Valentine Day - A non-event transformed into an event.

Centuries ago, when human civilisation was evolving and searching for the meaning of life and  truth, the great sages of India put forward hundreds of theories. These they did not impose on anyone or claimed absolute truth, but as true social scientists put forward the theories and added to it very important caveat. This tradition also finds profound importance in the  Bhagwad Gita -  the most important and significant revered scripture for the whole humanity and Sanatan Dharma  - The Eternal Truth – today commonly known as Hinduism.

The caveat states that what we understand as the meaning of life and the ‘absolute’ truth now, may not be the same the very next moment or the next day, considering the constant evolution of human mind along with the universe. And with the time passing better understanding to the meaning of life and truth was found that was completely different from the previous belief and at times contradictory. Therefore, the sages warned humanity never to stop the search for truth and one must constantly strive to search for the truth and change. This search was called eternal and infinite search. The caveat became standard to most texts (scriptures that never claimed to be the whole and only truth) and very inventively informs the humans that changes (Parivartan) is the fundamental nature of the universe and things (matter and non-matter) are all enveloped together within an unfathomable sphere that constantly change and, humans being an active part of the same universal creation too need to evolve and change and, become adaptable to this changes, and resourcefully warns humans to remain ever so vigilant to adopt the change. Itunequivocally warned that those who fail to accept the change and adapt would perish. We have example for this in Aztec, Mayan, Egyptian, Greek and Roman cultures. All failed to change and adapt and eventually perished.

Other Examples:

For some culture in Europe the earth was flat before the ball shape was accepted and by then many lost their lives proving the fact.

The womanhood became taboo as the male chauvinism was in rise. The literate woman were considered witches and burnt alive at stakes. Some ancient and medieval culture came up with laws that got mixed up with religion and successfully either imprisoned woman in four walls or under clothes.

Some modern cultures gave us un-touch-ability, caste-ism, apartheid based on colour of skin and morality based on religious beliefs. And sadly these exist in our daily life.

The history has shown that humans are too slow to change and adapt. Today we see on the street that some tradition – rather evil and subjugate-ive – still very much alive in our so called ‘civilised’ society.

India is changing and adapting to new ideas faster than any other developing country apart from China. The youth – specially the one who are in Metros and part of bourgeoning middle class families distaste the old Indian traditions and constantly strive to change and adapt to Western culture – over too readily. Their understanding is rather limited.

This brings Valentine day in the fore. Per say there is nothing wrong in celebrating ‘love’. But the modern urbanite youths have an understanding, unfortunately not correct; that it’s the West that invented ‘Love’ and the ‘Love Guru’ is St Valentine. And I do not wish to elaborate of historical events in St Valentine’s life or his character – as he stands out in history as the least appropriate character to be judged the Patron Saint of Love. One should Google for the facts.

But today’s youth in ignorance has become as stubborn and blind and in the process are creating an ever so widening  rift amongst Indians (Have & Have Nots) like those centuries ago created rift that gifted us the dreaded caste-ism. Today the affluent and wealthy of the Indian society are adamant on playing the same game of ignorance and egoistic superiority that was played by the iconic Brahminic society centuries ago that gave us caste-ism and un-touch-ability and thereby dividing the society. These youths shout in defiance of their right to ‘Love’ in the same spirit as the Brahmins rose in defiance and established their superiority by splitting the society and, sadly we are still reaping the fruits of that sin committed centuries ago. Indian youths in garb of modernity and advancement are playing the same sinful game whose end can be nothing but bitter.

The history seems to be repeating itself – as far in Indian context. St. Valentine ’s Day is ‘Love’ day in just name – it’s an extension of consumerism. It brings back bitter memory of East India Company that once ruled the mighty Indian nation by applying the fundamental principal of Divide and Rule. Only a hand full of British intelligentsia ruled the mighty empire for over two centuries. Now they have returned to divide and rule India on the same principle but different mak. This time it’s not only political but also aggression on culture through consumerism. The West is showing less and less of an interest in Valentine day – today’s news in England mentions that only middle aged men and women are in search for Love on Valentines day (mostly on Dating sites) – surprisingly youth are missing from this ‘Love’ equation. On the other hand, youths in India and China have replaced the void created in the west by embarking on a race set with consumerism trap laid by the western oriented English media and handful of consumer goods manufacturers.

