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2011-11-26T06:26:00.001-08:00

The power of technology

2009-06-06T03:42:00.000-07:00

This is my first blog using my first brand new smart phone. I have no clue if it will work at all but the amount of freedom this phone seems to bring to me is great.
It has been only a day or two this wonderful and powerful machine has been in my hands and already I have been using it for doing some great stuff with it. I am subscribed to a podcast which teaches me nuances of english grammar - one a day only.
So far

गलियाँ

2008-06-21T06:53:00.000-07:00

गलियों से गले मिलती गलियाँ हैं
गलियाँ ही गलियाँ हैं
गलियाँ दर गलियाँ हैं
और गलियों में महकती हुई पूरी एक दुनिया है

तो गली हाफिज़ बन्ने वाली
गली हाकिम जी की
गली सुर्ख पोशां वाली
गली मीर दर्द वाली
गली मैगजीन वाली
तख्त वाली, जूते वाली

गली गुल-पहाड़ी इमली
गली गदहे वाली
गली बजरंगबली
गली आली वाली
गर्मी वाली
जाड़े वाली
गली है अखाडे वाली

तो गलियाँ ही गलियाँ हैं
गलियाँ दर गलियाँ हैं
और गलियों में महकती हुई पूरी एक दुनिया है

तो इस गली का हाथ थामे दूजी गली चली गई उस गली से गले मिलने
उस गली ने इस गली के सर पर हाथ फेरा
पहली ने पाँचवीं के कान पकडे
छठवीं ने सातवीं के पाँव छुए
ग्यारहवीं ने बारहवीं का फूला हुआ पेट ही टटोल लिया
ये गली अगली के घुटने के दर्द पर बँध गयी और ख़त्म हो गयी
और ये है कि सीना चीरे, माथा चूमे, हाथ भी मिलाती हुई
निकल गयी कई और गलियों से बहुत दूर
चितली कबर के बाज़ार में सौदा लेने
तो गलियों के सर माथे गर्दन हाथ पैर पेट पौंचे में
कूचे हैं
छत्ते हैं
खिड़की हैं
हवेली हैं
आलान बालान मारां सहेली हैं
तो कटरा मशरुआ नाकटरा बुलबुलखाना छत्ता चुहिया मेनका
तेरह बैरम खान का
हवेली है दर्कुली पत्थर-वाला
कमरा बंगेश
शाहगंज
खिड़की तफज्जुल की
फाटक गिट्टी सुलतान
शेख़ अफगान बारादरी
चूडीवालान भी है
बल्ली मारान भी है
सीरीवालान भी है
तो टोकरी वालान भी
गली गुड-गुढैया है
गली शाहतारा है

गरज ये है कि गलियाँ हैं
गलियाँ ही गलियाँ हैं
गलियाँ दर गलियाँ हैं
और गलियों में महकती हुई पूरी एक दुनिया है

दोस्तों! गलियों में बच्चे हैं
बच्चे ही बच्चे हैं
बच्चे दर बच्चे हैं
बच्चों में बँटे हुए बच्चे हैं
और तथाकथित बच्चों से कटे हुए बच्चे हैं

बच्चे क्यों कहें इनको
बच्चे ये जवान हैं
बच्चे ये बूढे हैं
जिंदगी कि इतर, सेंट, खुशबू नहीं हैं ये
जिंदगी के घूरे हैं
जिंदगी के कूड़े हैं

जिल्दसाज़
कार्खारंदाज़
फेरी वाले
चूडी वाले
फलवाले
ठेलेवाले
शरबत पतंग वाले
पालिशवाले
मालिशवाले
ज़र्दोज़ी कढाई वाले

भिश्ती हैं
दर्ज़ी हैं
पंसारी नाई हैं
खींच रहे गाड़ी हैं
या फ़िर कबाड़ी हैं
वरक कूटते हैं
मिठाई भी बनाते हैं
बावर्ची हैं
ये बच्चा इंक-ब्वाय
ये बच्चा पेपर-ब्वाय
ये बच्चा रिक्शा खींचता है
घर भर को सींचता है

और वो जो मोटे मोटे ग्रंथों पर
संतों की वाणी पर
किस्सा-कहानी पर
इतिहास भूगोल गीता पुराण पर
अंक गणित, बीज गणित, ज्ञान-विज्ञान पर
गोंद लेई गत्ते से जिल्दें चढाता है
दिन भर मेहनत के बाद क्या पाता है

सुबह से शाम तक कागज़ मोडे
यही उसके जीवन का आखिरी मोड़ है
यही उसके अतीत का घटाना है
यही उसके भविष्य का जोड़ है

और वो जो लिथो-प्रेस पर
इनके और उनके भाषण की ख़बर वाला
लाल नीले रंगों में
पोस्टर निकालता है
ख़ुद लाल नीली स्याही से पोस्टर बना खडा है
क्या आपने कभी इस पोस्टर को पढ़ा है?

