,Data generation, Data mining, data- reconstruction, ,data commentary , data analysis ,,information generation, information mining, information- reconstruction,,information commentary ,informatio analysis ,information imaging,---, verification, checking,crosschecking ,advertising the availability and authenticity thereof appear to be professions upcoming in India,
Legal issues relating to use, transfer , misuse, licensing issues, unauthorized access and use and various other facets of Data / Information management,trade, industry and commerce,transfer and inheritance issues, IP novelty issues, Trade marked data, trade marked information, sharing and distribution of data / information ,.are future new dimensions for young trained professional minds and all systems must be ready to meet this up-coming challenge.

मुँह कहाँ , कब ,कितना और क्यों खोलना है ,इतना सा जान जाओ तो आधी शिक्षा और दीक्षा दोनों हो गई ,समझो .
किसके सामने खोलना है ,किसके सामने  बंद रखना है ,यही तो जानना है .
कब कोई कहे तब भी खोलना नहीं ,और किसी के कहने से ,डर से भी कब बंद रखना नहीं . बस यही तो सीख लेना है 

Prerna Wardhan - an Engineer, IP entrepreneur, activist ,consultant , Patent Attorney and Lawyer--God bless her---she must reach new heights.

वाह रे तूं
कतरा  कतरा ढालता रहा
मेरा प्याला यूँ भरता रहा
मेरी निगाहें थी समंदर  पर
तूं आबे जमजम पिलाता रहा .

दिये भर रौशनी भी मयस्सर न थी
तूं नूर ए आफ़ताब बख्शता रहा .
तरसता था एक बूंद को ,एक शक्ल को
तूने तो एक दरिया ,एक काफिला बना डाला .

झुकाने को एक सर भी न छोड़ा आपने
हर पहर कुर्बान मैं खुद को करता रहा .

न्यायाधीश लिखते पढ़ते ही अच्छे ,दीखते ,दिखाते ,मिलते मिलाते नहीं .न्यायाधीश लिख के ही बोले  अच्छे ,बोल कर न बोले सो ही सही . न्यायाधीश हाँ या ना में ही बोले ,ऐसा होना चाहिये में नहीं .न्यायाधीश एकसार बोले ,समझदार बोले यही अपेक्षा है .
As sober as a Judge

रास्ते जमीन पर नहीं , दिल दिमाग में होते हैं , रास्तों के लिये पैर नहीं दिल -दिमाग -पेट में आग चाहिये .

रास्ते जितनी बार बंद हुए उससे अधिक बार खुलते ही रहते हैं .

पढ़ने के लिये तो यह सब कुछ पसरा पड़ा है , आँखें खोल कर इत्मिनान से जी भर देख भर लो- पढाई हो गई .
पढ़ाने के लिये , खुद पर भरोसा कर खुद को पूरी तरह से खोल भर दो , पूरी युनिवेर्सिती  तैयार है ,लाइब्रेरी के साथ दूसरों के पढ़ने के लिये .
पढ़ने -पढ़ाने का यही तरीका है .

राजस्थान की उस धरती की याद में जहाँ जमीं पर हल्दीघाटी से लेकर सारी जगह वीरों का खून ही जमीं का श्रृंगार है और जहाँ मेघ भी पानी बरसाते शरमाते हैं --

पुकारते रहने पर ही रिश्ते जिन्दे रहते हैं .

न्यायाधीश लिखते पढ़ते ही अच्छे ,दीखते ,दिखाते ,मिलते मिलाते नहीं .न्यायाधीश लिख के ही बोले  अच्छे ,बोल कर न बोले सो ही सही . न्यायाधीश हाँ या ना में ही बोले ,ऐसा होना चाहिये में नहीं .न्यायाधीश एकसार बोले ,समझदार बोले यही अपेक्षा है .
As sober as a Judge

तुम भी हो स्वीकार ,
तुम्हारी स्वीकृति स्वीकार ,
स्वीकृति का विरोध कर
 स्वीकृति का प्रचार कर

विरोध कर प्रचार कर
इस प्रकार के प्रचार से
विरोधियों का उपचार कर
विरोध का प्रचार कर .

विरोध कर प्रचार कर
इस प्रकार के प्रचार से
विरोधियों का उपचार कर
विरोध का प्रचार कर .

वाह रे तूं
कतरा  कतरा ढालता रहा
मेरा प्याला यूँ भरता रहा
मेरी निगाहें थी समंदर  पर
तूं आबे जमजम पिलाता रहा
दिये भर रौशनी भी मयस्सर न थी
तूं नूर ए आफ़ताब बख्शता रहा .
तरसता था एक बूंद को ,एक शक्ल को
तूने तो एक दरिया ,एक काफिला बना डाला .

दो बैच
तीन सौ बीस बच्चे
उनका भविष्य
उनका शील
कम से कम आज कोई प्रश्न नहीं
न ही कोई ग्लानि

सफल होना अच्छा है ,
पर सफलता की सीढियाँ चढ़ने से अच्छा है सफलता की सीढियाँ बन जाना जिससे हो कर जमाना सफल हो सके ,
आपकी सफलता से महत्वपूर्ण है भविष्य की सफलता .
अपनी सफलता के लिये भविष्य को असफल मत होने दें

मैं भी कलमघिस्सू नुक्कड़ वाला कलमवीर बडबोला हूँ ,
गीत लिख कर मै क्रांति करता , शब्दवीर  हरबोला हूँ .
व्यंग बाण ही मेरे तरकश मैं ,कल्पनालोक का झोला है
सम्मोहित कर ,असलियत दूर ,भ्रम जाल को खोला है .
बड़ा भारी नचवैया हूँ ,स्वांग धर,नाच नचा,मैं जीता हूँ
कभी हंसता,कभी खेलता,आंसू खून के हर पल पीता हूँ .

