THE BEST FOUR!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!

PRERNA KHUARANA

DEEPTI BAGGA

JIYO UTHO BADHO JEETO.... TERA MERA JAHAAN

LETS GO!!!

The anthem on everybody’s lips...

an ensemble of elegant musicians,

gives  the world  their new ‘waka waka’ and better...

India is here ,jiyo utho  badho jeeto...!!!

the glittering words of Mehboob with the magic of Rehman

inspiring us for exemplary performances....

the participants marching forward with great zeal!

the flag unfurling high with greater,  in the sky...

the lyrics  exude  power and energy...

charging the aura with joy and ecstasy!!!

make our veins burst out ,with practice and fear

we ,equally  maintaining the poise to deliver it here  

Our cultural heritage came live on stage

the henna clad hands shown bright...unfazed!

As the  newely wed bride , with the hesitation if ‘all will be well...’?

 the faith to make it all work....is all what we have!!

Such was the grandeur of our opening ceremony;

so shall be the closing ,amen!!

 INDIA, still in its youth stands upright and proud

eyes...gleaming  with conviction!!!

Let us do what we do best ‘atithi devo bhava’

 All ‘rise to the occasion’ and feel the ‘rhythm’.

Live, Rise, Ascend, Win

jiyo utho bado jeeto....,tera mera jahaan !let’s go!

Bid adieu to the nonchalance of the capital...

open  your arms wide enough to embrace the newer and warmer  DELHI.

let the world know us not any more as the land of snake charmers;

but by the likes of Narang and Mirza who charm hearts no less.

For once let our daily chores rest and wait...

To welcome with great pleasure  the CWG team 2010.

Afterall,

It’s not everyday that HERMES descend on the ARYAVARTA...

WE ARE A LUCKY COUNTRY ,I MUST SAY.

Let us all get  geared up for triumph...

Hoping that we leave imprints on their souls...

Sweet memories sprinkling as sweat ...

 Tokens of jubiliation is what they should take along...!

WE have come a long way from ’47;

Retaining the spirit and sincerity...

Shouldering the onus that we have

to give the world it had never experienced...world class hospitality.

Unshattered by the whistle blowing of the media...

Delhiites,all set to play the best hosts to cwg 2010.

let  the world shout out loud ‘encore’!!

Let we be elated  by what we deliver...’the best ever cwg ‘!!!

SHEFALI ARORA

 

JIYO,UTHO,BADO,JEETO,TERA MERA JAHAAN LET'S GO!                        

  

                    

                   This fabulous song in the CWG’s praise,

                   Has set in us a flame ablaze,

                   It has shown us a way to rekindle life,

                   And live it to the fullest,in all its strife.

                   It’s our world,we have to make it rock,

                   So get up,its mysteries you must unlock.

                   Forget what’s done,a new world awaits,

                   Make a move towards its golden gates.

                   We are the citizens of ‘the golden sparrow’,

                   Let us get rid of hatred and beliefs so narrow.

                   Celebrate the pride today India has attained,

                   Enjoy the peace,the showers God has rained.

                   And take a step forward to fulfill India’s desire,

                   Live to do,what makes our tricolor fly higher.

                   Lets put an effort to build a world of harmony,

                   To make ourselves happier,and others free from agony!

 PRIYA JUNEJA

 जीवन की उलझनों के धागों मैं फंसा
बैठा मैं खो अपनी हंसी,
वोह चंचल आवाज़, वोह सुन्दर मुस्कराहट
वोह नटखट आँखे, वोह प्यारी बातें|
खुद से बातें करता मैं, यूँ ही चलता चलता मैं
आ गया इक बगीचे मैं,
हँसती हुई तितली ने मुझे पुकारा,
खिसियाती हुई गिलहरी ने मुझे बुलाया
मुस्कुराती हुई कलि ने मेरी और देखा,
पर मैंने किया सब अनदेखा|
इस पर बूढ़े पेड़ ने, मुझे बुलाया,
नम आँखों से देखते हुए मैंने अपना सर उठाया,
पुछा उसने, गुलिस्तान मैं आकर भी आंसू बहाते हो क्यूँ?
इन पंछियों की चेहेक से कतराते हो क्यूँ?
मुझे भी तो बताओ, ग़म छुपाते हो क्यूँ|
आंसूं आखों से पलकों तक आये, और फिर छलकने मैं देर न लगी
कहा मैंने, सब कुछ हो रहा है गलत,
चाहता हूँ मैं अछाई का साथ देना,
चाहता हूँ मैं इस जहां को भी गुलिस्तान बनाना,
पर नहीं कह पाता कुछ, नहीं सजा पाता इसे|
करना तो मैं बहुत कुछ चाहता हूँ, पर कुछ भी नहीं कर पाता मैं
तुम ही बताओ, क्या मैं न दुखी होऊं?
इस पर बूढ़े वृक्ष ने मुस्कुरा के कहा,
सब जानता हूँ मैं, सब समझता हूँ,
सिर्फ एक बात तुमसे कहता हूँ,
जियो उठो बढ़ो जीतो,
खुश रहो, मुस्कुराओ,
तेरा मेरा जहाँ|

RESULTS TO BE DECLARED ON 27 OCTOBER

SHEFALI ARORA@DEEPTI BAGGA ,PARIDHI AGGARWAL AND SHREYA CHHABRA:

I think I have tried well to explain my points  in the last two posts. Now I am going to quote some points  from Dr. Abdul Kalam’s letter, which I came across recently. Maybe this will satisfy all of you.