वो जो काटता है
जो सिलता है
वो जो कूटता है
वो जो पीसता है
वो जो चढ़ता है
वो जो मढ़ता है
वो जो ढोता है
वो जो इस सब के बावजूद रोता नहीं है लेकिन काम करता है
पूरी नींद सोता नहीं है लेकिन...

वो कोमल फूल जैसा नही है... माफ़ करना
वो रंगीन सपना भी नही है... माफ़ करना
उसको अपने आप पर भरोसा है
उसका कोई अपना नही है... माफ़ करना

खिलौने और टाफियाँ नही हैं...मेहनत की रोटियाँ हैं सिर्फ़
खेल के मैदान नही हैं...कारखाने और कोठियाँ हैं सिर्फ़
वो जानता है कि क्या चीज़ ज्यादा ज़रूरी है
कि वो एक दिन की कमाई से बाप के लिए दवाई लाता है
और दो दिन की कमाई से वो बहन के लिए दुपट्टा लता है
(और यादा करें प्रेमचंद की वो कहानी)
की वो तीन पैसे में दादी के हाथों को जलता देख चिमटा खरीद के लाता है
खिलौनों के लिए नही ललचाता है

होली की फुहार है
इस कवि की यही पुकार है
की
नैतिक शिक्षकों! देश के रक्षकों!

देश की इस फसल को बचाओ
और समय से पहले हो गए इन बूढों को
बच्चा बनाओ!
बच्चा बनाओ!
बच्चा बनाओ

Falling in Love

2008-05-29T02:18:00.000-07:00

[Exceprt from a website that I have forgotten the name of, apologetically]

You have always shared a smoke with him, but one fine day, as you take in a drag, he politely asks for the cigarette and chucks it out of the window! And, he has this look in his eyes that seems to plead, "Please don't for God's sake!" And, wonder of wonders, you (with your entire independent "My lungs, my life" attitude) don't mind-in fact, you want to kick this habit-after all isn't it harmful? However, had it been anyone else, you would have made clear your extreme displeasure at this "unpardonable" act! Just friends, are you?

You are the type who is always ready to practice these little acts of kindness towards your friends (for both men and women) - things like waiting in a long queue to buy tickets for a movie, or offering to go out of the way to drop someone home… He's always admired you for it with a word of appreciation. But, all of a sudden, there comes a day when you are a few extra meters to get a burger across to a hungry (male) friend and he's highly disturbed by your gesture. "Why should it be you who's always running around?" he demands. That's just a spark of jealousy and you sure didn't mind it, right?

You notice he gets offended when the rest of the gang pokes fun at you, when hitherto he was a part of the making-fun-of-you group! And, you begin to like the tinge of possessiveness you see in him. In fact, when his closest pal mentions you in a not-so-flattering manner whilst in a conversation with him he rips him/her apart, for having spoken about you in that manner! All aglow, are you! Hmm, go figure.

All of sudden your conversations about your family-your sister, brother, mom, dad, grandpa, uncle, dog etc. all-interest him!

A hard core rock music freak, he tells you one day, out of the blue, that he wants to attend the Indian classical music programme that you're going to. At the concert, you catch him dozing off, but you aren't enraged. That "It's-an-insult-to-the art and the-artist" lecture that you are capable of delivering, went flying out of the window. On the contrary, you found him extremely endearing-sleeping through the musical evening!

At a party, you get obsessively self-conscious with the knowledge that he in somewhere in the crowd! But, there was a time you would dance wildly, oblivious to everyone around you.

You are having a meal with him in a restaurant when your friend walks in and you find yourself making excuses for being there with him, without being asked. What's with the sudden explanations, honey?

You get more and more agitated with when you hear of the many casual flings he had some eons ago! You could even swear he was telling you about them on purpose-to see your reaction! But then, come to think of it, until now, you had been an unperturbed listener. In fact, you used to crack up when he narrated his many paramours! Well, there's nothing to worry about…it's just that things have changed a bit now!

Sounds familiar? You are falling in love, gal! And so is he! Just cast away that mask of friendship you've been wearing all along and enter a new sphere. You just might have a great relationship coming your way. Think about it! Act now!

