Love Unsung by Shantanand Sharma is a collection of poetries that showcase the love stories which were left incomplete due to the differenes in their caste, religion and class.
Available soon on all online bookstores worldwide.
Love Unsung by Shantanand Sharma is a collection of poetries that showcase the love stories which were left incomplete due to the differenes in their caste, religion and class.
Available soon on all online bookstores worldwide.
The days are growing painful. I had been working hard to get some good days and time has come to be happy but somewhere in the core of my heart I'm lacking peace and happiness. I had studied so much and cleared so many papers and finally got a god job with handsome salary.
For the moment I’ve everything.
A good house at a posh location.
Money to buy whatever I want to.
A natural atmosphere around my place to enjoy greenery in leisure period.
A big green park to jog and exercise in the morning.
A good work place where happiness and loud laughter echo in each corner.
A beautiful girl friend to love and get loved.
And what else.
To write stories and poems and read some novels, no other better place I could have gotten than the bunglow I live in.
Somewhere, I'm looking for some peace. My head in not stable and keeps on thinking where to get some peace. At times, I change dress and take my bike to the Lodi garden to read and write something. And it happens only on weekends. Though I’ve to go to teach kids on these holidays to get myself busy and to add some parts to the development of this poor country where good teachers are extremely needed.
And for the rest of the times, I keep myself busy in washing my cloths, cleaning my home and talking to neighbors. That all don’t work. I want something out of my life. I want a life that is full of happiness. I don’t know what kind of happiness it is. If I look at some years back, I was a student and if I remember carefully then I see my life was unrest at that time as well. I wanted something else out of my life. It might be a good job or a good house live in or a good city to put up or a good partner to live with or whatever.
And now I’ve gotten everything then I find life incomplete. I find myself trapped in some invisible which I'm unable to break. I would have broken it if I would have seen it. But it’s invisible and I’ve no tool to find it or see it.
Dear UPSC aspirants, congratulations to those who have cleared the prelims.
Get ready to stand in a line of donkeys.
And congratulations to them who didn't get through.
Get ready to get another chance to live your life like a human being!
Those who have qualified prelims will definitely study like donkeys for mains.
Those who haven't cleared the paper.
Please get some free trainings from big organizations like British Council and start teaching unprivileged kids.
Poor India needs good teacher.
Free education.
And not IAS officers!
Jise khane peene ki dikkat h, please contact.
I can do some arrangement.
I earn that much.
I can feed some ten or fifteen people everyday!
I am a farmer.
I'm poor.
I need some food.
Some water, little space to live with my wife and kids.
I want to get rid of all the loans.
I want to live like a human being.
I have muscular body and some plots.
I want to do farming.
To feed myself, my kids, my wife and rest of the Indian, if some of it is left.
I don't want cyber city.
I don't want cars and other useless things to live happily.
Now tell me, what the hell is to Facebook founder do with me and my soil and my crops.
If he meets with Narendra Modi?
Media wale mil Jaye to unke upar hal chala du. BC.
He was guy.
Like you guys.
But he was different in all aspects.
He was very naughty when he was a kid.
He was clever since took him out of his mother's womb.
He made fun of everybody around him.
He had tough relations with seniors.
He would beat anybody. He never minded the opposition whether he was smaller or bigger than the opposition.
Once he kicked the driver of his school bus when he was a kid of 8.
He friends would say, 'you should have been born in Sindhi family. Some would say, 'you should have taken born in bhumiyar family.' Others said like them!
He grew up and always had fight with teachers.
He has his own world.
But he always get scared; 'will the life play with me and with my future also if I take my life so lightly?'
Then he would laugh like a mad!
When I was a kid I was always fascinated by the political rallies and sat on the ground into the dust before stage on which politicians stood up with mike and promised to get us electricity, water supply (though we have natural water supply, river Ganga, which flows from west to east, touching feet of our village) and good roads.
I'm of 26 now.
Promises are same.
But still we've the same kerosene lamps to light our nights, the same broken rickety brick padded roads and the same water supply!
Isn't it a bigger duration than that took us for mission on Mars?
He was a Hindu.
She was a Muslim.
He was a stud.
She was the most beautiful girl.
He believed in love.
But didn't know how to love.
She didn't believe in fairy tales.
But knew the art of love.
They met.
Somewhere on this earth.
He asked for a date.
She couldn't refuse.
They fell in love.
Story ends here!
We respect women in India.
We have reservations for them everywhere.
We offer them seat in metro train, bus, and wherever they stand before us. We can't see them standing. Are they too weak to stand on their feet?
But with the corner of our eyes we check them, scanning their body, undressing and imagining what; only god knows!
We have reservations for ladies in government jobs as well.
When men take their interviews they keep their eyeballs moving from ladies' face to their breasts.
