to be white and the other assumed to be dark.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;The originators of the &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; are so eager to establish their case that they have no patience to see what absurdities they land themselves in. They start on a mission to prove what they want to prove and do not hesitate to pick such evidence from the Vedas as they think is good for them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;Prof. Michael Foster has somewhere said that 'hypothesis is the salt of science.' Without hypothesis there is no possibility of fruitful investigation. But it is equally true that where the desire to prove a particular hypothesis is dominant, hypothesis becomes the poison of science. The &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;Aryan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; race &lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="il"&gt;theory&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; of Western scholars is as good an illustration of how hypothesis can be the poison of science as one can think of.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;----------------from "who were the shudras".&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt; The whole text of the book can be found on the website &lt;a href="http://www.ambedkar.org/" target="_blank"&gt;www.ambedkar.org&lt;/a&gt; .&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;Of course I have quoted only a few parts from this great book. It is very instructive and I would urge everyone to go through it in details.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;Anthropology, archeology and philology have made great advances since the time Revered Dr. Ambedkar published this book but the broad conclusions drawn by him still remain unchallanged.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;Genetic science is still in its primitive stage and no definitive conclusions can be drawn from it. The factors such as sample size may vary the conclusions greatly and the interpretations one can draw from the results of the genetic tests may also vary greatly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;I would also like to point towards a study made by Dr.Pragna Patel of the University of South California.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;She was researching the genetic origins of problems such as obesity, hypertension commonly associated with indians.&lt;br /&gt;Interestingly she found out that there is very little genetic variation in population of the whole subcontinent. According to experts it is very surprising that people living in such a huge area have very little genetic variation. Further it was also inferred from the findings that the basic genotype if indians hasn't changed for about 10,000 years. So according to them indians constitute a distinct and major human race.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;This study represented the largest study of Indian genetic variation performed to date, in terms of the total number of sites in the human genome that were surveyed. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; font-family: verdana;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;font-size:100%;" &gt;&lt;a href="http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/stories/13415.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: none;color:#000000;" &gt;http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/&lt;wbr&gt;stories/13415.html&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: verdana;font-size:100%;" &gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="line-height: 115%;"&gt;Nikhil Pujari.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-1120711263738760453?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/BO9bNZzl9go" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/BO9bNZzl9go/refuting-aryan-theory.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NIKHIL PUJARI)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/04/refuting-aryan-theory.