सब नंगे हैं.......

हाथ में तिरंगा झंडा लेकर सड़कों पर भारत माता की जय करने में मज़ा बहुत आता है. उस पर भी जब ट्रैफिक वाला न टोके और पुलिस वाला रास्ता दे दे तो क्या कहने ...हाथ में तिरंगा ले लेने से और भारत माता के जयकारे लगाने से कोई ईमानदार नहीं हो जाता. ईमानदारी जीवन में रचने-बसने की चीज़ होती है और ईमानदार का जीवन कठिन होता है.


लंदन के ट्रैफ़ेलगर स्क्वायर का नाम सुना है ना, देखा भी होगा, हिंदी फ़िल्मों में अक्सर दिखता है, दिलवाले दुल्हनिया ले जाएँगे के शुरू में ही अमरीश पुरी वहाँ कबूतरों को चुग्गा डालते दिखाई देते हैं.उसी ट्रैफ़ेलगर स्क्वायर पर इन दिनों एक घड़ी लगी है, उसमें उल्टी गिनती चल रही है, अगले साल होनेवाले ओलंपिक खेलों की .सवाल ये भी उठ रहे हैं कि ये जो दो हफ़्ते की बारात सजेगी उसका आम लोगों को क्या फ़ायदा होगा - क्या नई पीढ़ी में खेल को लेकर नई ऊर्जा जगेगी? क्या पूर्वी लंदन के जिस उपेक्षित इलाक़े में निवेश हो रहा है, उससे वहाँ की तस्वीर बेशक बदल जाए, लोगों की ज़िंदगियों में स्थायी बदलाव आएगा? दिल्ली में तो पिछले साल बड़ा ग़ज़ब का खेल हुआ, खेल के कुछ दिन पहले पुल ज़रूर टूट गया, लेकिन अंत होते-होते जलवा दिखा ही दिया दिल्ली ने !


'हम्माम में सब नंगे हैं', इस मुहावरे के साथ ही अक्सर बहस ख़त्म हो जाती है, कोई दूध का धुला नहीं है इसलिए बहस बंद करके दोबारा हम्माम में डुबकी लगाने को बेहतर समझा जाता है.भारत से अलग बात ये है कि ब्रिटेन की संसद में, प्रेस में और लोगों के बीच बहस अब भी जारी है, बंद नहीं हुई है . उन देशद्रोहियों का कोई खंडन क्यों नहीं करता जो रोज़ रिश्वत लेकर आपका काम करते हैं और देश को नीलाम करते हैं.

Marching towards mark NINE

Nobody then really had any idea,there were few censuses.Leeuwenhoek started with an estimate that around a million people lived in Holland .Using maps and a little spherical geometry,he calculated that the inhabited land area of the planet was 13385 times large as Holland.It was hard to imagine the whole planet being densly populated as Holland which seemed crowded even then.Thus Leeuwenhoek concluded "there couldn't be more than 13.385 million people on earth ;a small number indeed compared with the 150 billion sperm cell of a single codfish.

The number of people does matter,of course.But how people consume resources matters a lot more.Some of us leave much bigger footprints than others.The central challenge for the future of people and the planet is how to raise more of us out of poverty :the slum dwellers in Delhi ,the subsistence farmers in Rwanda,while reducing the impact each of us has on the planet.

The world bank has projected that by 2030 more than a billion people in the developing world will belong to the global  middle class,up from just 400 million in 2005 .That's a good thing.But it will be a hard thing for the planet if those people are eating meat and driving gasoline powered cars at the same rate as now.Its too late to keep the new middle class of 2030 from being born but not too late to change how they and rest of us will produce and consume food and energy .

In 1798 Thomas Malthus ,an English priest and economist stated that population necessarily grow faster than the food supply ,until war ,disease,and famine arrive to reduce the number of people.As it turned out the last plagues enough to put a dent in global population had already happened .

For centuries population pessimists have hurled apocalyptic warnings at the congenial optimists,who believe that humanity will find ways to cope and improve its lot.History has so far favored the optimists,but history is no certain guide to the future.Neither is science.It can't predict the outcome of people vs planet . How many of us there will be and how we will live depend on choices we have yet to make .We may see to it that all children are nourished ,educated to solve problems could change the future significantly.An un check population growth could lead to famine !

Seven billion of us already ,nine billion in 2045.Let's hope that Malthus was right about our ingenuity.