In 3000 Years of our history, people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands, conquered our minds.From Alexander onwards.The Greeks, the Turks, the Moguls, the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took over what was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation.
We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, and their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. Why? Because we respect the freedom of others. I believe that India got its first vision of freedom in 1857, when we started the war of independence.It is this freedom that we must protect and nurture and build on. If we are not free, no one will respect us.  

Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements?
We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them.We are the first in milk production.We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.We are the second largest producer of wheat.We are the second largest producer of rice.

Why? In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.Why are we so NEGATIVE?

YOU say that our government is inefficient.YOU say that our laws are too old.YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke, The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination..YOU say, say and say. What do YOU do about it?
YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own. You who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country, why cannot you be the same here in India?When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child! and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home.
Our excuse? "It's the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons' rights to a dowry." So who's going to change the system? What does a system consist of? Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbours, other households, other cities, other communities and the government.
But definitely not me and YOU. When it comes to us actually making a positive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr Clean to come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away.

 So friends, you are taking up the same few issues again and again. Look into the positive shades of your country. There is much and much to explore. Think about it that if India has reached this far,tomorrow will be certainly better than today. Be proud of what we have gained,not what we have lost. I again repeat that nobody is perfect and there is always a chance of improvement.

So I still don’t agree with your points and say that I AM PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN!!!!

SHEFALI ARORA@DEEPTI BAGGA ,PARIDHI AGGARWAL AND SHREYA CHHABRA - INTERJECTION

I think I have tried well to explain my points  in the last two posts. Now I am going to quote some points  from Dr. Abdul Kalam’s letter, which I came across recently. Maybe this will satisfy all of you.
In 3000 Years of our history, people from all over the world have come and invaded us, captured our lands, conquered our minds.From Alexander onwards.The Greeks, the Turks, the Moguls, the Portuguese, the British, the French, the Dutch, all of them came and looted us, took over what was ours. Yet we have not done this to any other nation.
We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, and their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them. Why? Because we respect the freedom of others. I believe that India got its first vision of freedom in 1857, when we started the war of independence.It is this freedom that we must protect and nurture and build on. If we are not free, no one will respect us. 
Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements?
We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them.We are the first in milk production.We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.We are the second largest producer of wheat.We are the second largest producer of rice.
Why? In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.Why are we so NEGATIVE?
YOU say that our government is inefficient.YOU say that our laws are too old.YOU say that the municipality does not pick up the garbage.YOU say that the phones don't work, the railways are a joke, The airline is the worst in the world, mails never reach their destination..YOU say, say and say. What do YOU do about it?
YOU who can respect and conform to a foreign system in other countries but cannot in your own. You who will throw papers and cigarettes on the road the moment you touch Indian ground. If you can be an involved and appreciative citizen in an alien country, why cannot you be the same here in India?When it comes to burning social issues like those related to women, dowry, girl child! and others, we make loud drawing room protestations and continue to do the reverse at home.
Our excuse? "It's the whole system which has to change, how will it matter if I alone forego my sons' rights to a dowry." So who's going to change the system? What does a system consist of? Very conveniently for us it consists of our neighbours, other households, other cities, other communities and the government.
But definitely not me and YOU. When it comes to us actually making a positive contribution to the system we lock ourselves along with our families into a safe cocoon and look into the distance at countries far away and wait for a Mr Clean to come along & work miracles for us with a majestic sweep of his hand or we leave the country and run away.
 So friends, you are taking up the same few issues again and again. Look into the positive shades of your country. There is much and much to explore. Think about it that if India has reached this far,tomorrow will be certainly better than today. Be proud of what we have gained,not what we have lost. I again repeat that nobody is perfect and there is always a chance of improvement.
So I still don’t agree with your points and say that I AM PROUD TO BE AN INDIAN!!!!

PARIDHI AGGARWAL @SHEFALI ARORA: INTERJECTION

 

The CWG has been termed by you as a success, surely, we have saved it from being a failure but I really doubt if it can be termed as a success so early. Surely the money to raise the standard of stadiums will be good for the country in long run but do you think that’s all the money has gone into?? According to the findings, this is what CWG officials have been upto: Treadmills on hire at Rs.9 lakh, air conditioners at Rs.4 lakh, toilet paper at Rs.3,757, umbrellas at Rs.6,000 per piece! From the exorbitant rates to Scheduled Caste funds being diverted for construction work, these Games have certainly been sullied by massive corruption. And if we take into account all this, the Govt. has achieved the same work in atleast 70% inflated cost. No points for guessing where the missing money landed. You talked about the negative coverage by the media, sure, I totally agree that media has been overcritical in some of the aspects but I really doubt whether the reports of tiles falling from ceiling of new stadiums and foot overbridge collapsing in less than a week of inauguration, can  be dubbed as something media created.  You talked about justice being delivered in 80% of the cases, however the statistics clearly show the opposite. Going by official figures, the subordinate judiciary across the country has a backlog of 26.4 million cases, while the high courts have an arrear of 3.8 million. The Supreme Court had crossed the mark of 50,000 pending cases as of long back. The actual figures may be more. In the words of a Supreme Court judge, it will take India more than 320 years to clear the current backlog. Can this be termed as success of judiciary??