Legitimate question to ask is: How long the majority – struggling to win daily bread – will tolerate the sinful spending spree of the affluent on mindless and worthless wishing cards and gifts – some cost as much as the cost of months ration for a poor family ? The stubbornness and insensitivity of these Indians has created a storm amongst ‘have & have not’ Indians and the ‘traditionalist’ Indians – rightly so - and one day this storm could bring devastation in form of Maoist or Nexalites, Shiv Sena or Ram Sena.

It’s time to wake up – let us embark on a path of sustainable change that is beneficial for every one while the time permits. Let us take the advice from the caveat laid down by our ancestral social scientists and change our understanding and adapt. It is introspection time - lest we do this we may perish as many before us.

Many and I am one of those who is celebrating this day and I have given the name ‘Radha-Krishna’ day as for me there nothing equivalent in the whole universe that symbolises ‘Love’ in its truest divine form. The love offered and portrayed by Radha and Krishna has no consumerism touch and is free for all.

Happy Radha Krishna day to all.

I'm back hope to stay longer...Jai Ho

Judgement with Health Warning

Let me attach a qualification to this blog: I am not for or anti any group - religious, social or political. I have my own views that I express as best as I can whilst restricting myself to a self controlled parameter so as not to hurt any one's sentiment or religious feeling. I believe there is no such thing as absolute 'Freedom' of anything in a civil society.

Now the blog.

As expected the Delhi High Court squashed the 'obscenity' charge against Mr M F Hussain. And as I expected the Judge - in this case Sanjay Kishan Kaul - uttered some demeaning 'elitist' phrases in the report, and I was proved right. His comments were elitists, arrogant, biased, oversimplified and insulting. Following is my postmortem of the press reporting of the case.

In the 74 page report the 'all knowing' Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul declared that all those whose sentiments were hurt and all those who protested democratically - in fact thousands signed petitions - were all 'New puritans' and 'ignorant people'. Well Justice Kaul overlooked the fact that the protesters included intellectuals, historians of repute, fellow artists, journalists and writers of eminence and not just 'ignorant' puritans as he described them. I find Justice Kaul's observations off mark, arrogant, quite incorrect and too simplistic. I blame his arrogance on his elitist roots and I am always of the opinion that Indian elites have done more harm to the Indian nation than the hard core fundamentalists. I find him deliberate ill informed and very opinionated.

To begin with let me say this that all these 'ignorant people' would have seen these well publicised paintings and had well within their reach the tools - i.e. two eyes and interpreting sane brain - to grasp and offer informed opinions whether nude Sita, Gunga-Yamuna and Bharatmata could be described obscene and if uncalled for. I am sure even a 10 years old village boy would feel offended and ashamed to offer an opinion. On the other hand I am not all too certain that these 'ignorant people' would have understood the 'elitist' lingua and the conclusion of Justice Kaul's judgement. But then who cares.

Justice Kaul declared that, "A painter has his own perspective of looking at things and it cannot be the basis of initiating criminal proceedings against him." How more wrong can Justice Kaul get? Though, I must agree that artist have own perspective of looking at things but that does not necessarily give them the absolute freedom to express freely their perspective if the expression of their perspective could or would hurt people's sentiment or even may be construed as an attack on others beliefs. I am absolutely certain that no one has such god given freedom. Humanity has never accepted 'absolute freedom' in any form ever. Justice Kaul can only kid himself. My creative mind has just conjured up a dozen of 'perspectives' of what Justice Kaul would be doing in his office - alone or otherwise - and I promise that the painted images of my 'perspectives' of Justice Kaul would be totally unacceptable even though it would only represent my own 'perspective'. He would be first to object and protest. There is no such thing as 'absolute freedom of expression' for any one ...I mean anyone and, Mr M F Hussain is also just another 'anyone'.

