अंग्रेजी लेख लेबलों वाले संदेश दिखाए जा रहे हैं. सभी संदेश दिखाएं
अंग्रेजी लेख लेबलों वाले संदेश दिखाए जा रहे हैं. सभी संदेश दिखाएं

मंगलवार, अप्रैल 16, 2013

ऐ बी सी डी - अमरीका में बिगड़ा कन्फ्यूज्ड देसी


कुछ हिन्दुस्तानी लोग जब अमरीका या किसी और देश चले जाते हैं और जब वहां से वापस आते हैं तो देखिये उनके तौर तरीको और रवैयों के अन्दाज़ | पेश करता हूँ..

Always says, “Bless you”, whenever someone sneezes.
कोई छींक मरेगा तो तुरंत कहेंगे, 'ब्लेस यू' |

US-returned people use the word “bucks” instead of “Rs.”
अमरीका से भारत लौटे लोग 'रूपये' नहीं कहते 'बक्स' कहना शुरू कर देते हैं |

Tries to use credit cards in a road side hotel.
हाईवे के ढाबे पर खाना खाने के बाद 'क्रेडिट कार्ड' से पेमेंट करेंगे |

Drinks and carries mineral water and always speaks of being health conscious.
मिनरल वाटर पीना शुरू कर देंगे, पूछने पर बहाना बताएँगे के पेट ख़राब हो जाता है, तबियत बिगड़ जाती है |

Sprays deodorant so that he doesn’t need to take bath.
डीओडरैनट इस्तेमाल करना शुरू कर देंगे जिससे नहाना पड़े |

Sneezes and says ‘Excuse me’.
छींकेंगे और कहेंगे 'एक्सक्यूज़ मी'

Says “Hey” instead of “Hi”, ”Yoghurt” instead of “Curds”, ”Cab” instead of “Taxi”, “Trunk” of “Dicky” for a car trunk, ”Candy” instead of “Chocolate”,”Cookie” instead of “Biscuit” , ”got to go” instead of “Have to go”.
'हाई' को 'हे', 'दही' को 'योगर्ट', 'टैक्सी' को 'कैब', 'गाडी की डिक्की' को 'ट्रंक', 'चॉकलेट' को 'कैंडी', 'बिस्कुट' को 'कुकी', 'हैव टू गो' को 'गौट टू गो' बोलना शुरू कर देंगे |

Says “Oh” instead of “Zero”, (for 101, he will say One O One Instead of One Hundred One)
'जीरो' को '' कहना शुरू कर देंगे ( १०१ को 'एक सौ एक' की जगह 'वन वन' ) बोलेंगे |

Doesn’t forget to complain about the air pollution. Keeps complaining every time he steps out.
जब भी बहार जायेंगे हर बार हर जगह बार बार 'एयर पोल्यूशन' की बात करते नहीं थकेंगे |

Says all the distances in Miles (Not in Kilo Meters), and counts in Millions. (Not in Lakhs)
किलोमीटर भूल जायेगे मील में दूरी नापेंगे | लाख भूल जायेगे मिलियन में गिनेंगे |

Tries to figure all the prices in Dollars as far as possible (but deep inside multiplies by 44).
हर चीज़ के दाम डॉलर में लगायेंगे और अन्दर मन में उसे ५५ से गुणा करते रहेंगे |

Tries to see the % of fat on the cover of a milk pocket.
दूध की थैली के ऊपर सबसे पहले फैट परसेंटेज देखेंगे |

When he needs to say Z (zed), he never says Z (Zed), instead repeats “Zee” several times, and if the other person is unable to get it, then says X, Y Zee(but never says Zed)
'ज़ैड' को जान बूझ कर 'ज़ी' बोलेंगे | अगर कोई नहीं समझ पायेगा तो उससे एक्स, वाई ज़ी बोल कर बताएँगे पर 'ज़ैडनहीं बोलेंगे |

Writes the date in MM/DD/YYYY. On watching traditional DD/MM/YYYY, says “Oh! British Style!!!!”
तारीख़ को मंथ/डे/ईयर फॉर्मेट में लिखेंगे | अगर कहीं पुराना डे/मंथ/ईयर फॉर्मेट देख लेंगे तो कहेंगे, “ओह! ब्रिटिश स्टाइल!!!”

 Makes fun of Indian Standard Time and the Indian Road Conditions.
मौका मिलते ही इंडियन स्टैण्डर्ड टाइम और हिंदुस्तान की सड़कों का मजाक उड़ना शुरू कर देंगे |

Even after 2 months, complaints about “Jet Lag”.
आने के दो महीने बाद भी ‘जेटलैग’ से ग्रस्त रहेंगे |

Just to show off avoids eating spicy food.
दिखावे के लिए तीखा कहना खाने से परहेज़ करेंगे |

Tries to drink “Diet Coke”, instead of Normal Coke. Eats Pizza instead of Dosa.
‘नार्मल कोक’ की जगह ‘डाइट कोक’ पियेंगे | ‘डोसा’ की जगह ‘पिज़्ज़ा’ खायेंगे |

Tries to complain about anything in India as if he is experiencing it for the first time. Asks questions etc. about India as though its his first visit to India .
हिंदुस्तान की हर चीज़ के बारे में शिकायत करना शुरू कर देंगे जैसे परेशानी पहली दफा हो रही है | उट पटांग सवाल जवाब करने शुरू कर देंगे हिन्दुस्तान के बारे में जैसे पहली दफ़ा आये हों यहाँ |

Pronounces “schedule” as “skejule”, and “module” as “mojule”.
‘स्केड्यूल’ को ‘स्केज्यूल’ और ‘मोड्यूल’ को ‘मोज्यूल’ बोलना शुरू कर देंगे |

Looks suspiciously towards any Hotel/Dhaba food.
किसी भी होटल या ढाबे के खाने को शक की निगाहों से देखेंगे |

From the luggage bag, does not remove the stickers of the Airways by which he traveled back to India , even after 4 months of arrival.
लौटने के चार महीने बाद भी लगेज बैग से एयरवेज का स्टीकर नहीं छुटाएंगे जिससे भारत वापस आये हैं |

Takes the cabin luggage bag to short visits in India and tries to roll the bag on Indian Roads.
कैबिन लगेज को छोटी-मोटी यात्राओं पर चमकाने के लिए ले जायेंगे | हिन्दुस्तानी सड़कों पर बैग को रोल करके चलने लगेंगे |

Tries to begin any conversation with “In US ….” or “When I was in US…”
हर एक वार्तालाप शुरू करने से पहले कहेंगे, ‘जब मैं अमरीका में था...’ |

अब आप ही बताएं ऐसे कार्टूनों का क्या हो सकता है | यहाँ हिन्दुस्तान में अमरीकी आकर हिन्दुस्तानी सभ्यता और ज़बान सीख रहे हैं | और वहां कुछ अकलमंद लोग बाहरी फूहड़ता अपना कर अपने देश को नीचा दिखने में लगे हुए हैं | खुदा इन्हें अक्ल बक्शे |

बुधवार, जनवरी 30, 2013

Deep as the sea

Deep as the sea, deeper than the abyss, further than the ocean. Limits are limitless. Abound I find shore. To close to reach land. Land is distant, distant as the stars in the night filled with crowded spectra or a culmination of stars. Profound as my inner emotion that claims no restrain except when beleagured by humans that claim no identity nor will to live. I derail into a smudgery of unexpressed notion that coexists amongst people I love. Why must I express, this to live and survive. Never did a man look back at his sorrows or unrestrained passion to love, live and learn until one set out to decompass his side. Further than his side he survives to crawl on ocean, land and prevail amongs his no believers and people who choose not to love him nor care. He is strong, he is deep, his side no one knows, as to know this would be to be stronger than will, stronger than man, stronger than who we are.

To know you know me is not enough. For I am deep, deeper than you once thought i was. You express no emotions, I express no regret. Together we comfort each other. I only know joy when I server you or make you happy. When I feel your inner passion you make me a part of you that does not go unnoticed. Life is like a puzzle sometimes we embelish on absolute nonsense until we realize time has taken us by surprise. Yet time has no beginning nor end it is a block of space that we claim and accept as per your pretty woman, I often think about you not knowing how profound you really are. I bask in your lips and succumb to you arms and there I find a peaceful ground owes me to be a person. Allows me to be a part of something bigger.

