Saturday, October 1, 2016

बापू तुम अमर बने रहो सदैव, मेरे आत्मा, चिंतन, मन के विश्वासों में....

बापू तुम अमर बने रहो सदैव,
मेरे आत्मा, चिंतन, मन के विश्वासों में....

तुम भारत के,
और भारतीयता के थे वास्तव प्रतीक
सरल, सादगीपूर्ण,
धीरज और संयम से परिपूर्ण
सौहार्द और सद्भावना के प्रतिमूर्ति,
तेरे उछ्वासों में
स्पंदित होती थी आत्मा भारत की
तेरे विश्वासों में ही
रचता, बसता सच्चे भारत का विश्वास
बापू!
तुम भारत के,
और भारतीयता के थे सहज प्रतिबिंब ।

Saturday, August 27, 2016

जीवन पथ पर चलते चलते....

जीवन पथ पर चलते चलते....

(Translated from the English Poem - As I Walk Through Life by great English Poetess Emily Adams)

जीवन पथ पर चलते चलते
मैंने यह सीखा और जाना,
कि वर्तमान पल को जी लेते,
जो आवश्यक और उचित वही करते
बच जाते भावी दुखसंतापों से।१।
I've learned-
that you can do something in an instant
that will give you heartache for life.

मैंने सीखा यह और जाना
कि अपनों से जब भी विदा लिए
कर लेते साझा दो प्रेम बोल
है कौन जानता पल कल को
फिर मिलें कभी या नहीं मिलें
हो मिलना यह अंतिम पता नहीं।२।
I've learned-
that you should always leave
loved ones with loving words.
It may be the last time you see them.

मैंने सीखा यह और जाना
कि चलते रहना ही जीवन है
हों पांव थके, दम उठ आए
हिम्मत भी साथ विदा लेती,
फिर भी संकल्प लिए मन में
चलते रहना, बढ़ते रहना है।३।
I've learned-
that you can keep going long after you can't.

मैंने सीखा यह और जाना
कि जीवन में जो भी कर्म किया
उनकी जिम्मेदारी निज की है,
चाहे हों कितनी असफलताएं
चाहे कितने अवसाद मिले
पर दोष और को क्यों दूं मैं? ४।
I've learned-
that we are responsible for what we do,
no matter how we feel.

मैंने सीखा यह और जाना
कि निज मनोवृत्ति और आदत पर
अनुशासन और नियंत्रण आवश्यक है
काबू में रखना  उनकी लगाम
वरना स्वच्छंद हुए यदि वे
तो हो जायेंगे खुद उनके काबू में।५।
I've learned-
that either you control your
attitude or it controls you.

मैंने सीखा यह और जाना
कि जीवन की उपलब्धि का मापदंड
धनअर्जन मात्र नहीं होता
आवश्यकता भर तो यह आवश्यक होता
पर जीवन के मूल्यों और रिश्तों का
केवल धन स्थान न ले सकता।६।
I've learned-
that money is a lousy way of keeping score.

मैंने सीखा यह और जाना
कि  जीवन के निधि अनमोल मित्र
हों मसले कोई गंभीर, कठिन या फिर
बातें बस हों हंसी ठिठोली की
जो मित्र साथ में अपने हों तो
पल कैसे बीते न यह पता चले।७।
I've learned-
that my best friend and I can do anything
or nothing and have the best time.

मैंने सीखा यह और जाना
कि चाहे जो भी हालात बने
भली बुरी बातों के पल में
खुशी और नाराजगी लाजिमी है
पर कितने भी क्रोधित आवेशित हों
मन में मानवता, सहिष्णुता रहे कायम।८।
I've learned-
that sometimes when I'm angry
I have the right to be
angry, but that doesn't give me
the right to be cruel.

मैंने सीखा यह और जाना
कि विश्वास प्रेम की थाती है
हो सकता न अपेक्षित प्रेम मिले
आवश्यक न सब मनमाफिक हों
फिर भी आश्वस्त रहें मन कि
अंतर्मन में सबके है प्रेमभाव ।९।
I've learned-
that just because someone doesn't love you the
way you want them to doesn't mean they
don't love you with all they have.