Justice Sanjay Kaul further showed his concern. "In India, new puritanism is being carried out in the name of cultural purity and a host of ignorant people are vandalizing art and pushing us towards a pre-renaissance era." I am anti-vandalizing of things - anything. I am 100% for non-violence. But I do understand the frustration of helpless protesters. If Justice Kaul will throw a boomerang of 'ignorance' at protesters I am sure that boomerang will return to him in form of frustration and vandalising - the only tool at hand for the 'ignorant' people. The use of term 'cultural purity' is misplaced and more of a red herring than meaningful. I am sure that every society, community and nationality feel their culture is superior and purer of the purest than others. Isn't this also a 'perspective' that 'should never be challenged'? And Justice Kaul's another concern of 'pushing us towards a pre-renaissance era' first frightened me and then confused me - is India part of 'renaissance' Europe? What 'renaissance' Justice Kaul is taking about and for whose consumption? The elitist has always over exaggerate issues and compared Indian situation with that of Europe and got away with. And I see this as just another issue over exaggerated and not given any serious thought and, as always blame ended up in the lap of 'cultural puritanism'.

And finally his blind and frightening Carte Blanch observation, "the question of obscenity was nowhere to be seen in his paintings, as it was his perspective of looking at things and one should not challenge that." This nearly made me burst into laughter. Was Justice Kaul a blind Judge who judged Mr Hussain's paintings through Braille. If naked portrayal of Bharatmata, Gunga-Yumuna and naked Sita clinging to Hanuman's tail is not obscene than what is? Not only these three paintings but a huge range of nudes are painted by Mr Hussain and can easily be searched on the internet. Judge for yourself.

Being an artist I rejoiced at the declaration that artist's work 'should not be challenged'. But does that mean an artist had an unquestionable freedom to paint and draw anything and everything? Have an absolute Freedom of Expression? Could I now freely depict and paint Babri Mosque Domes as breasts and show Hindu extremists raping the mosque? Seriously could I really do that? I personally don't think so. I, being an artist, am bound by self controlled Freedom of Expression with total respect for others. I can only say with sense of disgust - SHAME ON YOU JUSTICE KAUL YOU HAVE MISUSED THE POWER WE TRUSTED UPON YOU.

He then added, "A painter at 90 deserves to be sitting in his home and painting his canvas." I am sure he meant standing in his studio and, I 100% agree with Justice Kaul here but add a qualification to the statement. The artist must act sensibly and impose self controlled Freedom of Expression - and certainly must not follow Justice Sanjay Kaul's judgement blindly and paint images that would hurt people's sentiments and with a convinction that he could not be challenged. I would put this judgement in the category of anti-social judgement and hope it is vigorously challenged.

Reacting to the judgement, Akhil Sibal, counsel for Husain, said: "This judgement is historical and prominent, and a fight against intolerance in our country and recognizes the importance of debate within legal society rather than misuse of the criminal justice system." I tend to agree that this was a historical judgement but only suitable to be thrown in the scrap heap of history. This judgement should carry public health warning - 'Only suitable for entertainment but STRICTLY NOT to be followed'.

later, Akhil Sibal - son of prominent congress politician - extended his reaction to NDTV by saying that India was pluralistic society and such intolerance will not be tolerated. But when he was quizzed on his definition of 'pluralistic society' and asked why the ban on Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses was justifiable? Why was ban on Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown justified in pluralistic society? Akhil Sibal had no answer to these questions and rightly so. His silence said it all. A couple of chosen communities can rightfully have unchallengeable perspective but one community cannot have this right - this is pluralism in Indian perspective.

My concern is not with nude paintings by Mr Hussain but of the bias and hypocrisy shown by the government and the elite of Indian society in the name of secularism and pluralism.

The leftist and the elitist Indians do not practice absolute 'pluralism' but selective 'pluralism' based on ones own 'perspective' and interest that Justice Kaul judged 'should not be challenged' or 'we shall pushed back to pre-renaissance era' (by the Hindu community)... (my words).

I was a little late this month ...nevertheless I have arrived...to deliver a little more.

Copyrighted 2008 by Navin Joshi

Krishna - A War Monger or a Counsel ?

Partho and Shakuntala were amongst our best family friends. In age they were nearly a decade older than me and my wife, one can call it generation gap and, we respected them more as our elders than friends. Partho was a self taught photographer and continued well into his retirement. Shakuntala devoted all her time in the service of Lord Krishna and her charitable activities. She was a modern day Mira. She had converted her home into an ashram and invited women friends for the daily puja rituals. She organised devotional musical programmes and invited visiting 'gurus' and 'swamis' to UK to her home and washed their feet. She was true and true a divine personality. On the other hand Partho, though never objected or interfered in Shakuntala's activities, was opposite. He never visited any temple or bowed to any idol. However, he did avail himself to the services of Shakuntala whenever there was a photo opportunity during the visitation by saffron garbed 'gurus'. I use to tell him that people who live in a temple had no need to visit temple. He would give me a gaze avoiding any comments.