चाँद निकले किसी जानिब

2008-05-21T02:51:00.000-07:00


चाँद निकले किसी जानिब तेरी ज़ेबाई का
रंग बदले किसी सूरत शब-ऐ-तन्हाई का
[ जानिब = किसी दिशा में, कहीं तो निकले; ज़ेबाई = सुन्दरता ]

दौलत-ऐ-लब से फिर ऐ खुसरव-ऐ-शीरीं-दहाँ
आज रिज़ा हो कोई हर्फ़ शनासाई का
[ लब = होंठ; खुसरवी = शाही; शीरीं = मीठा; दहाँ = मुँह ]
[ रिज़ा = स्वीकृत; हर्फ़ = शब्द; शनासाई = मान्यता, जान-पहचान, परिचय ]

दीदा-ओ-दिल को संभालो की सर-ऐ-शाम "फिराक"
साज़-ओ-सामां बहम पहुँचा रुसवाई का
[दीदा-ओ-दिल = नज़र और दिल; बहम = एक साथ ]

Ghalib on fame!

2008-03-08T06:29:00.000-08:00

हुए मरके हम जो रुसवा, हुए क्यूँ ना ग़रके दरिया
ना कहीं जनाज़ा उठता, ना कहीं मज़ार होता

Ghalib is frustrated about being famous and leaving his lovers behind while dying. He says in deep thought - if only he was dirt and nothing else, there would be no fame on his death and no shrine for memory.

ए दुनिया ऊट पटांगा

2008-03-08T06:22:00.000-08:00

ढिश...ढिश-ढिश
दुर फ़िटे मुँह

ओ मेक्या...
बडा श्‍रीफ़ ऐ

ओ मेक्या...
बडा सुवीट ऐ

ओयाहू...जीते रहे
ओयाहू...रे ताऊ
ओयाहू...रेट्ट इ नई लगे
ओयाहू...बस-स्टंड

ऐ! दुनिया ऊट पटांगा
किथे हत्थ ते कित्थे टांगा
रत कुकडी देंदी बांगा
एदे चक दे फ़ट्टे

एहे दुनिया खेल तमाशा
ए! टेड-ढी मेड-ढी भाश-शा
ए! खिच-पिच-खाँ-टूँ-शूँ-शाँ
एटा! चकदेहे फ़ट्टे

ऐ! दुनिया ऊट पटांगा
किथे हत्थ ते कित्थे टांगा
रत कुकडी देंदी बांगा
एदे चक दे फ़ट्टे

एहे दुनिया खेल तमाशा
ए! टेड-ढी मेड-ढी भाश-शा
ए! खिच-पिच-खाँ-टूँ-शूँ-शाँ
एटा! चकदेहे फ़ट्टे

चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे फ़ट्टे
चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे फ़ट्टे
चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे फ़ट्टे
चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे फ़ट्टे

यूलबी सप्रैज टू नो

ओ बडा सुवीट ऐ

ऐ! दुनिया मस्त कलंदरर
ताँ उत्थे बेट-ठा बंदरर
समझे अपणू सिकांदरर
एदे चकदेहे फ़ट्टे

ऐ! दुनिया वारी वारी
चकदेगे सहारे नर नारी
तू कानू बनया भिखारी
एदे चकदे फ़ट्टे

ऐ! दुनिया मस्त कलंदरर
ताँ उत्थे बेट-ठा बंदरर
समझे अपणू सिकांदरर
एदे चकदेहे फ़ट्टे

ऐ! दुनिया वारी वारी
चकदेगे सहारे नर नारी
तू कानू बनया भिखारी
एदे चकदे फ़ट्टे

चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे फ़ट्टे
चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे फ़ट्टे
चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे फ़ट्टे
चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे फ़ट्टे

तुस्सी फोन किद्‍दा सी...मैं नईं किद्‍दा सी
तुस्सी फोन किद्‍दा सी...मैं नईं किद्‍दा सी

नहीं यार, मेरी फट रही है...
आँईं नों

~ इज लाफ़िंग
ही इज लाफ़िंग
शी इज लाफ़िंग
ऐव्‍रीबडी इज लाफ़िंग

आँईं नों

बी हैप्पी
टेक योर हप्पीनैस आउट

मैं सुनया तू बडा सुवीट ए

ओयाहू
ओयाहू
ओयाहू
ओयाहू

ऐ! दुनिया ऊट पटांगा
किथे हत्थ ते कित्थे टांगा
रत कुकडी देंदी बांगा
एदे चक दे फ़ट्टे

एहे दुनिया खेल तमाशा
ए! टेड-ढी मेड-ढी भाश-शा
ए! खिच-पिच-खाँ-टूँ-शूँ-शाँ
एटा! चकदेहे फ़ट्टे