When i was a kid, all the way through high school, I was always  picked by my family for my curiosity ,logic and it was very hurtful.

 I am curious as to what is considered the right way to approach a young child having higher IQ. Teasing and being laughed at does not do it, and it certainly damages the self esteem, which can be fragile in those early years.

Now that I am an adult man in my 50s, I still struggle to some extent with scars ,scratches received at that tender age.  I am curious , but I  also  learn. I talk healthy, and work several times more than others. I wish I knew how to bear  that when i was a kid - i.e. handle what is basically bullying behavior using someone's IQ as an excuse. I am open to having discussions when someone genuinely is concerned about this prevalent practice - as opposed to someone trying to make me feel bad about myself, to feed his ego.

We have traded common sense to clever marketing words like "freedom", "liberty".....

Bullying by your own family is just about the worst thing that can happen to a child and those bruises last a lifetime. (I know that too.) The fact that nobody stepped in to stop it is just heartbreaking. 

 Taunting a child for his shortcomings is child abuse. Reforms cannot be made through taunts or skits .

The way our society judges and defines people   is heartbreaking. It makes me so sad and  sometimes angry.

Listen to your old man

Judge me, my heart ,head and hand, transparently and not clandestinely.Mark me ,evaluate me  but not in a subjective opaque manner. 

statistics can’t look into the future.”

Don't be scared of anything.Trust in the God & face the battle of life.There is no power on earth that can lay you low. 

The judiciary is bound to implement the laws and redress grievances of all persons including aliens to uphold their common law or statutorily recognized rights.

Law is Kings of Kings

Unable to settle the disputes, the litigant approaches the Court
seeking justice by paying court fees and heavy fees to the lawyers. For
substantial number of litigants, District Court is the final Court. The primary
duty of the Courts is to render justice. 

,Quoting Justice H.R. Khanna,
“the judges of the higher courts are concerned, their office demands that they be
historian and prophet rolled into one, for law is not only as the past has shaped it in
judgments already rendered but as the future ought to shape it in cases yet to come.”

The courts represent that part of the constitutional wing, which is not democratically
chosen. Hence, the Constitution puts an embargo on them to dilute the responsibility of
the elected representatives of the people.

As Salmond on Jurisprudence has said that:
“... it is no part of the judge’s function to create rules of law: his only task is to apply
already established rules.”

Possession of vast powers which operates through a human organization is inevitably threatened with the peril of abuse of power. 

 Courts are bestowed upon with the duty to protect, deliberate and acknowledge the
individual rights of the people with the continuing effort of upholding the constitutional
beliefs of a democratic country.

 Whenever I enter the courtroom, I do so with the deep sense that, as I sit at trial, I stand on trial.

 Judging is not a job. It is a way of life. 

“As a judge, I do not have a political platform. I am not a political person. Right and left,
religious and secular, rich and poor, man and woman, disabled and nondisabled, all are
equal in my eyes. All are human beings, created in the image of the Creator. I will protect
the human dignity of each. I do not aspire to power. I do not seek to rule. I am aware of
the chains that bind me as a judge.

"A judge should value independence above gold, not for his or her own benefit, but
because it is of the essence of the rule of law."
- Lord Chief Justice Phillips

"A judge should value independence above gold, not for his or her own benefit, but
because it is of the essence of the rule of law."
- Lord Chief Justice Phillips

Law is Kings of Kings

Law is Kings of Kings

The rule of law requires the government should be subject to law, rather than the law
subject to the government.

 Rule of Law collates the rules which are based on the principles of
freedom, equality, non-discrimination, fraternity, accountability and non-arbitrariness and
is certain, regular and predictable. “

 Judicial function is facing consistent mutilation through tribunalisation. Sadly, both the bar and the bench appear structurally complicit in it. The judiciary has been “timorous” in not contesting these tribunals that forces it to share its adjudicating powers with the executive. This is contrary to the constitutional scheme of the separation of powers between judiciary and the executive. Her lecture captures the current situation of emergence of collusion, complicity, connivance and incestous institutions in myriad ways.  

 “Delay, arrears of cases, specialised knowledge etc. have been usually cited as reasons for the creation of such tribunals” if that is a valid rational then in that case “all courts should have technical members to improve the ‘quality of decision making’.

 “Who do we include within the term ‘judiciary’? Is it limited to constitutional courts or does it also include those tribunals which decide rights and have the trappings of a court?”

For instance, all the members including the judicial members remain subject to the administrative and financial control of the executive. Will it qualify to be deemed part of judiciary? A tribunal has the “trappings of a court”, it is not a court.

 Let all the authorities act within  the bounds of their powers. Ensure that they do not take any biased attitude; do not act arbitrarily, do not deny equality before the law to the concerned person, observe principles of natural justice and fair play in making orders  or taking action, pass  reasoned orders and communicate their decisions to the affected party to enable them to challenge any adverse decision. Due to the rapid growth of the administrative law, requirement of making a reasoned order has emerged as a basic principle of natural justice in addition to the two traditionally recognized principles of natural justice namely ‘ No man shall be a judge of his own cause’ and that ‘No on  should be condemned unheard. Now promptness and timeliness is fast growing to be the essence of justice.

