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a poem by meddahi
Translations available in: English (original) | French | Spanish | Italian | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Russian | Dutch | Arabic

When I see you found my heart
His Eminence happy with those who
His Eminence is not to extend them if
What we poured number
Fuad atmosphere of love
Actual longing is always
Valencia morning terms above
Eye dazzling beauty happy
BOOM, which has been in self-defence
Photos by Hassan benefited
Moody and never grow
Continued to give birth in the life
Khalid miracles in our father
Of the tender is not ready
People each year in contravention
Date because it does not find
Add creativity in
Sunan nice life breeds
How rosary reverse trend DNA
Does not wish installations sings
Like waves in Seaor Find
The night turbulent threaten
Magnificence of creativity without cause
Pedestrian criticizes a grudge
Grandchildren may slip in the environment
It always corrupts Bmkr
Nima described formed
After witnessing years of effort
Nwabg of creativity
Always inspire renewed
Kprh Abe to find
Solutions that do not include Ldd
We have all the people admitted to me
Like a prince to seek Gereida
Having won the task
Egypt gave birth breeds pride
He surpassed his production, which
They have prevailed a generation removed
The extent to which ago
Decade us pave
As much as had secured together
The spirits of insured pay
If God was informed that
Samsung created the universe unique
Despite the high rank
Hoey had with those who denied
Preferred endorsed by forbidding
Will see the true to life
Adib courage fair
In his words fairly criticisms
Genius brought renewed
Approach to life dispel
Petrified with tradition
People in the community might away
Each Jeddah, as if it were
Waft which missed sings
Poems of high-chanting
Rueda degrees happy
Eloquent judgement may contain
Treasures of the works is available
Discover terminated boy
His genius guide
Gifted eloquently Dent
Such methods are the stars
And love that had been concluded
In the heart after birth
Comprehensive security if there is no
Manie, which threatens two hours
Creators had a ball
DNA dispel shining light
The darkness of night, which withdrew
From the place of faith may seek
Surprised by the beauty of
Aromatic basil credit
I have admitted my Ulloa forbidding
They testified on my
Impartially nominated Cloud
Spray leaf guide
From the fruits produced in an environment
Aston airspace does not spoil
The magnanimity of redress
Cram worth of not running out
Everything had been made available without me
Any requirement may insulator away
The talents of its greatest extent
Stars under pressure-fired
Elements of the flames come
Ray will guide us how
Lost to correct the prevailing
We may find a good encroachment
If I thought it Envier
Shannan by commend
The eloquence of her poems have
High value devil
Their meaning increased chanting
Over their understanding not unite
Shannan plagued feelings
Preoccupations that threaten
Health expensive on the
May dearest Ha principal happy
Might create the principle of poison
For the unemployed to worship the gods






Greetings Yes, the love that is sincere
J who have given birth genius who plundered the time
Without their creations
Despite the shortfall compared Despite the demands of living
Which does not favour one because it is one of the ways of life
Yes, that every person is not hard unless flag
It pounds of the money behind expensive taxi or
Protected from the pain of poverty
== Contract only those who are doing creative
Their best to please others
Creative fonts, which brings happiness
Suggestive words like water lilies
Fine happy that both deem
And mitigate the crises which had been dismal for the crisis ..
Draw life as grief and learn from them
As the parents of those who Thank you Eulogists Feast

August 17, 2008 | 2:51 AM Comments  0 comments

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Is this the Independence we shed our blood for?--Sandeep pandey
Translations available in: English (original) | French | Spanish | Italian | German | Portuguese | Swedish | Russian | Dutch | Arabic

The mainstream freedom movement of this country definitely had a vision for an egalitarian society. A society in which each family would be able to earn their livelihood with dignity and accord the same respect to every other member of the society that they would expect for themselves. People would be able to live in an atmosphere free from fear. There would be mutual respect for diversity of ideas. India would lead the world towards disarmament and peace and would help establish a just and humane global order.

