Kavita ke Saath Bakar: OSAMA-OBAMA Par

बिस्मिल अज़ीमाबादी 

Obama: सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे SEAL में है 

             देखना है ज़ोर कितना बाज़ू-ए-Qaedil में है |

Zardari :वक़्त आने पे बता देंगे तुझे ऐ ओबामा

             हम अभी से क्या बताएं क्या पाक के बिल में है |

भगवतीचरण वर्मा

हम आतंकियों की क्या हस्ती,
हैं आज US  कल पाक चले
आतंक का आलम साथ चला,
हम बम उडाते जहाँ चले

     हरिवंश राय बच्चन

अग्नि पथ, अग्नि पथ, अग्नि पथ !

ट्रेड टावर हों खड़े,
हों घने,हों बडे़,
एक भी अमरीकी को छोड़ मत, छोड़ मत,छोड़ मत!
ओसामा पथ, ओसामा पथ, ओसामा पथ !

तू न थकेगा कभी!
तू न थमेगा कभी!
तू मुड़ेगा तभी- ओसामा को मार कर- कर शपथ, कर शपथ, कर शपथ!
ओबामा पथ, ओबामा पथ, ओबामा पथ !

यह द्रश्य महान  है-

बोल रहा पाकिस्तान है
आरोप-प्रत्यारोप से लथपथ, लथपथ, लथपथ!
शर्म पथ, शर्म पथ, शर्म पथ !

    गोपालदास "नीरज"

छिप-छिप अश्रु बहाने वालों, इराक अफगान को धमकाने वालों

कुछ अपनों के मर जाने से, क्यों अमरिका सब पर हमला करता है


ओसामा क्या है, तालिबान सेज पर

सोयी हुई अमरिका की करनी 

और US पर हमला ज्यों

जागे कच्ची नींद जवानी

गीली उमर बनाने वालों, डूबे बिना नहाने वालों

एक ओसामा के मर जाने से, अल कायदा नहीं मरा करता है

    निदा फाज़ली

ISI वालों को खबर क्या, अमरीका क्या चीज है 

पाक घुसिए, ओसामा मारिये और कहिये क्या SEAL है |

 रामधारी सिंह "दिनकर"

ओबामा की चेतावनी 

वर्षों तक अफगानिस्तान घूम-घूम, बाधा-विघ्नों को चूम-चूम,
सह मिसाइल-बम, कायदा-लश्कर, अमरीकी गए कुछ और बिफर।
दुर्भाग्य न सब दिन सोता है,
देखें, आगे क्या होता है।

आतंक की राह छुडाने को, पाक को सुमार्ग पर लाने को,
ISI को समझाने को, भीषण विध्वंस बचाने को,
अमरीकी पाकिस्तान आये,
ओबामा का संदेशा लाये।

'हो रखना अगर तो रक्खो दाउद, लखवी, अजहर मौलाना 

हम इंडिया से नहीं कहेंगे, हमको दे दो तुम ओसामा।
दो billion और भिजवाएंगे,
परिजन पर असि न उठायेंगे!

ज़रदारी वह भी दे ना सका, आशीष US की ले न सका,
उलटे, लादेन को छुपाने चला, जो था असाध्य, साधने चला।
जब नाश मनुज पर छाता है,
पहले विवेक मर जाता है।

ओबामा ने भीषण हुंकार किया, सीआईए को अधिकार दिया
डगमग-डगमग CHOPPER डोले, एबटाबाद पर बरसे गोले
'सीमा लांघ, ओसामा मारा तू रोक सके तो रोक मुझे,
हाँ, हाँ ज़रदारी! टोक मुझे। '

   अटल बिहारी वाजपेयी

अफगानिस्तान के

ऊँचे पहाड़ पर,
पेड़ नहीं लगते,
पौधे नहीं उगते,
न शांति ही जमती है।

जमती है सिर्फ बर्फ,
जो, कफ़न की तरह सफ़ेद और,
मौत की तरह ठंडी होती है।
ओसामा बिन लादेन
जिसका रूप धारण कर,
आतंक की आग बरसाता है, और दुनिया रोती है।

एक का क्या नाम लूं 

आतंकी तो कई हैं

पाकिस्तान से कह दो 

ये अच्छी बात नई है, 

नई है,

नई है |

    मिर्ज़ा ग़ालिब 

हजारों "camp" हैं और ऐसे के जहाँ बस गोली बम निकले,
मगर उनसे है क्या मतलब, बस ओसामा का दम निकले |

के मरना आतंकवादियों का हमले में, सुनते आये हैं लेकिन,
बड़े कायदे से इस attack में ओबामा का 2nd term निकले |

Contributed by: Kumar Abhinav

Any further additions to the list will be highly appreciated, with due credits. 

About the blog: A humorous/ sarcastic take on Osama Bin Laden killed by US Navy SEALs in Firefight on 2nd May, 2011. 