We don't look at short dress wearing ladies when they pass us as if we don't care what ladies are wearing. We simply stare at their theighs and bums from back.
In Bollywood, ladies get fame and make lots of money.
They know how many beds they'd to warm to get the first role!
Ladies ride scooties. We twist our accelerator to overtake them as if...
While driving cars and riding bikes we keep on checking autos and taxies if they contain some ladies. And if we see ladies wearing shorts we scan their legs.
Bra strips are very colorful.
Aren't they?
God knows what pleasure they give to us when we stare at them for long.
At workplace women are given more priorities. Is it true? Really?
They get quick promotions.
We, men say she is slut. She has just slept with the boss and got promotions!
We, men do all possible and impossible things to loose our virginities.
But we want a wife with sealed virginity!
We have maids in our houses.
When our ladies are out we simply have sex with them. No matter how bad they stink.
In the great Army and police force, we have ladies.
God knows how seniors exploit them.
Bollywood makes movies like Mardani and queen.
Ultimately it projects ladies as sexual objects!
When we get married.
On the first nights and the next night and other nights we switch off the light and have sex with our wives.
We don't even ask how is she feeling and is she ready to get intimate!
When a girl kisses us outside four walls she feels unsafe.
God knows when will this end on this earth and ladies will live like a human being.
God knows up to what depth we men are into such and other thoughts!
It was second year of my writing and fourth year of my engineering graduation. Fourth year is also called final year in India.
I was an infant in the literature world but I wanted to be a part of this world since my Infancy.
I had seen the advertisement of the lit fest in The Hindu newspaper. Look at the newspaper I was getting those days. I admit I was choosy since I was a small kid. I used to buy fancy toothbrush, tooth paste, pen, pencil, notebooks whose sheets were extra smooth and so.
I never liked the newspapers whose starting pages contain so many advertisements. But The Hindu was quite different than other. Filtered news with least ads were the things that had precised me to the newspaper and the lit fest was being organized by the same and the awesomest thing was that it was help in the capital city where I was residing.
In college days I looked like a rock star though I didn't know the meaning of 'r' of a rock star. Long hair, athletic body, loud dresses, goaty beard were my identity.
I wore a red baggy T-shirt, faded blue jeans and shinning red Ferrari shoes and hung my college bag and left for metro station.
I had just finished writing my first novel and had sent to the leading publishers. Publishers had mailed me the rejection letters. I wanted to see what goes on in a literature festival.
I had reached to the Indian Habitat center before the show began. I was a time bound person. I asked the volunteers about the fest and they asked me enroll and go into the big hall.
Stage was empty and some seats were occupied. I walked down to the first row which was closest to the stage. It was little dark as only dim yellow light was focusing on the stage.
'Reserved' the boards which were standing next to the first two rows said. This was the first time I had such boards except in movies!
I walked back and took a seat in the last row. People came and sat. And soon I saw first two rows filling. I couldn't recognize any of them. None were a Bollywood star.
My neighbors discussed news of Bollywood, and among them one was discussing his next book which was based on bollywood. I listened to them. They spoke like big writers and they were big writers.
Writers came one by one on the stage and discussed things with the Hindu journalists. Audience asked them some questions. They answered. I understood everything. Everything began to cross over my head when foreign writers discussed things.
There was a tea break. I went out and walked to the other building where I guessed it was a canteen. When I came to know the price of a tea I forgot I needed a tea. I came to the same building and saw writers and journalists having tea and snacks in a small longue.
I asked one of the volunteers, is the tea free here?
She smiled and said, 'yes.'
I entered into the room and saw people who were getting tea and snacks on their own. It was a self service. I stood there and saw the method of making tea and the way they were picking plates and loading them with snacks.
I copied them.
One lady was very tall. She was in Saree. When I heard her conversation with others I came to know that she was Bollywood star, Raj kappor's sister. Her face was matching with the Bollywood star Karishma kapoor. I stood there, ate snacks bite by bite, sipped tea slowly and heard their conversations. They spoke a lot like kids do.
Then post break session began.
First guest Om Prakash Mehra, who had made the movie, Rang de basanti and he spoke about his next movie and why he chooses the movies which are different than others.
At last I learned nothing there. But the fest was very enjoyable though I neither ask any question sitting among audience nor I spoke a word throughout the whole fest.
Food varieties range from Afghani to Mughlai to whatnot!
The price is lower here but that doesn't affect the quality. You get the best and fresh chicken and mutton meat here and those who eat big red meat are also welcomed here.
In evening, if you, by mistake drive into these streets, you're going to do blunder. In a five feet road, people walk. Pulling rickshaws are there. Autos are running, painting walkers with dust. Bike riding is awesome here. If you push into the crowd with your bike, you get the true and real lesson of driving here. Though you'll exercise your feet and fingers too much but you get something in return.