मंगलवार, जनवरी 15, 2013

Poet


No one can ever understand the poet. For he is a notional representation of what transpires in life. The Good, The Bad, the Unthought, The calibration of a World that once existed and co exists amongst us. A poet will smile even when he does not want to, A Poet will let you join his side when you most need to be together with laughter or an uncongruent feeling that you have inside of you that needs to be exposed. The Poet surrenders to you, the Listener and welcomes you to his realm of thought, provocation and abstinence of malicious judgement and fallice. Thy Poet writes in a Harmony of the past, present and future. With him holding the key to an inner salvation that one often seeks when expressing their inner most thoughts.  Thy Poet is stern and irrevocably pristine to the sadacious appetite of the Modern Society.  Even when in doubt the Poet has thy answer to their inner most sanctions of your world.   He often reaches the deep, inner substraints of a well known phenomenon and a well suited lack of understanding that is within all of our reach as we aspire to a final place where we submit.  As the Sun lacks brightness and vigor the Moon catches a Bright Light to bestow amongst humanity.  A Poet reaches the farthest channels of the Universe once benownst by man kind later to be forgotten 
as a a part of History and the common like.  But this is no common like, it actually shines from afar and captivates the human eye till it renders.  The Light is meager pronouncing itself even with a shade of magnitude. The Light deserves presence that is often unappreciated by man and misunderstood my most women. The conquest of Light is the most inexplicable feat that a Man can encounter. The aphorgy or intricateness of the Sun shining upon a specific dwelling controlled by man. inconsecrated.....

बुधवार, जनवरी 02, 2013

Last Day of 2012


Its very much like just another day in my daily routine life. Family, Kids, Computer and Sleep. Nothing new as such. Life is such a routine nowdays. My morning started with cup of tea with family members which is usually a daily event because without this the bowel movement seems impossible. After having that special sip of lovingly prepared Ramdev tea and playing with children and all the ho-halla of the morning events comes the time to freshen up  get relaxed. In this chilling winters of Delhi, its really next to impossible to survive without the hot water even for the daily motion activity I wish I can have it. So next comes the relaxation part when I came and sit in front of my laptop. My room, my bed, my quilt and my laptop with wifi internet. As soon as I lay there, start surfing my daily websites, checking out my mails and blogs and just as I open up the notepad to scribble a few lines there came the voice calling out my name.

"Beta! Aaj khane mein kya pasand karoge?" 

Gosh!! its Ma. She was asking what would i like to have in lunch. 

The moment i can give a respond to her question another bouncer came from her. 

"Idli bani hain. Wahi kha lena. Baache to wahi khayenge"

I generally don't like Rava Idlis very much so I said why not have some rice dosa or rice idli. She said ok but you have to go and buy some stuff from the market. I was feeling a bit lazy so requested my sister and wife to go and get the stuff from the market and specially the dosa batter and Nariyal for chutney from the Keralite shop. The went to the market and got the stuff. 

During all this time I was enjoying with my kids, teaching them how to do their holidays homework of hindi, english and maths. Followed up by the Art Session after all that work. Immediately, after getting over with art session, was the request to play Doraemon or Ramayan movie on television. I just tell you today's kids have a bag full of energy in them and they can never get tired. I was literally exhausted after all this session and went to rest.

To cut the long story short its that we all had dosa, kids had idli with the coconut chutney prepared by me and sambhar prepared by my wife. 

After all that long day with family came the night. I was busy fixing up my laptop operating system. Oops! Oh! Sorry! I forgot to tell this that I messed around with my laptop OS the other day, when I was trying to upgrade it and install Windows 8 64bit version over Windows 7 32bit but end up fucking up my laptop. 

So it's several minutes past midnight of December 31st 2012. Two and a half hours ago, my family had just eaten dinner. Mother had made her typical desi ghee dosa, sambar and coconut chutney. It was delicious. I ate a lot. Then the round of sweet dish chana chikki, gazak, moongphali chikki, til chikki and gazak biscuits the speciality of the day. Off course we all had the dinner together and enjoyed a lot. 

Like I said, I had eaten a lot, so I felt having a promenade around my house stairs. I immediately reentered my house stairs: the smell of gunpowder gets on my nerves. 

Its really been chilling winters going on so me and my family are not very observing of New Year local traditions. Meeting other people, going or visiting here and here. We just have our own way of enjoying by spending time together and chit chatting. Two hours past the former events, i was thinking to ignite a few fireworks with my kids. We have saved a few of phooljhadis from diwali to have a good time at new year midnight. 

Midnight arrived. Yes! its midnight! Unsurprisingly, the level of noise has risen. The fog has grown more thicker. Its really chilling as we go up the house terrace, from where we can see fireworks coming even from places far from the house. I don't just notice the fireworks; the sky is red: freaking blood red. I wanted to ignite the fireworks; but each time i see towards the sky i see fireworks soaring into the black and red dense night, leaving behind the grey cloud of gases and dust. Soon after, seening all that i dropped the idea of igniting the phooljhadi because of my kids health issues as its freezing cold. We all agreed to come down and close all the windows and doors becuse of the heavy noice and gunpowder released into the air. Later, I must have acknowledged that the smell of the gunpowder that i described earlier was trival; the smell of gunpowder pas midnight is mundane, at least comparatively. Because of winters the people down on the streets burn all sorts of things like paper, wood, plastic and what not. Imagine what's the smell of the air in a country where half the population is burning waste things at the same time. 

Also, I can hear the drunk people shouting Happy New Year and all sorts of other dramatics with local slang abuses, songs and slogans. People are enjoying it but I feel they are also crossing the limits. A few young guys, I saw from my terrace were drinking at the corner of the street and then throwing the empty bottles and breaking them. There was noise and shout everywhere. It was not really human like behaviour. 

Well all these described activities releases dangerous amount of gases into the air. Both fireworks and firecrackers and other noise makers usually contain gunpowder, which releases sulphur salts and carbondioxide into the air. Burning plastics, paint boxes, wood and papers provokes combustion of these things. Both fireworks and firecrackers also contribute to noise pollution for days: people like kids, old and medical patients have to suffer a lot. Color giving salts from fireworks are made of metals in cholorate or perchlorate form, resulting in a thicker airborn particle density. Fireworks worsen light pollution which has been inconspiciously detrimental to human health for decades.  I have not yet taken into account the danger posed by storage, commercial or domestic, of fireworks and firecrackers. Oops, I just did. also, let's take into account the amounts of paper, wood, plastics and whatever materials consumed for production of these novelties. Really, I could make an extensive list of inflammatory but sensible accusations at them, but i just wanted to be "brief".

Its about time I openly admit it: I hate fireworks, firecrackers and people who burn things in open in winters. Plus, I'm Hindustani, which makes my disdain for fireworks pretty much interesteing. I grew up in Delhi, which makes my disdain for these things as much peculiar. Firecrackers make a mess out of my house. I had to ask the sweeper in the morning to sweep it off. 

Frankly, its not like I have a grudge against holidays or celebrations: but only Diwali and New Year Celebrations. But, alas! no one can help to stop all this. After all this tamasha i came back to my room, after my kids are sleep and the whole house was quite at 3.00am in the morning i was sitting on my chair and fixing up my laptop operating system issues. Nothing special was there in the last day of the year too. It was just the same as on in the usual daily life. 

By the way, have a Blasting and Prosperous New Year. Ji Aaya Nu Nava Saal. Enjoy.

Happy New Year 2013

Yes welcoming another new year in the calendar of our life and saying goodbye to another one. But i don't think anyone has given it a thought from this angle as i see it. It's days like today that make me realize how little I am concerned with what year it happens to be. I see poems, stories, movies, art, paintings, articles, people, friends, enemies, websites, facebook statuses, listen to songs and so much more all about how 2013 is some amazing phenomenon, a new god or goddess to be ushered in and worshiped. But in reality, it's just a number, a human contrivance. An imaginary concept, an arbitrarily set number to an arbitrarily set date; 2013 is nothing more than a marker for human organization of time and history. And yet, we seem to view it as a natural occurrence, some great transformation of the earth and time itself, the chance to change ourselves as people. But the earth still spins as it did yesterday, the plants and creatures know that we're still in winter and that the snow won't stop falling for this imaginary phenomenon of ours; all while we're celebrating what we call a life-changing turnover in time.

गुरुवार, दिसंबर 27, 2012

What are you ?

On the walls of many American walls hangs a plaque commemorating the statement of the late President John F. Kennedy: 

"Ask not what your country can do for you, But ask what you can do for your country"

This statement appeared in an article written by Khalil Gibran in Arabic, over fifty years ago. The heading of this article can be translated either as " The New Deal" or "The New Frontier". Gibran's words when translated from Arabic into English are as follows: 

"Are you a politician asking - What your country can do for you or A zealous one asking What you can do for your country".

If you are the first, then you are a Parasite;
If you are the second, then you are an Oasis in Desert. 

मंगलवार, दिसंबर 18, 2012

Am I Lovable?


Why do we love someone else? What makes us do that?

While we constantly crib about the fact that no one loves me, how much thought we give about why would someone do it. What is so special or what have I done to make me worthy of affection.

