dard aur main

ye kmbakht dard hai ke km hone ka naam tk nhi leta

ye mahrbani hai iski ke bss jaghain badal leta hai,

jaghain badalne se rahat kahan milti hai

goya dard yahan bi dard tha,wahan bi dard rehta hai

ajeeb itefaq hai ke ab dard apna sa lagta hai

challo ye to hai jo masalsal(continuous) saath to 

rehta hai,

har giz samaj nhi aati ye kahani iss ki

hai bhi sath hamesha aur ansuna sa, chup sa rehta hai,

log isse ek saza samajte hain, aksar koste hain

aur hum hain ye hamara hamsaya bn ke rehta hai,

eh dard tu kb tk rahega yuu hi, ye to zara btaa

hum bi na harenge, dekhte hain jbb hum na rahe to tu kahan rehta hai,

filhaal tu bi khud garz hai aur hum bii hain mashgool qafi

phir waqt mila to poochenge tujse tuu kia chahta hai,

aisa nhi ke tu chup hai, balke kuch awazain to hain teri

shayad kmi meri hai, jo main sun nhi pata ke tuu kia kehta hai,

ab tuje bi koi thikana na milega aur main bi chup hun

chal tu reh le sath mere jb tkk rehta hai.....

                                      Bolte vo bhi nhi

kuchh aise hogye hain iss daur ke rishtey

awaz agar hum na dain to bolte vo bhi nhi,

iss qadar maghrur hogye hain aaj ke munsif

dalil agar mujrim na de to poochte vo bhi nhi,

aur qissa hamare dost ka kuchh aur hi hai

apna haal agar hum na kahen to poochte vo bhi nhii 

ab to kbhi kbhi dimaag main ye baat bhi aati hai

ke sochna to thoda km kia hai main ne, pr itefaqan kbhi sochte vo bhi nhi.

                               Yuun to  Bhut hain 

Aankhen taras jaati hain kissi insaan ko dekhne ke liye

yuu to zamane main ba-nam insaan bhut hain,

koi jiye to jeeta rahe, koi mare to mrta rahe kisko padhi hai

haan magar lafzi hamdardi dikhane ko mehrbaan bhut hain,

badha mushkil hai ye imtehaan duniya ka,iska koi natija nhi

yuu to paidaish se maut tkk imtehaan bhut hain,

awam hamesha awam hi rahi hai, shayad awam hi rahegi

chnd logoon ne raj kia hai, hukm chlane ko hukmraan bhut hain,

aaj bhi sotte hain hazaroon log sadkoo ke kinare, be-ghar hain

yuu to kehne ko shehroon main lekin makaan bhut hain,

dekho to sb dikhte hain raaste bhatke hue, vishwas khoye hue

yuu to bdhe bdhe idaaroon main ba-nam rahegaan bhut hain

jiss se dekho pehchaan bnane aur bachane main mashgool hai

dukhoon, mushkaloon main kaam annewale yuu to qadardan bhut hain,

sachh kahoon to mera hamsafar bhut pehle choot gya tha

chalta main akela hi huun,yuu to chlte phirte hmsafar, hamraah bhut hain. 

WORKING IN A SYSTEM AND INTER-DEPENDENCY

I think it is very easy to walk alone if the way and the destination is clear, if one is clear about the destination even the paths can be searched out or can be made anew. In this case the command giver and commander taker are same, decision taking authority is in one own hand, when to act, when to walk, when to halt is decided by you. One who make the plan and one who do the appraisal are the same i.e. you. Sometimes you fail and sometimes you succeed, you learn from your failures and your successes give you impetus and energy to keep moving. Analytically it looks very comfortable and easy as you are independent in all the way, every credit or discredit goes to you. You have a very little or no connection with the world and worldly dynamics and activities affect you a little. You feel happy, burden free, responsible and accountable to yourself only, it looks that a world created by you is your own.