Kamala was in her teens and only daughter of Partho and Shakuntala. Kamala sounded too desi and long so she shortened her name to Kam following many thousands of Indian youths who had done before her. Kanti became Ken, Chotalal became Cho, Mandeep became Mandy, Mohit became Mo, Krishna became Kris and so on. Kam was a sweet little vibrating intelligent being. She was a step further from her father. She did not subscribe to her mothers activities and kept away from home for most of the time with her English boyfriend Robert. Weekends were totally away from home only to avoid devotional environment, the music, the incense, the spiritual vibes and all the noise to go with it.

One evening we visited them unannounced - its was Shakuntala's insistence that no one should call to visit her and her home should be treated open 24/7. That evening we found Shakuntala a broken person making difficult attempt to read from the scripture. A middle aged gray haired woman had put on few more years and gray hairs since we last saw her only a few days ago. She gave us a dry faint smile and said she was going to call us in any case.

We soon found the cause that lead to her shocking condition. She was deeply hurt. The tears ran in abundance over her now fragile crumpled cheeks as she slowly began to open up.

Kamala insulted my Lord Krishna. She called him a war monger and preacher of violence. She lay total blame on Krishna for the war of Mahabharata. She accused Lord of forcing Arjuna to kill his own elders, teachers and young cousins.

Tear taps were on the high as she slipped in to repeat mode and her story looped to repeat everything in sequence. I kept quite and waited for the right moment to short circuit her mental loop which seemed unending like Hare Krishna mantra chant. But she was out of breath now. She stopped to take deep gasp of fresh air and to wipe cold itchy sticky tears. I took the cue and broke her mental circuit just to remind her that Kamala always listened to me and that I would talk her out of this. I knew I would convince her that what Lord Krishna's advice to Arjun is a thoughtful and relevant time eternal.

To begin with I simply asked Kamala how would she feel if her bank manager did not perform his or her duty that lead to difficulty and loss to her ? I WOULD COMPLAIN AND DEMAND COMPENSATION AS IT WAS THEIR DUTY TO SERVE ME TO THE FULLEST.

I asked her what if her doctors failed to treat her correctly and as a consequence she lost her job ? I WOULD COMPLAIN AND CLAIM FOR COMPENSATION...

What if a thief got away with your mobile phone and the police just looked on ? SHE STARRED AT ME...

I explained Kamala that what she demanded in terms of performance of one's duty is what Lord Shree Krishna reminds Arjun. Being a soldier, a King, a Ksatryiya it was the sole duty, Dharma of Arjun to fight in defence of justice. If Arjun failed his Dharma he would fail everyone, including himself.

Eisenhower, former President of USA, once said during the World War II campaign that he was inspired by the Bhagwad Gita to fight on and win every time he felt let down or overwhelmed by depression. He said that if the soldiers put down their arms who will defend justice? Pacifism does not mean you stop defending yourself at the time of attack on you. You have to fight as it becomes your sole Dharma to save yourself. This was what Lord Krishna advocates to Arjun - perform your duty.

Taking this further in our day to day life, say if doctor fails his Dharma you cannot expect a bank manger to do doctor's job and vise versa. Everyone has been bestowed with duties in society...Dharma. The condition of our society is totally dependant upon the sincerity with which one performs one's Dharma.

Kamala's mind set condition changed slowly but surely and she slowly understood the meaning of the Bhagwad Gita and today she is ardent follower and companion of her mother.

Barbara Stoler Miller in her introduction to The Bhagwad Gita says:

According to Krishna, Arjun's objection to killing his relatives are based on the same subjective worldly desire that blinds his foes to their folly. Krishna's solutions lies on another level, one where oppositions co-exist within his cosmic knowledge. Krishna the omnipotent lord, teaches that the warrior's ordained duty (DHARMA) is grounded in the reciprocal relationship between cosmic and human action (KARMA), which is crucial to universal order.