Let’s take a look at examples close by.
















All of us love and adore our children, Why?
  1. They are made by nature that way. Cute little faces, tiny hands and feet, speech that makes you smile and a smile that just melts your heart like ice cream.
  2. They never lie. Say things as they are. You can trust them.
  3. You feel strong and they look vulnerable – physically and emotionally. One feels like its their duty and God’s will to protect them.
  4. If they like you they like you from their heart. If they don’t they will make it obvious with reasons. If you can improve and change you can be their friend.
  5. They never hold anything for a long time. One moment they will fight and the next moment they will be ready to play and laugh and run with you.
  6. They know nothing about jealousy, greed, hatred, contempt. We call it innocence but isn’t it natural for us to feel that way. If you really look at it these are absolutely unnecessary appendages to our mind.
  7. They are always ready to take help as they are always ready to offer it.

As we grow up we loose many of these simple yet powerful reasons so people can adore and like us. The worst part is that instead of consciously working on making ourselves child like we do just the opposite. In the name of growing up and being worldly wise we do everything that we do not want others to. And then we complain.

If you carefully observe a large part of the responsibility even power to make people love us lies with us.
  1. We hate everyone around us and then wonder why it’s coming back.
  2. Look at others with deceit and contempt. Lie at the drop of a hat.
  3. Do not want to take help. Do not want to give it either.
  4. In marriage we treat our partner with disrespect. Hurt to the extent of being revengeful. Take each other for granted.
  5. Hold our feelings as if it is the most important thing to die with a negative emotion or may be it helps you to live longer. Absolutely Wrong.
  6. Ridicule, Gossip and Make Fun to alleviate our own insecurity.
  7. Blame others to hide our guilt.
  8. Almost never use our heart. The tiny calculator keeps working non stop even if it is the closest of relationship.
I have two angles in my life, actually my lifeline and I have been observing their behavior with us, with others and with each other. What I have found is that whatever they do, they do it with spontaneity, with a natural flow. They are so happy with themselves that you want to enter their world to forget what you have been doing to others or what others have been doing to you.

I have come to realize that it is a mechanism that nature has adopted to ensure growth of species since we can observe a similar behavior in almost all other life forms. If it was not so we would have competed with our own off springs.

Just as you need to be employable to be employed, you need to be lovable to be loved.

So next time you feel that you are getting a raw deal or why no one really loves you ask yourself a question – Am I lovable ?

I am working on it and it’s not that difficult. Trust me.

शनिवार, दिसंबर 15, 2012

WANNA PUFF? HERE ARE THE FACTS

An article that i wrote for my school magazine during my golden days of life. Now i think did i myself followed this? I also used to smoke around 7-8 years back but somehow i realized my mistake and corrected it. I talked about the number of deaths in 2012. So see, I just found my diary in 2012 merely just to read this article and find out if the percentage of deaths have increased or decreased. Or just to make myself realize what i was actually and later on what i have become. I myself made that mistake of taking up this habit of smoking but God gave me enough mental strength and power that i could leave that bad habit. I request to all my fellow friends and blog readers who smoke that please try to quit smoking. It just only "KILLS".


"Dum Maro Dum, Mit Jayen Gam"
Or
"When a Cigarette is in my Hand, I felt like a Man"

These enchanting lines have enravished the minds of present generation. They are gradually putting a full stop to their lives by inhaling this pure unadulterated poision. 

Had a smoke lately? Were you able to impress your friends? Do you really felt the same? Yes?

But did they realise that what you have enjoyed will lead you towards the path of erebus. If they really had been your friends they would have turned away in disgust. 

"The longest and painful way to committing 'Suicide' is 'Smoking'". It gradually engulfs the entire internal body organs and slowly burns them up in smoke leaving just a hollow exterior.

As for the future, by the time you are seeking for a job, most of the big companies, specially government owned ones, would have banned smoking in their offices and if you happen to be enslaved by smoking then your placement choices would be very limited. 

Well, by the time being with about fifteen year history of smoking when you attain thirty five of your life your lungs would be in a pretty hazardous condition suffering from royal diseases like tuberculosis, asthma, bronchitis, high blood pressure and a weakened heart. After a twenty year experience degree in smoking, after a decade at the age of forty five you will be accompanied  by wheezing and at regular intervals you would be coughing. As you step forward after your golden jubilee you will be spending your time being shunted between hospitals, x-ray labs and pathology labs.

All these years you will be murdering your dear ones too by forcing them to be a passive smoker as they inhale the second hand smoke.

Most probably you started smoking as a fashion trend, to attract your friends, to catch attention or were feeling lonely or to prove that you were grown up or might be any other one. But all these are signs of inferiority complex and an insecure mind

According to the latest survey covered by the "National Organization for Tobacco Eradication" the number of deaths due to smoking will increase from 10 lakhs to 30 lakhs by the year 2012. That will conquer that caused by the disease AIDS.

Recently a journal published that the profits made by the tobacco merchants during the year 1986-87 were just 4% that has increased to 29% in 1996-97. This is due to the new policies and rebates that were given to the cigarette manufacturers. The annual tax collection from this source is around 4500 crores. Can our country work without this income? I feel it can. 

So, at last but not the least I would like to say that never ever try to smoke, even on an experimental basis. But if you have become addicted to it immediately leave it by adopting substitutes like chocolates (then take care of your teeth) or chewing gums. Alternately you can chain yourself to a bed to be out of reach of cigarettes. 

Remember, smoking does not allow to eviate your worries only agravates them.

रविवार, जुलाई 08, 2012

Why am i writing ?

I often write words that just comes to me. But, how come everyone writes nowadays? I mean, I am writing a blog! Someone – let’s call her ‘Mysterious Girl’- once said I am the most pathetic, cruel and unromantic person on this planet earth! And why do I have a blog ?
So what is this obsession to write or should I say “expression”? Someone once said, that people write blogs because they want attention and want to be “sexy and get noticed. Really? Since when did writing become attention seeking or noticable or sexy? It’s one of the most mundane and ancient activities. That is what i personally feel.
I think people write to share things they can’t always talk about. They write to find themselves and sometimes to bring down their pain. The thoughts, the feeling, the emotions that they cannot bring to words while talking. So that brings me to, why the need to share? It’s because only when it’s shared, it becomes real.
If something happens to me- death,  life, good, bad, funny, silly, sad, touching- it only appears real when I tell someone about it. And these writings are actually or preferably or mostly shared with the most important person in ones life. At least one person. If I can’t do that, then that experience does not seem real. Like it never happened. Weird? Probably, but that is my reasoning on at least why I am writing.
Other people probably write for other reasons- they actually have something meaningful to say (or think they do), are professionals e.g. authors, poets etc. (I so admire authors! Sexiest profession as per me, second only to travellers- involves travelling, meeting new people, exploring new cultures, traditions and so much more: so masculine, and creativity: so inspirational- what could be sexier and fun? But hey, I digress).
Other people who write probably prefer it to talking, so they write as a way to communicate. While some others write to simply brag.
I do wish however more people would read- not my blog- just in general...people should read more than they write and not the other way round. I don’t think myself as a judgemental person (but then who does, right?). But I REALLY am not one. Except for people who don’t read books. I judge them. I find them boring, shallow and dull.
So if you want to be (or at least appear to be) interesting and thus sexy, go pick up a book. If, not book at least go pick up and read something. Ideally something from the classics or entertainment.
P.S. read my other posts below before judging my writings and poems ;)

मंगलवार, जून 05, 2012

क्या समझती हो कि तुमको भी भुला सकता हूँ मैं

एक बहुत ही उम्दा शायर "जानब मजाज़ लखनवी" की लिखी चंद पंक्तियाँ प्रस्तुत कर रहा हूँ | इनका तर्जुमा मैंने अपनी मौजूदा अक्ल के हिसाब की किया है | उम्मीद है के मेरी हिमाकत कुछ तो रंग लाएगी | पेश-ए-खिदमत है आपके रुबरु ....