वो गाव मेरा है

   
गाव का शांत, स्वच्छ, प्रकृति के नज़दीक जीवन जीने का अवसर तलाशते कई वर्ष बीत गए .हमेशा किसी जरूरी काम मे फसकर शहर नहीं छोड़ पाते है इस बार अचानक सप्ताहांत पर निकल पड़ा | रास्ते मे चाय नाश्ता करते    
हुए पुराने दिनों को याद कर भुआ के बच्चो को न्योता दिया पर सभी व्यस्तता का हवाला दे अगली बार के लिए टाल 
 गए |
शाम ५ बजे गाव के नजदीकी कसबे से मॉस आदि लेकर रवाना हुआ और सूर्यास्त के समय तक पहुच पाया | भला हो
राजीव  जी का जो गाव तक पक्की सड़क बनगई वर्ना सुबह ८ बजे निकल कर रात १० बजे पहुच पाते थे बचपन मे,
गर्मी व् दीवालियो की छुट्टियो मे जब सभी भाई बांध जमा होते थे |मेरे इस छोटे से गाँव का कोई जवान संतरे निम्बू की 
काश्त कर रातो रात 
अमीर होना चाहता है तो कोई मजदूरी करने शेहर को चला गया | यहाँ धुम्रपान  की अधिकता गरीबी लकिन स्वाभिमानी 
ग्रामवासी मेरे अपने होने का अहम् मुझे याद दिलाता है बचपन का हर वह लम्हा जो दाता सा  भाबा सा के साथ यहाँ बिताया |
 |यहाँ के ग्रामीण दुनिया से जुड़े होने का सबूत राजनेतिक चर्चा ओबामा से भवरी तक और उनपर  तल्क्ह टिप्पणिया कर के देते है जिससे 
आनंद की अनुभूति होती है |
 भोजन के पश्च्यात टीवी भला हो डी टी एच का चैनल बदलते हुए कब नींद की आगोश में चला गया पता ही नहीं चला |
बाहर सौर उर्जा जनित लाइट राहों में प्रकाश फैला रही है |यदा कदा मोटरसाईकिल का होर्न सुने पड़ रहा है ...


भोर भये गेयान  के पाछे........सुबह ६ बजे गायो के रंभाने और मंदिर की घंटियों से निद्रा भंग होना सौभाग्य ही प्रतीत 
होता है अन्यथा अलार्म ! कई दिनों पश्च्यात सूर्योदय का आनंद लिया चिडियों की चहचाहट, मोर का नाचना ,
कबूतर की गुटुर्गू असली प्रकृति का आनंद | दूध का प्याला शहद डाल कर अर्दली लाया उसके पश्चात नहाने हेतु 
कूए पर गया |चमड़े के चड़स और बैलो की जगह पम्पसेट व् मशीनों ने लेली आज सिचाई के साधन फव्वारों और ड्रिप 
प्रणाली ने लेली किसान पानी की कीमत समझ गया | सरसौ की पिलाई का वक़्त है ,गेहू बीजने की तय्यारी ..चने 
के पौधे दिखने लगे है खेत मे ..किसान खुश है ,घडी घडी हिसाब लगता है बेटी और उसकी माँ के कंगन के बारे में... 
फिर दुखी मन से उरद  को देखता है घर के कोठार मे पड़ी उरद जिस से दाल मखानी बनती है का भाव बहुत कम 
होने की वजह से बेच नहीं पारहा |जिन किसानो के पास पैसो की किल्लत थी या उधारी थी उन्होंने तो कम पैसो 
मे ही बेच दी पर जो रोक सकते थे वो लेकर बैठे है |सरकार ने गेहू का समर्थन मूल्य बी घटा दिया जिससे मायूसी 
साफ़ दिख रही है |


गाव का किसान आज भी पास से देखने पर लाचार ,बेबस दीखता है पर निराश वो आज भी नहीं है |एक दिन मेहनत
का फल जरूर मिलेगा इसी आस मे गाव आस की डोर थामे है | स्फूर्ति और जोश से फिर दिन की शुरुआत को तय्यार|

Moral Degradation

 Its more than two months and they are still unaware where and why the lady is ? Shameful  deeds and hunger for power ,lust and wealth lead to such onorous acts .Here a minister's alleged involvement in the nurse's disappearance came up during the questioning of two accused, Baldev Jat and Sohan Lal Vishnoi, who told the Jodhpur police she was abducted at his behest.The whole system fearing to get hold of big man .But suddenly the ball start rolling and a compact disk emerges from nowhere to everywhere from television channels to websites to social networking sites and the talk of the town get geared up.