The smears. And the facts about the Bhushans

Last week, our cover story got some things wrong. Rohini Mohan sets the record straight

LAST WEEK, TEHELKA did a cover story on lawyers Shanti and Prashant Bhushan — The Legal Samurai (30 April). Regrettably, while detailing the controversies swirling around them, we got facts wrong on three key counts. This, unfortunately, has added to the cloud of misinformation and prejudice around the Bhushans. This was not our intention. We wish to set the record straight.

Like much of the media, we had misreported that Shanti and his other son, Jayant, had received two plots in Noida at rates far lower than their cost, and that Shanti had not mentioned this land when he declared his assets as a member of the Lokpal Bill drafting committee. To the contrary, Bhushan senior had indeed declared this asset alongwith others.

A lot of the misinformation around this issue had arisen out of the media’s interpretation of former additional solicitor general Vikas Singh’s statements. Singh was also an applicant for plots under the same scheme. He told the media that there had been no transparency in the allotment procedure and that he had been fighting this issue with a petition in the Allahabad High Court. Given the pace of events and statements and counter-statements on television shows, it is difficult now to trace the genesis of this, but in a short while it became the accepted truth that the Bhushans had got plots worth Rs 15-20 crore for Rs 35 lakh.

What nobody knew or bothered to highlight was that Singh’s petition was not in public interest. In his petition, he had complained that his own allotted plot was in a bad location (Sector 162) while some “favoured persons” had received plots in a location much closer to Delhi. Some persons had been allotted plots earlier near Sector 125, a better spot, 10 km away. He prayed for an allotment of his choice. Alternatively, he asked that if he was not given a better plot, all the allotments be cancelled and the plots be auctioned instead. Clearly, Singh was invested in the outcome of the petition and it could not be counted as a PIL, as the media was reporting.

Singh had also filed his case on 13 April — after the Bhushans had been nominated into the Lokpal Bill drafting committee. Moreover, Singh’s petition had been dismissed by the high court on 16 April. When Singh first raised this controversy on 20 April, he did not tell the media that his petition had already been dismissed. Confronted by this omission later, he defended it saying he had not received the order dismissing his petition.

The media had assumed that the “favoured persons” were the Bhushans. However, the Bhushans too had been allotted farm plots within a kilometre of the “poor locality” of Singh’s plot. What’s more, they had applied for the plots 19 months before Singh but were allotted the plots at the same time and at the same rate of Rs 3,500 per sq metres. Crucially too, the Bhushans had responded to an open advertisement about the plots in a newspaper. Many asked if there could have been a conflict of interest in accepting this land as Jayant Bhushan was the lawyer appearing against the UP government in the Mayawati Statues case and Prashant and Shanti Bhushan were appearing against Mayawati in the Taj corridor case.

However, there was clearly no conflict of interest because Chief Minister Mayawati had no discretionary power over the allotments. Also, the Bhushans ended up with plots, like Singh’s, though they had applied much earlier. So, in all the noise that ensued, on hindsight, it is unclear how the Bhushans came to be deemed as “favoured”.

Embattled Shanti (left) and Prashant Bhushan are fighting fire Photos: Rohit Chawla

Given that Singh himself did not value the plot he had been given or believe it was worth much more than what he had paid for it, it’s unclear how everyone assumed that the Bhushan’s plots, in a similar locality, were worth Rs 20-25 crore. In fact, contrary to the common perception that the Bhushans got property worth Rs 20-25 crore for Rs 35 lakh, the cost of each plot is Rs 3.67 crore plus an annual lease rent of Rs 9.18 lakh for 90 years. In some media reports, Singh had reportedly asserted that the Bhushans paid only Rs 35 lakh. The Bhushans clarify that they have already paid Rs 83 lakh. The rest is payable in 16 instalments with interest.

OUR THIRD error was in the details surrounding the misconception that the Bhushans had evaded stamp duty on their ancestral property in Allahabad. They had asserted that this was a baseless smear campaign, but many in the media (including TEHELKA’s essay Truth in the Din of War) had reported that the UP government’s notice to them about the stamp duty evasion predated the Lokpal controversy and, therefore, could not merely be fobbed off as a malicious campaign. However, the truth as usual, is in the details.

In retrospect, the Bhushans were not at fault. They did receive one notice before the Lokpal controversy but this notice on stamp duty received by them, dated 5 February, was not about evasion of stamp duty but fordetermining the stamp duty. Moreover, this notice had actually come in response to the Bhushans’ own application to the stamp collector in September 2010, asking him to determine the stamp duty. The notice had set 22 April for a hearing on the issue in Allahabad.

