जंजीर

कतरा कतरा टुट गया ।
कतरा कतरा पाने को ॥

छोटी सी जंजीर हुई ।
जीवन की प्यास बुझाने को ॥

मेरी जंजीर, मेरा कर्म ।
मेरी जंजीर, मेरा धर्म ॥

फिर क्यों, है यह किसी और का फंदा ।
काला कफ़न और सफ़ेद  धंदा ॥

जंजीर है यह मेरे प्यार की,
मेरे सम्मान की, और ईमान की ॥

जंजीर नहीं है यह किसी के प्राण की,
अपमान की, और समान की ॥

कतरा कतरा बुन गया,
जंजीर जंजीर को जुड़ाने से ॥

 

रौनक कोगटा

प्राण

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Hallowed thy Research !!

A glimspe of aura,
or a shine of taboo;
embodies in thy. O! vie Research.

A pebble of sand,
or a boulder in front of den;
such is you. O! sly Research.

Dyanamics, of puppets;
Constants, of mannequins;
revolves around you. O! shy Research.

I run for you,
or you catch me.
It's a tie. O! dear Research.

Words only mine you,
but actions define you.
O! Hallowed thy Research.     

अनकही

 

इस रात की सन्नाहट,
मुझे  मेरी साँसों से रफ्ता कराती है |
समय की चकरी, और धीरे, और धीरे;
 मेरे मन को घेरे जाती है ||  

मेरे सपने, मेरे विचार;
सबका चिंतन लेता है एक आकार  | 
पर ठहर जाता हूँ;
उन बातों पर, जो मैंने ना कही;
और किसी ने ना सुनी || 

कुछ संगीन, कुछ रंगीन
कुछ बद्तमीज़ और कुछ कवि |
अनकही ना है ये शब्दो की,
पर इरादो की ||

जाना है, जीवन है शुन्य
और धीरे धीरे, समय की चकरी | 
बनाती इसे शून्य ||

अपने मन की अनकही,
को चीखो, चिल्लाओ |
 क्योंकि रात की सन्नाहट में ,
कहा अवश्य गूँजेगा ||

I want to become pirate!

Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no.
–J. R. R. Tolkien

This quote from the “Lord Of The Rings“  pretty much says, what I have to say. But still I would like to elaborate to the finest detail I can think of. A pirate is a being of his own, he cares not for the world's offering, as he takes what he wants.  And thing I like most about pirates is that they live till they can, because with every morning, dangers of the world surrounds them. Be it unpredictable and stormy sea, or some hunters who want to put a stop on their existence.

A Flickr in Mob!

Yesterday, I enrolled myself into a mob of energetic souls, who entertained the public with their passion and classy dance moves. Yes, I was flash-mobbed.

Independence Day

I have this recurring dream, where there is no gravity, and I hop like there's no tomorrow. It is so fun, that I sometimes think about the possibility of  flying like that in the real world.  From bottle, water droplets just flow around, and then you try to catch up with some of them, and enforce them though your mouth. But now you find that same droplets are seeping through your nostrils, which you failed to cover.  Freedom is just like these droplets, but if you really want it, you better guard it.

Where's my topup ??

Recently, I've been made a teaching assistant to Operating Systems course and since then, it has been tic-tac,tic-tac and Bam! I didn't try so many things in my time, that I can try it now, along with these 160 students. I know some of them might began cursing, after they read this, but I think I'm ready for them.  It is just like flirting with a girl, who has a very muscular man-friend. For now, lets say we, yeah! there are 5 of us, are able to avoid that man-friend, but who knows ?? 

You suppose, only thing that you need to concern is about students and what to teach them, but it is not.  Administration has their own coal mine, like that in "Gangs of Wasseypur" and they expect us to be superheroes, who can do anything at less wages. Just yesterday, I would have given my middle finger to security guard, who didn't let us take a Lab, just because there was a mismatch between Administration and him. So we made a number of calls, to our Professor, to his supervisor, to his another guard colleague, but he was like Atlas made again, here we were pricking him with the arguments, like wastage of time or responsibility or submission of our id-cards, but he won't buzz, you can see the Krishna's glorious lesson of "Karma" there.

It is remarkable, how stubbornness replaces understanding. Well anyway, somehow we stubborn-ed out the keys to lab, so when I was walking towards the lab, the thought instantly grabbed me, Who will give my top-up? This question was harsh on me at that moment, cause I had only 5 Rs in my pocket and that too is reserved for a tea. And as far as I have observed, all genuine students have a talk-time between 2-7 Rs,  and that too, so that they can give a miss. This may seem the grossness of my character, but it is true fact. I know, I'm gonna ask somebody for Top-up, shouldn't you ? And if you agree with my cause, then don't take a pause. May be, we can start a new movement....                 

Who is Anna Hazare?