In the Steps of the Yogis, Swami Vijayananda (Dr A J Weintrob) gives an interesting account when he first visited Shri Lanka (erstwhile Ceylon) just after the World War II in search of Spiritual master. He met a senior Buddhist bikkhu who said the Bhagwad Gita was a dangerous book because it sanctioned murder in certain cases. It is a charge that has been made against this Indian "Bible" (like Kamala), but it cannot withstand thorough investigation. The book has to be read from cover to cover and within its own proper context...the "sanctioning of murder" is not a commandment in the Gita; far from it. It is a counsel given to Arjuna, a military leader, and it is given at a critical moment on the battlefield; it comes as the solution of a problem rooted in exceptional circumstances, and is not intended to be a directive for all men.

There is no man who, in the course of his life, has not confronted - albeit on a lesser scale-a dilemma such as this-the imperative to choose between two course of action which are equally wrong.

But Krishna allowed his friend and disciple a way out of this impasse. The duty of a military leader, he declared, is to fight in defence of justice. Arjuna, therefore, should give battle, not beat a faint-hearted retreat. However, though it was his duty to kill his enemies, he should do so without hatred or anger or passion, and without concern over the outcome of the actions performed simply in his role as an instrument of God. In this way he would bear no responsibility for deed which, under other circumstances, would have been sin.

This is far call from saying that the Gita licenses any man to kill provided only that he do so without hatred in his heart. The fact is that there are no sublimer teachings than those of the Bhagvad Gita and its moral code can bear comparison with that of any religion whatever.

Many learned humans amongst us and, many of today's fashion generation youths are misled into believing what Kamala once believed. I hope this blog offers, to all those full of suspicion and doubts, a thought provoking spark that could re-kindle their capacity to think and understand the Bhagwad Gita better. And if one has joined a fashion group who bash The Bhagwad Gita because it is fashionable and cool to do so, I would say still there is lot of hope, because Lord Shree Krishna has promised that Parivartan (Change) is inevitable. Everything has to change and those who fail to change will parish. So there we go - today's fashion of Bhagwad Gita bashing has fair chance of changing and, if not, then this fashion will have to go out of fashion to replace by yet another fashion...cool...ehhh!...Krishna says so and history is before us to witness...Jai Shree Krishna

Just Arrived...looks like will stay on...

Acknowledgement:

In the foot steps the Yogis by Vijayananda (Dr A J Weintrob), Bharatiya Vidya Bhavans, Mumbai 400 007

The Bhagwad Gita by Barbara Stoler Miller

Copyrighted 2008 by Navin Joshi

Ready Rationalism - An Indian Disease

I am not too sure if I will be sharing controversial opinions/information with you or my opinions put forward will be construed as controversial. Instant misunderstanding and instant criticism, like instant coffee and instant sex, have branded people with instant political and religious tags - and this phenomenon has become a very common Indian past time today. If you support a Hindu point of view or do not support Left defined secularism you are coloured saffron and are treated as dirt. Like they say - Indians have more opinions than information - a very apt cliche for today's generation next Indian youths who, due to lack of foresight and understanding of Indianness, have slipped onto the slippery surface created by the pro-Western Indian Elite & Lenin, Marx and Mao inspired lefties (sadly I was one of them too) - who in spite of being in the minority are today India's opinion makers. The fear of being branded right wing saffron-ey (this word is my invention & pronounced as in loony) the educated keep away from discussing religion or social injustice. Even the nonfactual history curriculum is willingly allowed to be taught in as higher level as post graduation. People of eminence who have questioned Aryan Invasion & Dravidian theory have been branded saffron-ey.

But if you are a jeans cladded, short dressed, coffee drinker, alcohol boozer, a freshly converted carnivorous - proudly called Non-veg, breathing bastardized English and infected with Rationalism & Pseudo-secularism of the west and the Left - you have arrived...rejoice generation next - looks you are on verge of failing India.

This is sad indeed.

I started paintings a couple of weeks ago after 'hanging' my brushes three decades ago. I have had one man shows in London and have had the privilege to hang one painting at Jahangir Art Gallery - Bombay Art Association - but this was in the sixties and seventies. Last night I was browsing on Internet searching for inspiration for my next painting. I searched M F Hussain - my hero, along with Cezanne, Picasso, Van Gough and, Hussain's uncanny resemblance to my father (now deceased) we call him 'our lost uncle'. To my great surprise I came across blogs by Ready Rationalists in support of M F Hussain and against campaign supported by so called saffron brigade for MFH painting Nude Hindu idols. I was under the impression that the issue of Nude Hindu Idols paintings and M F Hussain was over and done with and was in back burner. Not so.