अपने दिल को दोनों आलम से उठा सकता हूँ मैं
क्या समझती हो कि तुमको भी भुला सकता हूँ मैं

You think I can’t let go of both worlds, I can
You think I can’t forget you, I can

कौन तुमसे छीन सकता है मुझे क्या वहम है
खुद जुलेखा से भी तो दामन बचा सकता हूँ मैं

It’s your misgiving that you can lose me to her
I can myself be indifferent to that beauty, I can

दिल मैं तुम पैदा करो पहले मेरी सी जुर्रतें
और फिर देखो कि तुमको क्या बना सकता हूँ मैं

Sow in yourself the same audacity I have
and I will make you someone else, I can

दफ़न कर सकता हूँ सीने में तुम्हारे राज़ को
और तुम चाहो तो अफसाना बना सकता हूँ मैं

I can bury your deepest secrets If I will
and I can make them a legend if you want, I can

तुम समझती हो कि हैं परदे बहुत से दरमियाँ
मैं यह कहता हूँ कि हर पर्दा उठा सकता हूँ मैं

You think that there are lots of curtains that hide
I say I will lift each one of them if I wish, I can

तुम कि बन सकती हो हर महफ़िल मैं फिरदौस-ए-नज़र
मुझ को यह दावा कि हर महफ़िल पे छा सकता हूँ मैं

Yes you may be the heavenly gaze in any gathering
But I challenge that I can be the life of any party, I can

आओ मिल कर इन्किलाब ताज़ा पैदा करें
दहर पर इस तरह छा जाएं कि सब देखा करें

Let’s get together and start a a revolution afresh
and be such that everyone looks at us and says, Wow!!!

- जानब मजाज़ लखनवी 

सोमवार, मई 28, 2012

At Last...Wires are gone...

After years and years of hearing about wi-fi enabled homes, today I am staying in one!
Hopefully, that means that I can now be 'online' at the comfort of my bed.

And hopefully that will translate into frequent posts.

Am not sure if any of you are glad to hear this, but I am..

I get so many ideas.. I wish to write but then I get lazy.

So now with wi-fi, I have only less excuse!

:-) .. cheers to my new wi-fi posts!

Life is strange...Never Perfect...!!!

Too much work, and I am bugged.
No work at all, and I am bored!!

'Touch' is all i need..

I was thinking why people get restless? Maybe it is because they have a desire which is unfulfilled or incomplete.

Then i came to think of the very clichéd question of what is it that I cant live without. And knocking off illegal answers like Books/Music/Food/Water/Air/Sleep/Computers and the likes.. I roughly figured out that it is 'Touch' that I can not do without.

By touch I mean that the real feeling of being loved or loving is not enough - I need presence just as much. I need to feel love and affection under my fingertips.

I don’t know if I am being juvenile in saying this. I am totally aware of truths like - "The one who looks outside dreams, and the one who looks inside awakens", but till the time I dont reach to a level where I can honestly say that I need nothing, not even myself, I would want to believe that it is Touch for me.

Dreamer..... am i ?

"Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart."

"What truly is logic, who decides reason? My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional, and back. And I have made the most important discovery of my career, the most important discovery of my life. It is only in the mysterious equations of love that any logical reasons can be found. I am only here tonight because of you. You are all I am. You are all my reasons."

- from the motion picture, A Beautiful Mind

Is it Normal ? Is it ?

I am getting sooo bored lately that I went into "Chutti kab hogi" mode. Checked the time, fuck its just 2 am in the morning and so many more hours to go and that munna bhai song started playing in my head 'Pal pal pal pal ... kaise katega har pal..' .. I minimized all active windows on my desktop and sat staring blankly at my workstation and just then i noticed - I have the same black wall paper on my PC every single day of the month which I never change and I am doing the same kind of work everyday. Hardly have any interesting people around, nothing new to do, hardly give time to myself and my loved ones, Don't have any more friends left to whom i can visit and enjoy. No love life left nor the lover. My life is totally gone in a dead mode. Think about it. Anyone would be bored with this. This discovery doesnt really make things interesting however, but at least its interesting to know that I am totally normal :|. Sigh.. Stagnation!!

Now I hate Love ???

Have u ever been in love?
Horrible, isnt it.
It makes u vulnerable, it opens up your chest and it opens up ur heart and it means someone can get inside u and mess u up.
You build up all these defences. You build up this armor for years, so nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life.
You give them a piece of you, they don’t ask for it. They do something dumb one day like kiss you or smile at you and then your life isnt your own anymore.
Love takes hostages, it gets inside you. It eats you up and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a single phrase like “its over” or “I don’t love you anymore” turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart and gut.
How picturesque.
It hurts. Not just in the imagination, not just in the mind. It’s a soul-hurt, a body-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain.
Nothing should be able to do that. Especially not love.
I hate love.

---- Niel Gaiman

Hurt the VAIN or PAIN ?

I really don't know but still ask me every time if its good, fine or ok to fall out of love ?

Has it ever happened that sometimes when you pursue something or someone for so long that you eventually start feeling that you don’t need it anymore?

Slowly the truth seeps in, though quite disbelievingly, that at one point of time when you thought that there was no way you could do without this one thing in your life, now does not affect you.

That sometimes a tiny gesture or even the feeling of possessing it gave you an adrenalin rush but now slowly you cease to feel it.

Not that you don’t feel any thing about it anymore, but its just that it hurts more than it feels nice. Not the thought but the retropection still brings goose pimples on your skin. You feel the slitting pain - like blood gushing out of a deep wound when your skin is pale and cold. Like its drops of blood on a satin white sheet. And you see your life dreams shatter away.

You get disillusioned – you are not sure if you would want to have the desire again, if you would feel the same child like excitement for it again, ever in your life.

But the only constant part of life is that it moves on. It goes on and on, irrespective of how wrecked you feel – how weak you think you have become.

As Robert Frost wrote in a very famous poem of his, “And I have miles to go, before I sleep”.

मंगलवार, अप्रैल 10, 2012

The Tajmahal is Tejomahalay - A Hindu Temple

Probably there is no one who has been duped at least once in a life time. But can the whole world can be duped? This may seem impossible. But in the matter of indian and world history the world can be duped in many respects for hundreds of years and still continues to be duped. The world famous Tajmahal is a glaring instance. For all the time, money and energy that people over the world spend in visiting the Tajmahal, they are dished out of concoction. Contrary to what visitors are made to believe the Tajmahal is not a Islamic mausoleum but an ancient Shiva Temple known as Tejo Mahalaya which the 5th generation moghul emperor Shahjahan commandeered from the then Maharaja of Jaipur. The Tajmahal, should therefore, be viewed as a temple palace and not as a tomb. That makes a vast difference. You miss the details of its size, grandeur, majesty and beauty when you take it to be a mere tomb. When told that you are visiting a temple palace you wont fail to notice its annexes, ruined defensive walls, hillocks, moats, cascades, fountains, majestic garden, hundreds of rooms archaded verendahs, terraces, multi stored towers, secret sealed chambers, guest rooms, stables, the trident (Trishul) pinnacle on the dome and the sacred, esoteric Hindu letter "OM" carved on the exterior of the wall of the sanctum sanctorum now occupied by the centotaphs. For detailed proof of this breath taking discovery,you may read the well known historian Shri. P. N. Oak's celebrated book titled " Tajmahal : The True Story". But let us place before you, for the time being an exhaustive summary of the massive evidence ranging over hundred points:

NAME
1.The term Tajmahal itself never occurs in any mogul court paper or chronicle even in Aurangzeb's time. The attempt to explain it away as Taj-i-mahal is therefore, ridiculous.

2.The ending "Mahal"is never muslim because in none of the muslim countries around the world from Afghanistan to Algeria is there a building known as "Mahal".

3.The unusual explanation of the term Tajmahal derives from Mumtaz Mahal, who is buried in it, is illogical in at least two respects viz., firstly her name was never Mumtaj Mahal but Mumtaz-ul-Zamani and secondly one cannot omit the first three letters "Mum" from a woman's name to derive the remainder as the name of the building.

4.Since the lady's name was Mumtaz (ending with 'Z') the name of the building derived from her should have been Taz Mahal, if at all, and not Taj (spelled with a 'J').

5.Several European visitors of Shahjahan's time allude to the building as Taj-e-Mahal is almost the correct tradition, age old Sanskrit name Tej-o-Mahalaya, signifying a Shiva temple. Contrarily Shahjahan and Aurangzeb scrupulously avoid using the Sanskrit term and call it just a holy grave.

6.The tomb should be understood to signify NOT A BUILDING but only the grave or centotaph inside it. This would help people to realize that all dead muslim courtiers and royalty including Humayun, Akbar, Mumtaz, Etmad-ud-Daula and Safdarjang have been buried in capture Hindu mansions and temples.

7.Moreover, if the Taj is believed to be a burial place, how can the term Mahal, i.e., mansion apply to it?

8.Since the term Taj Mahal does not occur in mogul courts it is absurd to search for any mogul explanation for it. Both its components namely, 'Taj' and' Mahal' are of Sanskrit origin.

TEMPLE TRADITION
9.The term Taj Mahal is a corrupt form of the sanskrit term TejoMahalay signifying a Shiva Temple. Agreshwar Mahadev i.e., The Lord of Agra was consecrated in it.

10.The tradition of removing the shoes before climbing the marble platform originates from pre Shahjahan times when the Taj was a Shiva Temple. Had the Taj originated as a tomb, shoes need not have to be removed because shoes are a necessity in a cemetery.