The Bhushans paid Rs 83 lakh for the Noida plot. The rest is payable in 16 instalments

However, on 15 April, Congress leader Digvijaya Singh alleged that the Bhushans had evaded stamp duty worth Rs 1.33 crore. The same day, the Stamp Duty collector issued a reminder notice mentioning the figure of Rs 1.33 crore, which, according to the Bhushans, had not been mentioned in the February notice. The date of the hearing was also changed from 22 to 28 April. The Bhushans say they received the second notice only when their lawyer appeared for the hearing on 22 April. They ask how Digvijaya Singh could have obtained information about the second notice, especially if they themselves had not been served the second notice till then.

The Jan Lokpal Bill has generated heated debate. TEHELKA too has had reservations about the nature of the agitation and the shape of the current draft of the Bill, even as it supports the need for a strong Lokpal Bill and a campaign against corruption. However, over the past two weeks, the debate about the Bill had skidded off into an ugly campaign against the Bhushans themselves. If it had been based on facts, the challenges they faced would have been valid. As it turns out, so far all the allegations have been based on innuendo and half-truths rather than hard facts. TEHELKA regrets that it unwittingly added to the misinformation.

Rohini Mohan is a Special Correspondent with Tehelka.
rohini@tehelka.com

Kavi Man Jaag Utha: The Return of the Kavi (2011)

तेरे साथ जो वक़्त बिताया, वही money है 

बोल जो मीठे बोले तुमने, वही honey है 

प्यार में तेरे डूब, जिसका ego मिट जाए 

जहाँ क्या, खुदा तक की उसको बेकमी है |

Painting by Arnab Kanti Mishra

Note-gadget की race ये भैया बड़ी funny है 

बाहर है हुडदंग, अन्दर, दिली गली सूनी है 

गीत-नृत्य कुछ ऐसा कि जीवन still हो जाए 

साथ तेरे, स्वर्गों से सुन्दर ये ज़मीं है |

Karwaan Guzar Gaya: One of all time favourites

कारवाँ गुज़र गया

स्वप्न झरे फूल से,
मीत चुभे शूल से,
लुट गये सिंगार सभी बाग़ के बबूल से,
और हम खड़ेखड़े बहार देखते रहे।
कारवाँ गुज़र गया, गुबार देखते रहे!

नींद भी खुली न थी कि हाय धूप ढल गई,
पाँव जब तलक उठे कि ज़िन्दगी फिसल गई,
पातपात झर गये कि शाख़शाख़ जल गई,
चाह तो निकल सकी न, पर उमर निकल गई,
गीत अश्क बन गए,
छंद हो दफन गए,
साथ के सभी दिऐ धुआँधुआँ पहन गये,
और हम झुकेझुके,
मोड़ पर रुकेरुके
उम्र के चढ़ाव का उतार देखते रहे।
कारवाँ गुज़र गया, गुबार देखते रहे।

क्या शबाब था कि फूलफूल प्यार कर उठा,
क्या सुरूप था कि देख आइना सिहर उठा,
इस तरफ ज़मीन उठी तो आसमान उधर उठा,
थाम कर जिगर उठा कि जो मिला नज़र उठा,
एक दिन मगर यहाँ,
ऐसी कुछ हवा चली,
लुट गयी कलीकली कि घुट गयी गलीगली,
और हम लुटेलुटे,
वक्त से पिटेपिटे,
साँस की शराब का खुमार देखते रहे।
कारवाँ गुज़र गया, गुबार देखते रहे।

हाथ थे मिले कि जुल्फ चाँद की सँवार दूँ,
होठ थे खुले कि हर बहार को पुकार दूँ,
दर्द था दिया गया कि हर दुखी को प्यार दूँ,
और साँस यूँ कि स्वर्ग भूमी पर उतार दूँ,
हो सका न कुछ मगर,
शाम बन गई सहर,
वह उठी लहर कि दह गये किले बिखरबिखर,
और हम डरेडरे,
नीर नयन में भरे,
ओढ़कर कफ़न, पड़े मज़ार देखते रहे।
कारवाँ गुज़र गया, गुबार देखते रहे!

माँग भर चली कि एक, जब नई नई किरन,
ढोलकें धुमुक उठीं, ठुमक उठे चरनचरन,
शोर मच गया कि लो चली दुल्हन, चली दुल्हन,
गाँव सब उमड़ पड़ा, बहक उठे नयननयन,
पर तभी ज़हर भरी,
गाज एक वह गिरी,
पुँछ गया सिंदूर तारतार हुई चूनरी,
और हम अजानसे,
दूर के मकान से,
पालकी लिये हुए कहार देखते रहे।
कारवाँ गुज़र गया, गुबार देखते रहे।

 गोपालदास नीरज

One of the finest geetkar and a great poet.

It was unfortunate to listen from him that he can't come to be part of the Kavi Sammelan organized as the inaugural ceremony of Manzar@IIT KGP. It would have been an experience to cherish for lifetime.