The judiciary is bound to implement the laws and redress grievances of all persons including aliens to uphold their common law or statutorily recognized rights.

The judiciary is bound to implement the laws and redress grievances of all persons including aliens to uphold their common law or statutorily recognized rights.

Intellectual property is inchoate property when manifested in a legally recognizable way. 

 The importance of Judiciary in a democratic set up for protection of personal and proprietary rights can hardly be overestimated. The principal function of Judiciary is to provide legal remedies against infringement of personal and property rights of persons.

हलाहल आज जो मैं पिऊंगा
नीलकंठ तुम कल बना दोगे .

इस विष से तुम्हें बचा लूँ तो
शव से शिव तुम कल बना दोगे .

अब मंडलियों में नही होता कीर्तन
नमाजियों की भी कहाँ मिलती जमात .

अब तो समूह में खोले जाते हैं नाड़े
वारदात के बाद पूछते हैं , उद्घाटन किसने किया था .

एक मोमबत्ती जला ली , चार कदम सडक पर चल दिए
चलो विरोध तो हो गया , मेरे साथ कैंडल लाईट डिनर हो जाये .

चक्का है तो घूमेगा ही , क्या तुमने आखिरी कैंडल जलाई थी
अब औरों को भी तो मौका मिले कैंडल लाईट मार्च का .

Let not aristocracy or autocracy enter and destroy our democracy surreptitiously.
Dictatorial dictates and / or ambitions of even the wisest should not rule. Let only innocent hearts with the help of wise minds and tough hands only govern,
 and
not those foxes, jackals, wolfs- no,never ,none of those who are greedy for themselves.

अपने आप के लिये ,तुमने व्यवस्था को किया ब्यर्थ
तोड़ डाला विश्वास ,सदियों का भी नहीं रहा कोई अर्थ .

तुम और मैं टूट जायेंगे ,तब भी वह तो रहेगा सार्थक
व्यवस्था ,विश्वास तोड़ोगे तो ,हम सब होंगे निरर्थक

एक पल के लोभ में .सदियाँ बह गई ,मूल्य ढह गये
हरे भरे जंगल थे , कहाँ गये ,ठूंठ ,नंगे अभद्र रह गये .

ये तुमने क्या किया ,अपना ही काम,नाम निगल लिया
उस एक पल के ताप से ,सदियों का यश पिघल लिया .

Learn with accelerating velocity, that too inspectingly , observingly , dissectinly

Judges,as an individual  and judiciary as an institution must in all circumstances be above suspicion. Only a standard, consistent ,transparent conduct can ensure it.
Judges must practice abstinence of highest degree and moral bravery that can conquer even their own vices.
The reputation of judiciary must be protected. It earns only through its trustworthiness. Judges must notcease to be trustworthy .
A fast judge but not trustworthy, has to introspect within.

http://www.dnaindia.com/mumbai/report-bombay-lawyers-seek-probe-into-supreme-court-bench-meddling-in-cidco-case-1971400

आपके प्रति मेरी श्रद्धा का जिम्मेवार मैं हूँ ,एकतरफा है , कभी एकलब्य की भी थी ,मैं अपनी श्रद्धा का निर्वहन स्वयं करूँगा ,आपके अन्दर के शिक्षक तत्व ,पढने ,पढ़ाने के उत्साह से यदि मैं प्रेरणा ले लेता हूँ तो मेरी अपेक्षा रहेगी कि आप मुझे कम से कम अलग नहीं करेंगें -वैसे भी इस पक्की उम्र में इतने सामाजिक व् लोक पदों का भार  शायद आप जैसे मनीषियों से प्राप्त उर्जा से ही निभा सकता हूँ.प्रेम भरा आग्रह है कि FB के इस अनजान मित्र कोकिसी प्रकार उसकी एक्ताफा श्रद्धा के साथ आगे बढ़ लेने दीजिये .सादर

कमतर मेरे जैसों को कमबख्त इस कलम ने गहरे जख्म दिए , और कलम के सूरमाओं ने बुरी तरह से मुझे घेर ही डाला,, इनमे भीष्म Prem Mohan Lakhotia,अभिमन्यु -अनुज अग्रवाल ,शल्य  सारथी - Dhruv Gupt,Prem Chand Gandhi , Mohan Shotiya Anirudh Sinha आदि  अनेक, कुछ रंगीन स्याही से लिखते हैं - मेरी तो सीधी सादी काली स्याही ही भली ,---ज्यों ज्यों बुडे स्याह रंग त्यों त्यों उज्जलु होय ,लाल पसंद नहीं ,तिरंगी लिखना नहीं है , केसरिया स्याही का प्रश्न ही नहीं  , बेहतर कलम वालों का मल्लयुद्ध साक्षी भाव से देखता हूँ, जाने कब गवाही देनी पड़ ही जाये , या जाँच के लिये आंच लगने लगे या कभी मेरी प्रोफाइल का काम - कोई निर्णय ही देना पड़ ही जाये ----- सचमुच मुलाकात सरे आम न हुई होती ,सरे -राह न हुई होती , थोड़ी इतमिनान से हुई होती तो और डूब कर मजा लेता , और तब आपको तबियत से बताता हाल -ए-मुलाकात -Prem Mohan Lakhotia Sir _/\_

टोपी बदल गई है , बाकी सब कुछ वही है
हवा तो अब भी वही है , रुख सही नहीं है .