In a yet another revelation a young politician is accused of harassing and influencing the system to work  unhappy with the attitude of the government the dead lady's father is accusing yet another minister's involvement in subsiding the enquiry of her daughter's death.They say that Jat, the minister ceased the stypand and salary of a husband whose wife didn't obeyed ministers unlawful wish .The daily is shouting !!!

Have the Government lost its moral ? One can blame government for all of society's ills but there is no doubt that economic and social legislation over the past 60 years has had a negative impact on virtue. Individuals as well as politicians lose their moral bearing when they are not held accountable for their actions. The internal moral compass that normally guides individual behavior will no longer function when the state undermines incentives for moral conduct and blurs the distinction between right and wrong.The more government spending is not the

answer to our social, economic, or cultural problems. The task is not to reinvent government or to give politics meaning; the task is to limit government and revitalize civil society.

Watershed Activities :The need of the hour

A drainage basin or a catchment area of a particular stream or river defined by high points and ridge lines ,it simply refers to the area carries water "shed"from the land after rainfall or snow melts.Drop by drop ,water is channeled into soil ,groundwater, creeks , river or stream and eventually the sea water shed may be small consisting of few hectares or huge ,covering thousands of hectares, here the drainage basin acts as a funnel by collecting all the water within the area covered by the basin and channeling it to a single point.


 In a small watershed, the effect of overland flow rather than the effect of channel flow is a dominating factor affecting the peak runoff. Consequently, a small watershed is very sensitive to high intensity rainfall of short duration and to the changes in land use pattern. On larger watersheds, the effect of channel flow or the basin storage effect becomes very pronounced so that such sensitivities are greatly suppressed.


In a rain fed agriculture rural areas, except for a few months ,there are hardly any work opportunities within the village.Hence poor peasants and labourers have to go to towns in search of work.Here wage supported watershed activities can directly help in family welfare ,afforestation and pasture development.Watersheds thus help in generating substantial income ,nursery raising and enhance employment opportunities in horticulture activities and increase soil moisture within three years .Agro based allied income activities like dairy ,goat rearing poultry can encouraged in village and cease decampment toward cities .

Urea and price hike ?

Urea fertilizer, also known as carbamide, is the most important nitrogenous fertilizer. It is a white crystalline organic chemical compound containing about 46 percent nitrogen. It is a waste product formed naturally by metabolizing protein in humans as well as other mammals, amphibians and some fish. Synthetic urea is produced commercially from ammonia and carbon dioxide. Urea is widely used in the agriculture sector both as a fertilizer and animal feed additive, which makes the production of urea considerably high in comparison to other fertilizers.

Urea was first discovered by a French scientist, named Hillaire Rouelle in 1773. But, synthetic urea was started to produce in 1828, about 55 years after its discovery.Urea has the highest nitrogen content, equal to 46 percent. This percentage is much higher than other nitrogenous fertilizers available in the market.Urea can be used for all types of crops and soils. After its assimilation by plants, urea leaves behind only carbon dioxide in the soil through the interaction of nitrifying bacteria. This carbon dioxide does not harm the soil.Urea is readily blended with monoammonium phosphate or diammonium phosphate. But, urea must not be mixed with any superphosphate unless applied immediately after blending, because urea reacts with superphosphate liberating water molecules. This will produce a damp material that is hard to store and apply.

Presently, urea is decontroled by the Government of India so the price hiked about 25% and a bag which costed 450 to 600 zoomed to 1100 .This is because India is the biggest importer of urea and when Indian agencies go to international market the price in the international market zooms up and the Indian government have to import at a higher price and thus sell it costly .To avoid this situation the government have to make a strategy for buying urea and also the middlemen and corruption element should be removed .If it is possible inflation can be ceased a bit as farmer will sell at a lower price.

A Noble For Mother

Four hours after receiving the news that she had been selected for the Rs.1520000 Nobel Peace Prize,Mother Teresa,Calcutta's "living saint",quietly rode a streetcar wearing a Rs.18 white sari with a blue border and headed for the "Writers' building ,the communist state' secretariat.There she humbly sought an interview with the ever busy chief secretary ,the not so busy peons,unaware that they were talking to a Nobel laureate,brusquely ordered her to "come back later".

Towards the evening ,as tickers in newspaper offices of the city brought the Oslo datelined news,the city bent over backwards to pay homage. However,the sense of pride was largely justified.Mother Teresa,with her Slavonic English and broken but crisply colloquial Bengali,belonged to Calcutta.She could not have helped it because perhaps in no other city is poverty so glaring .No other city ,perhaps ,needs Mother Teresa as much as Calcutta does.

"Its the victory for the poor",was all she said with her wrinkled face resting on her gnarled hand.