Where is the ‘Pak’ in ‘Pakistan’?

Last week at a boardroom luncheon in Sydney, many people asked me about the floods in Pakistan, gave their condolences and shared their views on the humanitarian disaster. One person actually asked me, ‘What is the meaning of Pakistan’, and ‘What does it stand for?’



‘Pak’ means pure and ‘Stan’ means land, so essentially it means land of the pure, I retorted almost robotically. After I answered that question I thought to myself, either I would make a great politician or a great diplomat because although the answer was correct, my sentiments didn’t match my answer as I continued to smile and make excuses for why there was so much of Pakistan to be salvaged, restored, preserved and promoted. Deep down, I had a guilty parasite of conscience making me sick to the stomach. This time even I didn’t think I had the momentum of positivity to swing the pendulum of hope in the right direction. Recently with all the doom and gloom surrounding Pakistan I wrote an article on Pakistan being a symbol of survival and how we should concentrate on its strengths as a nation: adversity, survival, endurance, courage, faith and hope.


However, what happened a week ago with the Sialkot public killings has shaken all my foundations of what I stand for, what I believe in and the core of my character. I am an optimist and I am not a quitter, I have always lived by the rule ‘never give up’ and I know these are also the traits that keep Pakistan alive.


Since seeing the footage of the killings, I cannot make excuses anymore, how do I defend or explain this latest incident to those who ask, and what angle of optimism can I implore?


Pakistan, the land of the pure. Almost. The land of the pure corruption, the land of the pure hatred, pure violence, pure demise, pure injustice.


That is one way of describing it, but in my mind I think of it as Slakistan (a slack country because of its slack governance, and a lakh reasons why we lack any kind of purity) or Darkistan (why instead of going forwards, we are retreating backwards).


I, like the rest of the nation am sickened, disgusted, and absolutely lost for words at the barbaric bashings in Sialkot. In this day and age, where animal cruelty is given as much importance as human rights, how the hell does this: firstly happen, secondly in public, thirdly video taped, fourthly with policemen joining in, fifthly no one stopping it, and sixth no justice?


I’m not overly religious, but I do know that Ramazan is the holiest month of the year. It is a time for reflecting, a time for forgiving and a time for salvation. I know in the month of Ramazan, I think twice before even hurting a fly, spider or insect, yet how can this mass crowd of Muslim men beat the life out of the 15 and 19 year old brothers, one of whom was a hafiz-e-Quran. How could these men have opened their iftaar knowing they had just killed two boys, how could they go home and look at their own sons in the eyes and not see the souls of those two brothers?


In Australia recently, a couple of boys were arrested for torturing some kittens at a train station. That had the whole nation in shock. Here, we are talking about beating to death two young human beings. I watched as these boys, half clothed, were kicked, beaten mercilessly, desperate for someone to stop the injustice. No, it was spectators at a gladiatorial game, it was as if the more blood they smelt the more excited they became. They weren’t going to stop until they had the finality of death with the two brothers like hapless helpless mosquito’s buzzing around hanging on to their final breaths and final moments of freedom. The more dying movements from the struggling boys caused more men to join in, including the police and even a young child at one stage. It was entertainment, it was thrilling, and it was a blood sport. It was ok, because they weren’t related to them. It was ok, because these boys had supposedly committed a robbery, and it was ok because they were supposedly ‘upholding’ the law.


So here too is an argument from that perspective. I have been a victim of a gang of thieves in Pakistan, held hostage in my home with a gun to my head and robbed of all my jewellery, money and valuables. If those people were ever caught, I would never even think of subjecting them to physical torture, let alone death – and this is with the knowledge and certainty of their guilt because I was there. How do we know those two boys were guilty of the alleged crime, when apparently they were returning home with only bags containing cricket equipment? If anything, I am grateful to my robbers that they didn’t kill me when they so easily could have as is the norm for many similar incidents in Pakistan. As we all know, the value of a human life in Pakistan is nothing, if anything it is a burden on society.


The other tragic part of this case is that no one is prepared to tackle the issue, talk about it, deal with it or try and even heal the wound. What about the spiritual, ethical, and moral medicine that is required to move forward? The media have their hands full reporting on the floods and putting a human face on the tragedy to encourage immediate monetary and aid response. The politicians are avoiding the incident by concentrating on all the work they aren’t doing for the floods, through empty speeches and empty promises.


