सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है!!

सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है
- By Ram Prasad Bismil

सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है,
देखना है जोर कितना बाजुए कातिल में है ।

करता नहीं क्यों दुसरा कुछ बातचीत,
देखता हूँ मैं जिसे वो चुप तेरी महफिल मैं है ।

रहबर राहे मौहब्बत रह न जाना राह में
लज्जत-ऐ-सेहरा नवर्दी दूरिये-मंजिल में है ।

यों खड़ा मौकतल में कातिल कह रहा है बार-बार
क्या तमन्ना-ए-शहादत भी किसी के दिल में है ।

ऐ शहीदे-मुल्को-मिल्लत मैं तेरे ऊपर निसार
अब तेरी हिम्मत का चर्चा ग़ैर की महफिल में है ।

वक्त आने दे बता देंगे तुझे ऐ आसमां,
हम अभी से क्या बतायें क्या हमारे दिल में है ।

खींच कर लाई है सब को कत्ल होने की उम्मींद,
आशिकों का जमघट आज कूंचे-ऐ-कातिल में है ।

सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है,
देखना है जोर कितना बाजुए कातिल में है ।
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रहबर - Guide
लज्जत - tasteful
नवर्दी - Battle
मौकतल - Place Where Executions Take Place, Place of Killing
मिल्लत - Nation, faith

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Many people have asked me about the lyrics used in the movie 'Rang De Basanti'. Here it goes -- though remember these lines are not part of the original poem written by 'Ram Prasad Bismil'.

है लिये हथियार दुश्मन ताक मे बैठा उधर
और हम तैय्यार हैं सीना लिये अपना इधर
खून से खेलेंगे होली गर वतन मुश्किल में है
सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है

हाथ जिनमें हो जुनून कटते नही तलवार से
सर जो उठ जाते हैं वो झुकते नहीं ललकार से
और भडकेगा जो शोला सा हमारे दिल में है
सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है

हम तो घर से निकले ही थे बांधकर सर पे कफ़न
जान हथेली में लिये लो बढ चले हैं ये कदम
जिंदगी तो अपनी मेहमान मौत की महफ़िल मैं है
सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है

दिल मे तूफानों की टोली और नसों में इन्कलाब
होश दुश्मन के उडा देंगे हमे रोको न आज
दूर रह पाये जो हमसे दम कहाँ मंजिल मे है
सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है

Being A Hindu in India.

Maya Kodnani has been condemned by the Supreme Court. One can't argue with that. Justice is done. But should not then thousands of Hindus in Gujarat be condemned too? For who went down in the streets in fury in 2002? Hundreds, if not thousands of Gujuratis, not only from the lower strata of society, not only Dalits, but also middle class, and sometimes even upper middle class! Should they also not

 be judged? But then it would be the whole of Gujarat who should be hauled to court, an ancient and noble race, who gave so much to India, including Mahatma Gandhi, and today is still exporting all over the world its upright and successful businessmen, to the US, for instance, where they own most of the motels. Nobody dares do that; it’s much each easier to target Mr Modi and Mrs Kodnani. And why were none of the Kahsmiris who killed and hounded out the Hindus in the Valley of Kashmir ever condemned? It was a much bigger genocide.

Is it logic today that the Indian media, its intellectuals and even its government, only highlight the 2002 Gujarat riots, carefully omitting the fact that they were triggered by the cruel murdering of 57 Hindus, 36 of them innocent women and children, burnt like animals in the Sabarmati Express? Riots of that intensity do not happen in a day, they are a result of long term pent-up angers and a spark like the killing of Hindu brothers and sisters, whose only crime was that they believed that Ram was born in Ayodhya, is enough the ignite the smouldering fire.

Is it logical that only Mr Modi is targeted? 

Mrs Sonia Gandhi is single mindedly going after him, using brazenly the Government’s legal appendages, because, at the moment he seems to be the only alternative to her son, Rahul Gandhi becoming Prime Minister in the next general elections. That is pure logics, and we should give credit to Mrs Gandhi for her cunning and ruthlessness. She has given us a lesson in Realpolitik. Kautilya would have been proud of her and the BJP, who spent 5 years being goody-goody (and not using their power to go after Mrs Gandhi), should also reflect on its foolishness. For she has no such qualms against them.

Mr Modi is unfortunately a Hindu and today it is not good to be a Hindu in India, though Hindus represent 850 million here, a billion worldwide, one of the most tolerant, peaceful and successful communities in the world. Hindus are killed in markets, their temples attacked, their financial capital held to ransom for 3 days by a few men, Kashmir, the ancient seat of Shivaism, is allowed to drift away by the present government. If only the Hindus could become conscious of their numbers, as well of their economical and potential political clout! But they are hopelessly divided at the moment, even in the BJP. Yet the truth is that Hindus, after lying low and having being at the receiving hand of terrorism for centuries, are getting angry: Gujurat was the first sign, the Christian belt of Orissa the second, the Jammu Amarnath riots the third one and Assam the latest. Hindus are passive, Gandhiji even called them cowards, but when they erupt, they erupt in fury........François Gautier, a French Journalist.