मधुशाला

मन्ना डे की सुरीली आवाज मे सुनिऍ मधुशाला यहाँ पर
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Junoon

Junoon hands down beats any other band from the Desi region (believe me i have covered the spectrum for a long time). Visit Pakistani Music for their most complete collections online. A few of my favorites from them are: Ghoom, Sapne, Saeein, Yaar Bina, Pyaar Bina, Neend Aati nahi. I saw them up close in a concert last year and that's when i got really interested in them. The quality of music is at par with the best in the world.

If you get a chance check out 127 from Iran. Very interesting sound + voice of the youth of Iran.

माजरा क्या है

बन्धुजन माजरा यह है की "सौ मेॅ नब्बे बेेेेईमान फिर भी मेरा भारत महान". तो कुछ जमीनी हकीकतोॉ से रुबरु हो जाएॅ :
१) उत्तर प्रदेॅॅॅॅश की आबादी (१७ करोड) से केवल ४ देॅॅश ज्यादा आबादी रखते हैॅ, पर क्षेत्रफल के मुताबिक उत्तर प्रदेॅॅॅॅश कोलराडो से छोटा है.
२) दक्षिण भारत मे जनसन्खया दर २ बच्चे प्रति स्त्री पर आ चुकी है किन्तुू उत्तर भारत मे अभी भी ३ बच्चे प्रति स्त्री का औसत है.
३ भारत की 48 प्रतिशत जनसख्याा अनपढ है. महिलाऐ और निचली मानी जाने वाली समुदायो मे अनपढ समस्या और प्रगाढ है.
४ अगर हम इसी दर से बढते रहे तो हम २०५० तक १.५ अरब पर पहुॅच चुके होगे.
५ भारत की जनसन्खया का सबसे बडा हिस्सा (तकरीबन ५०%) २५ से कम उम्र का है जो अब वयस्क हो रहा है.

तो देखा जाए की मानसिकता क्या है :
१) दहेज - लडकी बन जाती है आर्थिक बोझ. दहेज कीा अग्नि मे प्रतिवर्ष २५ हजार महिलाीऐ जल जाति है. यह सरकारी आॅकडा है.
२) बुढापे का सहारा / कुलदीपक जैसे दकियानुसी विचार. साथ मे कुछ धार्मिक "सन्सकार".
३) जितने हाथ होॅगे उतना पैसा घर आएगा , ईस तरह की सोच.
४) एक बच्चा नही बचा वयस्क होने तक तो ? ईस लिए कमसकम २ लडके तो होना ही चाहिए. सही भी है जब उत्तर प्रदेॅॅॅॅश मे १० मे से १ बच्चा ५ साल की उमर नही देख पाता है.

उपर लिखे और अन्य कारणो ने देश की आबादी की समस्या को प्रगाढ कर दिया है.

गरीबी, जनसॅख्या, शिक्षा के अभाव की मूलभूत समस्याााऔ के गर्भ से निकलते है बेरोजगारी जिस्से पनपता है अपराध अपने कई रुपो मे जैसे की भृषट नेता, रिश्वतखोर सरकारी मजमा, कर की चोरी, चोरी चपाटी,अपहरण इत्यादि.

समस्या का निवारण ढुन्ढने ज्यादा दुर जाने की जरुरत नही है, पडोस मे झान्क कर देखा जाऐ. सन्जय गान्धी की जरुरत है देश को. सारी सरकारी नौकरियो मे १ से ज्यादा बच्चे वालो की उन्नति रोक दी जाए. ईतना ही क्यो हर सरकारी नौकर जिसके बच्चे है उसकी नसबन्दी कर दी जाए. नही मानो तो हाथ धो नौकरी से. सरकारी सहयोग तथा ऋण प्राप्ति के लिए भी यही नियम रखे जाए.
५५ अाबादी खेती पर निर्भर है. तो क्यो ना हाीौौीईबरिड फसलो पर तथा खेती के लिए पानी पर जोर दिया जाए. कारीगरी पर जोर दिया जाए जिस्से खेती पर निर्भरता कम हो.

मेरा यह मानना है की अगर राजनैतिक दल लोकप्रिय वोटरो को लुभाने वाली राजनीति से उपर उठे तो १ पीढि मे ही हम पिछली पीढि की बेेवकुफी को सुधार सकते है. अगर समाज अभी नही चेता तो फिर भुखमरी,अकाल, बिमारी तथा चरमराता ढाॅचा ही आखिरकार जनसन्खया को कम कर देगा.