ऐ! दुनिया ऊट पटांगा
किथे हत्थ ते कित्थे टांगा
रत कुकडी देंदी बांगा
एदे चक दे फ़ट्टे

एहे दुनिया खेल तमाशा
ए! टेड-ढी मेड-ढी भाश-शा
ए! खिच-पिच-खाँ-टूँ-शूँ-शाँ
एटा! चकदेहे फ़ट्टे

(बिच टाइप लडकी हँसती है)

चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे फ़ट्टे
चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे फ़ट्टे
चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे फ़ट्टे
चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे चकदेहे फ़ट्टे

(बिच टाइप लडकी बोलती है)
ओ गाड! लुक एट योर फ़ेस
डोन्ट वरी, आई एम नाट गोइंग टू मिस्स यू

ऐ सोणिया!
ओ बडा सुवीट ऐ
वैरी गुड... वैरी दिसेन्ट
नो..नो...आई...आई...आई ऐप्री-शिएट
वैरी दिसेन्ट

यहाँ पेशाब करना मना है
कमाल ऐ जी, याँ पेशाब करने थोडे ही आये हैं

आँईं नों

ओयाहू

ओ ज़रा अराम से...इन्ना चीज्जों का मज़ा धीरे-धीरे लेन-चाहिये

होल्ड-द-ड्रिंक - ओयाहू
होल्ड-द-ड्रिंक - ओयाहू
होल्ड-द-ड्रिंक - ओयाहू
होल्ड-द-ड्रिंक - ओयाहू

सब परे-साइड कर दे
सब परे...

On social entrepreneurship by Md. Younus

2008-02-18T00:28:00.000-08:00

Social Business Entrepreneurs Are the Solution

----------------

Muhammad Yunus

Capitalism is Interpreted too Narrowly

Many of the problems in the world remain unresolved because we continue to interpret capitalism too narrowly. In this narrow interpretation we create a one-dimensional human being to play the role of entrepreneur. We insulate him from other dimensions of life, such as, religious, emotional, political dimensions. He is dedicated to one mission in his business life ---- to maximize profit. He is supported by masses of one-dimensional human beings who back him up with their investment money to achieve the same mission. The game of free market works out beautifully with one-dimensional investors and entrepreneurs. We have remained so mesmerised by the success of the free market that we never dared to express any doubt about it. We worked extra hard to transform ourselves, as closely as possible, into the one-dimensional human beings as conceptualised in theory to allow smooth functioning of free market mechanism.

Economic theory postulates that you are contributing to the society and the world in the best possible manner if you just concentrate on squeezing out the maximum for yourself. When you get your maximum, everybody else will get their maximum.

As we devotedly follow this policy sometimes doubts appear in our mind whether we are doing the right thing. Things don't look too good around us. We quickly brush off our doubts by saying all these bad things happen because of "market failures"; well-functioning market cannot produce unpleasant results.

I think things are going wrong not because of "market failure". It is much deeper than that. Let us be brave and admit that it is because of "conceptualisation failure". More specifically, it is the failure to capture the essence of a human being in our theory. Everyday human beings are not one-dimensional entities, they are excitingly multi-dimensional and indeed very colourful. Their emotions, beliefs, priorities, behaviour patterns can be more aptly described by drawing analogy with the basic colours and millions of colours and shades they produce.

Social Business Entrepreneurs Can Play a Big Role in the Market

Suppose we postulate a world with two kinds of people, both one-dimensional, but having different objectives. One type is the existing type, i.e. profit maximizing type. Second type is a new type, who are not interested in profit-maximization. They are totally committed to make a difference to the world. They are social-objective driven. They want to give better chance in life to other people. They want to achieve their objective through creating/supporting sustainable business enterprises. Their businesses may or may not earn profit, but like any other businesses they must not incur losses. They create a new class of business which we may describe as "non-loss" business.

Can we find second type of people in the real world ? Yes, we can. Aren't we familiar with "do-gooders" ? Do-gooders are the same people who are referred to as "social entrepreneurs" in formal parlance. Social entrepreneurism is an integral part of human history. Most people take pleasure in helping others. All religions encourage this quality in human beings. Governments reward them by giving tax breaks. Special legal facilities are created for them so that they can create legal entities to pursue their objectives.

Some social entrepreneurs (SE) use money to achieve their objectives, some just give away their time, labour, talent, skill or such other contributions which are useful to others. Those who use money may or may not try to recover part or all of the money they put into their work by charging fee or price.