In Australia we have just had a federal election with the result being a hung Parliament. I think the politicians in Pakistan should hang their heads in shame for sitting back and doing nothing, and for letting the land of the pure become the land of the poor.


Someone was right when they said Pakistan was born in Sialkot when Allama Iqbal the great poet and spiritual founder of Pakistan was born there, and Pakistan died in Sialkot with the brutal bashing and public murder of the two brothers. Allama Iqbal himself was right when one of his poetic phrases turned out to be a prediction: “Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.”

North Korea's Kim Makes Powerful Juche Step as Pyongyang Suffocates

The visit of the North Korean leader Kim Jong Il to China surrounded by a veil of secrecy triggered a wave of various theories in the media. Meanwhile, the media of the DPRK have not reported on the Beijing visit of Kim Jong Il.


The KCNA agency noted on Thursday that the leader of the country supervised the work of one of Pyongyang industrial enterprises on-site, while no specific dates were named. Chinese media and official sources also remain silent about the arrival of the leader of DPRK to China. The fact of the Pyongyang visit of the leader to Beijing is based solely on the assumptions of South Korean analysts, who likely based them on the dispatches of his agents to the DPRK.

According to South Korean news agency Yonhap, the armored train of the chairman of the Defense Committee of the DPRK and the top leaders of the country crossed the border with China at dawn, but it got there not through the usual route via the border cities of Sinuiju and Dandong, but through the city of Manpho in the mountainous province of Chagang and went to the province Jilin.



Second Korean War possible – author

As tensions rise between the North and the South, will the Korean peninsula see a second major war?
Brian Myers, a professor and author of “The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters” argues that North Korea suffers from a superiority complex, similar to that of Imperial Japan during the Pacific campaign of WWII.
“It’s really a very radical kind of nationalism, it’s a sort of race based nationalism,” said Myers.
North Korean see the Korean race as morally and spiritually superior to all others.
“The Korean people were not always like this. They did not have any strong sense of racial belonging actually until, ironically enough, until the Japanese instilled it in them during the colonial period,” said Myers.
North Korea is continuing to threaten all-out war with the South if it chooses to retaliate for the sinking of the Cheonan navy ship. This is not the first time North Korea has threatened war, but Myers argues this time it may be different and that North Korea could act on its threats.
“North Korea is undergoing an economic crisis right now; it’s also undergoing an ideological crisis in the sense that the North Korean people are gradually becoming aware that the South Korean people are not only richer then they are, but that they are perfectly happy living in their own Republic of Korea; that they have no desire to live under Kim Jong-Il’s rule. That’s something that’s quite new,” said Myers.
An increased chance of military conflict exists because of the internal domestic crises in North Korea.
“It might very well make it more necessary for the regime to engage in some kind of diversionary conflict. In other words, some kind of conflict with South Korea that would divert the attention of the North Korean people away from the ongoing economic crisis and ideological crisis that they’re going through at home,” said Myers.


There are indications that Kim Jong Il traveled to China. What exactly was the purpose of the visit and the destination, and where the North Korean leader had arrived, is currently being investigated, said a source from Yonhap agency.

According to South Korean TV channel YTN, which refers to a source close to the president of South Korea, during his visit to China Kim Jong Il was accompanied by his youngest son, Kim Jong Un.

The latter information immediately raised a number of theories that the “beloved leader” decided to show his “elder brothers” in Beijing his new North Korean dauphin, who will inherit unlimited full power of his parent. Sam Kim Jong Il, as we know, also received it from his father, the “Great Leader,” the first head of the North Korean state and the founder of the Workers' Party of Korea Kim Il Sung, who died in 1994.

According to the line of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), the revolution cannot be completed within one generation, and management of this process should be transferred to the next one. According to the DPRK, it is best when the power is transferred from father to son, to avoid the consequences of the regime change that have been observed in China and the former Soviet Union. However, until recently, all the assumptions about the transfer of power in Pyongyang to one of the sons of Kim Jong Il were based on mere guesses.

