ANOTHER MILESTONE BY ISRO

Indian defense establishment has been seeking since long a satellite capable of watching our border and transborder activities of infiltrants through clouds and during darkness after sunset. ISRO made it possible when the 300kg RISAT-2 was shot into space by ISRO workhorse PSLV-C12 rocket on 20th of the month at 6.45am. India thus became the fifth country of the world to have such a satellite. It is an asset to the country as it will work in a microwave band that will enable it to see the object in an invisible media like clouds, fogs and darkness of night.
Weighing 300kg, the spy satellite, as described by media has been developed in collaboration with Israeli Aerospace Industries’ space division. It will provide all weather, 24 hours surveillance. It can produce clear images in all conditions. It will help security agencies monitor the country’s International border round the clock.
We are proud of our scientists!
CONGRATULATIONS ISRO!!

स्वरचित कविता - वसंत

झीने कोहरे की साडी का अवगुंठन सूर्य उठाता था,
पोर-पोर में मस्ती भर, जब पवन जगाने आता था.

आम्र-कुंज में बौरों पर, भौंरे संगीत सुनाते थे,
पंचम स्वर में श्यामल कोयल के गीत उभरते जाते थे.

रक्त पुष्प - झूमे पलाश, सम्मोहित करते दृष्टि को,
रसभरे फूल महुआ के गिर, मदहोश बनाते सृष्टि को.

फूली सरसों ने दिया रंग, मधु लेकर आ पहुँचा अनंग,
यौवन, बचपन तो डोल रहा, सुधिहीन वृद्ध का अंग-अंग.

राजा वसंत के आने पर,किसलय-सिंहासन बनता था,
हरा मुकुट मंजरियों का, सिर उसके सुन्दर सजता था.

कथकली, कथक से लोकनृत्य - सब मोर दिखाया करते थे,
नर-नारी क्या पंछी-पंछी, फगुआ दुहराया करते थे.

अनुरंगी कुसुम परागों का, विस्तृत चन्दोवा तनता था,
कुन्द लता का मोहक ध्वज, हरपल लहराया करता था.

गुलाब, केतकी अनायास, दिन भर मुस्काते रहते थे,
टेसू, अशोक के लाल फूल, मन को उकसाते रहते थे.

पर अब वसंत इस नगरी में, बस दबे पाँव ही आता है,
गमले में उगी डहेलिया की, छवि बिन देखे वह जाता है.

विकसित स्वरूप, सबकुछ बदला, सिमेन्ट का है बढ़ता जंगल,
कहाँ अमलतास, गुलमोहर पर, उड़ते भौरों का सुर-सरगम!

अब दूर-दूर तक सरसों की, झूमती कतारें कहाँ कंत,
कुछ पता नहीं कब गुजर गया, इस नगरी से सुन्दर वसंत!

The beard verdict & The Controversy

The controversy generated by the remarks attributed to Justice Markandey Katju of the Supreme Court of India while dismissing a Muslim student claim to sport a beard in violation of the rules of the Christian minority school, he studied in, is refusing to die down.
Justice Katju is reported to have said in his judgment …..We do not want to haveTaliban in the country. Tomorrow a girl student may come and say that she wants to bear a burqa. Can we allow it?
Muslim religious leaders after going through the judgment have become furious on Justice Katju. The are passing unhealthy remarks on honorable Judge of Supreme Court of India which come in the category of contempt of court. Syed Sanaullah, Nazim of Indara-e-Sharia Bihar says – Such kind of person does not fit to be a Supreme Court Judge at all who tries to spread communalism…..by his hate remark…..Mr. SQR Ilyas of All India Muslim Personal Board has also passed similar remarks.
In India leaders of minority community can pass any arrogant remarks on our apex constitutional body and constitution also. They are most privileged citizen and above law.Neither court nor law enforcing authorities can take any action against them. Our court and administration can punish only gentleman like Varun Gandhi for his fundamental constitutional right of freedom of expression.
How long the appeasement policy will continue!

