Ramesh Tiwari

There was a time when people enjoyed small things during the Holi period, but now in this age of digital technology, people are busy reading endless mobile things or watching TV. A lot many of them get boozed up, tear their clothes off, have a barbaric dance and make a mess around everywhere. Very few show respect and reverence towards their elders, very few go to temples. Fashionable English schools and modern education system have spoiled our age old sophistication and sense of amiable social life. People seldom visit and see each other. Very few sprinkle each other with colours when most are quick to take offence at being sprayed a little. However, our Holi festival still breathes grace and charm as ever. I wish you all a very very Happy Holi !!

Stupidity has its fair share but it should be gentle. In my childhood, children sprayed people with colour weeks in advance of Holi and nobody felt upset. We would gather logs and firewood at the bank of our village pond a few days before and Pandit ji would light Holika early hours of Holi morning. Children, women, the young and elderly all would come and stand grouped around the fire, throwing cow dung cakes and plants of wheat and barley in it. Words cannot express how happy we were to play colours through noon till a group of our Kakas and Dadas went door to door, singing Dhamal. There would gather a big crowd where ever they went and the family playing host would offer tasty Gujhia and Betel to everyone there. Sadly, deshi Tharra has spoiled all charms of Holi today! Anyway, Happy Holi, everyone!

One day the gate keepers of Lord Vishnu, Jaya and Vijaya, annoyed Sanak, Sanandan, Sanat Kumar and, as a result, the kumars cursed them, saying they be demons. In Satyuga, the gate keepers had to be born on the earth as Hiranyakashipu and Hiranyaksha to sage Kashyapa and Diti, daughter of Daksha Prajapati. When the Varah avatar of Lord Vishnu killed Hiranyaksha, his elder brother Hiranyakashipu decided to take revenge on Vishnu. He worshiped Brahma with a view to gaining super powers. He underwent years of hard austerity and penance. At last, Brahma emerged and offered him anything that he wanted. He asked for the immortality but he was refused. Brahma, however, agreed to oblige him with alternative boons. He then requested that he not be killed by any living or nonliving entity, by god or demon and asked to grant him that he not die within or outside any house, nor on the ground or in the sky, not during the daytime or at night, that no weapon, nor man or any animal could kill him and...

  Read the following short-short story and if it touches you deeply, enjoy more of them in Snippets of Life Music. When I woke up, I saw my little one standing before me. I knelt down with hands on her tiny tender shoulders. Then I looked into her eyes. They were shining with excitement. “Shopping this afternoon?” I enquired. She started jumping up and down. “Pa, get me Holi toys, new suits, won’t you?” she insisted on. “OK, we’ll!” I smiled. Right then my eyes really opened and the horrid morning with worries of going to work even on a Holi holiday.

Read the following short-short story and if it makes a good impression on you, enjoy more of them in Snippets of Life Music.  “Tatu, Tatu!” I cried. “Mind, you don’t walk there! You’ll get stuck in the mud.” She did not listen to me and stepped in the mud. Since the ground was very slippery, she fell down. She tried to stand up but as she attempted to get to her feet, she fell over again. I stood laughing without extending my hand to help her. Finally, when she succeeded getting away from the mud, she was plastered from head to foot with it. She walked bawling. After taking a few steps on the dry ground, she halted crying louder because there was a patch of wet ground as the ground had been sprayed with water.

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राम के देश में राम मंदिर बनने में 500 वर्ष क्यों लगे यह हमारे आत्मचिंतन का विषय हैं । महाराणा प्रताप के बजाय हममें से बहुत लोगों ने उनके दुश्मन का साथ दिया । जब पृथ्वीराज चौहान को बंदी बना कर ले जाया जा रहा था तब हमारी भीड़ तमासा देख रही थी । शिवा जी को हमने ही धोखा दिया था । हमारी स्वार्थपरता हमारे स्वाभिमान पर सदैव प्रभावी रही है । मोदी और योगी राज में हमें निर्भय व् स्वाभिमान से जीने का अवसर प्राप्त हुआ है । हममें से कुछ लोगों को उनसे अत्यंत घृणा है । दुनिया में सबसे असुरक्षित व्यक्ति स्वार्थी होता है क्योंकि उसकी सहायता कोई नहीं करना चाहता । इसके विपरीत जो अपने धर्म में आस्था रखते हैं उनके मददगार करोड़ो होते हैं, धर्मो रक्षति रक्षितः । एक समाज विशेष का लेखक अपने पूर्वजों का इतिहास लिखता है वह पुस्तक रातों रात लाखों में विक जाती है क्योंकि उस समाज के लोगों में अपने पूर्वज के प्रति श्रद्धा है । मैं प्रधान मंत्री मोदी जी पर एक किताब लिखता हूँ और कहता हूँ कि यह किताब यह सिद्ध करती है कि उन्होंने आपके ही देश में आपको वास्तविक नागरिकता दी है तो यह उतनी नहीं पढ़ी जाती क्योंकि हमें अपनों की न...