Kim Jong Il, in spite of media reports on the deterioration of health appearing from time to time, is firmly holding the reins of power in the DPRK.

North Korean leader rarely leaves his country. The last time he was away from Pyongyang for a visit to China in early May. The extraordinariness of the current visit to China causes analysts to link this trip to the first North Korea Conference of representatives of the Workers' Party of Korea in the last 40 years. This is the place where in early September a smooth transfer of power to the new “beloved leader” may occur.

However, there is not a word about it in the lead story of Rodong Sinmun newspaper. Instead, the chief party organ of the WPK emphasizes: “The monolithic unity around Kim Jong Il's ideological purity, organizational integrity and unity of action – that’s the revolutionary character of our party, which will be even more clearly demonstrated at the party conference.” So the demonstration of the North Korean Dauphin is only one theory of Kim Jong Il's visit to Beijing.

Among other theories, the Director of the Center for International Development and Cooperation of South Korea's Institute of Foreign Economic Policy Cho Myong Chol named the desire of North Korean leader to obtain military aid of Beijing in the face of threats from Washington, Tokyo and Seoul.

According to South Korean TV and radio channel, currently joint training Chhunmu-9000 is held by the United States and the Ministry of National Unification of South Korea. Their purpose is “working out military option of surrender of North Korea, which will require joint efforts to stabilize the North.” In particular, employees of government departments in South Korea are preparing for the transfer of management of the governmental structures of the DPRK and the integration of population after the end of the stabilization measures. Currently the exercises that have been held under the maneuvers “Eulji - Freedom Guardian” since August16 involve, according to the media, 30,000 U.S. military.

Increased military maneuvers obviously disturb the North Korean leaders, who until recently threatened to give “strong physical response” to South Korean militarists. But to perform this in practice, and not just words, Pyongyang requires both military and political support of Beijing. In addition, the country is now in dire need of economic aid from its northern neighbor after the devastating floods this summer.

Another theory, which analysts do not rule out, is the possibility of resuming negotiations on the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. If Kim Jong Il is indeed in China, experts say, this topic may be again touched upon during the negotiations with the Chinese leadership.

During his previous visit, in the talks with President Hu Jintao, Kim Jong Il expressed his commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. In addition, the two leaders called on the remaining participants of the six-party talks “to demonstrate the sincerity and efforts to advance the negotiations.” At the same time, Kim Jong Il promised that the DPRK will work with China to create favorable conditions for their resumption.

The six-party talks launched in 2003 were ongoing with varying success until April 2009, when Pyongyang announced its withdrawal from the process in response to new sanctions of the UN Security Council. Shortly thereafter, in May, North Korea conducted another nuclear test. Return to the negotiation process led to the lifting of North Korean sanctions. In mid-August, the issue of the resumption of negotiations of the Six was discussed in Pyongyang by the special representative of the Government of China on the Korean Peninsula Wu Dawei.

Today Pyongyang is suffocating in the grip of sanctions; therefore Beijing will want to take this opportunity to make a “breakthrough” in the DPRK nuclear issue. However, while political scientists are lost in the theories and guesses about the routes and purposes of the North Korean armored train, the true reason for the visit of Kim Jong Il to Beijing, if it really took place, remains a mystery.

As well as the essence of the ideas of Juche, proclaimed by his father, the “Red Sun of Korea leader Kim Il Sung.” Everyone heard of them, but nobody knows what their great secret is. So the current visit of Kim Jong Il to China can be called a powerful Juche step of the great and beloved leader