We may classify the SEs, who use money, into four types :

i) No cost recovery
ii) Some cost recovery
iii) Full cost recovery
iv) More than full cost-recovery

Once a SE operate at 100% or beyond the cost recovery point he has entered the business world with limitless possibilities. This is a moment worth celebrating. He has overcome the gravitational force of financial dependence and now is ready for space flight ! This is the critical moment of significant institutional transformation. He has moved from the world of philanthropy to the world of business. To distinguish him from the first two types of SEs listed above, we'll call him "social business entrepreneur" (SBE).

With the introduction of SBEs, the market place becomes more interesting and competitive. Interesting because two different kinds of objectives are now at play creating two different sets of frameworks for price determination. Competitive because there are more players now than before. These new players can be equally aggressive and enterprising in achieving their goals as the other entrepreneurs.

SBEs can become very powerful players in the national and international economy. Today if we add up the assets of all the SBEs of the world, it would not add up to even an ultra-thin slice of the global economy. It is not because they basically lack growth potential, but because conceptually we neither recognised their existence, nor made any room for them in the market. They are considered freaks, and kept outside the mainstream economy. We do not pay any attention to them, because our eyes are blinded by the theories taught in our schools.

If SBEs exist in the real world, it makes no sense why we should not make room for them in our conceptual framework. Once we recognise them supportive institutions, policies, regulations, norms, and rules will come into being to help them become mainstream.

Market is always considered to be an utterly incapable institution to address social problems. To the contrary, market is recognised as an institution significantly contributing to creating social problems (environmental hazards, inequality, health, unemployment, ghettoes, crimes, etc.). Since market has no capacity to solve social problem, this responsibility is handed over to the State. This arrangement was considered as the only solution until command economies were created where State took over everything, abolishing market.

But this did not last long. With command economies gone we are back to the artificial division of work between the market and the State. In this arrangement market is turned into an exclusive playground of the personal gain seekers, overwhelmingly ignoring the common interest of communities and the world as a whole.

With the economy expanding at an unforeseen speed, personal wealth reaching unimaginable heights, technological innovations making this speed faster and faster, globalisation threatening to wipe out the weak economies and the poor people from the economic map, it is time to consider the case of SBEs more seriously than we did ever before. Not only is it not necessary to leave the market solely to the personal-gain seekers, it is extremely harmful to mankind as a whole to do that. It is time to move away from the narrow interpretation of capitalism and broaden the concept of market by giving full recognition to SBEs. Once this is done SBEs can flood the market and make the market work for social goals as efficiently as it does for personal goals.

Social Stock Market

How do we encourage creation of SBEs ? What are the steps that we need to take to facilitate the SBEs to take up bigger and bigger chunks of market share ?

First, we must recognise the SBEs in our theory. Students must learn that businesses are of two kinds : a) business to make money, and b) business to do good to others. Young people must learn that they have a choice to make --- which kind of entrepreneur they would like to be ? If we broaden the interpretation of capitalism even more, they'll have wider choice of mixing these two basic types in proportions just right for their own taste.

Second, we must make the SBEs and social business investors visible in the market place. As long as SBEs operate within the cultural environment of present stock markets they'll remain restricted by the existing norms and lingo of trading. SBEs must develop their own norms, standards, measurements, evaluation criteria, and terminology. This can be achieved only if we create a separate stockmarket for social business enterprises and investors. We can call it Social Stock Market. Investors will come here to invest their money for the cause they believe in, and in the company they think is doing the best in achieving a particular mission. There may be some companies listed in this social stock market who are excellent in achieving their mission at the same time making very attractive profit on the side. Obviously these companies will attract both kinds of investors, social-goal oriented as well as personal-gain oriented.

Making profit will not disqualify an enterprise to be a social business enterprise. Basic deciding factor for this will be whether the social goal remains to be enterprise's over-arching goal, and it is clearly reflected in its decision-making. There will be well-defined stringent entry and exit criteria for a company to qualify to be listed in the social stock market and to lose that status. Soon companies will emerge which will succeed in mixing both social goal and personal goal. There will be decision-rules to decide upto what point they still qualify to enter the social stock market, and at what point they must leave it. Investors must remain convinced that companies listed in the social stock market are truly social business enterprises.

Along with the creation of the Social Stock Market we'll need to create rating agencies, appropriate impact assessment tools, indices to understand which social business enterprise is doing more and/or better than others --- so that social investors are correctly guided. This industry will need its Social Wall Street Journal and Social Financial Times to bring out all the exciting, as well as the terrible, news stories and analyses to keep the social entrepreneurs and investors properly informed and forewarned.