11.Visitors may notice that the base slab of the centotaph is the marble basement in plain white while its superstructure and the other three centotaphs on the two floors are covered with inlaid creeper designs. This indicates that the marble pedestal of the Shiva idol is still in place and Mumtaz's centotaphs are fake.

12.The pitchers carved inside the upper border of the marble lattice plus those mounted on it number 108-a number sacred in Hindu Temple tradition.

13.There are persons who are connected with the repair and the maintainance of the Taj who have seen the ancient sacred Shiva Linga and other idols sealed in the thick walls and in chambers in the secret, sealed red stone stories below the marble basement. The Archaeological Survey of India is keeping discretely, politely and diplomatically silent about it to the point of dereliction of its own duty to probe into hidden historical evidence.

14.In India there are 12 Jyotirlingas i.e., the outstanding Shiva Temples. The Tejomahalaya alias The Tajmahal appears to be one of them known as Nagnatheshwar since its parapet is girdled with Naga, i.e., Cobra figures. Ever since Shahjahan's capture of it the sacred temple has lost its Hindudom.

15.The famous Hindu treatise on architecture titled Vishwakarma Vastushastra mentions the 'Tej-Linga' amongst the Shivalingas i.e., the stone emblems of Lord Shiva, the Hindu deity. Such a Tej Linga was consecrated in the Taj Mahal, hence the term Taj Mahal alias Tejo Mahalaya.

16.Agra city, in which the Taj Mahal is located, is an ancient centre of Shiva worship. Its orthodox residents have through ages continued the tradition of worshipping at five Shiva shrines before taking the last meal every night especially during the month of Shravan. During the last few centuries the residents of Agra had to be content with worshipping at only four prominent Shiva temples viz., Balkeshwar, Prithvinath, Manakameshwar and Rajarajeshwar. They had lost track of the fifth Shiva deity which their forefathers worshipped. Apparently the fifth was Agreshwar Mahadev Nagnatheshwar i.e., The Lord Great God of Agra, The Deity of the King of Cobras, consecrated in the Tejomahalay alias Tajmahal.

17.The people who dominate the Agra region are Jats. Their name of Shiva is Tejaji. The Jat special issue of The Illustrated Weekly of India (June 28,1971) mentions that the Jats have the Teja Mandirs i.e., Teja Temples. This is because Teja-Linga is among the several names of the Shiva Lingas. From this it is apparent that the Taj-Mahal is Tejo-Mahalaya, The Great Abode of Tej.

DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE
18. Shahjahan's own court chronicle, the Badshahnama, admits (page 403, vol 1) that a grand mansion of unique splendor, capped with a dome (Imaarat-a-Alishan wa Gumbaze) was taken from the Jaipur Maharaja Jaisigh for Mumtaz's burial, and the building was known as Raja Mansingh's palace.

19. The plaque put the archealogy department outside the Tajmahal describes the edifice as a mausoleum built by Shahjahan for his wife Mumtaz Mahal , over 22 years from 1631 to 1653. That plaque is a specimen of historical bungling. Firstly, the plaque sites no authority for its claim. Secondly the lady's name was Mumtaz-ulZamani and not Mumtazmahal. Thirdly, the period of 22 years is taken from some mumbo jumbo noting by an unreliable French visitor Tavernier, to the exclusion of all muslim versions, which is an absurdity.

20. Prince Aurangzeb's letter to his father,emperor Shahjahan,is recorded in atleast three chronicles titled `Aadaab-e-Alamgiri', `Yadgarnama', and the `Muruqqa-i-Akbarabadi' (edited by Said Ahmed, Agra, 1931, page 43, footnote 2). In that letter Aurangzeb records in 1652 A.D itself that the several buildings in the fancied burial place of Mumtaz were seven storeyed and were so old that they were all leaking, while the dome had developed a crack on the northern side.Aurangzeb, therefore, ordered immediate repairs to the buildings at his own expense while recommending to the emperor that more elaborate repairs be carried out later. This is the proof that during Shahjahan's reign itself that the Taj complex was so old as to need immediate repairs.

21. The ex-Maharaja of Jaipur retains in his secret personal `KapadDwara' collection two orders from Shahjahan dated Dec 18, 1633 (bearing modern nos. R.176 and 177) requestioning the Taj building complex. That was so blatant a usurpation that the then ruler of Jaipur was ashamed to make the document public.

22. The Rajasthan State archives at Bikaner preserve three other firmans addressed by Shahjahan to the Jaipur's ruler Jaising ordering the latter to supply marble (for Mumtaz's grave and koranic grafts) from his Makranna quarris, and stone cutters. Jaisingh was apparently so enraged at the blatant seizure of the Tajmahal that he refused to oblige Shahjahan by providing marble for grafting koranic engravings and fake centotaphs for further desecration of the Tajmahal. Jaising looked at Shahjahan's demand for marble and stone cutters, as an insult added to injury. Therefore, he refused to send any marble and instead detained the stone cutters in his protective custody.

23. The three firmans demanding marble were sent to Jaisingh within about two years of Mumtaz's death. Had Shahjahan really built the Tajmahal over a period of 22 years, the marble would have needed only after 15 or 20 years not immediately after Mumtaz's death.

24. Moreover, the three mention neither the Tajmahal, nor Mumtaz, nor the burial. The cost and the quantity of the stone also are not mentioned. This proves that an insignificant quantity of marble was needed just for some supercial tinkering and tampering with the Tajmahal. Even otherwise Shahjahan could never hope to build a fabulous Tajmahal by abject dependence for marble on a non cooperative Jaisingh.

EUROPEAN VISITOR'S ACCOUNTS
25. Tavernier, a French jeweller has recorded in his travel memoirs that Shahjahan purposely buried Mumtaz near the Taz-i-Makan (i.e.,`The Taj building') where foriegners used to come as they do even today so that the world may admire. He also adds that the cost of the scaffolding was more than that of the entire work. The work that Shahjahan commissioned in the Tejomahalaya Shiva temple was plundering at the costly fixtures inside it, uprooting the Shiva idols, planting the centotaphs in their place on two stories, inscribing the koran along the arches and walling up six of the seven stories of the Taj. It was this plunder, desecrating and plunderring of the rooms which took 22 years.

26. Peter Mundy, an English visitor to Agra recorded in 1632 (within only a year of Mumtaz's death) that `the places of note in and around Agra, included Taj-e-Mahal's tomb, gardens and bazaars'.He, therefore, confirms that that the Tajmahal had been a noteworthy building even before Shahjahan.

27. De Laet, a Dutch official has listed Mansingh's palace about a mile from Agra fort, as an outstanding building of pre shahjahan's time. Shahjahan's court chronicle, the Badshahnama records, Mumtaz's burial in the same Mansingh's palace.

28. Bernier, a contemporary French visitor has noted that non muslim's were barred entry into the basement (at the time when Shahjahan requisitioned Mansingh's palace) which contained a dazzling light. Obviously, he reffered to the silver doors, gold railing, the gem studded lattice and strings of pearl hanging over Shiva's idol. Shahjahan comandeered the building to grab all the wealth, making Mumtaz's death a convineant pretext.

29. Johan Albert Mandelslo, who describes life in agra in 1638 (only 7 years after mumtaz's death) in detail (in his `Voyages and Travels to West-Indies', published by John Starkey and John Basset, London), makes no mention of the Tajmahal being under constuction though it is commonly erringly asserted or assumed that the Taj was being built from 1631 to 1653.

SANSKIRT INSCRIPTION
30. A Sanskrit inscription too supports the conclusion that the Taj originated as a Shiva temple. Wrongly termed as the Bateshwar inscription (currently preserved on the top floor of the Lucknow museum), it refers to the raising of a "crystal white Shiva temple so alluring that Lord Shiva once enshrined in it decided never to return to Mount Kailash his usual abode". That inscription dated 1155 A.D. was removed from the Tajmahal garden at Shahjahan's orders. Historicians and Archeaologists have blundered in terming the insription the `Bateshwar inscription' when the record doesn't say that it was found by Bateshwar. It ought, in fact, to be called `The Tejomahalaya inscription' because it was originally installed in the Taj garden before it was uprooted and cast away at Shahjahan's command.
A clue to the tampering by Shahjahan is found on pages 216-217, vol. 4, of Archealogiical Survey of India Reports (published 1874) stating that a "great square black balistic pillar which, with the base and capital of another pillar....now in the grounds of Agra,...it is well known, once stood in the garden of Tajmahal".