The country has been trended by #IAmAnnaHazare #AntiCorruption #HonestIndia tags, which brings light  to the movement that Mr. Hazare is leading, in order to remove the corrupts from power and bring justice to the people. They have grasped the attention of typical Indian masses, even a lax and cozy guy like me. Their methods are of non-violence, silent protests, and hunger strikes. It is the same way, that Gandhi first followed, and it takes a lot of guts to follow this path. It is the path that needs self-preservation, and unknown depths of belief. 
In fact, my uncle is one of the prominent activist of this movement at my hometown, Bhilwara.  He sends bulk sms, trading the facts about movement and the corrupt government. He organizes plays, bhajan nights, peaceful processions and art galleries, and I don't know what he knows, or what drives him. It is just amazing that I have a that kind of guy, I can relate to. But more amazing is the Anna, What is Anna bringing in us ? Why do we want to listen to him?

I'm no thinker or an activist, I'm more of a doodler, but I absolutely want to have a struggle on the question, "Who is Anna Hazare?" . Because I believe, by asking questions and fighting within ourselves to get to the answer, is the key.
Lets start with systems, every system that was ever designed, had its pros and cons, like Hindu marriage system, which gave birth to dowry, female foeticide, and burning brides, but it also gave us a way to get to know another kind of love, which was build up on customs and involvement of two families. It is a social thing. Similarly, when God supposedly created man, he gave him vices and virtues as well. It is just natural that we succumb to a few of them. And now this country has democracy, to the people, by the people and for the people. But the notion has been modelled to from the people, of the people, in front of people. A democracy lives or die, by the people it has, and mindset they carry. It is not corrupt  government , it is us, that have corrupt souls. We are so engrossed in ourselves in terms of our own self-interest, that we would take any way to get to the end result. I have always known corrupt people, who gave bribes, took bribes and I know, it was necessary in that context, otherwise world won't let them slip.
So If we think, the world is gonna go better when Lokpal Bill comes into action, think again. Still there is a man, Hazare and his attempt is not to bring down corrupt government, but to bring corrupt mentalities of ours. With his movement, many memes are on the Facebook, people are supporting Hazare's campaign, which indirectly supports the poor people who has been selling the caps, banners etc. I actually came into contact with many people of different regimes, and I just enjoy what they tell about them. In fact, the whole purpose of corruption, is to alienate oneself from society. But there is a society out there, which can grow by the mutual help of people. And our strive should be that we should help each other. Even if Anna's Lokpal Bill fails, we must reckon what Anna represents.
The notion that government is responsible for every wrong action in democratic framework, implies that people have not got what democracy is about. Government is just there to support your endeavours, rest you do things, raise buisness guilds, make NGOs and fight poverty etc and if they do something wrong,you fight them, challenge them,and overcome them.

People should not be afraid of government, 

the government should be afraid of its people.

-- V For Vendetta  

I know we all are tainted with some vices, and it should not be shame, but come as an essential truth. And when we will overcome this, I know society can become all better.

Broken Systems, Broken India!!

Recently, we have been witnessing too much action in India, the actions which brought us no pride, but embarrassment; the actions which nullifies the magnificence of our extensive and detailed past, and actions which we ignore like it never happened. To name a few, failure of Northern Power Grid which led to World's biggest blackout and affected about 14 states and 600M people, fire in Tamilnadu Express, which brought deaths to sleeping passengers, and Lokpal Bill, which says much and does nothing. Plus there was a name of judge or army admiral who were involved in bribes of million.

In fact, Our college's security has  "A League of its own" thing going on, they perform their strictest security checks on us, the regular students, meanwhile some "X" class people have their "X" passes. Is it X-effect, or Do security guards love playing with us, or the System is just broken ?
Which is it, I cannot say for sure, but my guess will be the permutation of these. Yeah!! damn right, it is permutation, because our faults give them some sense of duty. I can point out many inconsistencies lying in our system, but the real fault lies in system makers, thinkers or whatever term, that is used. These systems are based on selfish interests, promotion of some message, and belief that people will anyhow suck on it. Obviously, those who are in system are affected in both good and bad ways. Sometimes our security guards are pissed at us and only sometimes we are not pissed at them. They are just doing their duty, and we are just being students. We do not like to be bothered every time, some of us want to be cool, but a word "Bhaiyya, Swipe!!" bring all hot emotions on the brim of our head.

So what we can do? How can we do? Well, for above mentioned problem, I think we can co-operate with guards, making their job easy. But from Faculty's side, they should be given the power of leniency, they should be able to make certain decisions on their own, like trusting us. They may raise suspicion, but it should be friendly or kind of "नम्रता -पूर्व  व्यवहार", which we will definitely able to understand. It is a society and people can coexist.      
 As for other matters, I'm not truly an enlightened dude, so may be I cannot give you right answers now. But there are dudes like Anna Hazare, who are facing these problems, coming up with solution for years. Our first step should be to pick any system, and contact the concerned dude, and learn what he is offering and hear his views, and then we will spill our beans. This country needs thinkers, persistent workers, leaders and some hard-balls. At least, I believe that our college can make its legacy by giving rise to some of these. We want to be known by us, not by Bloody Placements and not by "Oh! not IIT".
 One cannot mend these systems by just writing blogs, because if they do, they might come in the class of a Hypocrite, which is currently my state. To put a layer on that, I heard this rock dude, Judas Priest saying

So I might as well begin to put some action in my life
Breaking the law, breaking the law

Breaking the law, breaking the law

              
And I think, I never want to be called the word, so my path is set, but where are you ?

 RiXoR