The place becomes most attracting during Look sabha and Rajya sabha election. Roofless jeeps, decorated with cloth posters of political parties stand on the divider of the road. Thanks to the MLA of this area who dared to get the divider to divide the road into two lanes. Party workers stand on the jeep. And they shout slogans throwing their hands in all directions. They put so much energy into it that their neck veins become visible. At a difference of 5 meters another jeep is standing with the posters and party workers of another political party. They are doing the same thing, throwing their arms and body to the other jeep.
It feels as if whole Indian political campaigns have gathered to this place only. We can see the party workers making election live here otherwise Indian election is becoming lifeless. When I see them I miss my childhood days.
They shout slogans with so much energy that force you to run away from the place if you're visiting it for the first time. It looks as if they would get down the jeeps and beat the opposition people any moment.
The voting date finally arrives. People gather to vote. And this the place which actually gives life to the election. Each single member of the area comes out to vote. Ladies, wearing burka show up.
Party workers are smart enough. They keep standing in a group of six or seven at each corner of the streets maintaining some distance of 3 meters. They stop each voter and convince him/her with some flying signals to vote for their party only. Cops keep standing outside the voting booths. Peaceful voting goes on.
The voting day makes Batla house a newly wedded bride.
I always wonder about them. Why don't they make their own Muslim party. Because all parties are fooling them and they have so much of energy to put into it then they shall look into making their own party.
Shouldn't they?
The government is trying to polish the area so road making work, JAL board work, drainage system making work, electricity works keep going on in this area.
All of the above work have a common this to start their work; digging the road.
They excavate the roads and put the mud on the roadside. The road is dug. Mud and malba are occupying the roadside area. From where you will come out into the market or goto office?
Where there is will, there is the way!
Like lines of small ants people walk down the heaps of mud and malba. Up and down. Left and right.
They become so comfortable that they don't fall in the ditch. If you are going there for the first time during excavation time then I'm sure you'll fall into the ditches.
People over here comfortable in every situation. They don't complaint. They adopt the things that are being given to them. Everybody lives happily here.
The worst thing about this place is that males stare at girl even when they are wearing burka. And if a girl come out in jeans then men rape her with their eyes. Most of them are educated but still they do it.
Will be back with more interesting stuffs about this place soon. Stay connected.
Batla House is a place in South Delhi, India. It is situated on the bank of dying river, Yamuna.
Only Muslims live here. Like other Muslim dominated area, its also over crowded. Most of the population of this place comes from UP and Bihar.
Foolish Hindus call it Chhota Pakistan.
They come here and work in other parts of New Delhi. Ninety percent of the people come here as students. Like flood they come, get admission in Jamia Millia Islamia University, Jamia Hamdard University, and some other leading colleges of Delhi University, study hard there, get good jobs in India and outside and leave the place. The population of this area keeps on increasing because the number of residents who migrate to other place around the world is far lesser than the number of people who come here, adding to the population in search of jobs and as students.
They come not just to earn their livelihood but to settle permanently here.
In morning, streets look deserted like that of Afghanistan and as day rises up with the Sun the scene keeps on changing. And when the Sun falls behind the tall buildings, the place becomes really beautiful.
It becomes so beautiful that even an ant has to think million times to creep down the streets.
Every evening is looks like its a Diwali evening. Ladies, wearing burka do shopping as if the next day is Eid. They break into shops. They buy clothe pieces of suits, kurta. Pajama, stoles, dupatta, burka and other wearable dresses except western dresses.
Shopping doesn't stop here. They rush into household things shops and do buying lots of stuffs.
Shopkeepers are smart enough here. They treat ladies as if they are their sisters and mothers. They welcome ladies and show them everything that they have on their shelves. I always wonder about the factories who make such clothes. Because the fabrics are just awesome and colors beat the stuffs that are kept in HiFi showrooms and malls of Delhi. The shopkeepers give discounts as well as if the shopping is being done for their own houses.
Every second shop is of either kapde ki dukaan or eating outlets. The street roadsides are over loaded with the heaps of cloths and that of chicken and mutton.
At times, I forget that Muslims eat vegetables also. When I see vegetable venders, laying their vegetables thelas on roadsides I ask myself, 'do these people eat vegetables also?'
Eating outlets are decorated with big glass covers which display chickens chopped in different shapes or some big biryani handis. And when you enter in any of these outlets you will have to wait for sometime to grab a seat. The food is extra delicious. And price is too low. These outlets force me to think over the difference between price of veg food and nonveg food. I just can't believe that the non veg food are cheaper than the veg here.
The variety of chicken and mutton ranges from Afghani to Mughlai to whatnot.
To be cont...with the spirit of the people who live here and the time of election campaigns down these overcrowded streets!!