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-6696900380824950546</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-04-13T06:13:16.127+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">India</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">English</category><title>Pandavas of the modern Mahabharata</title><description>"In the happiness of his subjects lies the king's happiness, in their welfare his welfare. He shall not consider as good only that which pleases him but treat as beneficial to him whatever pleases his subjects" – Arthashastra by Kautilya, circa 300 BC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;India, as we know, is a land of hoary antiquity, the cradle of civilization and its people are the inheritors of a glorious unbroken cultural tradition whose evolution spans a time interval of over seven millennia. India is endowed with unparalleled diversity and amount of natural wealth and its people have been the pioneers of significant advances the human race has made along with other great and ancient civilizations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today’s India appears as an epitome of extreme dichotomy. We are viewed by the world as a third world country, still recovering from a colonial hangover, and struggling to counter the poisonous tides of terrorism, poverty, unemployment and numerous such evils.  At the same time we are one of the few nations who possess nuclear weapons and satellite technology, a world class pool of highly skilled professionals and a rapidly expanding economy, to name a few of our great national achievements.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we analyze our successes and impediments, we would come to a conclusion that the successes we have achieved, be it the Indian IT industry, Green revolution, Operation Flood, Chandrayaan or even the military victories owing to a loyal and professional service rendered by our armed forces to the nation, they are largely removed from electoral politics.  As for the large scale problems faced by the country, most would agree that they stem from the rot of corruption and moral decrepitude plaguing our political and administrative system. A complete overhaul of the political setup in the country is needed for progress to be achieved on all fronts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Starting from the romanticism and hope generated by independence from alien occupation, our political system has witnessed a continuous fall in moral and ethical standards, and it seems now like a vicious cycle which has fractured our society to such an extent that it has turned into a seemingly unwieldy mass of innumerable divergent interest groups.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This reformation of the political system of the country cannot be achieved by exemplary achievements in other spheres removed from it. It has to be initiated from within the system. The conditions prevailing in our country from historical times intrinsically prevent any other political revolution than a democratic one, which may seem as a drawback in the short run, but is a positive aspect of the nature of our society and a byproduct of our history.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every true nation is like an evolved living organism, and produces resistance to the disease threatening its existence. India has produced in past great warriors, rulers and statesmen and the rise of the forces of national revival can be anticipated in these testing times. Five years ago, a group of patriotic young men decided to constitute a political party, named Lokparitran,  for the purpose of relieving India from this distress,. These patriots were the alumni of the Takshashilas and Nalandas of modern India, the Indian Institutes of Technology. What could be more fitting, than the cream of the Indian youth answering the call of the motherland? They left their high paying jobs and lucrative overseas assignments and decided to take a plunge into active politics.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After its formation Lokparitran spread rapidly among the professionals and students in many parts of the country, namely Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Tamilnadu, Rajasthan and the major cities. It tasted its first electoral battle in the form of 2006 Tamilnadu Assembly elections where its candidates polled more votes than the national parties in some of the constituencies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Every nascent political movement has to undergo a series of very tough survival tests in its initial stages to become a formidable force capable of securing the reins of power. The enthusiasm and romantic idealism, with which the Lokparitran movement was started, could not prove to be a substitute for the political maturity attained through a series of setbacks and the movement faced difficulties in the form of differences, personal, ideological and of functioning style.  Some of the founding members parted ways and a new political party named Bharat Punarnirman Dal (&lt;a href="http://www.bpd.org.in/" target="_blank"&gt;www.bpd.org.in&lt;/a&gt;) was formed.  