Within business schools we can start producing social MBAs to meet the demand of the SBEs as well as preparing young people to become SBEs themselves. I think young people will respond very enthusiastically to the challenge of making serious contributions to the world by becoming SBEs.
We'll need to arrange financing for SBEs. New bank branches specialising in financing social business ventures will have to come up. New "angels" will have to show up on the scene. Social Venture Capitalists will have to join hands with the SBEs.

How to Make a Start

One good way to get started with creating social business enterprises would be to launch a design competition for social business enterprises. There can be local competition, regional competition and global competition. Prizes for the successful designs will come in the shape of financing for the enterprises, or as partnership for implementing the projects.

All submitted social business proposals can be published so that these can become the starting points for the designers in the next cycles, or ideas for someone who wants to start a social business enterprise.

Social Stock Market itself can be started by a SBE as social business enterprise. One business school, or several business schools can join hands to launch this as a project and start serious business transactions.

Let us not expect that a social business enterprise will come up, from its very birth, with all the answers to a social problem. Most likely, it will proceed in steps. Each step may lead to the next level of achievement. Grameen Bank is a good example in this regard. In creating Grameen Bank I never had a blue-print to follow. I moved one step at a time, always thinking this step will be my last step. But it was not. That one step led me to another step, a step which looked so interesting that it was difficult to walk away from. I faced this situation at every turn.

I started my work by giving small amount of money to a few poor people without any collateral. Then I realised how good the people felt about it. I needed more money to expand the programme. To access bank money, I offered myself as a guarantor. To get support from another bank, I converted my project as the bank's project. Later, I turned it into central bank project. Over time I saw that the best strategy would be to create an independent bank to do the work that we do. So we did. We converted the project into a formal bank, borrowing money from the central bank to lend money to the borrowers. Since donors became interested in our work, and wanted to support us, we borrowed and received grants from international donors. At one stage we decided to be self-reliant. This led us to focus on generating money internally by collecting deposits. Now Grameen Bank has more money in deposits than it lends out to borrowers. It lends out half a billion dollars a year, in loans averaging under $ 200, to 4.5 million borrowers, without collateral, and maintains 99 per cent repayment record.

We introduced many programmes in the bank --- housing loans, student loans, pension funds, loans to purchase mobile phones to become the village telephone ladies, loans to beggars to become door-to-door salesman. One came after another.

If we create the right environment, SBEs can take up significant market share and make the market an exciting place for fighting social battles in ever innovative and effective ways.

Lets get serious about social business entrepreneurs. They can brighten up this gloomy world.

this duniya ooT paTaangaa!

2008-02-16T09:34:00.000-08:00

Dhish...dhish-dhish

Dur Fite~ munh!

O mekya...
Bada shreef ei

O mekya...
Bada suveet ei

Oyaa...jeete re-hey
Oyaa...re tau
Oyaa...raT~hee nee lage
Oyaa...busstund


E! duniya ooT paTanga
Kithe hat-th te kit-the Tanga
Rut kukdi dendeehi baanga
Ede chakdehe phatte

Ehe duniya khel tamasha
E! ted-dhi med-dhi bhash-sha
E! khich-a pich-a Khaaan Toon shooon shaaan
Eta chakdehe phatte

E! duniya ooT paTanga
Kithe hat-th te kit-the Tanga
Rut kukdi dendeehi baanga
Ede chakdehe phatte

Ehe duniya khel tamasha
E! ted-dhi med-dhi bhash-sha
E! khich-a pich-a Khaaan Toon shooon shaaan
Eta chakdehe phatte

Chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakde Fatte
Chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakde Fatte
Chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakde Fatte
Chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakde Fatte

you be-be supprije toono

ooo bada suveet hai

E! duniya mast kalunnndar
taan utte beT-Tha bunnndar
samjhe apNoo sikunnndar
ede chakdehe phatte

E! duniya vaari vaari
chakde sahaare nar naari
tu kanoo banaya bhikhari
ede chakde phatte

E! duniya mast kalunnndar
taan utte beT-Tha bunnndar
samjhe apNoo sikunnndar
ede chakdehe phatte

E! duniya vaari vaari
chakde sahaare nar naari
tu kanoo banaya bhikhari
ede chakde phatte

Chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakde Fatte
Chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakde Fatte
Chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakde Fatte
Chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakde Fatte

tussi phone kidda see... mein naii kidda see
tussi phone kidda see... mein naii kidda see

nahi yaar, meri phut rahi hai...

