I want to break Free....

Its been a week since we celebrated our 60th Independence day..........long live my country...long

live its people......hmm which people am I talking about...the kid o the road who sells flags to

passersby....the kid who asks us why freedom is for the people who have money.......the kid who

sleeps on the pavements of our mega metros....the kid who works 12-14th hours a day.........the

kid who has not seen the face of a school in there life........what is freedom....most appropiately I

will end with a poem by Sumitranandan Pant which really to me is the essence of freedom....

Hum panchi unmukt gagan ke,
Pinjad bandh na gaa paayenge,
Kanak teeliyon se takrakar,
Pulkit pankh toot jaayenge

Hum behta jal peene waale,
Mar jaayenge bhooke pyaase,
Kahin bhali hai katuk nimbori,
Kanak katori ki maida se

Svarn Shrinkhla ke bandhan mein,
Apni gati udaan sab bhoole,
Bas sapno mein dekh rahe hain,
Taru ki phungi, par ke jhoole

Aise the armaan ki udte,
Neel gagan ki seema paane,
Laal kiran si chonch khol,
Chugte taarak, anaar ke daane

Hoti seema heen shitij se,
In pankho ki hoda hodi,
Ya to shitij milan ban jaata,
Ya tanti saanso ki dori

Need na do, chaahe tehni ka,
Aashray chhinn-bhhinn kar daalo,
lekin pankh diye hain to,
Aakul udaan mein vighn na daalo

My Wilderness

Hmm... am back...the wilderness is busy with activity....assignments and quizzes galore....

Couple of interesting things happened......one had a ball of a time with my study group trying to

make a presentation.....interestingly on crime and society.........my take on it ........is Society needs

to change for that to happen each one of us indiviuals have to change for the revolution to be

successful....I had a conversation with Avinash......and it was good to talk to an old buddy after a

long time..it rekindeled the thought if probably should have flown off...to the "Land of

opportunity"....but then today i am here.......and one quote which comes to my mind is

" I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floatin' around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it's both, maybe both happening at the same time."

it from Forrest Gump.....and probably is the reason I am in the wilderness today......