The Global Media Dictatorship

No one should believe that the evidence that exposes the young U.S. soldier of twenty-two, Bradley Manning, to make available to the Wiki leaks site a vast collection of secret documents on daily brutal actions carried out by U.S. troops in their war against Afghanistan, will have serious significance in the course of the war policy of the United States
The powerful device of silence and lies which the supreme government has to conceal and cover for Washington, applies to this situation. The resources that have escaped any demand for clarification of the falsehoods in the official version of the events of September 11, 2001 in the United States, which served as a pretext to launch the war against terrorism has actually been a war against the "dark corners of the Third World."
This, to cite only one of many acts of sleight of hand by the media in the history of the American nation.
The American demon covens assembled to justify the initiation of their wars against weaker opponents are well known to history. It is not necessary to go further back than the twentieth century, recalling Korea (North-South conflict), Vietnam (Gulf of Tonkin), Iraq (weapons of mass destruction), Afghanistan (Osama bin Laden and the Taliban) and many others each with a fabricated pretext.
But, how can they control the dissemination of information by the country's media mecca that claims "freedom of the press?
It turns out not to be so difficult for them. Often, alternative media and others who are not part of the so-called big corporate media, hardly reach the majority of the population unable to gain access - they speak and write about the techniques, skills and resources for control of information that apply in the United States.
It is known that six major conglomerates that make up what is called mainstream media or MSM control 90% of the shares of large media companies that, in turn, produce 90% of what is read, seen and heard by Americans. From the MSM, the American power elite maintain a systematic and effective control of information, not only within the U.S., but globally.
According to a Canadian magazine published by Global Outlook, six conglomerates control information and entertainment in the United States and in much of the world. They are:
DISNEY, owner of ABC, Touchdown Pictures, Buena Vista, Hollywood Pictures, Caravan Pictures, Miramax Films, the production of documentaries A & F, TV History Channel, Discovery, Disney and others;
AOL / Time Warner, which owns CNN, HBO, Warner Brothers, Castle Rock, Time, Sports Illustrated, People, Fortune, Entertainment, Money, Netscape and others;

VIACOM, which includes CBS, Paramount Pictures, Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books, Blockbusters, Showtime, MTV, The Movie Channel & Nickelodeon, BET, Nickelodeon, etc..;
GENERAL ELECTRIC, owner of NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, Bravo, Universal Pictures, and thirteen televisions stations, and closely linked to the arms and aerospace industries;
RUPERT MURDOCH'S NEWS CORPORATION, owner of Fox TV, DirecTV, TV Guide, New York Post, The Weekly Standard, 20th Century Fox, MySpace and others;
Bertelsmann AG, one of the world's largest media corporations, has the European RTL-TV, Random House, Bantam Dell, Doubleday, Alfred A. Knopf, Vintage Books, and others.
The first five are registered as American and the last one is German

It would be wrong to presume that these huge consortiums are subordinate to the United States government and therefore abide by the dictates of the White House. The truth is that both Washington and the giants of information are controlled by the same power elite in the exercise of its world tyranny.
These media conglomerates do not need control on the part of the government, because they themselves are part of the supreme power. In fact, the government alone controls a relatively small number of newspapers, magazines, television and radio stations, movies, videos, labels, etc., Which, together with alternative media only scarcely influences 10% of the population.
The ineptitude with which the superpower has been led by this mysterious supreme government that no one has chosen, but by which the satanic gang manages the fate of the empire beyond its constitutional powers is the dome of the world capitalist system.
Under the leadership of this shadowy elite, their selfish nature shows itself increasingly incompatible with the survival of the human race, America is stuck in an awkward and dangerous position in which the owner of the world seems destined to lose everything for its stubbornness, thus causing something close to apocalypse for mankind.

ग़ालिब का मिजाज़...