Most of the original founders and supporters are now a part of the Bharat Punarnirman Dal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This was certainly disheartening for many of its supporters, to see a split, on the lines of established political parties, and skeptics chided the party for failing in its initial stages of development. But it is important to note that every revolutionary movement goes through these kinds of upheavals in its formative phase. Throughout the history of the world, we see that rapidly succeeding revolutions are a product of an extraordinary leadership exploiting a sudden catastrophe befallen on a fairly united people, and even those movements have had to undergo decades of gestation time. This is not the case with India as the there has been a steady gradual decline in the political standards and there has been a gradual desensitization of the Indian people in its regard.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Bharat Punarnirman Dal faced difficulties initially in accumulating resources which are necessary for political growth and survival. It has matured over the course of a couple of years and has been able to spread awareness through various media. People across various states are supporting it and the party is now in a position of fighting assembly and parliamentary elections. In Andhra Pradesh, the first electoral victory of the party came in the form of two of the candidates supported by the party winning MLC elections in 2007. The party also contested the Uttar Pradesh and Delhi assembly elections.  They are now contesting from 40 seats for the 2009 Loksabha elections.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The chief planks of Bharat Punarnirman Dal are complete nationalism and cleansing politics of corruption and criminalization. Party is also in the process of forming opinions and solutions for the specific issues facing the country through scientific study and deliberations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Political parties with very similar objectives and agenda have been formed across the nation. Some of the prominent ones are the Loksatta Party by retired IAS officer Jayprakash Narayan (&lt;a href="http://www.loksatta.org/" target="_blank"&gt;www.loksatta.org&lt;/a&gt;), Professionals Party of India (&lt;a href="http://www.ppi.net.in/" target="_blank"&gt;www.ppi.net.in&lt;/a&gt;) and Peoples Guardian Party by retired IAS officer Arun Bhatia (&lt;a href="http://www.arunbhatiaelect.com/" target="_blank"&gt;www.arunbhatiaelect.com&lt;/a&gt;).  Loksatta is contesting in Andhra Pradesh for all seats in the assembly and loksabha elections and has been getting a lot of support from the people and has very bright prospects. The Professionals Party of India is contesting two loksabha seats in Mumbai. Mr. Arun Bhatia is a retired IAS officer and is a well known crusader against corruption in administration. He is contesting from the Pune Loksabha seat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These forces are the Pandavas of a modern Mahabharata, the rays of dawn penetrating the darkness before an impending sunrise. More than anything else, they symbolize a revolt against the degeneration of Indian politics and embody patriotism, morality and idealism at their core. Efforts are on for bringing about a national level co-ordination between them and eventually unify them to realize the ultimate aim of national revival, reconstruction and resurgence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is a duty of all of us, nationalists, patriots and right thinking sons and daughters of the motherland to help this great revolution attain its ultimate goal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vande Mataram!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-6696900380824950546?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/7Pml3C3pTYA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/7Pml3C3pTYA/pandavas-of-modern-mahabharata.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NIKHIL PUJARI)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2009/04/pandavas-of-modern-mahabharata.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-1476493078177760653</guid><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 10:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-12-30T16:21:35.775+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मराठी</category><title>बोन्साय - 1</title><description>&lt;meta equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; 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src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/bDuakPZTg0g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/bDuakPZTg0g/1.