इंसानियत की लाश

बोल उठी बेज़बान किताबें ये क्या इंसान कर आया है
मैने जो ना खुद समझा वो तुझे किसने सिखाया है?

उधर कहीं एक तन्हा कलम बस एक सवाल उठाती है
अमन का दुश्मन कौन है जिसने खून की स्याही बनाई है?

स्कूल के खाली बरामदे हमें एक मुस्कान याद दिलाते है
यूही मस्ती में कभी बिन-बात के ही कुछ नन्हे चेहरे हंसते थे

आज खौफ़ है उन्ही मैदानो में जहाँ तितलियाँ पकड़ा करते थे
क्या पता कुछ जाहिल इन मासूमों से क्यों डरते थे?

जहाँ रोज़ अमन और प्यार का एक नया पाठ पढ़ते थे
वो नादान परिंदे अब उस बेंच को बड़े याद आते है

जिन पैरों को धीमे धींमे चलते उछलते देखा था
आज घर के सूने आँगन को उन क़दमों का इंतेज़ार है

मलबे में दबी उन किताबों में कल की उम्मीदें भी थी,
उन खामोश दीवारों के नीचे एक लाश इंसानियत की भी थी.

-सत्यव्रत 

Words starting with 'Re' - A writer's perspective on this nightmare!

Being a writer is tough, especially if you want to write something new, fresh, innovative, abstract, beyond the said & the done. And no matter which profession you are into, you wont be entertained for novelty. The words beginning with Re are often a big harsh blow to a writer's confidence, sometimes even making the writer feel confident about him/her being on the right road to what is wrong for the society. Here are a few words starting with these dreadful words 'Re', which prove to be a writer's nightmare and what they ACTUALLY, HONESTLY mean for a writer.

Re-work: Means the authority is trying to say that they didn't understand it and so, our client wont too and ultimately the target audience wont as well. 

Re-do: How come you finished it so fast? Surely you haven't put proper thoughts in it. Do it again, this time, take your time...take 5 extra minutes....so send it in 10 minutes.

Revert: Be back to your original state of mind - writing something that has been written a thousand times already and then get back to us for feedback.

Re-assure: Make your readers believe that it is written by a Dickens or Stevenson, not you, who knows you? Oh hey, by the way, what's your name?

Reply: Reply on mail means "Something is not right". Reply to a task from a client means "Revert"

Re-word: Here's an ideal conversation between the client & the writer explaining this: 

Client: "Actually, the words are not properly arranged in the sentence, can you please Re-word it"

Writer: "Uh...ok, what do you want me to do...to slice grammar, choke the essence, kill the context, rape the article and re-arrange the words so that I remember my first game of jumbled words?" 

Client: "Exactly, correct, is it....you know it like!"

Writer: (chuckles) "Ok, Well!"

Restore: This word usually appears after the 13th or 14th re-work. This simply means, give us the first version.

Repetition: "There's too much tooo much, tooo much repetition in the the the article" Well, for a writer, this line means to analyse each and every word and make sure even articles in the article are not repeated. The writer then asks "Should I knock off the double letters in each word as well?" Client: "Let's se how it luks!"

Resign: When a writer resigns, it is his/her submission, not because of failure but because the clients/organization/bosses are using subjectivity as their weapon and plainly rejecting everything just because it doesn't match the style of their favourite writer...which, in many case, will be Chetan Bhagat!

Research: A tool of the fool! When a writer is asked to research, it clearly states, in BOLD letters that "DO NOT THINK ON IT....JUST COPY PASTE, RE-WORD and REVERT."