दिल्ली में रथ को कुछ लोग स्त्रीलिंग और कुछ लोग पुल्लिंग बोलते हैं। किसी ने एक बार मिर्ज़ा ग़ालिब से पूछा कि सही क्या है? मिर्ज़ा ने जवाब दिया कि जब रथ में औरतें बैठी हो तो स्त्रीलिंग और मर्द बैठे हो तो पुल्लिंग। ... इस पर किसी ने फ़रमाया- अच्छा, इसी तरह मर्द पहने तो जूता और औरत पहने तो जूती। मिर्ज़ा ने उसे सुधारा- नहीं, मियाँ, ज़ोर से पड़े तो जूता और हौले पड़े तो जूती।
एक बार मिर्ज़ा कर्नल ब्राउन से मिलने गये। उसने इनकी पोशाक देखकर पूछा- तुम मुसलमान हो। मिर्ज़ा ने कहा- आधा। कर्नल ने सवाल किया- क्या मतलब। मिर्ज़ा ने जवाब दिया- शराब पीता हूँ, सुअर नहीं खाता।
एक दिन एक परिचित मिर्ज़ा से मिलने रात को ही चले गए। वो जब जाने लगे तो मिर्ज़ा शमादान लेकर नीचे तक आए। मेहमान ने कहा- आपने क्यों ज़हमत उठाई। मैं अपना जूता तो पहचान ही लेता।
मिर्ज़ा ने कहा- मैं तो शमादान इसलिए लाया हूँ कि कहीं आप मेरा जूता पहनकर न चले जाएं।
मिर्ज़ा आम के बड़े शौकीन थे। एक दिन अपने दोस्त के साथ आम चूस रहे थे। छिलके और गुठलियां गली के परले सिरे पर फिंकवा दी गई। एक गधा उधर से निकला। छिलके-गुठलियां सूंघकर, बिना खाये आगे बढ़ गया। शख्स़ ने कहा- देखा मिर्ज़ा गधे भी आम नहीं खाते। मिर्ज़ा ने तुरंत जवाब दिया- हाँ, मियाँ गधे ही आम नहीं खाते।
गरीबी और लगातार आर्थिक कठिनाईयों के बावजूद ग़ालिब ने कभी अपने स्वाभिमान का सौदा नहीं किया। दिल्ली कॉलेज के लिए फारसी के एक प्रोफेसर की तलाश थी। कुछ लोगों न ग़ालिब का नाम सुझाया। उन्हें बुलाया गया। पालकी पर सवार ग़ालिब, सेक्रेटरी के घर पहुँचे। उनको इत्तला की गई। ग़ालिब पालकी से उतरकर इस भरोसे में बाहर ही रुके कि उनके स्वागत के लिए सेक्रेटरी आयेंगे। जब बहुत देर हो गयी और सेक्रेटरी को वजह मालूम हुई तो वह खुद बाहर आए और उसने मिर्ज़ा से कहा- आप जब गवर्नर के दरबार में आयेंगे तब आपका इस्तकबाल किया जाएगा लेकिन इस वक्त तो आप नौकरी के लिए आए हैं। आपका उस तरह ख़ैर मक़दम तो नहीं किया जा सकता। मिर्ज़ा ने कहा- सरकार की मुलाजमत का इरादा इसलिए किया कि इज्ज़त मैं इज़ाफा हो, यहाँ तो मौजूदा एजाज़ मैं ही फ़र्क आ रहा है। मुझे इस खिदमत से माफ़ रक्खा जाए। और मिर्ज़ा वापस चले आए।
वह तो कॉलेज की नौकरी थी ग़ालिब तो इतने खुद्दार थे कि अगर क़ाबे का भी दरवाज़ा खुला न मिले तो वो वहाँ से भी वापस आ जाँय।

Time Machine Built in Europe

Russian physicists seriously believe that the Large Hadron Collider can be used for time travel. However, it will only happen when it starts working at full capacity and stops breaking down.
If earlier time travel was considered science fiction, now it suddenly turned into the favorite pet project of theoretical physicists. Renowned physicist Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology once said in one of his lectures:
“Once upon a time, time travel was the exclusive prerogative of writers. Serious scientists were shunning it like the plague, even when they were writing novels under a pseudonym or were secretly reading them. The times have changed! Now in serious scientific journals you can find a scientific analysis of time travel, authored by outstanding theoretical physicists. Why this change? Physics simply understood that the nature of time is too important to give it to the mercy of writers.”
Today, there are many different schemes of devices designed for time travel. The main one is the Large Hadron Collider. It was launched in the fall of 2008. This is the most powerful particle accelerator in history located on the border of Switzerland and France. In its 27-kilometer ring scientists are trying to collide beams of protons accelerated to nearly light speed. As expected, this device will provide new information about particles and forces acting in space, as well as will reproduce conditions that existed immediately after the Big Bang gave birth to the universe.
Russia Today: LHC's little brother to beam near Moscow
After launching the collider, people were scared of the giant black hole capable of swallowing the Earth. Yet, scientists quickly calmed the population saying that in case of a collision of particles in the collider, the holes that may appear would be microscopic, or so large that they can be used as a handy tool for time travel.
This sensational proposal was made by two doctors of physical and mathematical sciences, Professors of Institute of Mathematics named after Steklov, Irina Arefyeva and Igor Volovich.
“Modern principles of theoretical mathematical physics allow the possibility of time travel,” explains Volovich, a member of RAS. “One of the admissible models of working time machine is the so-called wormhole, that is, a space-time tunnel leading to another time or space. And the probability of formation of a wormhole in the LHC is comparable to the probability of occurrence of the black hole itself, which can occur when particles collide with high energy.