How does the legal fraternity react to it? What is the analysed deduced conclusion? Legal and judicial acadamecians , please open yourselves fearlessly !

तुम कौन हो भाई!
अनजान हो पर हो जानदार

परत दर परत मुझे खोलते
तुम कौन हो भाई!
अनजान हो पर हो जानदार!

सिहर जाता है मन ,पर अच्छा लगता है
तुम्हारा यूँ परत दर परत खोलना
तुम कौन हो भाई!
अनजान हो पर हो जानदार!

परत दर परत मुझे खोल कर पढ़ते हो
पोस्ट दर पोस्ट स्क्रोल कर मुझे टटोलते हो
अच्छा तो लगता है भाई ,पर डर भी तो है
आखिर तुम क्या कहोगे भाई
तुम कौन हो भाई!
अनजान हो पर हो जानदार!

बेहतर कलम से हुई एक मुलाकात

ऐ शब्द -भाव के नित्य प्रवाह
, बहते रहना ,अविरल ,
जाने कब किस पथिक को
विश्राम की चाह हो ,
 या कब अभीतक शेष
 प्यास बाकी हो
और
 वह तुमसे मेरी ही तरह मिल जाए

Birds of same feather flock together- be good ,get good, ---be the best get all the best---- gold medalists have their own group and they always search another gold medalist

शायद भगत,बटुकेश्वर ,सुखदेव ये नाम ही काफी है
कुछ कुछ होने के लिये ,कुछ उबलने के लिये.
बस याद भर रखने से कुछ अब नहीं होगा
सावधान रहना होगा उनसे जो

और जिसने दी थी गवाही उसका नाम
आधी नई दिल्ली जिसकी हुआ करती थी उसका काम
मूल्यों को सरे बाजार नीलाम कर देने लिये काफी नहीं है .
यदि मैं लाल का बेटा ,गाँधी का पोता हो कर गर्व करता हूँ
तो उस गवाह ठेकेदार का बेटा होने पर उसे  पद्मविभूषण  क्यों

सीढियाँ सदैव सीधी खड़ी नहीं होती
न हीं निचे से सीढियों के अंतिम छोर को हर दम देखा जा सकता है .
सीढियाँ अंतिम ऊंचाई का पहले आभास दे ही दे ,जरूरी नहीं
कुछ सीढियों के बाद ही चौताल मिला करता है
सीढियाँ वहीं खत्म नहीं होती
वह चौताल ऊँचा तो है पर खड़े रहने के लिये नहीं
सावधान, देखो , वहीं यु टर्न ,फिर ऊंचाई के लिये जाती आगे सीढियाँ
और यही सिलसिला है उपर चढ़ते जाने का
चौताल पर रुकना मत
यु टर्न से घबराना मत
निचे खड़े हो सीढियों के अन्त का
 न तो इन्तजार करना ,न ही अंदाज
सीढियाँ चढ़ने के लिये होती है , रोने या पढने के लिये नहीं .
कभी कभी सीढियाँ अंतहीन होती है
चढ़ते जाना है दम साध कर
सीढियाँ घुमावदार , जिग जैग ज़ूम  भी मिलेगी
चढने के लिये ही बनी होती हैं , पढने के लिये नहीं .

सेसन्स कोर्ट की जन मानस में मर्यादा को खंडित करने का प्रयास पूरी न्याय व्यवस्था पर समाज के अखण्ड विश्वास के साथ खेलने का कुत्सित षडयंत्र है , नासमझी है.
 - प्रत्येक शिक्षा नर्सरी से ही शुरू होती है.
-इस समाज के ९८ % लोग न्याय के लिये सेसंस कोर्ट को ही अपनी अंतिम आश मानते हैं .
 डाक्टरेट वाली थीसिस पुस्तकालयों की ही शोभा होती है .
 हम सब तो " दी  सोलिटरी रिपर , फूल की चाह , आनंद मठ " में ही मग्न हैं
 ------ जो करना हो करते रहना , हमारे आस्था की संस्थाओं को अपने खेल की वस्तु तो मत बनाओ.
 -----वैसे हमारी आस्था की संस्थाओं को  तूम  बड़े डाक्टरेट वालों ने अपने व्यवसाय की वस्तु तो बना ही लिया है
--- उससे आगे तो बाज आओ
---- न्यायिक व्यवस्था के प्रति हमारी श्रद्धा का आदर जिन्दा रखो -- प्लीज !

Life must be measured by deeds, and not by years.

अपनी तमाम कमजोरियों को जानते हुए भी अपनी प्रतिभा , क्षमता ,योग्यता पर भरोसा करना , उसी का संवर्धन करते रहना ,यही सच्चा पुरुषार्थ है .
केवल अपनी कमजोरियों पर सदैव लज्जित होते रहने से कुछ होना तो है नहीं .
आपकी जो भी प्रतिभा है वह भी उचित  पोषण के अभाव में धीरे धीरे कुंद हो जाएगी .
अपनी प्रतिभा ,क्षमता पर अधिक ध्यान दे .उसे निरंतर मान्जिये ,सान -धार चढ़ाइए ,चमकाइये , नई बुलंदियों तक पहुंचाइए .
----------    जो चल दिए उनके जीवन से सीखने  के लिये बहुत कुछ है , अपनी कमजोरियों को अपनी कमजोरी ही नहीं बने रहने दें -- अपनी प्रतिभा की सबोर्डिनेट की तरह उन कमजोरियों को जी लेने दे .पर अपनी प्रतिभा को इतना तो प्रखर बना ही लें की जब लोग आपके बारे में बात करे तब आपकी प्रतिभा के बारे में बात करने को विवश हो जाएँ.