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mayur Lankeshwar)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2008/12/1.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-3683001668796053553</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 06:39:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-29T23:35:30.491+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मराठी</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">कविता</category><title>हॅपी बर्थडे</title><description>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xulq5mnpbWQ/SPcQb7sVExI/AAAAAAAAARY/dQHQ7fxCNe4/s1600-h/B-Day.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257689162044478226" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; CURSOR: pointer" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xulq5mnpbWQ/SPcQb7sVExI/AAAAAAAAARY/dQHQ7fxCNe4/s320/B-Day.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:+0;"&gt;हे&lt;/span&gt; खरे म्हणजे आम्ही दोनेक दिवसांपूर्वीच लिहायवयास हवे होते परंतु जातीवंत आळस आणि जगाविषयीचा तिटकारा आमच्यात लोणच्यासारखा मुरला असल्याने हो हो नाही नाही करत आम्ही आज लिहावयास बसलोय, म्हणजे कंपनीच्या खुर्चीवर बसलोय. तर झाले काय की नेमक्या चोवीस वर्षांपूर्वी आम्ही ह्या भूतलावर अवतीर्ण झालो आणि ह्याची आठ्वण आमच्यासहीत ब-याचजणांना होवून आम्हास उगाच म्हातारे झाल्यासारखे वाटू लागले. लहानपणापासून आम्हाला वाढदिवसाचे कधी इतके अप्रूप वाटले नाही. नाही म्हणायला 'तश्या' प्रकारचे पिक्चर्स थेटरात बघायला वयाची अठरा वर्षे पूर्ण व्हावी लागतात हे आम्हाला आमच्या एका शाळकरी दोस्ताने सांगितल्याने त्या अठराव्या वर्षी आम्ही वाढदिवसाची भयानक व्याकूळतेने वाट पाहत होतो इतके आठवते! पुढे 'तश्या' प्रकारचा पिक्चर थेटरात बघायचा योग आला नाही ही गोष्ट वेगळी. वाढदिवसाच्या दिवशी काहीही मागितले तरी मिळते असा आमचा लहानपणापासून गैरसमज आहे. पण कधीच काहीही मागण्याचे आम्हाला धाडस झाले नाही. फक्त आम्ही लहान असताना एका वाढदिवशी वडीलांना डेरी-मिल्कचे एक चॉकलेट मागावे असा विचार केला होता. पण ते सुध्दा प्रचंड महाग - म्हणजे दहा रूपयाच्या तरी आसपास असेल म्हणून मनातल्या मनातच ते खात बसलो. तेव्हाच वडिलांनी ते चॉकलेट न सांगता आमच्यासाठी आणले होते म्हणून आम्हाला कोण आनंद झाला म्हणून सांगू! आम्ही त्या दिवशी मनातल्या मनात आमच्या शाळकरी 'क्रश'सोबत ते खात खात वाढदिवस साजरा केला. आता खिशात पैसा आणि डोक्याला शिंगे आल्याने नको तेव्हा नको तितके चॉकलेट्स खाऊ शकतो पण गोड हल्ली काही घशाखाली उतरतच नाही. डेरी मिल्कच्या जाहीरातीतला उधानलेला आनंद आम्हाला तरी वास्तव आयुष्यात कधी दिसला नाही, दिसला तरी पचला नाही. एखादाच फुगा आणि वयाच्या अंकाइतक्या जळता जळता उरलेल्या छोट्याश्या मेणबत्त्या लावून साजरे केलेले वाढदिवस कधी आलिशान हॉटेलमधल्या पार्टयांपर्यंत येऊन पोहोचले हे कळले सुध्दा नाही. शिष्टावलेल्या चेह-याने 'हॅपी बर्थडे' म्हणणा-यांनी सगळाच आनंद प्रतिष्ठेचा करून टाकला आणि आपण तो गपगुमानपणे स्वीकारला देखील. शॅमेलिऑन सरड्याच्या जीभेशी स्पर्धा करणा-या आमच्या मध्यमवर्गीय अवस्था वयानुसार 'प्रगल्भ'च होत जाताहेत.फ्रस्ट्रेशनची झालर सोबत घेऊन येणारे प्रत्येक इच्छाआकांक्षांचे ढग वाढदिवसाच्या अंकासोबत वाढतच जाताहेत.जास्तच काळेनिळेगहिरे होताहेत. चालायचंच. सुरूवातीला काळ्यानिळ्या दिसणा-या जखमाही नंतर आत्मचरित्रात भांडवल म्हणून उपयोगी पडतात असे आम्ही वाचून आणि ऐकूनही आहोत.&lt;br /&gt;कसे का  असेनात पण हॉस्टेलमधले वाढदिवस मात्र अजूनही पार्श्वभागावरच्या लाथेच्या रूपाने स्मरणात आहेत. ही हिंसक आयडीया कुणी काढली माहीत नाही. पण हा सेलिब्रेशनच्या निमित्ताने आपली आपल्या जगण्याभोवती साचून राहिलेली सगळी चीड, सगळा संताप अश्या अभूतपूर्व लाथांमधून मोकळा करण्याचा अनोखा व्यायामप्रकार आम्हास वाटतो.शिवाय तेव्हा पुढे मागे लाथा खाण्यात आपलाच नंबर असायचा म्हणून काही राजकीय व्यक्तिमत्वे लांबूनच निदर्शने वगैरे करायची. ते दिवस प्रचंड बेभानतेचे होते. प्रत्येक वाढदिवसागणिक आपण मोठे होतोय, जबाबदारी पेलण्यात समर्थ होतोय हा विश्वास बळकट होत जायचा. पुढे कॉलेज संपलं, हॉस्टेल सुटलं आणि इथे भकास स्क्रीनसमोर येऊन कुण्या तिस-याचे आधीच सुखसागरात बुचकळून निघणारे आयुष्य आणखीनच सोयीस्कर व्हावे म्हणून केलेला बौध्दीक आटापिटा ह्यापलिकडे आमच्या 'जबाबदारी' च्या व्याख्येला काहीच अर्थ उरला नाही. वयानुसार कदाचित मनुष्यप्राण्याला बुद्धी कोठे गहाण टाकावी ह्याचा चढत्या परिणामात साक्षात्कार होत असावा असे आमचे ठाम मत आहे.&lt;br /&gt;असो. आमच्यासाठी आम्ही जन्म घेऊन आलो तो दिवस 'वाढदिवस' असला तरी जगास काय त्याचे आणि आम्हास काय जगाचे? आम्ही जन्म घेतला म्हणून माणसांची कत्तल थांबणार नाही की सुदाम्याच्या पोह्याने कृष्णाच्या पोटामार्फत सा-या जगाचे पोट भरले तसे आमच्या केकच्या तुकड्याने होणार नाही! शेवटी हा सगळा 'म्युच्युअल इमोशन्स'चा खेळ आहे. प्रत्येकाने आपापल्या परिने, आपापल्या कौशल्याने खेळायचा आणि 'हॅपी बर्थडे' म्हणत / ऐकत आयुष्यावर फुटत चाललेलं वयाचं कोड स्वतःच्या वाढत्या कोडगेपणासकट अनुभवत, साहत राहायचं! विश मायसेल्फ मेनी मेनी हॅपी रिटर्न्स ऑफ द डे!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-3683001668796053553?