Sparsh

I bewilder between fantasy and mundane, I forsake the love left behind by me, Realizing what the true love was. Today, a word never to be spoken is heard, Tinge of innocence is lost in making love, A bond is forged by warmth of her bosom. A beat that my heart skipped in love, A moment of life is lost in the void, I hear murmur of the heart.

Everywhere in the country and in the world, people left their beloved homelands to try their luck in this cold, faraway place where all one had to do, was be willing to work. Mumbai is the prime example of city of migrants in India. And America is an example of a modern country found by immigrants only. In times of economic downturn, we forget the values on which the place was built and developed. The sociopolitical climate becomes increasingly destructive towards immigrants in these times as scapegoats are used to help alleviate frustration. We are all citizens of the world–there is no place in the world that we can go and not touch something created in another land, no place where there are not immigrants. In my views, history is made by wandering humans from one place to another for trade, war or to become part of greater civilization. Human is indeed yayaver by nature and settler by culture. Few web links in mumbo-jumbo post for reading.... Copenhagen Diary : A report on Clima...

I am always in the favor of inclusive development of backward caste and tribe with general caste. Equality, dignity and merit to GE, OBC & SC, ST irrespective of their caste backgrounds. I always think that government gives equal ground through regulations and reservation in theory only. I don't know that our higher caste Hindu is now accepting lower caste as their equals or not. I always ask elders that has society became more feudal, caste oriented and communal than 60 years ago ? No clear cut answers. People still ask surname with smile to map out the caste and ancestry in their minds. I hope one day caste discrimination will fade away and it will remind us of our ethnicity only. 1- An interview of Shahid Siddiqui , Editor of Urdu daily Nai Duniya about caste politics. 2- Call for first caste census in India. Officials said the ministry had asked for caste to be included as one of the criteria in the 2011 census, and recommended a differential headcount of the Othe...