Hi Hi Hi Hi

Nehru Gandhi family tree

the great indian bustard

The great indian bustard is on the verge of extinction. Unfortunately hoards of white dressed great indian bastards flourish in New Delhi and state capitals.

Hindi Keyboard mapping file

After googling around a bit i finally found the indic key map layout description. That is a good start. If you want to use a phoentic based keymap here is a good article on setting up keymapping.

On a side note i went to Disneyland, the happiest place on earth and stood in the longest line on earth this weekend. The wait to ride ratio = 60:1. Will write details on that in the next blog entry , in Hindi this time though :)

Kailash Kher - Good singing

Check out Kailash Kher at musicindiaonline.
Happy listening

WTF - Advani - Jinna

Fellow hindus i bow to your balllessness. I seriously do. After surfing thru indian bloggers a large percentage seem to have the attitude "What does it matter if Jinna was secular or not?" as regards to the Advani comment incident. WTF ! Some have even quoted Jinna's speeches that Advani used to make his point.
Lets start with the premise that Jinna was indeed secular. I think if that is the case then we indians weren't secular because in India till the start of the whole Hindu movement the majority use to bend over backwards for the minority. How else do you explain different set of rules for muslim, Article 370 etc. ? Classic congress mentality was " oh we are secular, f**k the Hindu's because they don't have a unified vote bank, focus on the minority. "
Crossing back over the border, pakistani government attitude towards Hindu's over the years is best seen here. Ignoring this i have met people who migrated from Pakistan to Indore in 1990 and heard the most horrific treatment of Hindus by cops / beurocrats with muted acceptance by the majority and media. If a hindu axes a muslim in Bhopal it causes a communal riot. If a muslim kills a hindu, it's just petty crime. WTF !!
Now going back to why it matters. It matters to all the Sindhis and Punjabis who migrated across the border because of the formation of the MUSLIM state Pakistan. It matters because lives have been reshaped forever, the atrocities that the minorities have suffered in Pakistan over the years now have lost their significence. Advani has committed a gross crime to all the hindus in Pakistan by providing a blanket acceptance to Jinna, the founding father of Pakistan and in doing so to Pakistan state for it's treatement of hindu and other minorities.

Nightmare for Hindi love

I have I8N and I10N all working on my fedora core 3 install for Hindi language. I was not doing layout switching for keyboard which was the cause for all this pain @#$#@!$ !@#$. Hello open sores developers documentation please ! please !!
Now one might wonder why this post is in English. That is what makes me acid piss all over the font creators. why oh why bless the holy free workers of the world (Gargi / Lohit font creators you know i am talking to you) not create a font that mimics the keyboard layout that maps hindi to english characters based on intutive sounds. Instead now i have to sit down and learn a new keyboard mappings. That is just plain F****ed up. This is so silly yet painful it makes me hurt and laugh at the same time. The same feeling one gets when drinking pan galactic gargle blaster.
I must say it has been 2 days and i already miss the games from Windows XP environment. Please don't tell me the shit silly tex racer is a game because it's for 8 year olds. Maybe next month i will get me a new computer. Check out http://www.techbargains.com.
I am also grumpy because i ate some desi food over the weekend which was 1/2 degree of separation from going down the trash can and now i have a rather sensitive stomach.
Did i also say that Phoenix is hot these days. Its not hot like Bhopal or Kanpur but hot enough to be uncomfortable. I have to get shades, more for looking at the skimpy dressed hotties walk around.

good morning

सुबह उठा तो यह पाया
िप्रतम हाथो मे हाथ धरे बोली
आपकी सान्सो मे मेरी सान्से रमी है
अब उठो भी, एक कप चाय की कमी है

OO the way to go

Not talking about Object Oriented here but about Open Office. Seems like it has decent unicode support. Hopefully i will be able to do the necessary tweaks today and get open office to work. The musings and ramblings shall continue again in Hindi !

WTF i am able to type in Malayalam on Open Office now but not in hindi ! Chalo 1 ghanta to barbaad kar hi diye hain abhi 1-2 ghante aur sahi. Agar kisi sadhujan ne Fedora per Open Office main hindi ki jugat bitha liye hon to gyan bante. Please share the wealth.

Ji haan i am back without khidki

Friends, Indians Countrymen. I am back to give you pels to jhels. I got rid of my windows OS and now have a Fedora Core 3 box. Dhekiye ki hindi phadne ka to intazaam hum kar liye hain Mozilla per. Typing ka bhi kuch jor karyakram baan jaye to baat baan jaye, aahan baat ban jaye. To inshallah 1-2 din main aap hindi main humara post dekhenge. Tab tak ki liye allah hafiz, shabbakher, adios amigos , namste.