मैंने सीखा यह और जाना
कि अपनों से ही गहरी चोट मिले
जीवन में यदि रिश्ते हैं,अपने हैं
तो उनका टकराना स्वाभाविक है
पर सबको सहेज, अपनाना है
धीरज रखते और क्षमा किये।१०।
I've learned-
that no matter how good a friend is,
they're going to hurt you every once
in a while and you must forgive them for that.

मैंने सीखा यह और जाना
कि औरों से क्षमा आवश्यक है
पर यह ही केवल पर्याप्त नहीं
इससे भी महत्वपूर्ण और आवश्यक
है यह कि औरों को हम भी
कर सकें क्षमा सहृदयता से।११।
I've learned-
that it isn't always enough to
be forgiven by others,
Sometimes you have to learn
to forgive yourself.

मैंने सीखा यह और जाना
कि रिश्ते कमजोर न बातों से
दो जन हैं तो बातें होंगी ही, और
स्वाभाविक खटपट और नोकझोंक
बातों में चाहे कितना मतभेद रहे
पर दिल का संगम बना रहे।१२।
I've learned-
that just because two people argue, it doesn't
mean they don't love each other.

जीवन के पथ पर चलते चलते
मैंने सीखा यह और जाना
कि दृश्य एक पर दो जन में
अंतर दृष्टिकोण का रहता है
इस दृष्टिकोण के अंतर से भी
आपसी सामंजस्य बनाये रहना है।१३।
I've learned-
that two people can look at
the exact same thing
and see something totally different.

जीवन के पथ पर चलते चलते
मैंने यह सीखा है और जाना है।१४।

-देवेंद्र

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

Why India fails miserably to win any medals in Olympic?

In our childhood, we used to read a story-There was a king, who wanted to collect a large chunk of milk, to perform a big yagya ceremony. He ordered all his subjects to contribute their part of milk in a large and deep cemented well, and with due respect to and trust for his subjects, didn't appoint any authority to check or verify the contribution made from the individual citizens . The every individual thought to play them smart, to contribute only a mug of water, in place of milk, when there is nobody to crosscheck it. Thus eventually the well was full of only water, in place of any milk.

Same is the fate of our nation too in most of its the public aspects,whether it's the general cleanliness of the public places, the general traffic order on the roads, or the performance of our nation in any important international sport's event, like Olympic or World Championship, our fate is decided and sealed from the day one, that we are going to prove just a naught in general.

Although I know many of my friends may disagree with me to blame the public in general itself as a cause for our nation's poor performance in the sports event, as the soul blame goes to the government, and it poorly state of affairs . But it's not a question of blaming someone particular for all such failures and the bad state of the things , but it's just a general and bare reality check only. We have to understand that things, either good or bad, either success or a failure, don't happen just by a chance, but by the due plan and design only. Unfortunately any public cause, either it's concerned the management of the general cleanliness of our public places, and upkeeping and protection of our public and the natural assets or  the management of sports, the grooming, training and upbringing of talents in sports to the international level , as a glory and pride for the nation, is concerned, is always fated for a chaos and mismanagement, as they lack the appropriate planning and the design for their management, they are just left hapless to survive by chance and random only, and very often even inflicted upon of some bad and mischievous politics and misuse even .

I was watching a small video clip forwarded on WhatsApp by my a college friend, who lives in UK. It's about the turn around story of the sports in UK 🇬🇧for last two decades. UK, which used to be a sports giant till sixties , gradually declined and became almost a spent force in Sports a two decades back . In 1996 Atlanta Olympic, UK could hardly win 15 medals, including just a single Gold medal. It was a wakeup call for the UK government and the sports administrators, as well as the sports loving public of UK. Then was started a sincere effort, on each and every stakeholder, including the sports loving British people, to put the things in place and order there.

They did a critical SWOT analysis, understood their area of their strength, potential and the talent pool available in the respective fields, and made their the best endeavour to harness it positively and ascertain their success in international arena, as they had been dominating in the past. The UK government and the sports authorities invested significantly in coming years in upgrading and modernizing the sports infrastructure and facilities . Many innovative methods of fund raising were adopted, in which the corporate houses, as well as the public in general contributed encouragely. And the good results of these positive investments started to be noticed in coming few years, in coming Olympic games, the medal tally of UK improved significantly, by 2008 the Beijing Olympic, they it touched the figure of 47 with more than 20 Gold medals, and finally in 2012 the London Olympic, UK as a host nation, could very visibly be seen as a cognitive sports force, with its medal of 67, including more than 30 gold medals. In the ongoing Rio Olympic too, Britain is performing an excellent, it's medal tally already more than 40, with 16 gold medals placed well decent at number two, just next to USA, the topper in the Medal tally.