राम ने सीता-परित्याग कभी किया ही नहीं

अब तक यही मान्यता रही है कि भगवान श्रीराम ने माता सीता का परित्याग किया था और अपने राज्य में तपस्यारत एक शूद्र का वध भी किया था. ये दोनों प्रकरण मर्यादा पुरुषोत्तम श्रीराम के चरित्र से मेल नहीं खाते. प्रचलित वाल्मीकीय रामायण के उत्तरकांड में इन दोनों घटनाओं का विस्तार से वर्णन है. लेकिन गोस्वामी तुलसीदास ने अपने रामचरित मानस में इन दोनों घटनओं का उल्लेख तक नहीं किया है. वाल्मीकीय रामायण का ध्यान से अध्ययन करने के बाद यह तथ्य स्वयं सामने आ जाता है कि उक्त दोनों घटनायें काल्पनिक हैं, क्योंकि उत्तरकांड मूल वाल्मीकीय रामायण का अंग है ही नहीं. इसे बहुत बाद में जोड़ दिया गया -- यह अन्तःसाक्ष्य, वहिःसाक्ष्य और परिस्थितिजन्य साक्ष्य, तीनों प्रकार से स्वतः सिध्द है. रामकथा पर सबसे प्रामाणिक शोधकर्ता फ़ादर कामिल बुल्के का स्पष्ट मत है कि वाल्मीकीय रामायण उत्तरकांड बहुत बाद की प्रक्षिप्त रचना है. हिन्दी के प्रख्यात साहित्यकार डा. राम कुमार वर्मा और राष्ट्रधर्म के सम्पादक श्री आनंद मिश्र अभय ने भी इसकी पुष्टि की है. वाल्मीकीय रामायण के उत्तरकांड की भाषा, शैली और कथानक के वर्णन की गति युद्धकांड तक के रामायण से सर्वथा भिन्न है. इसके अलावा रचनाकार ने उत्तरकांड में छः बार यह सिद्ध करने का प्रयास किया है कि उत्तरकांड भी मूल वाल्मीकीय रामायण का ही अंग है, जबकि इसके पहले के किसी कांड में ऐसा प्रयास नहीं किया गया है. उत्तरकांड में ही एक श्लोक में कहा गया है कि महर्षि वल्मीकि ने आदि से लेकर अंत तक पाँच सौ सर्ग तथा छः कांड का निर्माण किया है. सर्गों और कांडों की गिनती करने पर युद्धकांड तक पाँच सौ सर्ग और छः कांड पूरे हो जाते हैं. सातवां कांड, जिसे उत्तरकांड कहा गया है, कहाँ से आया? किसी भी ग्रंथ का अंत फलश्रुति से करने की परम्परा संस्कृत के सभी ग्रन्थों में पाई जाती है. महर्षि वाल्मीकि ने युद्धकांड में ही फलश्रुति लिख दी है.

