~!~ यादें ~!~

Disclaimer: Below thoughts are purely mine and have not been taken from a site or any other source.

A Poem written by me:: An ATTEMPT :)

~!~ यादें ~!~



यादें  अक्सर  आती  हैं ,

बातें  कह  कर  चली  जाती  हैं |

 यादें  एक  दिन  कहती  हैं ;

 तुम  भी  कभी  बच्चे   थे ,

बातों  के  बड़े  सच्चे   थे |

   अक्कल  के  बड़े  कच्चे  थे ,

   पर  दिल  के  बड़े  अच्छे  थे |

यादें  अक्सर आती  हैं ,  

बातें  कह  कर  चली  जाती  हैं | 

     यादें  एक  दिन  कहती  हैं ;

      तुम  भी  कभी  नादान  थे ,

       इस  दुनिया  से  अनजान  थे |

         तुम्हें  न  कुछ  लेना -देना  था ,

         बस  अपने  ही  बचपन  मैं  जीना  था  |

यादें  अक्सर  आती  हैं ,

बातें  कह  कर  चली  जाती  हैं  |  

    यादें  एक  दिन  कहती  हैं ;

      तुम्हारे  भी  कुछ  सपने  थे .

     उड़ना  तुम  भी  चाहते  थे ,

     पर  पंख  नहीं  मिल  पाते  थे |

      अगर  पंख  मिल  जाते ,

      तो  तुम  भी  चिड़िया  बन  पाते |

यादें  अक्सर  आती  हैं ,

बातें  कह  कर  चली  जाती  हैं  |

    यादें  एक  दिन  कहती  हैं ; 

 शुन्य  से  तुम  डरते  थे ,

     लेकिन  लड्डू  बड़े  अच्छे   लगते  थे |

    गोल  गोल  तुम  घूमते  थे ,

     जब  दोस्तों  के  साथ  खेलते  थे  |

यादें  अक्सर  आती  हैं ,

बातें  कह  कर  चली  जाती  हैं  |         

     यादें  एक  दिन  कहती  हैं ;  

      खेल  को  ही  जीवन  समझते  थे ,

      दोस्तों  के  साथ  तुम  जब  खेलते  थे |

   समय  को  ही  भूल  जाते ,

         जब  अपने  आप  को  खेल  की  दुनिया  मैं  पाते |

     यादें  एक  दिन  कहती  हैं ;  

    ABCD मैं तुम अच्छे थे ,

    लेकिन अ, आ, ई से डरते थे |

        Grammar के तुम चेम्पियन थे ,
      पर व्याकरण से दूर भगते थे |

यादें अक्सर आती हैं,
बातें कह कर चली जाती हैं |

~!!~ RARE INDIAN PICTURES ~!!~

~~Below are some of the rare photographs from the time of India and Pakistan partition.~~

1).  Nehru and Gandhi at AICC meeting, July 1946

2). Direct Action Day: Calcutta, Aug.16, 1946.

3). Mountbatten arrives at Delhi airport; received by Nehru and Liaquat Ali. March 25, 1947

4). Aug. 15, 1947: Mountbatten swears Nehru in as Prime Minister of India

5). TRAIN TO PAKISTAN; India 1947. Trains packed with refugees - Hindus and Sikhs headed for India, and Muslims headed for Pakistan - were convenient targets for gangs of killers on both sides of the border. Inadequately protected 'Refugee Specials' were typically stopped, and the occupants butchered, several times in the course of the journey.

6). The dead - Punjab, 1947

7). Ghandhiji Addressing people

8). 1948: The news of Gandhi's assassination hits the streets. A stunned crowd gathers in Calcutta.

9). 1948: Crowds in New Delhi wait for a glimpse of Gandhi's funeral procession.

10). 1971: Indira Gandhi reviews the troops, in the context of militaryand diplomatic preparations for the Bangladesh War.

11). A Library being divided at the time of partition. My heart trembles to see this sight and it is tough to imagine the state of the nation at the moment when people needed to hold hands.

