शहर से गुज़रते हुए देखा कुछ गगन-चुम्बी इमारतें अपनी शोख़ियों पर इतराती थीं किसी गुफ्तगू में मशगूल थीं वो पर मोटर के शोर में आवाज़ें ग़ुम हो जातीं थीं मैं ठिठका सोचा भला सीमेंट की ये मीनारें क्यों हैं यूँ बदगुमान क्या पा लिया इन्होंने जिससे मैं हूँ अनजान ? पूछा क्यों इस तरह अपनी ऊंचाई से तंज कसती हो इंसान का घरौंदा हो क्या इसलिए ख़ुद को आक़ा समझती हो ? वो मुस्क़ुरा कर बोलीं अकेले ही यूँ बदज़ुबानी ? यहाँ है कौन तुम्हें अपना कहने को ? --- सन्नाटा --- मैंने उस ख़ामोशी में खोजे अपने पुराने साथी बुलबुल , जुगनू , कोयल पर सुना तो सिर्फ वो गन-शॉट और ओट में छुपे कबूतरों की चीखें |
Bonds needs the Best
Do you remember the days when every summer vacation was spent in your Grandma’s lap, mango trees went bare in a month, your cousins were your best friends and you could not wait for every JUNE. June was not just a month, but the celebration of relationship.
Life has always been a continuing process. The transit of a flowering joint family to the petite nuclear family has been an unnoticed, but major change. The concept of joint family was at its peak in India once, but gradually due to better employability factor people began to migrate. This trend has only made Delhi develop into a thorough cosmopolitan city.
The ex-President Dr. Kalam also advocated the joint family concept. “I am a promoter of joint family and children from these families are always bubbling with joy," Kalam said adding joint family is the best system to inculcate values of righteousness among children.
India has been a country where the children live an independent life as soon as they start earning in some different town; unlike, the western countries where kids start taking their decision as they enter teenage.
This trend has definitely increased the number of earning hands, but has decreased the warmth of relationships. Can you remember how many times did you attend your native place recently? The upsurge in the number of nuclear families was a trend once. Now is the trend of each person of the family in a different city. The urge of making money is so strong that it has become the modern day vamp, who breaks the home.
When we talk about keeping our culture alive, why do we always point towards fashion or sex? Are the relationships not important enough to survive? The question is big and certainly needs a time to ponder about. The warmth in relationships is an inherent part of our culture, which has become critically endangered. While zeroing over the breaking bonds, the memories recoil to all the Junes which can never be replaced by late night highs.
Do you remember the days when every summer vacation was spent in your Grandma’s lap, mango trees went bare in a month, your cousins were your best friends and you could not wait for every JUNE. June was not just a month, but the celebration of relationship.
Life has always been a continuing process. The transit of a flowering joint family to the petite nuclear family has been an unnoticed, but major change. The concept of joint family was at its peak in India once, but gradually due to better employability factor people began to migrate. This trend has only made Delhi develop into a thorough cosmopolitan city.
The ex-President Dr. Kalam also advocated the joint family concept. “I am a promoter of joint family and children from these families are always bubbling with joy," Kalam said adding joint family is the best system to inculcate values of righteousness among children.
India has been a country where the children live an independent life as soon as they start earning in some different town; unlike, the western countries where kids start taking their decision as they enter teenage.
This trend has definitely increased the number of earning hands, but has decreased the warmth of relationships. Can you remember how many times did you attend your native place recently? The upsurge in the number of nuclear families was a trend once. Now is the trend of each person of the family in a different city. The urge of making money is so strong that it has become the modern day vamp, who breaks the home.
When we talk about keeping our culture alive, why do we always point towards fashion or sex? Are the relationships not important enough to survive? The question is big and certainly needs a time to ponder about. The warmth in relationships is an inherent part of our culture, which has become critically endangered. While zeroing over the breaking bonds, the memories recoil to all the Junes which can never be replaced by late night highs.
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