कुच्छ घाओ लगे तो

कुच्छ घाओ लगे तो,
तो लगे की जिंदा है जहाँ,
कहीं एक टुकड़े से नाता ना बने,
तो कहीं जुड़े पूरे जहाँ से जहाँ I

ना मुझे यह था पता,
के जख़्मो से भी निकलती है दुआ,
हम ज़रूर संभल जाएँगे ऐसे,
जब ये आह सबका हुआ I

अब जिए जैसे साकी हो जिंदा,
आशिक़ो का ताज़ जैसे फिदा,
हाँ मैं हाँ मदहोश, ये था बाकी,
तनहा रहगुजर साकी है बाकी I

रचना: प्रशांत 

The honey diet and honey dance!

My niece Vanshika was a bundle of joy for whole of the family. She was sharp at studies and used to love to dance. We had sent her to a dance class. And there too she had excelled. We had big dreams for her. Time was passing by and she was moving from one class to another with earning laurels for herself and pride for the family.

But one day there came a change in her life. She fell sick of typhoid and after  she got better, she started to show the signs of irritation and fatigue.

She left all her interest in studies and dance. She remained aloof. Her parents (who are my sister and brother-in-law) became really worried along with her grandparents. We took her to doctor who gave her vitamins and told that the fatigue was due to the weakness of typhoid. She regained some part of her bubbly character that she was before the fever but still she was far away from her original self.

She was going to the school and going to dance classes but she was not there hundred percent. One day her friend came to our home and informed us that there was a dancing competition of in their school but Vanshika had opted out of that. Her friend was keen that my niece took part in that competition.

When Vanshika came home, we tried to cajole her to take part in the competition. Then she explained to us that it was not that she didn’t want to take part in the contest but it was just that she didn’t feel as energetic as she used to feel before the bout of typhoid.

We got really worried. Sometimes we were cursing the evil typhoid and sometimes to our fate. My mother and grandmother of Vanshika used to do all the voodoos (her favorite was nimboo mirchi ) to take the evil spirit out of the fate of vanshika. Whole family was worried for Vanshika.

We wenk again to the doctor and this time he changed the vitamin medicines and advised her to drink a lot of water. But despite all these things we didn’t observe any positive changes in her situation.

I was sitting in the library but was in a brooding, pensive mood. After I came out of the library my girlfriend stopped me and asked me the reason of my bad mood. I told her about the situation with my niece. After listening out to me she told that why we didn’t try a Honey Diet for her. She informed that homey is very good for energy and agility for children. She told that DaburHoney could be best bet for my niece.

I informed about Honey Diet to her mother and my sister. She put her on the Honey Diet and surprisingly Vanshika improved a lot in the next week. Now, she got ready to take part in the competition as well.  

  

When the results of competition came she had stood second but we were all happy that we had got our own Vanshika  back. I knew that it was the HoneyDiet that had brought the radical change in health of Vanshika . I felt real gratitude for the Honey Diet and my girlfriend who suggested this for our real honey to dance as smooth as honey.

P.S: This is a creative account!

Greece Garrison!

Monetary Union Needs People's Union

Looking at the Greece crisis I feel more confused on the likely unfolding of events in times to come. For the last five years the events have been oscillating at its pace and symptoms being kept away from public scrutiny by interventions and promises from strong and comfortable neighborhood partner economies. Well at the time of joining in Euro-currency union Greece seems to have qualified on the strength of its parameters on hold over deficits and price rise. Public enthuse on likely benefits partnering with strong economies in terms of financial, economic, industrial and its positive effects, in terms of employment and income may have allowed citizens to compromise on sovereignty of policies for gradual streamlining into European stability and prosperity. It is natural to think a weak economy may have cost advantages due to labour abundance as we assume skills travel and assimilate. Return in capital output ratio may increase in relation to the advanced economies. New Industrial enclosures may come up in the vicinity and purchasing power doubles alongwith tax potentials. In short as you become a part of a Union, a united force complements your attempts to grow and provide you employment opportunities. It is time to analyse how Greece has really benefited from being a member. Or simply pockets of Greek superiority in labour and capital (if any) whether limited or plenty moved to destinations where it is offered bigger rewards in short time. With more unemployment left and rising, Greece ended as leisure picks for others (market for goods and services in return for easy tourism).

It is interesting to observe possibility of a likely varied type of self rule within monetary union emerging out. A 45%-43% or 47% to 49% referendum divide (with some undecided) cannot be termed as a regime of free and equal Greeks within the nation. With population over 40 and above is staying almost 50% above (roughly) the below 39 years, the promise to face austerity now to sow seeds of future growth with bigger allocation to capital seems remote possibility. Here compulsive economic forces deciding in favour of world expectations will be countered by political allocation of democracy. It may be observed that Greece also had adopted similar social and benevolent policies of other developed Europe.

Analysts who rate economy looking at the ratios be it Debt/GDP, fiscal surplus, Capital outlay, spending on subsidy or pension or income are only moved by technical measures. They hardly look at the stress on current output or even contraction of output due to falling quality and decline of goods and services from government to its people. This affects cost, quality and standard of living of all sections of the populations. And importantly a big morale let down for the promised or anticipated investments. Liberal and representative democracy can only respond by a hang in balance unity in phase-II of single currency adoption to proposed “circumstances of politics and policies”. Hope Greece is extended another long hand of hopes by IMF and Europe.

 By: Prashant