~!!!!~ LET ME SURVIVE......... PLEASE ~!!!!~

Disclaimer: Below thoughts are purely mine and have not been taken from a site or any other source. I am not writing this article to criticize anyone or any organization but to bring the common problems, existing in our day to day life in front.

On the long stretch of ITO Flyover, that leads Delhi people towards Rajghat; a bike stops and a poor boy approaches towards the bike. The man on the bike asks the boy to take the packet from him and drop the contents in the YAMUNA. Normally, the contents are the Pooja samagri, flowers that have been already offered to god contained in polythene bags, generally. The poor, deprived of knowledge also drops the polythene bags in river. Sometimes in fun also, people drop things in river.

Hi, I am YAMUNA, yes delhi's river yamuna and this is my story. Like river Thames in england, I also carry out my journey in the midst of Delhi city. But in this journey, I am getting polluted day by day. and this pollution has posed a question for my survival. At one end, a campaign has been launched by Sri Sri Ravishankar to clean and save me and on the other end delhi people are making me dirty, as stated in above incident. I have been considered a pride of Delhi for many years and today my survival is in danger.

Let's see how I am getting polluted.

1. The plastic bags which people drop are non-renewable and keep on lying on my river bed. These polythene bags release chemicals in water, which are harmful for aquatic life, living in me and make my water polluted also. As these bags stops the incoming oxygen in river, hence the aquatic life gets deprieved of oxygen.

2. People living on my bank also use me for bathing and cleaning purposes, that also adds to my misery.

3. Another problem is the narrowing of my river bed. Due to the rapid urbanization of Delhi, my river bed has been narrowed down. This narrowing of my river bed has made my journey more difficult.

4. The sewage drainage from various areas is also dumped in my water.

Problems are many, but they do have solutions also. Following these steps can help to save me :

1. The people of Delhi need to understand that I am not a dumping ground, into which they can dump anything. Generally, people drop things such as flowers, that have been offered to god. People should realize that by doing so, they are polluting me. Instead of dropping these things in me, they can bury these things in earth / soil.The basic aim is that these things should not be misplaced here and there. By burying them in soil the aim will be fulfilled and I will be saved from pollution.

2. The government should try to remove the urbanization situated on my bank.

3. Government should take measures to restrict the access to my banks / bed by putting fences on the exposed areas to my bed / banks.

4. Nukkad Nataks can also be organized by NGOs, emphasizing on my importance and steps to save me.

5. An Ad campaign can also be launched giving information to saving me.

6. The government should keep a check on the sewages which are being dumped in me.

7. The awareness should be spread among the citizens of Delhi, that I am pride of Delhi and not the dumping ground. It should be the civic duty of all Delhi people to save me and keep my purity intact, otherwise I would lose my purity.The government has taken many steps to save me; like creating fences, putting awareness messages; but they have not been effective.

8. Media in today's time is playing a very big role in spreading messages. I would like to request media people and organizations to focus on this issue and spread the awareness of saving me.

I am the water source of Delhi and if anything wrong happens to me, the people of delhi will also suffer in turn.

Finally, I would like to say that it should be a collective responsibility of the government and citizens of Delhi to save me and help me to survive. A lot of campaigns have been done, a lot of posters have been published and put up on wall, but proper actions are still to come or missing.

I would like to request all readers of this blog to understand my value and spread the message of not polluting me. A lot damage has been done, but you can control the further damage.

If you have any idea or thought to save me, do not hesitate to write here.

~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~

THINK EVER,

DO EVER,

SAVE RIVER

~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~

PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS or LOVE - THE NOT SO REALIZED REALITY OF TODAY's TIME, THEY DO EXISTS.

Disclaimer: Below thoughts are purely mine and have been taken from certain sites. I am not writing this article to criticize anyone or any organization but to bring the common problems in front, existing in our day to day life.

The not so realized reality of today's time is the PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS. Out of us many are in such relationships. The word or term has been used in many author's books, but is not popular in general life. An attempt to get familiarize with this term.

Though a little different from Plato’s original concept of love, in modern times the terms “platonic love” and “platonic relationship” have come to mean a relationship between individuals of the opposite sex marked by the absence of romance or sex.

So to put it simply, a platonic relationship is a close friendship between a man and women.

