हिसाब छोड़, थोड़ा जी ले !

                                                                             

इतनी फिकर किस बात की,

जो होना हे तेरे बस मे कहाँ, 

उम्र ना तेरा गुलाम,ना परछाई, 

जब ये कायनात तुम्हे ना अपनाये 

सलतनते अकबर कहाँ सुकून आए  I

हिसाब कर,पल पल ना तोड़,

इनाम कमा ले, ईमान ना छोड़, 

बेहिसाब पल पल तू जोड़, 

खुशियाँ बिखेर, रिश्तों में बिखर,

खुद को मोड़,  खुदा से जुड़ ई

रचना : प्रशांत 

उस शाम पल खरीदने की हिसाब जुड़ रही थी...

उस शाम पल खरीदने की हिसाब जुड़ रही थी
क्या बताएं की कैसी वो शाम थी,
कुछ ना था अलग पर वो एक अलग शाम थी I

साल बीत गयी, सवाल आज भी था,
वो हसीन पल जो हमे हासिल था,
ख़यालो मे ज़िंदा पर रूबारू ना थाI

जो गवाए यह हिसाब आ रही थी ,
बचपन से  जवानी फिसली जा रही थी ,
पैसे के तमाशा मे पल जुदा जा रही थी,
पल खरीदने की हिसाब जूड रही थी,
पल बेमिसाल, पैसे बेकार बिकती थी ई

रचना : प्रशांत 

इतनी मेहेरबानी तू बक्श खुदा...

                                                                             

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इतनी मेहेरबानी तू बक्श खुदा, 

की ना अधूरे हम जहाँ छोड़ जाए,

मौत का मुझे कोई गम ना रहे, 

बस तु हमे राह दिखाए I

हुकूम कर हम जहाँ छोड़ जाए,

कोई गम नही ,गर मौत भी आए, 

बस मुझे देख तू खुश नज़र आए, 

तेरे दिया हूनर, बन्दो के काम आए I

रचना: प्रशांत 

Ohh Brother!

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Ohh Brother!

I do not remember the way you pulled my pig tails,

Or told about my new boy friends,

 I do not remember your tantrums,

 As day by day you fell a prey to the devil in your head,

Who would not let you be what you really were.

Day by day you walked away from me,

Your world was no longer mine,

Nor I yours or you mine.

I do not remember the violent tremors that shook your body,

As needles pierced your brain,

There alone on a hospital bed of Loonies,

I said , this too shall pass,

And you will be back home one day strumming your violin or painting the wall,

With colours of the rainbow.

Again we would argue about things of no consequence really,

And I would pretend to cry and you would tease me.

 I heard that you were not interested anymore in medicines,

That you threw them out,

In a surreptitious way,

We willed you to be normal,

 You escaped into your private hell,

Where voices tormented you,

And sleep sneaked away from you forever,

 You thought , if only I could sleep,

The night would not bother me,

Or the shadows on the walls close up on me,

You shrieked all those curses at the blank night,

And pounded your head on the window which would not open.

I do not remember all this.

Only your mischievous boyish smile,

Only your running after me on your toddlers toes,

Only your calling out to me, Nani , hold me tight,

I remember

Only your dancing in my wedding procession

I remember

Only your excitement at the arrival of my first-born

I remember

Only the smile spreading wide on your sunlit face one day as he called out to you MAMU

I remember

 I will always remember

O my Brother.

By : Meera Panigrahi

P.S: This post is written in the remembrance of the brother who is no more! 

devil in your head--rebellion--drugs--suspecting each one

Mamu--Uncle

Refugee Crisis!

By Prashanta Chandra Panda and Rasananda Panda, December 3, 2015 :

The tragic scene of the dead body of a 3-year-old Syrian toddler, Alan Kurdi, on Turkish Shore of Mediterranean Sea, shook the entire world.  Europe has been resistant and hesitant about accepting refugees from Middle East. But now Europe has to relook at the entire issue of refugees in a different perspective. It has to respond positive knowing well that the large-scalerefugee population will influence the social, economic and the political life of the host country. Presence of these people (predominantly of a particular religion), have left their well-established lives may have both positive and negative impact at both micro and macro level on the nations accepting the refugees. We have instances of refugee risk jeopardizes the development effort of the host country.

Knowing these facts the refugees have been proposed to be distributed across nations. The weightings are based on the size of the population (40%), the total GDP (40%), the average number of asylum applications on the previous four years (10%), and the unemployment rate (10%). The proposed relocation distribution per member state the May Proposal for the 120,000 asylum applications are shared below.