Some persons, things, events and memories thereof must be erased, deleted in order that the rest can grow and march ahead proportionately.

Likes and dislikes, if allowed to govern, will take away the weight of quality and block the way ahead. Let not your ego grow disproportionately.

हमारे करने के कामों में सोच यदि कम हो तो समुचित परिणाम नहीं मिलते .
इसी प्रकार केवल सोचने मात्र से परिणाम नहीं मिलेंगे .
सोचा हुआ करें , करने के पहले और बाद सोचे .

रुकना यहाँ भी नहीं , मैं भी रोकूँ तब भी नहीं , आगे बढ़ , आगे लक्ष्य और भी हैं .
पर हाँ ,गिडगिडाना मत ,झुकना अब भी नहीं , मैं भी कहूँ तब भी नहीं ,तुम्हारा दोष ही क्या है .
इस दुनिया के आगे भी और भी दुनिया है. आगे बढ़ ,बढ़ता चल .

कच्चा आम ,इमली शब्द तो हैं
पर इनको बोलते समय कितनों को खट्टा खट्टा कुछ लगने लगता है
क्या गाँधी ,इस देश का या सरहदी
साऊथ अफ्रीका का या आज का
बोलते समय कितनों को कुछ लगने या होने लगता है
निज़ाम एक नाम "शब्द" तो है
पर इस नाम को बोलते समय कितनों को ज्वेलरी दिखने  लगती है
कुछ इसी तरह के नाम है -पद्मनाभम नंदिर ,तिरुपति और अन्य
बस नाम लो ,बस इतना ही काफी है .
शायद भगत,बटुकेश्वर ,सुखदेव ये नाम ही काफी है
कुछ कुछ होने के लिये ,कुछ उबलने के लिये.

और जिसने दी थी गवाही उसका नाम
आधी नई दिल्ली जिसकी हुआ करती थी उसका काम
मूल्यों को सरे बाजार नीलाम कर देने लिये काफी नहीं है .
यदि मैं लाल का बेटा ,गाँधी का पोता हो कर गर्व करता हूँ
तो उस गवाह ठेकेदार का बेटा होने पर मुझे पद्मविभूषण  क्यों
क्या सचमुच मैं इतना ही महान था
या यह सब मेरी बहुत महंगी शराब के कारण था
या उस कच्चे गोश्त के कारण जिसका मैं मरने तक शौक़ीन था
यह सब शोहरत मुझे इसी कारण या गवाह ठेकेदार आधी दिल्ली के मालिक के कारण
मुझे याद  है मैंने यह सब तुमसे खूब बांटा था .

सबसे बड़ा है रोना
कालेज में प्रोफेसर का न होना
आम कालेज में हो भी तो हाजरी माफ़
इंजीनियरिंग कालेज में है पूरा हाफ
डाक्टरी की पढाई,प्रोफेसर ,कभी माफ़, कभी हाफ
ला कालेज में तो हर बार पूरा साफ
कभी का सेशन , कभी एडमिशन ,
एक दिन भरो फार्म ,दुसरे दिन एक्सामिनेसं
सबसे बड़ा है रोना
कालेज में खाली एक्जमिनेसं होना.
सबसे बड़ा है रोना
कापी होगी तो ना ,और एक्जामिनर का होना .
सबसे बड़ा है रोना
बिना गैस की लेबोरेट्री , बिना छत की होना
सबसे बड़ा है रोना
बिना बिजली के कालेज ,होस्टल होना
सबसे बड़ा है रोना
बेड नहीं ,दरवाजे नहीं पानी भी नही होना
सबसे बड़ा है रोना
जो कुछ भी है या तो माफ़, या हाफ ,उया फिर सफा साफ

लंगोटी पहने सुबह का किसलय सूरज
और झुर्रीदार रात के अभिसार के बाद थका चंदा मामा
अहले सुबह दोनों की कबड्डी , कित -कित देखते ही बनती है
अपनी गर्दन नचा नचा गौरैया दोनों का मजा ले रही है

शाख -शिखर पर निकल रहा नया लाल लाल पत्ता
वहाँ बैठी कलंगी वाली बुलबुल ,गाने गा-गा कर
नाचती छींटदार तितली ,अपनी चटक फ्राक लहराकर
फुदकती गिलहरी अपनी झब्बेदार पोंछ नाटक मटका कर
चाँद को रात वाली चांदनी की बात याद दिला रही है

चाँद आखिर शर्माते हुए जाना ही चाहता है
कि तभी तेज रौशनी सूरज के साथ खेलने चली आती है
देख शर्माए स्खलित चन्द्र को , अभिसार का  सार जान
सूरज और रौशनी ने एक बार चाँद को अपने घर में छिपा लिया है .