Platonic relationships are those relationships between men and women where there is 'no physical desire'. However, this isn't always true.

The only times a relationship between a man and a woman is truly platonic is when:

1. They've been in a relationship and it's ended, and after a period of time for adjustment, they have moved on and accepted the relationship is over
2. The man is gay and therefore has no desire for the woman.
3. The man is in a satisfying relationship already, and therefore has no desires for the woman who is his friend.
4. The man finds her sexually unattractive to him, and there is no feelings of desire.

If any of these conditions are met, then there is a platonic relationship.
Many women believe that they can have purely platonic relationships with men, but quite often those men are simply holding back the expression of their desires. This is because they know that she is either uninterested in them sexually or romantically, or she's unavailable; or he's unavailable himself - and yet he still desires her. And so she's completely surprised when, after months or years of what she's considered to be a 'platonic relationship', he suddenly blurts out his desire for her. It usually ends in the end of the friendship, or it becomes friendship that just isn't as good as it used to be.

Very rarely does it turn out positively, where it results in a romantic relationship. Sometimes the friendship can become stronger, but it certainly requires hard work and maturity from all concerned.
One of the biggest reasons a man will find himself attracted to a woman is often because she simply talks to him, and gives him her time and attention. To the man, this is an 'obvious' sign that she likes him!. However, the man is conflicted when she doesn't give out any of the other signals that he expects from a woman who is attracted to him. She doesn't act shy around him, or doesn't touch him, or doesn't do any of the other things that he'd expect from a woman attracted to him. So he keeps his feelings to himself, hoping that one day he'll either have the courage to talk to her about those feelings, or that she'll 'recognise' her own 'true feelings' and declare her undying love for him. This is the fantasy of the platonic man.

If you find yourself in the situation where the only reason you're friends with a woman is because you think you love her but you know she doesn't feel the same way about you, you owe it to both of you to stop seeing her as much as you currently do. Change your relationship so that while she might still be in your life, she's not the one you're looking to for that hoped-for relationship. Look elsewhere. When you find someone who is actually interested in you romantically, only then can you go back to the first woman and really be her friend. You'll find better friendships this way, and more fulfilling relationships. It starts with being true to yourself.

Of course, there is the possibility that the woman is waiting for you to make the first move, that maybe she can't read the signs either. Love between two people can arise in many ways, including one person declaring their feelings and then the other realising that they feel the same way. The concept of this article isn't about building hope that this happens though, it's instead about building strength and confidence in yourself so that you don't feel the need to latch onto those women who give you their attention.
It's about finding the strength in yourself to do what's best for you. The way you apply your own strength is up to you, but you need to start today.

Why Should There Be A Problem ?

The reason platonic friendships can be difficult is genetics. For a good portion of us, attraction to the opposite sex is genetically “hardwired” into our psyche. There’s no way to avoid it. We find the physical form of the opposite sex attractive, the opposite sex exudes pheromones that we find attractive, even something as simple of the timbre of the voice of a member of the opposite can trigger a romantic response in us.

Add to that the fact that nothing makes a romantic relationship more successful then when the people involved are “friends first”, and it’s easy to see why platonic relationships can be difficult to keep strictly platonic.

Are They Possible?

Of course they are. George Washington and Betsy Ross where close platonic friends as well as other historical figures. Platonic relationships abound, and I'm sure that if you think about your own circle of acquaintances, you will discover platonic relationships that are working quite well.

But many platonic relationships do not work well. When romantic feelings spring up in both parties, then the friendship turns into a romantic relationship and everyone is happy. But a good portion of the time only one of the friends becomes attracted to the other, and then the platonic relationship is in trouble.

When the Friendship Goes Awry

Anyone who has ever been in love with someone who does not share that feeling knows the pain and frustration that comes with that situation. If the friend whose feelings have shifted towards romance can suppress or ignore those feelings, the platonic friendship can continue on as before. But often times that’s not possible and as sad and painful as it, sometimes friendships end.

So, can platonic relationships work? Yes they can. Romantic feelings between the sexes don't always exist, leaving room for a very fulfilling and lasting friendship.