aaaneeeen nooooAN

~ is laughing
he is laughing
she is laughing
everybody is happy

aaaneeeen nooooAN

be happy
take ur hapyu out

mein sunyaan tu bada suveeT ei

Oyaa hu
Oyaa hu
Oyaa hu
Oyaa hu

E! duniya ooT paTanga
Kithe hat-th te kit-the Tanga
Rut kukdi dendeehi baanga
Ede chakdehe phatte

Ehe duniya khel tamasha
E! ted-dhi med-dhi bhash-sha
E! khich-a pich-a Khaaan Toon shooon shaaan
Eta chakdehe phatte

E! duniya ooT paTanga
Kithe hat-th te kit-the Tanga
Rut kukdi dendeehi baanga
Ede chakdehe phatte

Ehe duniya khel tamasha
E! ted-dhi med-dhi bhash-sha
E! khich-a pich-a Khaaan Toon shooon shaaan
Eta chakdehe phatte

Bitch starts laughing

Chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakde Fatte
Chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakde Fatte
Chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakde Fatte
Chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakdehe chakde Fatte

Bitch speaks

Oh god! lukat yo fas-sa
Don't worry i am not going to mis-syou

Bitch laughs

Ei soniya

O bada suveet ai

Vairee good ...very decent

No no . I I I appreciate

Very decent

Yahan...peshaab...karna...manaa...hai
kamaalei jeee yaan peshaa karne thode hi aye ein

aaaneeeen nooooAN

Oyaa hu

O zaraa uraamse ... inna cheezon ka maza dheere dheere len-chaiye

HolDthadrinkka - oyaa hu
HolDthadrinkka - oyaa hu
HolDthadrinkka - oyaa hu
HolDthadrinkka - oyaa hu

Sab pare side kar de
Sab pare ....

फ़रीदा खानुम पर एक स्त्री का रिमार्क

2007-06-29T12:30:00.000-07:00

फ़रीदा खानुम पर एक स्त्री का रिमार्क :

मियांइन सब बहुत मेक अप करती है

An Introduction to the Phenomenon Called 'Ghalib'

2007-06-17T01:45:00.000-07:00

गली क़ासिम जान ...

सुबह का झटपटा, चारों तरफ़ अँधेरा, लेकिन उफ़्क़ पर थोङी सी लाली। यह क़िस्सा दिल्ली का, सन १८६७ ईसवी, दिल्ली की तारीख़ी इमारतें। पराने खण्डहरात। सर्दियों की धुंध - कोहरा - ख़ानदान - तैमूरिया की निशानी लाल क़िला - हुमायूँ का मकबरा - जामा मस्जिद।

एक नीम तारीक कूँचा, गली क़ासिम जान - एक मेहराब का टूटा सा कोना -

दरवाज़ों पर लटके टाट के बोसीदा परदे। डेवढी पर बँधी एक बकरी - धुंधलके से झाँकते एक मस्जिद के नकूश। पान वाले की बंद दुकान के पास दिवारों पर पान की पीक के छींटे। यही वह गली थी जहाँ ग़ालिब की रिहाइश थी। उन्हीं तसवीरों पर एक आवाज़ उभरती है -

बल्ली मारां की वो पेचीदा दलीलों की सी गलियाँ
सामने टाल के नुक्कङ पे बटेरों के क़सीदे
गुङगुङाते हुई पान की वो दाद-वो, वाह-वा
दरवाज़ों पे लटके हुए बोसिदा से कुछ टाट के परदे
एक बकरी के मिमयाने की आवाज़ !
और धुंधलाई हुई शाम के बेनूर अँधेरे
ऐसे दीवारों से मुँह जोङ के चलते हैं यहाँ
चूङी वालान के कङे की बङी बी जैसे
अपनी बुझती हुई सी आँखों से दरवाज़े टटोले
इसी बेनूर अँधेरी सी गली क़ासिम से
एक तरतीब चिराग़ॊं की शुरू होती है
असद उल्लाह ख़ान ग़ालिब का पता मिलता है।

दरवाज़े पे लटका टाट का परदा हिला। बूढे से दो पैर नमूदार हुए। मोजङी पुरानी थी एङी के पासद बी हुई। उन्हें घसीटते हुए। मोटी सी मज़बूत लाठी के सहारे ग़ालिब मस्जिद की तरफ बढे। फ़जर के सुर अभी तक फ़िज़ा में गूँज रहे थे। ये ईमान वालोंक ेल िये बुलावा था।

ग़ालिब ने सीढी पार की। मस्जिद के पास पहुँच कर एक आह भरी। सीढियों के पास जूती उतारी। पहली सीढी चढे और रुक गए। अज़ान अब पूरी हो चुकी थी।

इक ख़ामोशी!