As explained by the physics, wormhole is a tunnel connecting different parts of space and time. Entrance to the tunnel may be the size of a star, a planet, a house and even a speck of dust, depending on a purpose of the tunnel use. After all, there is a difference between sending a photon or a group of tourists. You can get to another galaxy, or another universe. And you can also get into in the past. In terms of the physical properties, the entrance to the wormhole is very similar to the entrance to the black hole. The difference is that you can come back.
Since the LHC is designed, figuratively speaking, to create a part of space on Earth, then it can be used to obtain dark energy. This is also an important detail of creating the miracle machine. Another necessary condition for making the machine work is to distort space and time so it closes up in a ring. And the LHC is quite capable of that.
“This phenomenon in physics is called “closed time-like curve,” explains Professor Arefyeva. “It allows, at least theoretically, returning to the past.”
“Is it possible to have a paradox described by Bradbury, when a traveler caught in the past accidentally steps on a butterfly, which results in coming to power of a different president in his time? “
“We expected such issues,” says professor Volovich. “We came to this conclusion: time travel may change the course of history, but not very significantly.”
To make time machine the reality, the scientists stress the need for the LHC to reach at least the design capacity (now it is working at half capacity) and stop breaking down.
“So far, our biggest home is that the LHC will demonstrate the existence of wormhole. If some of the collision energy in the collider disappears, this can be explained by the creation of particles that pierce time through wormholes.”
Research and Development Center of the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN), promised that the LHC will start working as expected in September. Then it becomes clear whether Russian physicists were right in their solution of the most intriguing problem of mankind.