सन १६००  के आसपास व्यापारी बन  कर आया अंग्रेज राजा बन बैठा। व्यापारी को राजा नहीं बनना चाहिये। राजा को ब्यापार नहीं करना चाहिये।
अंग्रेजों के व्यापारी से राजा बनने के कारण और वहीँ से भारतीय सामाजिक संरचना  तथा भारतीय मूल्यों में विभ्रम पैदा हुआ।
कालांतर में जन सहयोग अथवा जन -प्रतिरोध  से या कहिये विश्व में घटित परिस्थितियों के फलस्वरूप अन्ग्रेजों ने भारत के राजा का पद  त्याग  दिया।
आज भी ब्यापारी ही राजा और राजा ही  व्यापारी बने फिर रहे हैं ,देखिये क्या -क्या होता है। 

Sir Sobha Singh, OBE (1890–1978) was a civil contractor and a prominent builder of Lutyens' Delhi and real estate owner of Delhi.^[1] He is the father of famous Indian writer Khushwant Singh. As a witness in the Assembly Bomb Case, Sobha Singh identified martyrs Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt after they threw bombs at the Delhi assembly in 1929

Sobha Singh was a witness in the assembly bomb explosion incident on April 8, 1929. He identified ^[4] Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt after they threw bombs at the Delhi assembly in 1929. Subsequently Shaheed Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru were sentenced to death for their role in the assassination of Saunders

When Hardinge, the Viceroy of India, announced the plan to move the British Indian capital city to Delhi was along with the Coronation Durbar for King George V and the Queen Mary, would take place in Delhi in December 1911, Sujan Singh and 22-year old Sobha Singh, who was then a contractor working on the Kalka-Shimla railroad, shifted base to Delhi as building contractors. Building contracts then being given out. Sujan Singh-Sobha Singh were accepted as senior-grade contractors. Plans for the new city were drawn immediately after the Coronation Durbar.

The Foundation stones had been laid by the King and Queen. After this the architects, Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker wanted to change the site from where the foundation stones had been laid to Raisina hill and the village of Malcha. Sobha Singh had the foundation stones removed during the night and then take them 11 km across the city and replant them on the new site. The construction of the plans were taken up after World War I (1916–18).

For the South Block and War Memorial Arch ( now India Gate), Sobha Singh was the sole builder. He also worked on some parts of the Viceregal House (now Rashtrapati Bhavan) and Vijay Chowk.

The South Block in New Delhi for which Sobha SIngh was the sole contractor.

Sobha Singh bought as much land in Delhi as he could. He bought several extensive sites at as little as Rs 2 per square yard, freehold. There were few other takers, and he came to be described as adhi dilli da malik (the owner of half of Delhi).^[6] He constructed many residential and commercial buildings, including the Connaught Place market complex,^[7] as well as the Chelmsford, A.I.F.A.C.'s Hall, Broadcasting House (All India Radio), The National Museum, Dyal Singh College, T.B.Hospital, Modern School, Deaf and Dumb School, St. Columba's School, Red Cross Buildings and Baroda House. Outside Delhi, he built the High Court and Government Medical College at Nagpur and the Pasteur Institute at Kasauli.

Sobha Singh was a person of modest education but his success as a builder made him one of the wealthiest persons of Delhi; also, a prominent member of the social elite. He also became the first Indian president of the New Delhi Municipal Council and held the post four times, in 1938, 1942, and 1945-46.^[8] Appointed an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1938,^[9] he was subsequently^[when?] knighted by the government^{[citation needed]} and appointed a member of the Council of States.^{[citation needed]} He also built Sujan Singh Park, near Khan Market New Delhi, New Delhi's first apartment complex, which only had bungalows till then, in 1945, designed by Walter Sykes George and named after his father.^[10] Sobha Singh died in Delhi on 18 April 1978.

Legacy[edit]

Sobha Singh left a large part of his private estate to a charitable trust, The Sobha Singh Trust, which maintains homes and hospices for the terminally ill and aged all over the country, most recently it built, a dharamsala, within the Guru Teg Bahadur Hospital complex, inNew Delhi in 2005^[11]

He also presided over some of the institutions funded by it like the Deaf and Dumb School and the Modern School. Among his last grants was one for Bhagat Puran Singh's Pingalwara home for the destitute 

The younger brother of Sobha Singh, Sardar Ujjal Singh (1895–1983), later became a parliamentarian, and Governor of Tamil Nadu(1966–71).^[3][13]

Rukshana Sultana is an Indian "social butterfly". She is well known as one of Sanjay Gandhi's close associates during the Emergencyin India.

obha Singh was married to Lady Sardarni Vira Bai (Lady Varyam Kaur). They had four sons Bhagwant Singh, Khushwant Singh(journalist, and author), Major Gurbakash Singh and Daljit Singh and a daughter, Mohinder Kaur, who was the mother-in-law ofRukhsana Sultana and grandmother of Indian film actress, Amrita Singh. His grandson Tejbir Singh, is the editor of Seminar magazine, and married to journalist and publisher Malvika Singh, daughter of journalist Romesh Thapar.

Khushwant Singh - the noted writer and son of a Delhi builder who betrayed Bhagat Singh - is defending his father.

He claimed his father Sobha Singh's act was not that of betrayal but he was in fact only speaking the truth.

But a historian and Bhagat Singh's relative Waraich contested Khushwant Singh's assertion saying his father Sobha Singh never spoke the "truth" about the British atrocities. The controversy started after the government moved a proposal to name a major roundabout in New Delhi after his father.

In his recent article, Khushwant Singh wrote that his father's 'crime' was to identify Bhagat Singh and B. K. Dutt after they threw bombs at the Delhi assembly in 1929. His father only spoke the truth, Khushwant said. A noted historian and lawyer - who has various books on freedom struggle and Bhagat Singh to his credit - said the journalist-writer had been unnecessarily attempting to convince people against the facts etched in history.