चेहरा ऊपर उठा कर देखा, मस्जिद का खुला हुआ दरवाज़ा, उसके ऊपर महराब-उसके पीछे आसमान! ग़ालिब ने फिर आह भरी। आँखें कुछ नम हो गयीं। उसी चेहरे पर ये शेर गूँजा:

ये मसाइले तसव्वुफ़ यह तेरा बयान ग़ालिब
तुझे हम वली समझते जो न बाद ख़्वार होता

मिर्ज़ा उलटे पैरों लौट आए। मोजङी पहनी और गली पारकर, अपने घर की तरफ़ चल दिए। इसपर एक और शेर गूँजा:

हुए मर के हम जो रुसवा हुए क्यूँ न ग़रके दर्या
न कभी जनाज़ा उठता, न कहीं मज़ार होता

किसी आदमी ने गली पार करते हुए मिर्ज़ा को आदाब कहा। मिर्ज़ा ने हाथ उठाया, जवाब में 'आदाब' बुदबुदाया। घर के दरवाज़ेकी चौखट के नीचे पत्थर पर बैठ गए। अंदर से बेग़म की आवाज़ आई-
"लौट आए?"
मिर्ज़ा ने बेगम की तरफ़ देखा भी नहीं, बस बैठे रहे।
"बङे तङके उठ गए थे आज तो!"
बेगम हम उमर थीं मिर्ज़ा की। मिर्ज़ा ने जवाब में कुछ नहीं कहा, बस अप्नी लाठी ज़मीन पर टापते रहे। बेगम परदे के पीछे से झाँक रही थीं। मिर्ज़ा को लगा कि बेगम की नाआऎं उनकी पीठ में गङ रही हैं। बेगम कुछ मायूस सी हुईं।
"गए नहीं?"
फिर कुछ रुक कर बोलीं-
"अभी भी वक़्त है। सुलह कर लो अल्लाह से।"
अब जा कर मिर्ज़ा ने मुँह खोला। जैसे अपने आप से ही मुख़ातिब हों-
"किस मुँह से जाऊँ? सत्तर साल से बुला रहा है। दिन में पाँचों वक़्त आवाज़ दी उसने...मैं...उसके वफ़ादारों में ना था बेगम...अब उससे नहीं, ख़ुद से शर्मिन्दा होता हूँ।"

(collected from the book titled "Mirza Ghalib: ek swanahi munzarnama" by 'Gulzar'

बदला ज़माना

2007-06-16T12:11:00.000-07:00

कविता है गुलज़ार की, इसका शीर्षक वो नहीं है जो ऊपर लिखा है, वो तो मेरे ब्लोग का टाइटिल है

" कभी सीने पे रख के लेट जाते थे

कभी गोदी में लेते थे,

कभी घुटनों को अपने रेहल की सूरत बना कर

नीम सजदे में पढा करते थे, छूते थे जबीं से
वो सारा इलम तो मिलता रहेगा इंशाअल्लाह
मगर वे जो किताबों में मिला करते थे सूखे फूल
महकते हुए रूक़के
किताबें माँगने, गिरने, उठाने के बहाने रिश्ते बनते थे

उनका क्या होगा

वो शायद नहीं होंगे"

क्या बकवास है!

2007-06-16T11:22:00.000-07:00

कभी कभी जब आप बहुत हेल्प लेस फील करते हैं तो आपका मन करता है कि आप ज़ोर से चिल्लायें, "क्या बकवास है!"

man to dog

2007-06-09T01:29:00.000-07:00

Man (to Dog): getupsitdown, so cute!
Dog wags tail.
Man: dekha, what a dog!

Sadi garmi, aircooled room, vodka on ice bed, bathing while sipping

2007-06-09T01:19:00.000-07:00

Gar firdaus heaven anywhere
yahin pe, yahin pe, yahin pe!

2007-05-22T06:23:00.000-07:00

Z I N D A G I
sab par aati hai, sabki baari se

maut munsif hai, kamobesh nahi

zindagi sab par kyon nahi aati?

Postman to Mohan Babu

2007-05-20T05:41:00.000-07:00

Postman: Mohan babu, apne kuch internet kaha tha abhi.

Mohan Babu: blah blah blah...!

Postman: oohu mail guru gyaan karawat, ee mail sansaar chalawat
chhute des pardes re bhaiya, chhute des pardes!

Sorry

2007-05-20T05:35:00.001-07:00

Sorry for deleting all that I had on the blog and it's not even Diwali... he he!
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