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Short Shorts

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A crafty man A man saw sweet yellow mangoes hanging from the branches of a tree in an orchard. He was sorely tempted to get them. He thought to climb the tree, so he looked around and called out the shepherds who were grazing their sheep around there. The shepherds gathered on hearing him. “It seems you haven’t eaten anything for a long time, so you must be feeling hungry,” the man said to the shepherds. “Look, if you all help me climb the tree, I’ll pluck those mangoes and throw them down for you to eat.” The shepherds lifted him up so that he could reach for a branch. Anyway, when he succeeded climbing the tree, he started eating the fruit and putting some into his bag. “O you, what’re you doing?” shouted the shepherds. “Throw down a few mangoes for us too.” “Friends, after tasting the mangoes, I have found that they are all sour and so not worth eating,” the man on the tree replied. “But you know, the leaves taste so sweet.” And with that he chucked a bunch of leaves with ...

Appeasement and Politics

Alms and charity are meant for beggars, handicapped and helpless old people. It is shameful the way our people succumb to the temptation of meagre cash handouts, freebies, debt relief, humanitarian aid, relaxation in the law etc and make the government. Do these things ever stamp unemployment out, or be their regular means of livelihood? This money could be better used to increase investment in infrastructure and power generation, which play a vital role in development of Industries, and to expand market, which ultimately creates activities and employment. Moreover , the party that lures people with such deceitful welfare schemes constitute a breach of the law of election more seriously than those who bribe voters, for the latter ones at least spend their own money. In fact, those who cry ‘the poor, the poor...’ and thus project themselves as the saviours of them do nothing for the poor; instead, they make the mess of the national economy in its name and assuage their own hunger...

वह शक्ति हमें दो दयानिधे,

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It should be made compulsory for the legislators to recite this prayer before starting their session: सभी सांसदों / विधायकों के लिये यह आवश्यक कर देना चाहिये कि संसद / विधानसभा की बैठक प्रारंभ करने से पूर्ब एक प्रार्थना सभा में निम्न प्रार्थना को करें : वह शक्ति हमें दो दयानिधे ,            कर्तव्य मार्ग पर डट जावें | पर सेवा पर उपकार में हम ,                             निज जीवन सफल बना जावें || हम दीन दुखी निबलों विकलों                             के सेवक बन सन्ताप हरें | जो हों भूले भटके बिछुड़े                           ...

A Handful of my Ideas

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Sometimes our ego provokes us doing something dangerous and we decide to destroy someone who we might hate. In such a situation when we go to make that happen, we often fail. On contrary to it when we leave that for God to decide, we succeed in taking the revenge. Aggression often hides consequences, which may sometimes pop up in a dangerous way; greed blinds almost every sense of relationship; on the contrary, passion prompts to sacrifice anything; a stern prejudice floats on the surface of a deep ignorance. A prudent mind stands on the better side because it organizes its strength instead. Revengeful persons therefore dig a ditch for their foes and for themselves. A person, having arguments with their spouse, thinks that no one else ever has such beastly things, whereas the truth is different. In fact, those spouses who never argue with each other do not have the purity of their relationship. They are quite too formal. In an informal relation there is all that Nature provid...

A Drink of Life

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While I sat picturing a piece of the sweet past – Afraid I was lest something should my dreams wash – The eyes creaked and the present barged in on my fancy and me. Now I am what nobody would like to be. I don’t see what the fuss is about – why! Nothing has no love, and so have I Your love, when away, Sends you, too, far away – For you are then alone Without the company of your own. Hate me as much as you can But I don’t know how to forget you. Do not come quite too close The magnet is terribly strong. The weather this winter was brutal – Snows, heavy hail and the frozen sky – If not for the warmth of your love, I wouldn’t have survived. The world will greet you with a smile If on your lips you yourself have a smile. A crying baby seldom anyone bears; There’s no room in the eyes for tears, Just sit down before me And let me look into you As for the talks, Later to myself I will do. Each smile you give adds a new moment to my life ...

The Supermen

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‘The Supermen’ was composed by me on the eve of the 66 th Republic Day when the president was to be the Chief Guest at the Parade. “I’m right because I’m right,” says man And like an adolescent listens to no reason. To look the earth turning red And to hear the sky crying Are his favourite pastimes. The world is a stage – to sadomasochism, He is rehearsing his hymn. Babies are balloons; women cushions; He loves to reap the fields planted with humans. The dead spread deaths; The civilization its leaves sheds Perhaps to make new shoots. The autumn, it looks, is at the door. No walls, no door, no roof – The living one lives in the house life-proof. Nobody knows the cause of strife, Not even who is dead and who is alive. God kills and God is being killed; On the hills of hypocrisies holy faiths have settled. Whether Nonsense kills Sense or Sense Nonsense But it is clear what will remain is innocence. A lot many are ignorant of all tha...

जागो भारत वालों !

बर्तमान सरकार के पूर्ब देश में कानून व्यवस्था समाप्त हो चुकी थी , भ्रष्टाचार अपनी पराकाष्ठा पर था और सरकार के काम-काज में मजबूरन मानिय सुप्रीम कोर्ट को हस्तक्षेप करना पड रहा था | इससे उद्दवेलित होकर मैने इन पंक्तियों की रचना मार्च 2014 मे की थी | इसके माध्यम से मैने देशवासियों से गुजारिश की थी कि वे श्री नरेन्द्र मोदी पर भरोसा करें |                                    कंस कौरवों की सेना पहिचानों ! जागो भारत वालों ,   प्रजातंत्र में धुवां भर रहा , फटतीं देखो घर की भीतें संभल सको तो अभी समय है , पहिंचानो पौराणिक रीतें सधते मुहँ , भयभीत निगाहें , गुप्त हवाओं का रुख जानो कंस कौरवों की सेना पहिचानों , जागो भारत वालों ! भेंड़ बाड़ के दरवाजे पर भक्त भेंड़िय भेंड़खाल में सुखी घास का खारा लादे , खा लो , सब बंट रहा मुफ्त में ! जनता को ठगने को आतुर मधुर बचन में विष को भांपो कंस कौरवों की सेना पहिचानों , जागो भारत वालों ! भ्रष्टाचार रंग में डूबी , खून , घृणा , हिंसा की होली...

Of Employer and Employee

By Ramesh Tiwari The Creator will not like His creation to be inferior. If the persons of high intellect could only make the world beautiful, He would not bother to create mediocrities. Since most things in the world can be done well by ordinary people, the larger part of humanity consists of them. Now the question arises whether a system that opposes this law can yield satisfactory results. If not, the policies of recruitment in our country is in need of review as they provide that the minimum education qualification should correspond closely to the position i.e. lower qualification for lower post but they aim at the candidates that come from the pool of highest intellectual capability for every capacity, ignoring the bigger group of average students. An average student is not responsible for his being average but rather it is God who made him a boy of middling talent. Why should he then be discriminated against? He can make a very good clerk and feed data into a computer or d...