Author Khushwant Singh

Khushwant Singh wrote in his father's defence: "They took their seats in the gallery. So did my father. The debate going on was very boring; so he (Sobha Singh) started reading a newspaper he had brought with him. His attention was distracted by firing of pistols and explosion of bombs." Waraich countered Khushwant Singh, saying the celebrated writer did not consult the judgment and other documents related to the case. He did not have the facts right, he said.

Waraich referred to an appendix on the judgment in the assembly bomb explosion delivered on June 12, 1929 explaining the position of people in the assembly chamber. The judge said in the order that the President rose, as witnesses perceived, to deliver his ruling about the Public Safety Bill.

Sir Sobha Singh

The appendix said: "It appears from evidence that this ruling was expected to be of considerable interest, with the natural result that the attention of most persons at that moment was centred on the President." The judgment also stated: "At such a moment it would only be by chance that people in the house would be gazing about, but Sobha Singh had only just arrived and had taken a seat in the gallery." Waraich said Khushwant Singh also attempted to mislead that his father had already occupied the seat and was a witness to the debate which was "boring". But the document revealed that he had "just" arrived which meant he did not hear the debate which was actually "of considerable interest". Sobha Singh had arranged to have lunch with his friends whom he was to meet in the House.

Sobha Singh was anxious to discover his friends' whereabouts.

Khushwant Singh mentioned in his write-up: "Others in the visitors' gallery fled leaving (behind) my father and the two revolutionaries." But, the judgment said: "Sardar Sobha Singh left his seat after the second explosion and, whilst moving to the back of the gallery, heard two shots. Arriving at the back of the gallery he saw two policemen whom he dispatched to the place occupied by the accused, following more slowly himself."

Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/khushwant-singh-sir-sobha-singh-bhagat-singh/1/146778.html

This is an old post; to the best of my knowledge, this plan has since been dropped since I have not read anything about it since this article linked above from The Indian Express

Amazing act of brilliance and insensitivity on the part of the "honourable" Government of India.. apparently, they are intending to rename Connaught Place after Sardar Sobha Singh - the man who gave evidence against shaheed-e-azam Sardar Bhagat Singh.....

This is carrying things too far - naming of an important landmark after a person is a great honour, and not to be taken lighly. As it is we are in the habit of naming everything after Nehru-Gandhi, instead of deserving people. Cant we think of any other, better candidates - Homi Babha, Mother Teresa, Major Dhyan Chand, MF Hussain, JRD Tata, Bhagat Singh, Sardar Patel etc etc- the list can be literally endless!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sobha_Singh_(builder)

Read wiki, and it gets more and more interesting... he was knighted by the British... and this is the guy you want to commemorate! Sick, that's what it is. Why should anyone show patriotism when they dont even get the honour afterwards? Not only that, the people due to whom they were caught are commemorated - both by the enemy as well as by friends! What kind of message are we giving out to the public at large? I dont ordinarily air political views on this blog, but this is too much - the Congress is doing the nation -and the memory of the one freedom fighter who has become synonymous with bravery and the freedom struggle - a huge disservice. Are these gentlemen who are currently in charge doing any good????

These are the words of a person who was once an ardent Congress supporter. The list of scams, misgovernment, idiotic decisions, inaction on the policy front are already on the verge of driving me away.... this act of crass stupidity and abject insensitivity have forced me to give vent to my feelings. You are honoring a person knighted by the british in 1938 - the same person who gave evidence against the freedom fighter the british called enemy no 1. The connection is obvious. Let us put this in the proper perspective- Rabindranath Tagore returned all british honors when he understood their intentions, Sobha Singh - at least from records available to me - did not return them, indeed accepted them with alacrity. Who is a genuine patriot? Are you the Government of India or some other place? Words fail me... they are doing all they can to self-destruct, it seems. 

Posted 8th February 2012 by Vishal Kale

The Delhi government has moved a proposal to rename the Capital’s iconic Windsor Place area in Lutyens’ Delhi after popular writer Khuswant Singh’s father Sir Sobha Singh,following a request from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last month.

Sobha Singh was a key building contractor in the early to mid 20th Century,and along with his father Sujan Singh he is credited with constructing landmarks like the India Gate and Connaught Place.

Prime Minister Singh wrote to Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit on June 28,citing a request by a private organisation to rename the area to mark the 100th anniversary of Delhi being declared the national capital.

“A proposal in this regard (renaming) has come in from Sir Sobha Singh’s well wishers. We will send it to the Home Ministry tomorrow,” said Dikshit.

The government has since consulted the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC),the agency which manages Lutyens’ Delhi and is involved in renaming roads and places there,and is now ready to write to Home officials,said a senior government official.

The NDMC informed the government that most places and roads in the area have already been named after important people; the only options open were Windsor Place,which falls on the roundabout near Le Meridien Hotel,and South Avenue.

“The places are close to where Sir Sobha Singh’s family lives now,Sujan Singh Park,which is named after his father. We eventually narrowed down on Windsor Place,” the official added.

The organisation,whose proposal the Prime Minister cited in his letter to Dikshit,originally suggested renaming an area in New Delhi after Sobha Singh to mark his contribution towards building the national capital.

Sobha Singh and his father Sujan Singh moved to the city as building contractors when the British administration declared Delhi as the national capital,to coincide with the Coronation Durbar that was to be held in December 1911.