MISSING ELEPHANTS
31. Far from the building of the Taj, Shahjahan disfigured it with black koranic lettering and heavily robbed it of its Sanskrit inscription, several idols and two huge stone elephants extending their trunks in a welcome arch over the gateway where visitors these days buy entry tickets. An Englishman, Thomas Twinning, records (pg.191 of his book "Travels in India A Hundred Years ago") that in November 1794 "I arrived at the high walls which enclose the Taj-e-Mahal and its circumjacent buildings. I here got out of the palanquine and.....mounted a short flight of steps leading to a beautiful portal which formed the centre of this side of the `COURT OF ELEPHANTS" as the great area was called."

KORANIC PATCHES
32. The Taj Mahal is scrawled over with 14 chapters of the Koran but nowhere is there even the slightest or the remotest allusion in that Islamic overwriting to Shahjahan's authorship of the Taj. Had Shahjahan been the builder he would have said so in so many words before beginning to quote Koran.

33. That Shahjahan, far from building the marble Taj, only disfigured it with black lettering is mentioned by the inscriber Amanat Khan Shirazi himself in an inscription on the building. A close scrutiny of the Koranic lettering reveals that they are grafts patched up with bits of variegated stone on an ancient Shiva temple.

CARBON 14 TEST
34. A wooden piece from the riverside doorway of the Taj subjected to the carbon 14 test by an American Laboratory, has revealed that the door to be 300 years older than Shahjahan,since the doors of the Taj, broken open by Muslim invaders repeatedly from the 11th century onwards, had to b replaced from time to time. The Taj edifice is much more older. It belongs to 1155 A.D, i.e., almost 500 years anterior to Shahjahan.

ARCHITECHTURAL EVIDENCE
35. Well known Western authorities on architechture like E.B.Havell, Mrs.Kenoyer and Sir W.W.Hunterhave gone on record to say that the TajMahal is built in the Hindu temple style. Havell points out the ground plan of the ancient Hindu Chandi Seva Temple in Java is identical with that of the Taj.

36. A central dome with cupolas at its four corners is a universal feature of Hindu temples.

37. The four marble pillars at the plinth corners are of the Hindu style. They are used as lamp towers during night and watch towers during the day. Such towers serve to demarcate the holy precincts. Hindu wedding altars and the altar set up for God Satyanarayan worship have pillars raised at the four corners.

38. The octagonal shape of the Tajmahal has a special Hindu significance because Hindus alone have special names for the eight directions, and celestial guards assigned to them. The pinnacle points to the heaven while the foundation signifies to the nether world. Hindu forts, cities, palaces and temples genrally have an octagonal layout or some octagonal features so that together with the pinnacle and the foundation they cover all the ten directions in which the king or God holds sway, according to Hindu belief.

39. The Tajmahal has a trident pinncle over the dome. A full scale of the trident pinnacle is inlaid in the red stone courtyard to the east of the Taj. The central shaft of the trident depicts a "Kalash" (sacred pot) holding two bent mango leaves and a coconut. This is a sacred Hindu motif. Identical pinnacles have been seen over Hindu and Buddhist temples in the Himalayan region. Tridents are also depicted against a red lotus background at the apex of the stately marble arched entrances on all four sides of the Taj. People fondly but mistakenly believed all these centuries that the Taj pinnacle depicts a Islamic cresent and star was a lighting conductor installed by the British rulers in India. Contrarily, the pinnacle is a marvel of Hindu metallurgy since the pinnacle made of non rusting alloy, is also perhaps a lightning deflector. That the pinnacle of the replica is drawn in the eastern courtyard is significant because the east is of special importance to the Hindus, as the direction in which the sun rises. The pinnacle on the dome has the word `Allah' on it after capture. The pinnacle figure on the ground does not have the word Allah.

INCONSISTENCIES
40. The two buildings which face the marble Taj from the east and west are identical in design, size and shape and yet the eastern building is explained away by Islamic tradition, as a community hall while the western building is claimed to be a mosque. How could buildings meant for radically different purposes be identical? This proves that the western building was put to use as a mosque after seizure of the Taj property by Shahjahan. Curiously enough the building being explained away as a mosque has no minaret. They form a pair af reception pavilions of the Tejomahalaya temple palace.

41. A few yards away from the same flank is the Nakkar Khana alias DrumHouse which is a intolerable incongruity for Islam. The proximity of the Drum House indicates that the western annex was not originally a mosque. Contrarily a drum house is a neccesity in a Hindu temple or palace because Hindu chores,in the morning and evening, begin to the sweet strains of music.

42. The embossed patterns on the marble exterior of the centotaph chamber wall are foilage of the conch shell design and the Hindu letter "OM". The octagonally laid marble lattices inside the centotaph chamber depict pink lotuses on their top railing. The Lotus, the conch and the OM are the sacred motifs associated with the Hindu deities and temples.

43. The spot occupied by Mumtaz's centotaph was formerly occupied by the Hindu Teja Linga a lithic representation of Lord Shiva. Around it are five perambulatory passages. Perambulation could be done around the marble lattice or through the spacious marble chambers surrounding the centotaph chamber, and in the open over the marble platform. It is also customary for the Hindus to have apertures along the perambulatory passage, overlooking the deity. Such apertures exist in the perambulatories in the Tajmahal.

44. The sanctom sanctorum in the Taj has silver doors and gold railings as Hindu temples have. It also had nets of pearl and gems stuffed in the marble lattices. It was the lure of this wealth which made Shahjahan commandeer the Taj from a helpless vassal Jaisingh, the then ruler of Jaipur.

45. Peter Mundy, a Englishman records (in 1632, within a year of Mumtaz's death) having seen a gem studded gold railing around her tomb. Had the Taj been under construction for 22 years, a costly gold railing would not have been noticed by Peter mundy within a year of Mumtaz's death. Such costl fixtures are installed in a building only after it is ready for use. This indicates that Mumtaz's centotaph was grafted in place of the Shivalinga in the centre of the gold railings. Subsequently the gold railings, silver doors, nets of pearls, gem fillings etc. were all carried away to Shahjahan's treasury. The seizure of the Taj thus constituted an act of highhanded Moghul robery causing a big row between Shahjahan and Jaisingh.

46. In the marble flooring around Mumtaz's centotaph may be seen tiny mosaic patches. Those patches indicate the spots where the support for the gold railings were embedded in the floor. They indicate a rectangular fencing.

47. Above Mumtaz's centotaph hangs a chain by which now hangs a lamp. Before capture by Shahjahan the chain used to hold a water pitcher from which water used to drip on the Shivalinga.

48. It is this earlier Hindu tradition in the Tajmahal which gave the Islamic myth of Shahjahan's love tear dropping on Mumtaz's tomb on the full moon day of the winter eve.

TREASURY WELL
49. Between the so-called mosque and the drum house is a multistoried octagonal well with a flight of stairs reaching down to the water level. This is a traditional treasury well in Hindu temple palaces. Treasure chests used to be kept in the lower apartments while treasury personnel had their offices in the upper chambers. The circular stairs made it difficult for intruders to reach down to the treasury or to escape with it undetected or unpursued. In case the premises had to be surrendered to a besieging enemy the treasure could be pushed into the well to remain hidden from the conquerer and remain safe for salvaging if the place was reconquered. Such an elaborate multistoried well is superflous for a mere mausoleum. Such a grand, gigantic well is unneccesary for a tomb.

BURIAL DATE UNKNOWN
50. Had Shahjahan really built the Taj Mahal as a wonder mausoleum, history would have recorded a specific date on which she was ceremoniously buried in the Taj Mahal. No such date is ever mentioned. This important missing detail decisively exposes the falsity of the Tajmahal legend.

51. Even the year of Mumtaz's death is unknown. It is variously speculated to be 1629, 1630, 1631 or 1632. Had she deserved a fabulous burial, as is claimed, the date of her death had not been a matter of much speculation. In an harem teeming with 5000 women it was difficult to keep track of dates of death. Apparently the date of Mumtaz's death was so insignificant an event, as not to merit any special notice. Who would then build a Taj for her burial?

BASELESS LOVE STORIES
52. Stories of Shahjahan's exclusive infatuation for Mumtaz's are concoctions. They have no basis in history nor has any book ever written on their fancied love affairs. Those stories have been invented as an afterthought to make Shahjahan's authorship of the Taj look plausible.

COST
53. The cost of the Taj is nowhere recorded in Shahjahan's court papers because Shahjahan never built the Tajmahal. That is why wild estimates of the cost by gullible writers have ranged from 4 million to 91.7 million rupees.

PERIOD OF CONSTRUCTION
54. Likewise the period of construction has been guessed to be anywhere between 10 years and 22 years. There would have not been any scope for guesswork had the building construction been on record in the court papers.