संपूर्ण रामकथा महर्षि वेदव्यास ने भी महाभारत के वनपर्व के रामोपाख्यान पर्व में लिखी है. ब्रह्मांड पुराण, विष्णु पुराण, वायु पुराण, कूर्म पुराण, वाराह पुराण, लिंग पुराण, नारद पुराण, स्कंद पुराण, पद्म पुराण, हरिवंश पुराण, नरसिंह पुराण में भी रामकथा का वर्णन है, लेकिन सीता-परित्याग एवं शंबूक वध का कहीं उल्लेख तक नहीं किया गया है. वस्तुतः सीता-परित्याग की प्रामाणिकता है ही नहीं.
उत्तरकांड के रचनाकार द्वारा योजनाबद्ध ढंग से निहित उद्देश्यों की पूर्ति हेतु वाल्मीकीय रामायण में उत्तरकांड को जोड़ा गया और प्रचार किया गया. चूँकि महर्षि वक्मीकि की पांडुलिपि कहीं उपलब्ध थी नहीं, तथा श्रुति और स्मृति माध्यम से ही लाखों वर्षों तक वाल्मीकीय रामायण जनमानस में विद्यमान था, अतः उसमें एक कांड और जोड़ देना सरल था. ऐसा पुरुषसत्तात्मक समाज की, स्त्रियों पर श्रेष्ठता बनाये रखने तथा जन्मना वर्ण-व्यवस्था के औचित्य को सिद्ध करने के लिये किया गया. बडी चालाकी से इन दोनों विषयों पर रचनाकार ने अपने मत के अनुमोदन हेतु मर्यादापुरुषोत्तम श्रीराम से मुहर लगवाने का प्रयास किया है.
वाल्मीकीय रामायण का पूरा उत्तरकांड कल्पनिक है और हजारों/लाखों वर्षों बाद मूल में जोड़ा गया. सीता-परित्याग और शंबूक-वध की घटनायें पूर्णतः असत्य हैं. श्रीरामचन्द्रजी ने ग्यारह सहस्त्र वर्षों तक जनकनन्दिनी सीता एवं समस्त भ्राताओं के साथ राजनगरी अयोध्या से प्रजा-पालन करते हुए कोसल देश पर सुखपूर्वक राज किया था.
लेखक ने इस विषय पर अपने दो वर्षों के शोध के पश्चात एक शोधपत्र पुस्तकाकार में प्रकाशित किया है, जिसमें समस्त तथ्यों का सन्दर्भ के साथ वैज्ञानिक विश्लेषण किया गया है. विस्तृत जानकारी के लिये पुस्तक प्रत्येक भारतीय को पढ़नी चाहिए. वाराणसी के प्रतिष्ठित प्रकाशक संस्कृति ने यह पुस्तक प्रकाशित की है. निम्न पते पर यह पुस्तक हमेशा उपलब्ध है --

संस्कृति शोध एवं प्रकाशन
एन ८/सी, बृज एन्कलेव (मधुवन उपवन के सामने),
सुन्दरपुर, वाराणसी-२२१००५
ई-मेल - sanskritishodh@gmail.com,
deenbandhuvns@sify.com

CELL PHONE

Have you not seen/experienced –
1. A doctor using his mobile phone while examining his patient.
2. an adolescent using mobile by holding the same between his tilting neck and shoulder while driving his high speed bike on a busy road.
3. A grown up gentleman driving his four wheeler in a very busy locality of city with one hand on steering and the other on his ear, holding mobile. His wife and his children may be seen with him in the car.
4. You are delivering lecture in a seminar and audience mobiles start ringing.
5. You are traveling in Rajdhani express taking deep sleep and a mobile of co-passenger starts ringing with pop tones.
6. A saint in meditation keeping his mobile on his Aasan.
7. You are engaged in serious talks with your friend and his mobile starts ringing.
8. You are presenting your best project of your career before your boss and he signals to keep your mouth shut because he has received a call from his daughter – 2 years old.
9. You are in bath room and your mobile starts calling you.
10. You are taking your dinner, enjoying your favorite dish and undesired calls start playing the role of kabab men haddi.
11. You are offering prayer in a temple and another devotee, standing by you, starts talking loudly on his cell phone.
To keep a latest cell phone and using the same on a public place has become a fashion and status symbol. It is the most popular birth day gift from parents to their children. Every month 15 million consumers are added to the telecommunication network. In our country nearly 36.67 crore mobile consumers have been registered upto Jan. 2009. By the end of the year 2010, 50 crore people of India are expected to be registered mobile holders. Our country is the biggest market of cell phones. A good chunk of family budget is now spent on bills of mobile phones. It is more than the money spent on milk, vegetables and fruits. Sale of cold drink is now touching its lowest ever level because middle/lower class youth prefers to use his pocket money in purchasing top up card for his mobile, instead of wasting money in cold drinks and ice creams.
Mobile phones are snatching peace from our life. Latest world wide researches say that continuous use of mobile phones have dangerous side effects. It may result in brain-cancer (temporal lobe), heart attack, undefined headache, depression, anxiety, hyper tension etc. Road accidents have touched sky height due to use of mobile phones. The continuous and free entry of high power micro waves from transmission tower to your bed room may prove hazardous. Peace loving and health loving people must think now how to minimize its use. Explosion of atoms may convert Nagasaki and Hiroshima into ruins but controlled explosion of atoms in nuclear power station may lighten the houses of millions and millions. It is we, who have to decide how to use the boon of science and technology in our life.

