Charlie Chaplin's Famous Quotes.....

Friends following are some Heart Touching Quotes of Charlie Chaplin...

1. Nothing is permanent in this world not even our Troubles !

2. I like walking in the rain, because nobody can see my tears !

3. Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot !

4. To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

5. We think too much and feel too little !

6. Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant' !

7. The most wasted day in life is the day in which we have not laughed !

Sarfaroshi ki Tamanna ..

It is the irony of our country that we remember our country , our freedom fighters our freedom movement only at the time of 15th Aug. or 26th Jan.
We can easily find many Indians who even don’t know the full name of Mahatma Gandhi. Rests freedom fighters are too far.

Friends I am trying to bring the life of some of our freedom movement Heroes who had been forgotten. Let’s know to those because of whom we are living happily in an independent nation….

Pandit Ram Prasad Bismil was one of the famous freedom fighter who was involved in the historic Kakori train robbery. He was born in 1897 at Shahjahanpur, Uttar Pradesh. His team members consisted of great freedom fighters like Ashfaqulla Khan, Chandrasekhar Azad, Bhagawati Charan, Rajguru and many more

Ramaprasad learnt Hindi from his father and was sent to learn Urdu from Moulvi.
He was a great poet and Bismil was his pen name, several inspiring patriotic verses are attributed him, of which Sarfaroshi ki Tamanna is the most well known. All of his poems have the intense patriotic feeling.

On 9th August, 1925, Ram Prasad Bismil along with his fellow followers looted the money of the British government from the train while it was passing through Kakori, Lucknow. Except Chandrashekhar Azad, all other members of the group were arrested. Ram Prasad Bismil along with others was given capital punishment. This great freedom fighter of India was executed on 19th December, 1927.

lets have read this heart touching poem by him.

SARFAROSHI KI TAMANNA

सरफ़रोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है, देखना है ज़ोर कितना बाज़ू-ए-क़ातिल में है

(ऐ वतन,) करता नहीं क्यूँ दूसरा कुछ बातचीत, देखता हूँ मैं जिसे वो चुप तेरी महफ़िल में है

ऐ शहीद-ए-मुल्क-ओ-मिल्लत, मैं तेरे ऊपर निसार,

अब तेरी हिम्मत का चरचा ग़ैर की महफ़िल में है

सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है
वक़्त आने पर बता देंगे तुझे, ए आसमान, हम अभी से क्या बताएँ क्या हमारे दिल में है

खेंच कर लाई है सब को क़त्ल होने की उमीद,आशिकों का आज जमघट कूचा-ए-क़ातिल में है

सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है
है लिए हथियार दुश्मन ताक में बैठा उधर,और हम तैयार हैं सीना लिए अपना इधर।

ख़ून से खेलेंगे होली गर वतन मुश्क़िल में है, सरफ़रोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है
हाथ, जिन में है जूनून, कटते नही तलवार से,सर जो उठ जाते हैं वो झुकते नहीं ललकार से।

और भड़केगा जो शोला सा हमारे दिल में है, सरफ़रोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है

हम तो घर से ही थे निकले बाँधकर सर पर कफ़न, जाँ हथेली पर लिए लो बढ चले हैं ये कदम।

ज़िंदगी तो अपनी मॆहमाँ मौत की महफ़िल में है, सरफ़रोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है

यूँ खड़ा मक़्तल में क़ातिल कह रहा है बार-बार, क्या तमन्ना-ए-शहादत भी किसी के दिल में है?

दिल में तूफ़ानों की टोली और नसों में इन्कलाब,होश दुश्मन के उड़ा देंगे हमें रोको न आज।

दूर रह पाए जो हमसे दम कहाँ मंज़िल में है, सरफ़रोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है

वो जिस्म भी क्या जिस्म है जिसमे न हो ख़ून-ए-जुनून क्या लड़े तूफ़ान से जो कश्ती-ए-साहिल में है सरफरोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है देखना है ज़ोर कितना बाज़ू-ए-क़ातिल में है

Now lets read the abridged version of this poem that was recited by Piyush Mishra in the 2009 movie GULAL. It is also an satire on today's scenario.

सरफ़रोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है , देखना हे ज़ोर कितना बाजू ऐ कातिल में हे

वक़्त आने दे बता देंगे तुझे ए आसमां, हम अभी से क्या बतायें क्या हमारे दिल में है

ओ रे बिस्मिल काश आते आज तुम हिन्दोस्तां, देखते कि मुल्क सारा यूँ टशन में, थ्रिल में हे

आज का लड़का तो कहता हम तो बिस्मिल थक गए, अपनी आज़ादी तो भैया लौंडिया के तिल में है

आज के जलसों में बिस्मिल एक गूंगा गा रहा, और बहरों का वो रेला नाचता महफ़िल में है

हाथ की खादी बनाने का ज़माना लद गया, आज तो चड्डी भी सिलती इंग्लिसों की मिल में है

वक़्त आने दे बता देंगे तुझे ए आसमां, हम अभी से क्या बतायें क्या हमारे दिल में है

सरफ़रोशी की तमन्ना अब हमारे दिल में है, देखना है ज़ोर कितना बाज़ुए क़ातिल में है

HABIB TANVEER: The living legend of Indian Theater.