ARCHITECTS
55. The designer of the Tajmahal is also variously mentioned as Essa Effendy, a Persian or Turk, or Ahmed Mehendis or a Frenchman, Austin deBordeaux, or Geronimo Veroneo, an Italian, or Shahjahan himself.

RECORDS DON'T EXIST
56. Twenty thousand labourers are supposed to have worked for 22 years during Shahjahan's reign in building the Tajmahal. Had this been true, there should have been available in Shahjahan's court papers design drawings, heaps of labour muster rolls, daily expenditure sheets, bills and receipts of material ordered, and commisioning orders. There is not even a scrap of paper of this kind.

57. It is, therefore, court flatterers,blundering historians, somnolent archeologists, fiction writers, senile poets, careless tourists officials and erring guides who are responsible for hustling the world into believing in Shahjahan's mythical authorship of the Taj.

58. Description of the gardens around the Taj of Shahjahan's time mention Ketaki, Jai, Jui, Champa, Maulashree, Harshringar and Bel. All these are plants whose flowers or leaves are used in the worship of Hindu deities. Bel leaves are exclusively used in Lord Shiva's worship. A graveyard is planted only with shady trees because the idea of using fruit and flower from plants in a cemetary is abhorrent to human conscience. The presence of Bel and other flower plants in the Taj garden is proof of its having been a Shiva temple before seizure by Shahjahan.

59. Hindu temples are often built on river banks and sea beaches. The Taj is one such built on the bank of the Yamuna river an ideal location for a Shiva temple.

60. Prophet Mohammad has ordained that the burial spot of a muslim should be inconspicous and must not be marked by even a single tombstone. In flagrant violation of this, the Tajamhal has one grave in the basement and another in the first floor chamber both ascribed to Mumtaz. Those two centotaphs were infact erected by Shahjahan to bury the two tier Shivalingas that were consecrated in the Taj. It is customary for Hindus to install two Shivalingas one over the other in two stories as may be seen in the Mahankaleshwar temple in Ujjain and the Somnath temple raised by Ahilyabai in Somnath Pattan.

61. The Tajmahal has identical entrance arches on all four sides. This is a typical Hindu building style known as Chaturmukhi, i.e.,four faced.

THE HINDU DOME
62. The Tajmahal has a reverberating dome. Such a dome is an absurdity for a tomb which must ensure peace and silence. Contrarily reverberating domes are a neccesity in Hindu temples because they create an ecstatic dinmultiplying and magnifying the sound of bells, drums and pipes accompanying the worship of Hindu deities.

63. The Tajmahal dome bears a lotus cap. Original Islamic domes have a bald top as is exemplified by the Pakistan Embassy in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, and the domes in the Pakistan's newly built capital Islamabad.

64. The Tajmahal entrance faces south. Had the Taj been an Islamic building it should have faced the west.

TOMB IS THE GRAVE,NOT THE BUILDING
65. A widespread misunderstanding has resulted in mistaking the building for the grave.Invading Islam raised graves in captured buildings in every country it overran. Therefore, hereafter people must learn not to confound the building with the grave mounds which are grafts in conquered buildings. This is true of the Tajmahal too. One may therefore admit (for arguments sake) that Mumtaz lies buried inside the Taj. But that should not be construed to mean that the Taj was raised over Mumtaz's grave.

66. The Taj is a seven storied building. Prince Aurangzeb also mentions this in his letter to Shahjahan. The marble edifice comprises four stories including the lone, tall circular hall inside the top, and the lone chamber in the basement. In between are two floors each containing 12 to 15 palatial rooms. Below the marble plinth reaching down to the river at the rear are two more stories in red stone. They may be seen from the river bank. The seventh storey must be below the ground (river) level since every ancient Hindu building had a subterranian storey.

67. Immediately bellow the marble plinth on the river flank are 22 rooms in red stone with their ventilators all walled up by Shahjahan. Those rooms, made uninhibitably by Shahjahan, are kept locked by Archealogy Department of India. The lay visitor is kept in the dark about them. Those 22 rooms still bear ancient Hindu paint on their walls and ceilings. On their side is a nearly 33 feet long corridor. There are two door frames one at either end ofthe corridor. But those doors are intriguingly sealed with brick and lime.

68. Apparently those doorways originally sealed by Shahjahan have been since unsealed and again walled up several times. In 1934 a resident of Delhi took a peep inside from an opening in the upper part of the doorway. To his dismay he saw huge hall inside. It contained many statues huddled around a central beheaded image of Lord Shiva. It could be that, in there, are Sanskrit inscriptions too. All the seven stories of the Tajmahal need to be unsealed and scoured to ascertain what evidence they may be hiding in the form of Hindu images, Sanskrit inscriptions, scriptures, coins and utensils.

69. Apart from Hindu images hidden in the sealed stories it is also learnt that Hindu images are also stored in the massive walls of the Taj. Between 1959 and 1962 when Mr. S.R. Rao was the Archealogical Superintendent in Agra, he happened to notice a deep and wide crack in the wall of the central octagonal chamber of the Taj. When a part of the wall was dismantled to study the crack out popped two or three marble images. The matter was hushed up and the images were reburied where they had been embedded at Shahjahan's behest. Confirmation of this has been obtained from several sources. It was only when I began my investigation into the antecedents of the Taj I came across the above information which had remained a forgotten secret. What better proof is needed of the Temple origin of the Tajmahal? Its walls and sealed chambers still hide in Hindu idols that were consecrated in it before Shahjahan's seizure of the Taj.

PRE-SHAHJAHAN REFERENCES TO THE TAJ
70. Apparently the Taj as a central palace seems to have an chequered history. The Taj was perhaps desecrated and looted by every Muslim invader from Mohammad Ghazni onwards but passing into Hindu hands off and on, the sanctity of the Taj as a Shiva temple continued to be revived after every muslim onslaught. Shahjahan was the last muslim to desecrate the Tajmahal alias Tejomahalay.

71. Vincent Smith records in his book titled `Akbar the Great Moghul' that `Babur's turbulent life came to an end in his garden palace in Agra in 1630'. That palace was none other than the Tajmahal.

72. Babur's daughter Gulbadan Begum in her chronicle titled `Humayun Nama' refers to the Taj as the Mystic House.

73. Babur himself refers to the Taj in his memoirs as the palace captured by Ibrahim Lodi containing a central octagonal chamber and having pillars on the four sides. All these historical references allude to the Taj 100 years before Shahjahan.

74. The Tajmahal precincts extend to several hundred yards in all directions. Across the river are ruins of the annexes of the Taj, the bathing ghats and a jetty for the ferry boat. In the Victoria gardens outside covered with creepers is the long spur of the ancient outer wall ending in a octagonal red stone tower. Such extensive grounds all magnificently done up, are a superfluity for a grave.

75. Had the Taj been specially built to bury Mumtaz, it should not have been cluttered with other graves. But the Taj premises contain several graves atleast in its eastern and southern pavilions.

76. In the southern flank, on the other side of the Tajganj gate are buried in identical pavilions queens Sarhandi Begum, and Fatehpuri Begum and a maid Satunnisa Khanum. Such parity burial can be justified only if the queens had been demoted or the maid promoted. But since Shahjahan had commandeered (not built) the Taj, he reduced it general to a muslim cemetary as was the habit of all his Islamic predeccssors, and buried a queen in a vacant pavillion and a maid in another idenitcal pavilion.

77. Shahjahan was married to several other women before and after Mumtaz. She, therefore, deserved no special consideration in having a wonder mausoleum built for her.

78. Mumtaz was a commoner by birth and so she did not qualify for a fairyland burial.

79. Mumtaz died in Burhanpur which is about 600 miles from Agra. Her grave there is intact. Therefore ,the centotaphs raised in stories of the Taj in her name seem to be fakes hiding in Hindu Shiva emblems.

80. Shahjahan seems to have simulated Mumtaz's burial in Agra to find a pretext to surround the temple palace with his fierce and fanatic troops and remove all the costly fixtures in his treasury. This finds confirmation in the vague noting in the Badshahnama which says that the Mumtaz's (exhumed) body was brought to Agra from Burhanpur and buried `next year'. An official term would not use a nebulous term unless it is to hide some thing.

81. A pertinent consideration is that a Shahjahan who did not build any palaces for Mumtaz while she was alive, would not build a fabulous mausoleum for a corpse which was no longer kicking or clicking.

82. Another factor is that Mumtaz died within two or three years of Shahjahan becoming an emperor. Could he amass so much superflous wealth in that short span as to squander it on a wonder mausoleum?

83. While Shahjahan's special attachment to Mumtaz is nowhere recorded in history his amorous affairs with many other ladies from maids to mannequins including his own daughter Jahanara, find special attention in accounts of Shahjahan's reign. Would Shahjahan shower his hard earned wealth on Mumtaz's corpse?