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/6tFz0KgC9bA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/6tFz0KgC9bA/blog-post.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Mayur Lankeshwar)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_xulq5mnpbWQ/SPcQb7sVExI/AAAAAAAAARY/dQHQ7fxCNe4/s72-c/B-Day.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-post.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-3228152788799441397</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-15T16:34:26.242+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">English</category><title>Indian Independance Day</title><description>It was this day 61 years ago that our great nation was liberated from centuries of bondage, slavery and alien occupation.&lt;br /&gt;Today is indeed a national festival. It is a festival of unbounded joy and pride. It is an auspicious day of igniting our conscience with pristine national thought.&lt;br /&gt;We are combating with great evils such as terrorism, casteism, treason, unemployment, corruption, separatism, external aggressions, population explosion, crimes against women, foeticide and many more. It is a struggle of life and death. A sense of profound gloom and helplessness has cast its dark shadow over our nation.&lt;br /&gt;But today is the day which enables us to shrug off this distress and to derive strength from the bliss of freedom.&lt;br /&gt;Today is also the day of mourning for the territorial integrity of our nation. Such times which produce an inseparable unity of happiness and sorrow seldom come in the history of mankind. It was 61 years ago, on this day that our nation was brutally vivisected. The land in which our forefathers built the foundations of our great nation,and hence of an exalted human existence, and the holy,life giving river which gave us our identity were cruelly snatched away from us. We must never forget the great sacrifice done for the continuation of our nation and civilization.&lt;br /&gt;Let us pray to the Dispenser of India's destiny, One Who rules the minds of the people,  that we derive inspiration from our golden past and proceed to a powerful and prosperous future!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nikhil Pujari.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8222020963862826615-3228152788799441397?l=aamhikon.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~4/x0gZK6YEWnM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/http/aamhikonblogspotcom/feeds/posts/defaultaltrss/~3/x0gZK6YEWnM/indian-independance-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (NIKHIL PUJARI)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://aamhikon.blogspot.com/2008/08/indian-independance-day.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8222020963862826615.post-5377877527801587698</guid><pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:11:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-08-15T14:47:13.959+05:30</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">मराठी</category><title>भारतीय स्वातंत्र्यदिन</title><description>६१ वर्षांपूर्वी याच दिवशी आपले महान राष्ट्र शेकडो वर्षांच्या दास्याच्या श्रुंखलांतुन मुक्त झाले.&lt;br /&gt;आजचा दिवस हा खरोखरी राष्ट्रीय सण आहे. मुक्त आनंद आणि अभिमानाचा आहे. मनामनामध्ये मंगल राष्ट्रीय भावना जागृत करण्याचा आहे.&lt;br /&gt;आज आपला देश दहशतवाद, जातीय तेढ, बेकारी, देशद्रोह, महागाई, भ्रष्टाचार, फुटिरतावाद, बाह्य आक्रमणे, लोकसंख्यावाढ, स्त्रियांवर अत्याचार, भ्रूणहत्या आणि अशाच अनेक जीवघेण्या रोगांशी संघर्ष करतो आहे. हा जीवन मरणाचा संघर्ष आहे या बद्दल शंकाच नाही. एका प्रचंड अश्या सार्वजनिक नैराश्याने आपल्या राष्ट्रीय जीवनावर कृष्णछाया टाकलेली आहे.&lt;br /&gt;पण आजचा दिवस हा या सर्व नैराश्याला बाजूला ठेवून स्वातंत्र्याच्या मुक्त आनंदतुन या सर्व समस्यांशी लढा उभारण्याची शक्ति देणारा आहे.&lt;br /&gt;आजचा दिवस आपल्या राष्ट्राच्या भौगोलिक एकसंधतेच्या पुण्यस्मरणाचा सुद्धा आहे. जगाच्या इतिहासात आनंद आणि दुःख यांचे इतके एकजीव मिश्रण असणारे क्षण क्वचितच येतात. ६१ वर्षांपूर्वी याच दिवशी आपल्या राष्ट्राचे क्रूरतेने तुकडे करण्यात आले. जिथे आपल्या पूर्वजांनी आपल्या राष्ट्राचा आणि पर्यायाने एका श्रेष्ठ मानवी अस्तित्वाचा पाया रचला  तो भूभाग आणि जिने आपल्याला ओळख दिली ती पवित्र, जीवनदात्री सरिता आपल्यापासून हिरावून घेण्यात आले. राष्ट्र आणि संस्कृति टिकवण्यासाठी केलेला तो त्याग आपण सदा लक्षात ठेवला पाहिजे.&lt;br /&gt;आपल्या गौरवशाली इतिहासातून आपण प्रेरणा घ्यावी आणि एका शक्तिशाली आणि समृद्ध अशा भविष्याकडे आपली वाटचाल व्हावी हीच त्या जन गण मनांचा अधिपति, भारताच्या भाग्यविधात्याच्या चरणी प्रार्थना!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;निखिल पुजारी.&lt;div 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