HOLI

Holi is the greatest and most popular colourful festival of India. It has a great cultural and social impact. It advocates socialism in every sphere of life and society. It is a festival celebrated collectively, forgetting all differences – economic, social, cast based, gender based and whatsoever. All the sorrows of life, routine depressions, and bitterness with neighborhood take deep plunge in the ocean of Happy Holi. Everybody embrace each other and greets with smile of joy. Holi gives a great message of unity among diversities. This festival of colours comes every year in the Hindi month of Phagun (March) with arrival of Vasant. People sprinkle different colours, abir-gulal on each other to express their inner happiness. Nature also celebrates this occasion in the same manner. All the seven colours of spectrum may be seen on different flowers, blooming in this particular season with ultra tender leaves on their stems. Cuckoos sing on mango trees and people also sing and dance under their shadows on rhythm of local musical instruments.
All Indians should catch the true message of Holi and take pledge to live throughout the year with love, affection and everlasting joy.
Hajaron rang duniya men, par hamne teen rang chhante hain,
Tiranga banke niklengen, sare bazaar Holi men.
Jai ho, jai ho, jai ho…………………
Samata, samrasata, samanata – jai ho………

AS YOU SOW, SO YOU REAP

Cricket is very popular in India, Pakistan, Srilanka and Bangladesh. It was taking the shape of a common religion among the people of subcontinent. It was re-establishing the fact that all the countries of the subcontinent have a shared heritage, culture, civilization, likings and tastes irrespective of different ways of worships. Terrorists do not believe in peaceful co-existence and respect to all religions; fundamentalists too. Cricket, therefore, was placed on the top of the hit list of terrorists and result was seen by entire world on March, 3, at Lahore. Six innocent Srilankan players were seriously injured. No words are capable enough to condemn this crime.
Pakistan was an integral part of Ancient India and British India also, up to the year of 1947. The great Indian culture and civilization was nourished and flourished in Indus valley and pious land of Takshashila. But unfortunately, during the period of struggle for freedom, Mr. Jinnah and his followers played a trick to grab power and started spreading the feelings of hatred against Hindus and Hindustan among Muslims. He was successful in convincing the English rulers and most of the Muslim population that Hindus and Muslims are two different races and cannot live together peacefully. His thoughts were given the name of Two Nations Theory and a separate homeland for Muslims was demanded. Indian National congress and British rulers who always believed in divide and rule, bowed down to the demand of Jinnah and Pakistan was formed on a very weak foundation of hatred against India. To add more fuel to the fire, Pak demanded the merger of Kashmir with the Muslim homeland, only on the ground that Muslims were in majority in Kashmir. They tried to grab Kashmir three times with the help of their armed forces but each time they faced humiliating defeats in the hands of strong Indian army. Pakistan lost its eastern part resulting in the birth of Bangladesh. Religion was proved a bond too weak to keep them united. Very soon, Pakistan realized that it was not at all possible to grab Kashmir by invasion with the help of armed forces. They, therefore, planted and encouraged terrorism in Kashmir in the name of Islam. America deliberately or undeliberately supported Pakistan in its all unfair moves. United States provided all means whatsoever to the militants of the region to oust communist government of Afghanistan. A fierce terrorist organization – Taliban - was thus formed with the blessings of American administration which has taken the shape of Bhasmasur today. Pakistan and America are bound to face the consequences. Very soon Pakistan will be disintegrated into pieces. As you sow, so you reap. India also cannot live peacefully in the shade of terrorism. There should be a conscientious among all parties on the issue of terrorism that it must be nipped in the bud at any cost by all means. There is a proverb in Hindi –
MAHIMA GHATI SAMUDRA KI, RAVANA BASA PADOS.