India needs to adopt only such a very pragmatic and prudent approach if it's really wants any good and positive outcome and success in important international sports events. It requires a thorough SWOT analysis, and the systematic longterm investment all along in its sports area. We have to realize and understand that the success in modern sports is not just an emotional affair, blended with love and pride for your nation only and just a wishful thinking only . The present international level of the sports is highly advanced and competitive,involves more a high tech and advanced skill, stamina and preparation, apart from the natural talent and passion to win for one's national pride. The case example is Hockey, our the national sports, in which the four five decades back India used to be a highly reckoned force. Whereas at present even in this game too, India looks now just a spent and depleted only . Although, and certainly there is no lack of any passion in the players, as well as no dearth of the talents in our nation , but unfortunately this only, the emotional quotient is not well enough and suffices to win in the international sports event like Olympic. It's more the concern of the availability of the world class sports infrastructure, the selection process and the long term and the sustaining world class training to groom the raw talent into the international class talent, not just one of the best, but the best in the game.

Similar to Hockey, India needs to work upon its other traditional sports talent and strength, to name a few - wrestling,weight lifting, archery, shooting etc . In certain other sports as well like Badminton, Lawn Tennis, the boxing also Indian players have performed well occasionally and have shown a great potential, hence it requires to work upon its such strength areas.

Somehow the Athletics has been not pretty strength area of India, specially when it matters for the international level , but no doubt in the past the women athletes have shown the tremendous potential, since the era and ages of PT Usha,  the last three decades back . Unfortunately we could never keep the momentum for the same,and our women athletes too were lost somewhere in the way.By planning , organizing , investing and managing rightly and appropriately, with due strategy, goal and mission, certainly the best outcomes can be achieved in the future ahead.

As we talked earlier, the success is always by the plan and design, not just by a chance. So applies for India and the Indian sports too. India, it's all the stake holders in sports, and nonetheless the Indian people, need to be awakened, and need to work hard and to the smartest most, on our strength to upcome to not just the world standard, but the best in world, only then we can ensure the success and medals in any Olympic. There is no place for just a wishful thinking only.

Monday, May 9, 2016

जिंदगी... अपनी सी है या बेगानी ?

हमसाया बनती तुम
मेरे पीछे पीछे चलती रहती हो
बिना कहे कुछ ,रोक टोक बिन
मेरे हर पग से तुम कदम मिलाती
मेरे हर निशान पर अपनी मुहर लगाती
खुशियों में जो मैं चहका तो
बड़ी तरेरे आँख दिखाती
दुश्वारी में जो मुँह बल गिरता
ताली दे तुम खिलती हँसती
साया हो या दुश्मन हो तुम
तुझे खुशी जब मैं कितना गम
मुझे पता तुम बड़ी चतुर हो
ज्ञानी बहुत मगर निष्ठुर हो
भूत जानती हो तुम मेरा
और जानती कल भी मेरा
रखती खबर तुम वर्तमान की
फिर भी नहीं इसारे करती
कि क्या था उचित और अनुचित क्या
मूढ.मति मैं गिरता खाईं, फिर भी
नहीं  कभी तुम बनी सहारा
निर्लिप्त भाव से खड़ी किनारे
रही देखती मेरी लाचारी
कुछ तो रहम और मदद दिखाती
पर है मालूम मुझे तुम निस्पृह
दुख से मेरे सुख से मेरे
क्या मैं उचित हूँ अनुचित करता
कब क्या मोड़ कहाँ मिल जाता
क्याँ हूँ तब मैं रस्ता  चुनता
तुम ना कुछ लेती ना कुछ देती
मैं वहीं काटता जो मैं बोता।
क्योंकि ,
निस्पृह सी, निष्ठुर सी
परंतु सत्य न्याय की प्रतिमूर्ति, आराध्या सी,
तुम मेरी हमसाया सी मेरी 'जिंदगी ' हो ।  
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