You commented about the various employment schemes started by the Govt. , the fact that most of the farmers are still unemployed or seasonally employed, puts a big question mark on effectiveness of such schemes. In the case of female foeticide the statistics again don’t support your claim. The 2006 National Family Health Survey shows that prosperity does little to curb the evil as Punjab's overall sex ratio at birth (considered a more accurate indicator of female foeticide) was 776 against 793 in 2001. In urban areas, it goes further down to 761:1,000. The figures are equally dismal for Haryana and contradict the notion that female foeticide has declined over the years. I agree that India has recorded a whooping GDP growth which is commendable however it has little to do with the common man. The real issues concerning him are price rise and as it is, the inflation currently stands at an all time high of 11.5%. Lastly I would say that I fully support the good aspects of India but India still has a long way to go.

The above points question the very fundamentals of democracy and they surely don’t make me feel proud.

DEEPTI BAGGA :@SHEFALI ARORA

hello shefali..!!i would like to say that you rightly mentioned the non violent means that we used for our independence ,but my worthy opponent are you forgetting th eblood red pages of history post independence?? the butchering of hindus and muslims ,the communal riots that took place that took many innocent lives.where was the non violence ideology,my friend! even BAPU,the originator of this philosophy lost his life due to this.you talked about democracy ,but i would like to mention that our judiciary is weak and under a lot of political pressure.the cases of priyadarshini mattoo and jessica lal still haunt women throughout the nation.in our country if anyone has a revolution to make,he has to pay for it with his life.

you also mentioned the respect of  values and traditions in INDIA,i agree that past has taught us very important lessons.but i would also mention that in the race to ape the west all these values have somewhere lost.the concept of nuclear families have come in place of joint ones.more and more cases of dowry deaths and domestic violence crop up but in vain.Indian govt till now finds it difficult to criminalise ‘marital rape’.women’s reservation bill was thwarted by the likes of lau and yadav.where does present day india stand??

you also told us about our rich culture,folks dances and lok sangeets.i totally agree since india is blessed with a glorious past ,but my friend where is teh recognition in india.only foreigners have learned to appreciate our expertise ,this can easily be known by the general knowledge of our youngsters.they sure well know where disneyland is,but not if kathak and kathakali are different dance forms.

thank you!

SHREYA CHHABRA:@SHEFALI ARORA-INTERJECTION

I would like to tackle the issues you have pointed one by one.

 

CWG 2010 as you say is going to please the foreign delegates. Tell me, my friend, do you feel the need of doing so? You say that the Games are a means to achieve international integration when everyday you hear reports of officials and sportspersons of various countries using swear words and racist comments at one another…I don’t think that such things are in the spirit of international harmony. In fact, they are a sign of colonialism. The next thing you write in the context of the Games is that they are not a waste of money. Do you realize the fact that there are millions of Indians who are not getting food to eat, who don’t even know what the Games are?

 

Then the second issue you have raised is the female infanticide…how it has declined and so on. But you need to get your facts right. It has been noted that overall sex ratio has fallen from 927 to 880 per 1000 boys. Even in areas like Punjab, etc it is now close to 900 per 1000 boys. So, you can yourself judge the present scenario.

 

However, I certainly agree with you on the next issue which is the increased life expectancy. But it is not the only parameter with which we can judge the health facilities and infrastructure of a country. Other factors like sex ratio, infant mortality rate, the number of patients per doctor, etc should also be taken into account.

 

Schemes such has the 'JAWAHAR GRAM SAMRIDHI YOJANA','INDIRA AWAS YOJANA','INTEGRATED CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCHEME','MID-DAY MEALS AT SCHOOL’ are  good only in concept and not in implementation. Most of the funds and facilities that should reach the needy are reduced to nothing because of corrupt officials and middle-men.

 

And surely, your country gives you all the opportunities you need….Why so? Because, my friend, you are one of those rare lucky ones who has access to all the amenities in life.

You were blessed to be born in a place which provides you with all that your heart desires. But the reality is that they are several unlike you who do not even get a day’s meal or clean drinking water.

 

Over the last 60 years, whatever the achievements of India have been are commendable. But there are certain aspects which cannot be ignored. So, after reading all the above answers, I hope you will agree with me on the point that there is a long way ahead of us.

And unless and until, each Indian citizen gets the most basic amenities, we cannot rest upon our past laurels and glorify the  present which is non-existant.