84. Shahjahan was a stingy, usurious monarch. He came to throne murdering all his rivals. He was not therefore, the doting spendthrift that he is made out to be.

85. A Shahjahan disconsolate on Mumtaz's death is suddenly credited with a resolve to build the Taj. This is a psychological incongruity. Grief is a disabling, incapacitating emotion.

86. A infatuated Shahjahan is supposed to have raised the Taj over the dead Mumtaz, but carnal, physical sexual love is again a incapacitating emotion. A womaniser is ipso facto incapable of any constructive activity. When carnal love becomes uncontrollable the person either murders somebody or commits suicide. He cannot raise a Tajmahal. A building like the Taj invariably originates in an ennobling emotion like devotion to God, to one's mother and mother country or power and glory.

87. Early in the year 1973, chance digging in the garden in front of the Taj revealed another set of fountains about six feet below the present fountains. This proved two things. Firstly, the subterranean fountains were there before Shahjahan laid the surface fountains. And secondly that those fountains are aligned to the Taj that edifice too is of pre Shahjahan origin. Apparently the garden and its fountains had sunk from annual monsoon flooding and lack of maintenance for centuries during the Islamic rule.

88. The stately rooms on the upper floor of the Tajmahal have been striped of their marble mosaic by Shahjahan to obtain matching marble for raising fake tomb stones inside the Taj premises at several places. Contrasting with the rich finished marble ground floor rooms the striping of the marble mosaic covering the lower half of the walls and flooring of the upper storey have given those rooms a naked, robbed look. Since no visitors are allowed entry to the upper storey this despoilation by Shahjahan has remained a well guarded secret. There is no reason why Shahjahan's loot of the upper floor marble should continue to be hidden from the public even after 200 years of termination of Moghul rule.

89. Bernier, the French traveller has recorded that no non muslim was allowed entry into the secret nether chambers of the Taj because there are some dazzling fixtures there. Had those been installed by Shahjahan they should have been shown the public as a matter of pride. But since it was commandeered Hindu wealth which Shahjahan wanted to remove to his treasury, he didn't want the public to know about it.

90. The approach to Taj is dotted with hillocks raised with earth dugout from foundation trenches. The hillocks served as outer defences of the Taj building complex. Raising such hillocks from foundation earth, is a common Hindu device of hoary origin. Nearby Bharatpur provides a graphic parallel.
Peter Mundy has recorded that Shahjahan employed thousands of labourers to level some of those hillocks. This is a graphic proof of the Tajmahal existing before Shahjahan.

91. At the backside of the river bank is a Hindu crematorium, several palaces, Shiva temples and bathings of ancient origin. Had Shahjahan built the Tajmahal, he would have destroyed the Hindu features.

92. The story that Shahjahan wanted to build a Black marble Taj across the river, is another motivated myth. The ruins dotting the other side of the river are those of Hindu structures demolished during muslim invasions and not the plinth of another Tajmahal. Shahjahan who did not even build the white Tajmahal would hardly ever think of building a black marble Taj. He was so miserly that he forced labourers to work gratis even in the superficial tampering neccesary to make a Hindu temple serve as a Muslim tomb.

93. The marble that Shahjahan used for grafting Koranic lettering in the Taj is of a pale white shade while the rest of the Taj is built of a marble with rich yellow tint. This disparity is proof of the Koranic extracts being a superimposition.

94. Though imaginative attempts have been made by some historians to foist some fictitious name on history as the designer of the Taj others more imaginative have credited Shajahan himself with superb architechtural proficiency and artistic talent which could easily concieve and plan the Taj even in acute bereavment. Such people betray gross ignorance of history in as much as Shajahan was a cruel tyrant ,a great womaniser and a drug and drink addict.

95. Fanciful accounts about Shahjahan commisioning the Taj are all confused. Some asserted that Shahjahan ordered building drawing from all over the world and chose one from among them. Others assert that a man at hand was ordered to design a mausoleum amd his design was approved. Had any of those versions been true Shahjahan's court papers should have had thousands of drawings concerning the Taj. But there is not even a single drawing. This is yet another clinching proof that Shahjahan did not commision the Taj.

96. The Tajmahal is surrounded by huge mansions which indicate that several battles have been waged around the Taj several times.

97. At the south east corner of the Taj is an ancient royal cattle house. Cows attached to the Tejomahalay temple used to reared there. A cowshed is an incongruity in an Islamic tomb.

98. Over the western flank of the Taj are several stately red stone annexes. These are superflous for a mausoleum.

99. The entire Taj complex comprises of 400 to 500 rooms. Residential accomodation on such a stupendous scale is unthinkable in a mausoleum.

100. The neighbouring Tajganj township's massive protective wall also encloses the Tajmahal temple palace complex. This is a clear indication that the Tejomahalay temple palace was part and parcel of the township. A street of that township leads straight into the Tajmahal. The Tajganj gate is aligned in a perfect straight line to the octagonal red stone garden gate and the stately entrance arch of the Tajmahal. The Tajganj gate besides being central to the Taj temple complex, is also put on a pedestal. The western gate by which the visitors enter the Taj complex is a camparatively minor gateway. It has become the entry gate for most visitors today because the railway station and the bus station are on that side.

101. The Tajmahal has pleasure pavillions which a tomb would never have.

102. A tiny mirror glass in a gallery of the Red Fort in Agra reflects the Taj mahal. Shahjahan is said to have spent his last eight years of life as a prisoner in that gallery peering at the reflected Tajmahal and sighing in the name of Mumtaz. This myth is a blend of many falsehoods. Firstly,old Shajahan was held prisoner by his son Aurangzeb in the basement storey in the Fort and not in an open,fashionable upper storey. Secondly, the glass piece was fixed in the 1930's by Insha Allah Khan, a peon of the archaelogy dept.just to illustrate to the visitors how in ancient times the entire apartment used to scintillate with tiny mirror pieces reflecting the Tejomahalay temple a thousand fold. Thirdly, a old decrepit Shahjahan with pain in his joints and cataract in his eyes, would not spend his day craning his neck at an awkward angle to peer into a tiny glass piece with bedimmed eyesight when he could as well his face around and have full,direct view of the Tjamahal itself. But the general public is so gullible as to gulp all such prattle of wily, unscrupulous guides.

103. That the Tajmahal dome has hundreds of iron rings sticking out of its exterior is a feature rarely noticed. These are made to hold Hindu earthen oil lamps for temple illumination.

104. Those putting implicit faith in Shahjahan authorship of the Taj have been imagining Shahjahan-Mumtaz to be a soft hearted romantic pair like Romeo and Juliet. But contemporary accounts speak of Shahjahan as a hard hearted ruler who was constantly egged on to acts of tyranny and cruelty, by Mumtaz.

105. School and College history carry the myth that Shahjahan reign was a golden period in which there was peace and plenty and that Shahjahan commisioned many buildings and patronized literature. This is pure fabrication. Shahjahan did not commision even a single building as we have illustrated by a detailed analysis of the Tajmahal legend. Shahjahn had to enrage in 48 military campaigns during a reign of nearly 30 years which proves that his was not a era of peace and plenty.
108. The interior of the dome rising over Mumtaz's centotaph has a representation of Sun and cobras drawn in gold. Hindu warriors trace their origin to the Sun. For an Islamic mausoleum the Sun is redundant. Cobras are always associated with Lord Shiva.

FORGED DOCUMENTS
109. The muslim caretakers of the tomb in the Tajmahal used to possess a document which they styled as "Tarikh-i-Tajmahal". Historian H.G. Keene has branded it as `a document of doubtful authenticity'. Keene was uncannily right since we have seen that Shahjahan not being the creator of the Tajmahal any document which credits Shahjahn with the Tajmahal, must be an outright forgery. Even that forged document is reported to have been smuggled out of Pakistan. Besides such forged documents there are whole chronicles on the Taj which are pure concoctions.
110. There is lot of sophistry and casuistry or atleast confused thinking associated with the Taj even in the minds of proffesional historians, archaelogists and architects. At the outset they assert that the Taj is entirely Muslim in design. But when it is pointed out that its lotus capped dome and the four corner pillars etc. are all entirely Hindu those worthies shift ground and argue that that was probably because the workmen were Hindu and were to introduce their own patterns. Both these arguments are wrong because Muslim accounts claim the designers to be Muslim,and the workers invariably carry out the employer's dictates.
The Taj is only a typical illustration of how all historic buildings and townships from Kashmir to Cape Comorin though of Hindu origin have been ascribed to this or that Muslim ruler or courtier.
It is hoped that people the world over who study Indian history will awaken to this new finding and revise their erstwhile beliefs.

Those interested in an indepth study of the above and many other revolutionary rebuttals may read this author's other research books.