HABIB TANVEER: The living legend of Indian Theater.

Renowned Hindi playwright, theatre director, poet and actor Mr.Habib Tanveer who was awarded by Sangeet Natak Akademi Award in 1969, Padma Shri in 1983, Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship in 1996, and the Padma Bhushan in 2002; apart from that he has also been nominated as a member of Rajya sabha of Indian Parliament (1972-1978). but after all such achivements he is now Leaving a anonymous life from the cultural world of Madhya Pradesh state Since last 4 years. It’s simply rediculas that a person with all such prominent awards, not even been invited in a single cultural program of Madhya Pradesh.in the complete tenure of present BJP led government.
According to cultural and political experts Habib is facing all this because of some monetary aids and a piece of land that’s given to his Naya Theater group by than Mr.Digvijay Singh led congress government.
Actual problem arises when Uma Bharti who was the than contestant of chief minister post by BJP blame that Habib Tanvir with the help of Congress government are spreading communalism through some of his stage productions like ‘Ponga Pundit’ and ‘Jin Lahore Nai Dekhya’. Although it was only a election and public attention stunt of some saffron groups.
According to BJP spoke person in the play ‘Ponga Pandit’ Habib try to spoil the image of Hinduism. So here I want to tell some thing about play ‘Ponga Pandit’ that was originally titled Jamadarin, was first composed in the 1930s by two Chhattisgarhi folk artist, Sitaram & Sukhram. Since last four or five generations of folk artist from Chhattisgarh have been performing the play for the last seventy years. The play that was created and traditionally performed by Hindu artists has been seen and enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of Hindus all over India. Some of these actors also joined Habib Tanveer's ‘Naya Theatre’ because the Naya Theatre inherited the play.
Naya Theater troupe has been staging the play since the 1960s for different audiences all over the country. All those years no one found it objectionable or called it anti-Hinduism. But after the communal problem of 1992, some saffron brigades who have spread some kinds of wrong information about it have systematically targeted this play. As such the play simply attacks hypocrisy, untouchablity and priest craft, so it can hurt only those who believe in these practices. The play was simply a satirical take on religious hypocrisy. And I m sure that even a blind person can simply judge that this play doesn’t have a single scene that hurt the sentiments of Hinduism. In the year 2003 as a result Habib Tanvir and his Naya Theatre actors attacked in several cities of Madhya Pradesh by activists of some saffron brigade.
After the election when BJP formed the government in Madhya Pradesh such attack has been stopped because the purpose has been solved.


Habib Tanveer is the writer of famous plays like, Agra Bazar (1954) and Charandas Chor (1975), His play 'Charandas Chor' got him the Fringe Firsts Award at Edinburgh International Drama Festival in 1982.
In the year 1959 he founded a theatre company in Bhopal named ‘Naya Theatre’
Tanveer's original troupe has changed many artists since 1958 but Govindram, 71, and Devilal, 65, are the only two of the 10 regular performers who have stayed with Naya Theatre. The group now meets at Tanveer's house after being evicted in 2003 from their state-allotted house, given to them by the previous Congress government. The current BJP regime, however, declared it 'government property' and ordered them out.

Habib Tanveer started his career in the theatre in his student days as a member of the Mumbai based ‘Indian People's Theatre Association’, after some time he moved to Delhi and forever changed its theatrical landscape with his famous production Agra Bazar (1954). He created Agra Bazar with the students of Jamia Islamia and
Local residents of the Okhla Area in Delhi, it was a experiment that never seen before in Indian theatre.
In 1955 Tanvir went to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in Great Britain there he work for three years, he travelled through Europe, watching different theatre activities.
In 1958 he returned India and spent full time for theater, he was a close friend of marathi theater maestro late Mr. Vijay Tendulkar they work together for many years, Vijay ji treat him as a real brother.
Habib produced, 'Mitti ki Gaadi' based on Shudraka's Sanskrit work, Mrichakatika, it became his first important production in Chhattisgarhi.
Habib also worn in many great films like Richard Attenborough famous film ‘Gandhi’ in which he played the role of Indian Barister. In 2008 he played a led role in Shubhash Ghai’s Blach & White.
In 2006, he wrote and directed ‘Raj Rakt’, based on two of Rabindranath Tagore’s works, novel Rajarshi, and play Visarjan.
His upcomming movie is based on Bhopal Gas treagdy.
Habib Tanveer is a living lagend of Indian Theaters, and at last I write 2 lines for him.

