Freedom Of Speech...The Indian Way

I am writing this blog but at the same time i am horrified if I am also put under the act of SEDITION for supporting Assem. This is the new way of living in India these days. You cannot speak in the public, you cannot express your views on the social media and you also cannot keep yourself in contact with your loved ones on phone. This is Freedom of Speech in my country these days where you have the freedom but not to talk. 

After all the raucousness on Social sites, protests and mobile phones now this is a new way you can't make cartoons also. You make a cartoon of a politician, Mamta sends you to Jail, bans your book and that is perfectly fine. You make a cartoon and you are behind the bars with the charge of sedition ( Deshdroh) on you.

Yes, i am talking about the Assem Trivedi who has been sent to judicial custody under the act of sedition. Let’s first see what the act of sedition actually means.

Sedition Sec 124 A Whoever, by words, either spoken or written, or by signs, or by visible representation, or otherwise, brings or attempts to bring into hatred or contempt, or excites or attempts to excite disaffection towards the Government established by law in India.

I do not know much about law but I, at least, know that when you are talking about law it is all about INTENTION and motive.  A person is called a criminal if he has done that crime with a strong intention of doing that with open mind.

Now let’s see the case of Assem. He made a cartoon in December 2011 which was an insult to the Indian constitution, as reportedly said. Ok even if I am agree on this fact than the question raises that does this act puts him in the same league of AZMAL KASAB or AFZAL GURU two people who are being prosecuted under the law of Sedition.

·         Did his intention was to overthrow the state or Indian government by his cartoons as the      other two did?

·         Did he want to incite people to become aggressive and start disrupting the Indian   democracy?

·         Did he want to kill people or harm the public by his cartoons?

·         Did his cartoons make any loss to the country, harm a single citizen of this nation, and shed a single drop of blood on roads?

Answere to all the question is NO. and when his intentions were not wrong and when his cartoons did not harm anyone then on what grounds he was charged with Sedition.

Yes, there are different views and opinions and we can have a debate on this in the country. He could have asked to explain his views, He could have asked to take his cartoons back, he could have even asked to apologize but charging a young man with the act of DESH DROH is a big time harsh decision for him. He is not a KASAB or AFZAL.  

I strongly condemn this act of Police to arrest him with the charge of Sedition and putting him behind the bars. This act of Sedition is patently misused here. This will ignite a new debate in the country and the consequences would be much more than what we could see now.

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अथाह सागर की ख़ामोशी इस दिल मे दबा के बैठा हूँ,
जो सुनना हो तो कभी आओ रातों को मेरे किनारों पर ||

अंधे शहर की रोशनी को लहरों  मे समा के बैठा हूँ,
जो देखना हो तो कभी आओ चलके चाँदनी के इशारों पर ||

खुद को छिपा के बैठा हूँ, दुनियाँ की इस बेरहम भीड़ से,
जो मिलना हो तो आओ कभी तन्हाई के गलियारों पर ||

सात रंगो से सजा के बैठा हूँ सपनो के इस इंद्रधनुष को,

जो छूना हो गर कभी तो आओ बारिश की फुहारों पर ||

दुल्हन की तरह सज़ा के तुझे पलकों मे बिठा रखा है ,
जो मिलना हो खुद से कभी तो आओ ख्वाबों के उलारों पर ||

Pyar ki Ek Kahani

प्यार की एक कहानी सुनो, आज तुम मेरी ज़बानी सुनो..
एक लड़का था दीवाना सा ..कौन थी उसकी दीवानी सुनो
मिलना तो था उनकी किस्मत मे, दोनो ही इससे अंजान थे
कब और कैसे मिले वो दोनो , बात पूरी मेरी बयानी सुनो

वो शाम कुछ खास थी,महकी महकी सी उसकी हर बात थी
हल्का हल्का सा कोहरा था,जैसे उनके मिलन की ही सौगात थी
वो भीड़ मे भी था अंजानो सा, बैठा था अपनो मे भी बेगानो सा
नादान ये नही जानता था, आज किससे होनी उसकी मुलाक़ात थी

दोनो ने देखा एक दूजे को, दोनो ही एक दूसरे से अंजान थे,
करनी थी कितनी सारी बातें, कैसे करे इसे लेकर परेशान थे.
फिर वो मिले एक दूजे से, और सब बातें अपने आप हो गयी..
प्यार की राह मे मानो जैसे, दोनो की ज़िंदगी ही खो गयी


ये कोई दास्तान-ए-इश्क़ नहीं, बस जज़्बातों की एक कहानी है,
जिसमे एक लड़का है दीवाना सा...और एक लड़की दीवानी है
दास्तान ये यहीं पर बस ख़तम नही होती है दोस्तों
ये तो मुहब्बत है,इसके हर पन्ने पर एक नयी इबारत लिखी होती है  दोस्तों

A half dream...