But when you come in the systems be it home, religions, institutions etc. it becomes necessary for you to walk along with others, diffuse your little world in bigger world, become we from I, responsibilities become collective not individual since you are a unit in a big system, your actions are now guided, directed and disciplined, you had to follow some code of conducts, most of the things are already decided for you by some people, your own ways are lost now in the wilderness of role and duties, you are doing something with undecided purposes as a systemic routine activity, your questions become annoyance and a sign of danger. You could not take little decisions even for yourself, smaller things become complicated and made you think for hours without any result or conclusion, because some decisions are already taken, others will be taken by someone else who is rarely aware of the reality. Slowly and slowly your concerns fade away from the minds and systemic obligations becomes your foremost duties although you don’t want to carry out those duties. In simple words you are on the regressive path where you don’t know where to go but you are going aimlessly.

You will be having ideas which can deal with real situations but could not implement those because implementation key is in someone else hands. Systems make you mechanical, regiment you, trained your mind to think in a particular pattern, kill and discourage queries and logical clarifications. In simple term our systems corrupt us in every manner and then blame the malfunctioning and chronic low performances of the system. It can be true, but the question is who comprise the system? Every person in a particular setup from peon to a director, from a child to elder most member, from a gate keeper to an office bearer all are the units of a system. And it is obvious that if systems are corrupt, we are also corrupt because systems work like a machine where each part of machine need to work properly, deformity or disorder in one unit/part can affect the whole system. And this is what happens. But majority of the time it looks that deformities occurs in main parts of the systems and these deformities affect or paralyze other units too. This is why if you are in a system, you cannot work or perform not because of your fault but because of systemic fault. But the question is who has the key to keep the system going and work properly, I guess the answer can be simple every single unit of machinery(system) i.e. we.

SHAFIQ
Rudraprayag

              How someone can be a criminal by birth?

Just a few meters from the Ganesh chowk in burari on the right side of the road that lead to chamba, there are some temporary shelters (tents) of some people of tribal community. They are landless moving tribe of Rajasthan, Haryana and adjoining area of Madhya Pradesh states known as bourria tribe. They are landless people and even do not any residential proof so they remain deprived of number of government schemes. They make the iron tools and implements and see it as their only profession because they do not find daily labor as people do not offer them any job because of their criminal history.

In rudraprayag and Pauri district as well as Chamoli district they are living temporarily also and profess the same profession of making iron tools. I always been so curious and interested to know about these people as they have distinct culture, language, lifestyle, behavior, dresses as well as conversations. I often observed the activities of their children as well and found them very conservative and less talkative.

Last month I went to Jaipur and on the outskirt of the city and also on the roadsides I found colonies of people of same community, since I stayed there for two weeks one day I dared to ask one person about the community and he revealed that they are considered as criminal tribes since the british india and even today they are harassed because of their historical background.

This fueled my interest as hearing the criminal tribes was very unusual and surprising for me. I searched for some books in the library and found a book tribal rebellions of India, there I found some interesting things that in 1871 criminal tribes act was passed by the british government in which a number of tribes were declared as criminal tribes(criminals by birth). Through various amendments in the act it was more strengthened. The people of these tribes faced harassment and enmity as well as exclusion and outcaste from the mainstream society.

When India got independence these tribes ceased to be considered as criminal tribes and a new name become associated with these tribes “DE notified tribes (DNT)”. Although the name changed but the social believes and thinking/notions regarding them remain unchanged and people of free India also continued doing the same with these people as done by Britishers. Continued to be excluded, isolated, subtracted and out casted from the main stream society.

Talking to a member of respective community/tribe who was in his early fifty I came to know that even locals do not allow or offer them the daily labor. Their children  have no or very little access to schools since they keep no residential or address proof, no domicile etc. no  access to government schemes for development and welfare.

Yesterday going through an article in the Hindu newspaper I came to know that more than fifteen crores people in India are living as DE notified tribes in India. Seeing and observing the temporary shelters of theirs at different locations and seeing their lifestyle as well as the kind of life they are living I keep on thinking that what will be their way of seeing and defining the world, the world that consider them as criminal by birth. Sometimes I think that are not we also responsible for their present condition or state?

If you get a chance observe their life style, language as well as general behavior and public thinking about them. I hope you will find that how much good or bad notions and believes about a particular sect, religion, group, community etc. play a role in developing stratification and inequalities in the society.

  

shafiq

Rudraprayag.