जनता की जनसरोकारिता

मानवता और समाज के विकास में आम आदमी की सीधी तौर से जिम्मेदारी होती है। अगर यह भागीदारी निभाने के लिए कोई जनता तैयार नहीं है तब समाज का स्वरूप क्या हो सकता है, इसका अनुमान लगाना भी भयावह है। इसी तरह के अनुभव आज सुबह मुझे देश की राजधानी नई दिल्ली में बस यात्रा के दौरान प्राप्त हुआ। मेरी बस यमुना नदी के पूरब की ओर से एक ऐतिहासिक पुल से गुजरता हुआ नई दिल्ली की ओर सरपट दौड़ती हुई आ रही थी। मैं और सहयात्री यमुना नदी की बदले हुए काया को देखकर आनंदित हो रहे थे और सभी लोगों के दिल व दिमाग को सुकून मिल रहा था कि यमुना नदी के रंग काले से बदल कर पीलापन लिए हुए है। कुछ लोग यह भी कह रहे थे कि इसी तरह यमुना नदी में पानी का बहाव बना रहा तो संभव है कि आने वाले समय में यमुना जी का रंग काला के बदले उनकी अपनी प्रकृतिक रंग देखने के लिए नसीब हो। कोई कह रहा था, यह बारसात के मौसम का और हरियाणा में आए हुए बाढ़ की कृपा है जिसने यमुना जी के रंग को काला से गोरा बना दिया है।
इसी तरह यमुना नदी को निहारते हुए जितनी आँखे देख रही थी उतनी ही जुब़ान उनके गीत गा रहे थे। जब हमारी बस नदी की ठीक बीच में आई तब एक आदमी अचानक हड़बड़ाकर उठा और बस के गेट पर आकर कहने लगा कि मुझे घर के पूजा के फूल नदी में विसर्जित करना है। उसके हाथ में एक बड़ा थैला था। ठीक उसी समय पुल पर ट्रैफिक जाम हो गई और उस आदमी के लिए स्वर्ग के दरवाजा भी खुल गए। बस में बैठे उसके साथ के लोग उसे सीखा रहे थे कि बस जब रूकेगी तब जल्दी से उतर कर वह तेजी से अपने काम को अंजाम दे दे। वह फुर्ती से उतरा और पुल पर बने बेड़े से नदी में छपाक से अपनी भगवान पर चढ़ाए हुए श्रद्धा को फेंक दिया। उसके चेहरे पर खुशी की लकीर देखे जा सकते थे।
लोगों के आपसी हलचल सुनकर मेरी नज़र उस आदमी पर गई। मेरी ज़ुबान से सहसा निकल पड़ा, बहुत अच्छा-बहुत अच्छा, शाबाश! मुझे खुशी हुई कि आपने यह काम अपने खुशी के लिए किया। आप क्यों नहीं करेंगे? यही काम करके तो सारी दिल्ली के लोग पूरे देश में समझदार कहे जाते हैं, सबसे ज्यादा पढ़े-लिखे कहे जाते हैं। इसी काम से दिल्ली के लोग इतने धन्नाठ और रसूखदार हुए हैं। तब आप भला क्यों अपनी समझदारी का सामूहिक प्रदर्शन करने में पीछे रहेंगे।
मेरी कही गई बात सुनकर सम्मानीय यात्रीगण मुस्कुरा रहे थे। कुछ लोग आँखे खोलकर संपूर्ण नाटक का मज़ा ले रहे थे। लेकिन वह आदमी निर्भीक था, लेकिन हां थोड़ा सहमा-सहमा भी जरूर था। वह पुन: अपनी जगह पर आ गया था। मेरी बातों का उसने जवाब देना जरूरी समझा और कहा कि “यह मुद्दा बहस का नहीं है। उस थैला में मेरे घर के पूजा का फूल था जो नदी में प्रवाहित करने के लिए होता है।”
इस कार्यक्रम के मुख्य बातें बस इतना ही है। फिर क्या हुआ? यह तो आप सब जानते हैं। हर कार्यक्रम की एक अवधि होती है। मसलन कहीं पर किसी की हत्या कर दी जाती है। वहां से लाश चली है। पुलिस भी अपनी भूमिका अदा कर चले जाते हैं। उसके बाद उस स्थान पर क्या कुछ हुआ। सारा घटनाक्रम वहां लोग या कहे इस सामाज के लोगों के दिमाग से छूमंतर हो जाता है।
अलबत्ता बस में भी यही हुआ। सभी लोग फिर से अपनी नयनसुख भोगते हुए यमुना नदी का पुल पार कर गए। लेकिन सवाल स्थिर है, सहमा हुआ सा है। इस समाज के लोग क्यों नहीं जनसरोकार के विषय को बहस का मुद्दा बनाते हैं। क्या कभी ऐसा हो सकता है कि इस दिल्ली में रहने वाले लोग सिर्फ एक दिन अपनी ऑफिस ड्यूटी को किनारे कर इस समाज के सबसे महत्वपूर्ण ड्यूटी को पूरा करेगा। सभी लोग सड़क पर उतर कर यमुना नदी में फेंके जा रहे कचरे रोके, नदी में खोले गए नाले के मुहाने को बंद करे दे। साथ ही एक चेतावनी दिया जाए कि यदि आगे से कभी यमुना नदी को गंदा करने की कोशिश की गई तो दिल्ली में एक बार फिर 1857 की तरह यमुना नदी की आजादी के लिए दिल्ली जल उठेगा।
एक स्वस्थ समाज के लिए जरूरी होता है कि वह हिंसामुक्त हो। लेकिन समाज में सुधार और पृथ्वी के स्वास्थ के लिए कुछ कठोर निर्णय लेना ही होगा। हम पृथ्वी पर रहते हुए पृथ्वी को ही क्यों भूल गए हैं। हम इसके बनावट से अनजान नहीं रह सकते? आखिर इस पृथ्वी को हम मानव से और भला क्या चाहिए, सिर्फ यही न कि यहां के पांच तत्वों को उनके प्राकृतिक स्वरूप में बने रहने दें। हम लोग इस पृथ्वी से इतना कुछ पाते हैं। उसके बदले में केवल और केवल पांच मांगे पूरी नहीं कर सकते? आखिर कब तक...

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