Thought it would be an appropriate time to revive blog after 3 months or so...Let me take this opportunity to share an incident which happened a couple of days back.....the story goes like this....

I am sitting in the car with my best friend and has no idea where we are going to....I am continuously forcing him to drive fast despite the fact that he is already driving it dangerously fast.....After some time we reach to a house....It seems like some function is being celebrated here....I come out of the car and run into the house....and straightaway reach into a room ....

There I see a girl in bridal costume...she sees me and there is a long silence....than she stands up ...comes to me and slaps me ....and says..." Ab aaya hai tu"....we both starts crying.......

and guess what phir meri neend khul jati hai.....Yes it was a dream....but a beautiful one....Wish it comes true......Hey God...Are you listening....

Special

This post is a special one because it has the names of all those beautiful people of my life. I would like to take this opportunity to thank some of those lovely people who came in my life and supported me always. I would like to thank Sam and his wife Sim for being my support always...Love you both guys...You are the only one who bore all my Pranks and mischievousness. I would also Appreciate the support of my friends Divya, Nitin , Gurpreet, Bhavna,Himanshu, Snigdha, and Gunjan. You all are truly amazing buddies. God bless you all.

and last but not the least that one person whom I always troubled and in return always got a smile on her face....Hey BT miss you dear.....Every single day ....every single second I really miss you.....God bless you always.......

Thanks Guys..Thanks for being a support to me....You will always have a special place in my life......Love you all ......

13 july 2011 ............

13 July 2011 ...around 7:15 I got a news that completely shattered me. I was told that there were a series of blasts in Mumbai again. I was out of my senses for few minutes and when I got out of the shock the first thing  I did was to start calling people over there. Adding to the already worsen situation mobiles got blocked and I could not contact any one over there. I was getting irritated as the time passed but was helpless. Seeing the pictures of blast sites I was even more horrified but was not able to do anything sitting here. Around 11 pm in the night got the call and relieved that people were fine ( rather I should say LIVE) there. I was relieved but what about people who died in these blasts and what about their families. Its very tough to believe that one has lost everything in a spur of a moment.

Everybody in the country was shocked and angry over these blasts but was feeling helpless. People living in Mumbai have addicted to rain and blasts. Every now and then they face a threat of blast in their city. People say Mumbai city has a big heart and they live by it but they should understand that it is not by their choice rather it is their compulsion. They don't have any other alternative.

It is the bad fortune of my country that we have a shameless leadership and shameless people in it. There were blasts on the other night and the very next morning the Promising , Marvelous, Projected Future PM of our country comes up with a statement that they can't avoid Blasts. It happens and It will happen. I am Ashamed. I can't even use the words that i said after seeing him giving the statement.

If this was not even enough a mentally retarded person came on TV and said that our country is better than PAKISTAN as we had blasts after 31 months. Instead of shutting his mouth he said that he knows who are behind the blasts and named an organization behind the scene and said that he had got evidence also. I ask him why the hell you don't show them if you have got them.

Politicians of my country just plays dirty politics and vote bank politics over the dead bodies of people. I am ashamed for this in my country and outside as well. I don't understand when these people will value life. They take everything only as a  political war game . Please think about the country if not first but at-least think ...

I Pray for the people affected in the Mumbai Blasts. May god bless them all.....................

1am

I don't know if this is the right way to go about posting something which I have been hiding from everyone here, but It is more than a month now. I have tried a lot to hide my anger behind my laughter, to hide my tears behind my smiles,and to hide myself against everybody in front of me. I never asked for heavens from the life...but did not know that it was preparing hell for me. I have lost a few things in my life but I consoled myself saying that it was all my fault and I was the one who did not deserve it at all. I was a happy person, after a long long time, few months back but destiny again did not like it at all. I got the biggest shock of my life...I felt like somebody had back-stabbed me and it was like a big silence in the life.