I read few and put my comments with tinge of anger as the bloggers lacked depth and understanding of hurt sentiments of the Hindus and, in the process playing part of fuel in already fierce fire . I felt this was only because of their ignorance or I question - could this be to avoid being labeled 'saffron-ey or fear of becoming an outcast in generation next elite!

I, an ex-radical, rebel, ex-editor/publisher of left wing magazine, communist, socialist, active anti-apartheid campaigner, CND - anti nuclear campaigner, converted Vegetarian & campaigner for animal rights, original member of the group who brought 'Future in our hand' Norwegian campaign to London, first to open vegetarian restaurant called 'Vegetarian' in London, ardent supporter of Narbada Bachao Andolan and, the list goes on and on - so I can simply say I know what I am talking about and I simply do not accept anything readily but DO THINK. Have own opinion with information.

The ignorance of the supporters of M F Hussain paintings showed in every drop - or should I say pixel - one compared them with Khajuraho and questioned which was more obscene. Another passed judgement on painting 'Sita's Rescue' - it is possible that Sita could have slipped and got hold of Hanuman's tail but, did not offer any reason why Sita was nude and why Hanuman deeply glanced at Sita. They even failed to examine the fact that the Ramayan very clearly depicts only one incidence in the whole epic where Hanuman gets the glimpse of Sita's face and that only when they return to Ayodhya - the powerful vermilion story. Hanuman never ever looked at the face of of Sita as a matter of deep regard and keeping up with high moral ground & this behaviour towards Sita underlines the fundamental moral standard set by the Ramayan and, M F Hussain's painting throws cold water over this - Ramayan is simply lost in his paintings replacing obscenity and vulgarity. Every Ready Rationalist & psudo-secularist failed to understand the fact that Ramayan is an epic of moral conduct and has been written and done with centuries ago - full stop...no further editing or guess work is permitted.

As far as Khajuraho's explicit sexual images are concerned - the ready Rationalists failed to carry out their research fully. They simply, out of habit, picked info from another blog and made their own. None seem to have actually visited this immensely beautiful temple site. Their own thought process was non-existent. Indians, I can justifiably say that virtually all Indians, believe, or are conditioned to believe, that the infamous images of explicit sexual behaviour in the Khajuraho Temples built by Chola Dynasty were far too common and too profound images in dynasty days. How wrong one can get? These images are very small and scarce - a little larger than a normal brick - and hidden in dark corners or placed in insignificant places of the temple building and, tourists gets glimpse only when made aware by the guides. A strong opinion in archeology circle in India, as well as abroad, suggests that this images were made by craftsman to show their sexual frustration in absence of females in the temple building site and were not patronised by the ruling dynasty. It is not that the entire Khajuraho Temple complex has large numbers of such images openly exhibited. This is absolutely not true. I can share one small experience I have had - once I visited Serkhej Dargah in the outskirt of Ahmadabad in the early eighties. While walking through the ruins my young daughter pointed to a small motif on a fallen pillar of an ancient mosque, close inspection showed sexually explicit image placed neatly in a corner. Why was it there and what should we compare this with? Finally let me add to refresh memories of readers that the Khajuraho images are not of any Hindu deities, goddesses or Sita of Ramayan.

The point I am trying to hit home is that Hinduism - though I prefer to call by its ancient and true name The Sanatan Dharma - is an umbrella organisation of various belief systems and few nude image cannot be construed as the whole Hinduism. What happens to the spiritual segment of Hinduism where there are no images ? There are terrorist Muslims but would it be correct to brand whole Islam as religion of terrorism ? CERTAINLY NOT. There are pedophile Christians but would we brand Christianity as religion of pedophile ? CERTAINLY NOT. So few sexual explicit images of Khajuraho should not brand Hinduism as a sexually explicit religion. IT IS THAT SIMPLE. Rather than being simply Ready Rationalist or pseudo-secular I would urge Indian youths to question happenings in their surroundings, be that religious, political or social rather than accepting everything mindlessly. Wake up - tomorrow is yours. Be vigilant. World only respects those who respect themselves first. Charity begins at home.

I am sure:

Woh Subha kabhi to ayegi - that morning will arrive one day.

Just Arrived - may be to stay on.

Copyrighted 2008 by Navin Joshi