गुमराह तो नही हुए…!

कुछ ख़ास सड़कों की,
आज शिकायत है,
कहीं हम,
गुमराह तो नही हुए?

क्यूँ ख़ौफ़ आज,
हर राह-गुज़र के,
दिलों में,
समाने लगा है,
अपनी कामयाबी का, 
क्या यही पहचान है!

माना कि,
हम आज़ाद हें,
फिर क्यूँ,
हर कोई,
अपनी किस्मत पर,
यूँ आँसू बहा रहे हें!

भूखे भटकते,
मरते बच्चों को,
ये सड़कें,
आज बख़ूबी,
होशियारी से,
राह दिखा रही है! 

मना लो जश्न,
आज़ादी की,
कर लो सोलह सृंगार,
बस इन्हें लौटा दो,
हँसती-खेलती,
उड़ती खिलखिलाती,
इनकी खुशियों का संसार!

मंज़िल-ए-इश्क़ अर्ज़ है…!

गर देखने का अंदाज़ बदलो तो, निगाह-ए-नाज़ मुमताज़ नज़र आएगी,
ताज़ से निगाहें फेरो तो, दिल में दस्तक देती वो सरताज़ नज़र आएगी!

मुद्दतों बाद बे-नक़ाब चाँद आज निकला है मोहब्बत-ए-सफ़र में,
जोश-ए-जुनून में ना कर दे फिर से जान-निसार महबूब-ए-हमसफ़र पर!

खुश मिज़ाज़ मौसम का काफ़िला चल पड़ा है मंज़िल-ए-इश्क़ पर,
महक-ए-गुलशन की छाने लगी है हर राह-गुज़र के दिल-ओ-दिमाग़ पर!

क्यूँ ढूँढते हो उसे शाम-ओ-शहर दीवाना बन रफ़्ता-रफ़्ता गलियों में, 
दिल का दरवाज़ा खोल, धड़कन पर बैठी वो जान-ए-जिगर नज़र आएगी!

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Bihari or Indian…!!!

Recently I was going through the Mumbai episode of Biharis and Marathis.

Well, I heard a lot about Bihar, the land of Lord Buddha and Biharis from many none Bihari people. Biharis are like this and Biharis are like that etc blah blah…..but we Indians are like what?

I think People who write about Bihar are similar to Angrez journalists who pass thoughtless comments on India and Indians without having an idea of appreciation and knowledge about people and social structure of Inida.

People deliberately ask, if you are so proud of your state, then why don’t you guys develop it? Why Bihari prefer to migrate to other states? If Biharis are so talented, why are they filling the streets of other states?

Now, same I would like to ask everybody if you are so proud of your country, then why you guys don’t think of developing it. Why many Indians do prefer to migrate to other countries? If Indians are so talented, why they are filling the streets of other countries? Nevertheless, to add this why Indians are missing their family by living far from their birth land?

I think one can get the answers why Biharis are living in other state by answering these Above Questions.

An Indian ‘girl of a gaon’ is the combo of Navodayan, JNUied, Katihari, Bihari. I am made up of ‘all’ these things and not just one of them and these all things made me to face the world. Also I am a proud of all these and I Proud of my roots. So I would like to be called as what I am. I am a proud of lots of things. Well, when I commit some mistake or I am wrong, criticize me, blame me, punish me or tell me where I am wrong and why I am wrong. Never blame my whole or entire community for the mistakes I do or few of us are doing!

Anyway, I do not want to paint it with a rosy plus glorious color or craft a good diagram and make a beautiful painting of Bihar at all. Also if I do not do so it doesn’t mean that I am trying to prove myself neutral.

At last I think, we are Indian like a river which is formed of many small rivers not like a small pond. We should avoid behaving like a fish of a pond and should learn to swim in big river.

Criticism and Suggestions are invited. This article is just to encourage thinking and not to convince any one. Lets remove the mind blockage and realise we are in 21st century.