The likely impact of Refugees on the Host Nations 

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More Labour Options and the Threat of Lower Wages : The biggest problem for the European economy is the aging population and people taking early retirement. The influx refugees can help combat this very problem. These refugees in a new continent want to start a new life. They will be willing to work hard for it, harder than the natives.  Availability and willingness to work for lower wages will amount to loss of jobs for the locals and depression in wages. It may have the same impact as outsourcing. Yes, it will. Nevertheless, this may only be the immediate impact in a short run and possibly not for a long period. Their negative aspects may be felt long after the refugee problem is solved.

Higher Local Inflation? Refugees wherever they are settled is definite to compete with the local citizens for scarce resources. There is going to be bigger pressure on land, water, housing, food and medical services. Externalities from public utilities like government schooling, water supply, police, trusts and churches, homes for destitute will be mostly absorbed by these new populations.   Over time, their presence leads to more substantial demands for natural resources, education, health facilities, energy, transportation social service and employment.

Increase in demand for food and other commodities will lead to price rise in the m market. This stimulates local economic activity favouring the owners and traders of these services.  There will be inflationary pressure on the prices and can significantly alter the flow of the goods and services within the society.  Poor locals and people with fixed income are adversely affected. There may be violent uprising against this settlement when the poor section of the host country sees that the refugees are getting better means of living, such as education, medication, housing etc.

Revival  of EU nations on card ! So far, twenty two out of a total twenty eight EU member countries have been following minimum wages. These refugees now treated as the citizens of Europe will get the benefits as they are official entries. Joint study conducted by the World Bank, UN’s ILO and the OECD, in most countries migrants pay more in taxes as compared to social contribution that they receive. This is because most of the refugees are young and need less in the way of social benefits. At the same time it may encourage the youth of the respective European countries to work more.  In that case the taxes that would be received by these governments will also increase. It is thus believed that this exodus of refugees will actually revive the near dead European Economy.

Germany’s Story : Germany has an aging population. The economy is bleeding Euros in retirement benefits.  Germany has to sustain its own economy by bringing more domestic demand. Germany can avoid a shortage of skilled labour by providing an intense vocational education to refugees. This makes them skilled labours. With these supply of labour and productivity gains, revival of domestic demand, Germany can maintain its geo-political supremacy in Europe.

Cultural Impact and Future Politics : Real worry has always been about the clash of cultures.  Europe is still not totally ready to leave its doors ajar to a completely new Muslim population. The stability of the economy is a delicate balance between the political stability and internal environment in the respective nations.. Present rush of sympathy towards humanity will die down when the people see the actual impact on their native population.  India has seen many such instances.  Bangladeshi refugees of late sixties and early seventies continue to create local uproars in West Bengal, Assam and Tripura. Sri Lankan Tamils in eighties had lot of burden for Tamil Nadu government. The political dynamism alters once these people assert their voices and protect their interests by casting their votes. To say more we need to look at voting pattern of different ethnic people concentrated in different cities of Europe. Sensing this Slovakia is mostly open to accept Christian Syrians. Paris attack may affect the stand taken by France so far. Every government wants to avoid any rift between the behaviour of the people and the behaviour of the governments.

Need for Patience : A longer term plan is needed here. The EU members have accepted to give up their national sovereignty in many sensitive areas for the economic prosperity. The influx of refugees is threatening the very prosperity and sovereignty of the Europe.  It will be interesting to watch the future index of the free flow of labour which Europe has championed. True liberalisation of a crucial factor of production gets more complicated with the addition of these refugees. Productivity gains may come at the expense of more unrest.  In case the  growth suffers in  Europe,  severity of a global recession increases. The world does not want one addition of one more event to the already Chinese meltdown, falling crude prices across the Middle-East and slump in commodity prices across the globe.

Prashanta Chandra Panda and Rasananda Panda are Professors of Economics from KIIT University, Bhubaneswar  and MICA, Ahmadabad respectively. 

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यह इंतेहा, आज भी है  बाकी, 

संभाले खुद को जितना, 

यह धोका आज भी है बाकी,

वज़ूद की तसल्ली  उनको भी है 

धोके मे सादगी इधर मे भी है I

यह वर्कप्लेस पॉलिटिक्स ,

अजब सा है ये इनसानी सर्कस , 

इशारो पे नाचनेवाले बने सितारे,

शीशे में खुद को यह ना उतारे, 

ईमान से सब ये खुदा के  प्यारे 

तुम्हे इल्ज़ाम बार बार ये दे 

तुम्हे ना परखे,कोई सबूत ना दे I 

रचना : प्रशांत 

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