The development policies adopted by the Nehru's government, completely ignoring the principles of Hind Swaraj put forward by Mahatma Gandhi, later further aggravated by the economic policies of liberalization, privatization and globalization have resulted in dual development stream in this country. A small minority of the society which possesses a purchasing power can afford the latest fruit of modern technological development available in the global market. The industrialists are allowed unhindered to produce material items for the consumption of this class and this class is allowed to consume things unbounded. Just like the American society nobody cares a damn about global warming or any such thing coming in their way of a global lifestyle. On the other hand for the vast majority of poor, devoid of the magical purchasing power - which doesn't accrue from one's capability alone - the country's parliament has passed a National Rural Employment Guarantee Act which bars machines from being used in work offered to them for the fear of causing a threat to the employment of the poor. In spite of Prime Minister's advice in a CII meeting, the CEOs resist the idea of placing a ceiling on their salaries whereas the poor earns a maximum wage of what is described as minimum daily wage. So, obviously there are two sets of policies one which allows unlimited growth and unbridled indulgence; and the other which tends to restrict.

This is not just limited to the field of economy. It extends to all other areas of human life. The elite of the country resist the idea of common school system ever since the Kothari Commission gave a recommendation in its favour in the mid '60s. Even the child of a government school teacher goes to a nearby private school. Same is the case with health care system, access to electricity, potable water, transportation, communication, etc. We have a system offering better services to the rich and another for the rest where people are asked to make do with subhuman conditions. A good example would be people who can pay a higher amount can travel in reserved coaches of the railways and those who cannot afford it are relegated to animal like travel in the general unreserved coaches.

As if things were not bad enough. The shining India now aspires to be a military power, in the august company of the country which is the single biggest threat to the sovereignty of various nations around the world. More people have probably died in India pre-maturely because of disease, poverty and debt-related suicides than would die because of dropping of a nuclear weapon by an enemy country. Through a stupid deal on nuclear energy, which has been rejected as an option for producing electricity by most of the developed nations, we're entering into a strategic tie-up with the US which will make it more difficult for us to resist exploitation by their MNCs of our natural resources and the market, will create more enemies for us in our neighbourhood and unnecessarily involve us in wars which the US will fight in this region and elsewhere. Already, our Prime Minister appears to be committed to fulfilling promises made to the US President at the cost of ignoring the priorities of people of this country. This is a serious departure from our policy of non-alignment and self-reliance. From being a leader pursuing the agenda of global peace until as late as 1995 in the International Court of Justice, we've now slipped down to being a military ally of the US in making.

It is not a coincidence that the terrorist incidents in this country have seen a rise since we decided unilaterally to join the US's war against terror in 2001. After the demolition of Babri Masjid, the first major terrorist incident which marked the arrival of right wing politics in India, there was a lull until the mysterious attack on our Parliament just before the passage of POTA Act. Since then there have been a series of incidents which have engulfed this country in an unknown fear. As we raise more brute power to crush the problem of terrorism, or for that matter Naxalism, the cycles of violence continue to grow. The government policy of acting with vengeance, instead of trying to solve the problems politically through dialogue, ends up in targeting innocent individuals like Syed Abdul Rehman Geelani and Binayak Sen. Our response to a Irom Sharmila who has been fasting for eight years now to demand repeal of the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act is to charge her with attempt to suicide and jail her in the hospital ward in Imphal. The Indian state doesn't know how to deal with its people except for a small elite segment loyal to it for its own vested interest. Farmers and labourers fighting to save their lands from corporate take over, for example in the name of SEZs, are labeled as Naxalites.

It is quite clear that majority of India doesn't know what it means to be 'independent'. It lives as a second rate citizen of this country, denied the fruits of modern development or of the basic human rights, working hard day and night to make two ends meet. The police, military, nuclear weapons, intelligence agencies, laws of the land and increasingly the development juggernaut do not instill a sense of security in her, rather they appear as ominous threat to their very existence.

by

Sandeep pandey

(Author has won the 2002 Ramon Magsaysay Award in the Emergent Leadership category for work towards empowering the poorest of the poor and lending the underprivileged in India a voice- from education to grassroots democracy to peace to promoting local ownership of resources)







August 15, 2008 | 5:19 AM Comments  0 comments

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