khvaab marte nahin...

i have a friend in kathmandu... havent heard from her in sometime... no, i am not worried about her well being. am sure she's ok. but i am wondering if am thinking about nepal and the turmoil there because i have a friend there or because it truly is disturbing... there are several lows we as humanity keep hitting... and we keep at it quite consistently, like dravid's batting or something... but i dont worry about all of eually or even marginally equally...

it would be juvenile to say that power is huge force... of course it is. it makes you, hmmm what shall i say, careless?

and may be fear of losing it, is a bigger, greater and much stronger force... makes you more cruel perhaps.

what must it take for a king to let go of absolute control? what must it take for government to make sure kids dont die of starvation few kilometres away from financial capital of india?
what must it take for cops to investigate a rape case sensitively and not brush it saying it consentual sex can also cause injuries???

i dont think india will hold dow chemicals responsible or answerable for alleged offences committed by union carbide the company they took over... i wonder why...

i went for some street play organised by students at chowpatty... they wore letters and made "FREEDUMB" in chain... they tried convincing the traffic police that it was a peaceful gathering.. they dutifully sang "tu zinda hai tu zindagi ki jeet par yakin kar" after the cops didnt let them perform... they tried lighting a candle in that windy breeze... of course, the candles never lit... they didnt perform the play... but a constable, i believe, took the post card from them and signed religiously... some people went back thinking about farmers' suicides and the bhopal gas tragedy...

careless, cruel, powerful, weak, suffering, aware, persistent, arrogant, stubborn, sensitive, underdogs, DOGS.... all these keep taking some strange forms and meet me in real and in my dreams...

khvaab marte nahin... kyun pata nahin, lekin, khvaab marte nahin...

Khvaab marate nahii.n

ahmed faraz

Khvaab marate nahii.n
Khvaab dil hai.n na aa.Nkhe.n na saa.Nse.n ke jo
rezaa-rezaa hue to bikhar jaaye.nge
jism kii maut se ye bhii mar jaaye.nge

Khvaab marate nahii.n
Khvaab to raushanii hai.n, navaa hai.n, havaa hai.n
jo kaale pahaa.Do.n se rukate nahii.n
zulm ke dozaKho.n se bhii phukate nahii.n
raushanii aur navaa aur havaa ke aalam
maqtalo.n me.n pahu.Nch kar bhii jhukate nahii.n

Khvaab to harf hai.n
Khvaab to nuur hai.n
Khvaab to suqraat hai.n
Khvaab mansuur hai.n