“Udalo dhool tum jitni uda sako mujhpe,
Mai Chaand hu falak pe chamakta jaunga”

Sam Bahadur ' the real Hero of India'

Last Friday with one of my office friends I was reading the sad news of Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw's death in the paper. I got a real shock when my friend asked me -'who was Manekshaw'? I didn't expect such kind of a question from a person having MBA degree although that was not only his fault. In our country there are many who even don't know about Mahatma Gandhi. I'm not saying that I'm a highly knowledgeable person but I have different kind of attachment with Sam Manekshaw since the time when first I read his biography when I was an NCC cadet in my college.
Since that particular day he is one of my favorite personalities.
I told my friend about Sam Hormusji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, born on April 3, 1914 in a Parsi (Zoroastrian) family who migrated to Amritsar Punjab from the small town of Valsad in Gujarat. After completing his schooling from Amritsar and Nainital Manekshaw was one of the 40 cadets of the first batch that passed out from the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun in Dec 1934 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Indian Army. He held several regimental assignments and was first attached to the Royal Scots and later to the frontier force regiment in world war II, he led counter-operation against the invading Japanees Army in Burma. During the course of operation he was hit by an LMG bullet and was severely wounded in his stomach. He had being honoured for his bravery 'Military Cross' right on the battlefront during the Second World War.
His moustache was his trademark and he got the title of "Sam Bahadur" from the soldiers of the 8th Gorkha Rifles of which he was Colonel of the Regiment, and had close association with the soldier of Gorkha Regiment.
On 7th June 1969 After Gen PP Kumaramangalam he was the 8th chief of Indian Army.
Besides being a punctual and strict army person he was also a very responsible family man. On 22nd April 1939 he married to Silloo Bode who was his first sight love, Silloo gave birth to her first daughter Sherry on 11 January 1940, while the second girl whom they called Maya was born on 24 September 1945.
Sherry joined the "Travel Trade" beginning with Air India and working with Mercury Travels for a long time, in fact she retired from there! She married Dinky Batliwala who was working with "Swiss Air". The Batliwalas now live in Chennai
Maya the younger one became a stewardess with the then "British Overseas Airways Corporation" (BOAC) now called British Airways. It was while flying for them that she met her husband Dhun Daruwala who was an Engineer with "Air India." She is currently heading an NGO for Human Rights in Delhi.
He was not a man of 'yes Boss' attitude, he never hesitated to say truth and because of this attitude in 1961 the then defence minister Krishna Menon had put him aside for some period after Manekshaw's refusal of his order. Just after some time everyone realized that Manekshaw was on right side.
He was very quick witted once Just before the Bangladesh operations in December 1971, the then prime minister Ms. Indira Gandhi asked Manekshaw, who was the chief of Army then, "General are you ready" (for the war). His reply surprised everyone who was there, "I am always ready sweetie."
Once on an occasion, when Indira Gandhi asked the General whether he was planning to take over the country. Simply Pointing to his long nose, he replied: "I don't use it to poke into other's affairs." Because of his straightforward attitude Indira Gandhi's trust and respects increased in him a lot.
After the 1971 Indo-Pak war he became the Hero of India When Indira Gandhi asked him to go to Dhaka and accept the surrender of Pakistani forces, Manekshaw simply declined, and said that honour should go to his army commander in the East (Lt Gen Jagjit Singh Aurora). Manekshaw said he would only go if it were to accept the surrender of the entire Pakistani army.
General Yahya Khan, the then president of Pakistan was one of a close friends of Sam Manekshaw. On 13 August 1947 he took Manekshaw's Motorcycle and promised to give Rs 1000 but just after 2 days India faced partition, on the day when Bangladesh or east Pakistan came into existence, Sam said 'Yahya give me the whole east Pakistan against my Rs 1000.
For his distinguished service to the country in 1968 he got Padma Bhushan award, in 1972 at the hands of the then President VV Giri. Manekshaw became the first of the only two Indian Army Generals to be awarded this prestigious honorary rank; the other being the late Gen KM Cariappa. On Jan 15 1973 Manekshaw retired after completing nearly four decades of military service (although the field marshals of the Indian Army never retire because the rank is conferred for life).
At the age of 94, on June 27,2008 he died of complications from pneumonia at the Military Hospital in Wellington, Tamil Nadu. He was suffering from Pulmonary fibroisis a kind of respiratory complication, on Wednesday he had slipped into coma, his last word was 'I am okay' He was buried adjacent to his wife's grave with full military honors
On behalf of our nation I m saluting Sam Bahadur ' the real Hero of India'