The renaming of Windsor Place,however,may not be an easy option,a senior NDMC official said,as the civic agency has in the past rejected proposals to change its name.

“Certain rules enforced by the Centre don’t allow renaming the area. We have told the government that if this were to be done now,the rules would have to be superseded,” the official said.

A senior official,who is in the know,said the Delhi government has compiled all information on the issue and will now write to the Home Ministry,informing it about the constraints in implementing the proposal and how it could be approved.Share on facebook

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Khushwant Singh was born on 2 February 1915 was a novelist and journalist.

- An Indo-Anglian novelist, Singh was best-known for his trenchant secularism, his humour, and an abiding love of poetry. His comparisons of social and behavioral characteristics of Westerners and Indians are laced with acid wit. He served as editor of several literary and news magazines, as well as two broadsheet newspapers, through the 1970s and 1980s. He was a recipient of the Padma Vibhushan, the second-highest civilian award in India.

- Singh was born in Hadali District Khushab, Punjab (which now lies in Pakistan), in a Sikh family. His father, Sir Sobha Singh (builder), was a prominent builder in Lutyens' Delhi. His uncle Sardar Ujjal Singh (1895-1983) was Ex. Governor of Punjab and Tamil Nadu.

An Indo-Anglian novelist, Singh was best-known for his trenchant secularism, his humour, and an abiding love of poetry.

- He was educated at Modern School, New Delhi, Government College, Lahore, St. Stephen's College in Delhi and King's College, London, before reading for the Bar at the Inner Temple.

- Singh edited 'Yojana', an Indian government journal, The Illustrated Weekly of India, a newsweekly, and two major Indian newspapers, The National Herald and the Hindustan Times. During his tenure, The Illustrated Weekly became India's pre-eminent newsweekly, with its circulation raising from 65,000 to 4,00,000. After working for nine years in the weekly, on 25 July 1978, a week before he was to retire, the management asked Singh to leave "with immediate effect". The new editor was installed the same day. After Singh's departure, the weekly suffered a huge drop in readership.

- From 1980 through 1986, Singh was a member of Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of the Indian Parliament. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1974 for service to his country. In 1984, he returned the award in protest against the siege of the Golden Temple by the Indian Army. In 2007, the Indian government awarded Khushwant Singh the Padma Vibhushan.

- Singh was said to wake up at 4 am each day and write his columns by hand. His works range from political commentary and contemporary satire to outstanding translations of Sikh religious texts and Urdu poetry.

- As a public figure, Singh was accused of favouring the ruling Congress party, especially during the reign of Indira Gandhi. He was derisively termed as an Establishment Liberal. Singh's faith in the Indian political system, however, was shaken by events such as anti-Sikh riots that followed Indira Gandhi's assassination, in which major Congress politicians are alleged to be involved. But he remained resolutely positive on the promise of Indian democracy and worked via Citizen's Justice Committee floated by HS Phoolka who is a senior advocate of Delhi High Court.

- He was married to Kawal Malik and is survived by a son, named Rahul Singh, and a daughter, named Mala. Actress Amrita Singh is the daughter of his brother Daljit Singh and Rukhsana Sultana. He stayed in "Sujan Singh Park", near Khan Market New Delhi, Delhi's first apartment complex, built by his father in 1945, and named after his grandfather.

Honours and awards

· Rockfeller Grant,1966

· Padma Bhushan, Government of India (1974)(He returned the decoration in 1984 in protest against the Union government's siege of the Golden Temple, Amritsar)

· Honest Man of the Year, Sulabh International (2000)

· Punjab Rattan Award, The Government of Punjab (2006)

· Padma Vibhushan, Government of India (2007)

· Sahitya academy fellowship award by Sahitya academy of India (2010)

· 'All-India Minorities Forum Annual Fellowship Award' by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav (2012)

Books

बात अनुज के सिरियस होने या न होने की नहीं है ,जैसे ही कोई कविता,कृति सार्वजनिक हो जाती है तो वह व्यक्तिगत सन्दर्भ खो देती है ,सर्वजन को समालोचना का अधिकार स्वतः प्राप्त हो जाता है, और हाँ , कृतिकार को अपनी ओर से अब पाठकों को कोई स्पष्टीकरण देने का अधिकार नहीं होता, यही लेखकीय दायित्व है जिसे हर लेखक को निभाने के लिये तैयार रहना होता है .वह कृति अब लेखक के नाम की होने के बाद भी सार्वजनिक संपत्ति हो ही जाती है . लेखक इस दायित्व  को भोगता है ,एक न्यायाधीश की तरह जो फैसला घोषित कर देने के बाद केवल उस फैसले की आलोचना ,समालोचना भोगता है ,चुपचाप .

वे कुछ सौ साल पहले आ गये ,इसके लिये मैं क्यों आतंकित हूँ

क्या वह लेखक, वह कवि ,वह वैज्ञानिक आखिरी था --- क्या अब आगे का सिलसिला सदा के लिये रुक जायेगा - नहीं तो अनुज को क्यों रुक जाना चाहिये -- बस इस लिये कि अनुज को कोई रमेश पसंद नहीं करता , रोज छेड़ता है , ललकारता है . आतंक का सामना कर , उठ ,चल ,कलम उठा, लिखता चल , लिखा खुद बोलेगा की वह कितना नया ,कितना मौलिक तथा कितना प्रेरनादायी -उपयोगी ,सहितस्य भाव है .