Read each line and the translation in English.
• Apne hi ghar mein kisi doosre ghar ke hum hain
In our own home, we feel like guests in someone else's house (outsiders).
• Waqt ke saath hai mitti ka safar sadiyon se
With time, the journey of the soil/earth has lasted for centuries.
• Kisko maaloom kahan ke hain kidhar ke hum hain
Who knows from where we have come and where we belong.
• Chalte rehte hain ke chalna hai musafir ka naseeb
We keep walking, for walking is the fate of a traveler.
• Sochte rehte hain kis rah guzar ke hum hain
We keep wondering which path or bygone road we belong to.
It would be unfair to say that writing a piece on Raihan Vadra (Robert and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's son) has made me feel disturbed or depressed. But it has certainly left me confused.
Raihan was born on August 29th, 2000. I had already left my work place and place of my birth and studies - north east India. Then I was a reporter with PTI headquarters. It was a kind of 12th man job in cricket. From Jantar Mantar dharnas to India International Club mutual admiration seminars -- everything fell under my beat and responsibilities.
I would not remember the date. Google has helped me on that score. The day Raihan was born - I came running from an assignment to PTI office. I had to rush to the computer (India's premier news agency then had a limited numbers of computers for reporters).
But as for "pro-Congress" PTI bosses -- Raihan's birth was a good jugadu occasion. They were looking for a stupid scribe like me to rush to the spot. The assignment was - how Congress supporters react to the birth of yet another 'dynast'. One lady-colleague --- started screaming -- "ND aa gaya; ND aa gaya".
(Congress leaders may enter into a new era of Depression as well )
The Chief of Bureau Mr Gupta with slavish-approach to survival instinct was quick to jump. "ND, you go to the ZZZ Hospital". I do not remember the name of the hospital which was blessed to host Raihan's birth.
I thought that would be my life's worst assignment !!
With great difficulty, I had to convince him -- that I have an important copy at hand from the 'seminar' and I had to type that before I could move for the historic occasion and the location.
Sycophancy - in a democratic India - thrived from Congress headquarters to PTI headquarters.
Anyway; Democracy was still safe in India. 'Dictator' Narendra Modi was far away. Nevertheless, Raihan has hit headlines. Was it a deliberate move? I ask this question more from the point of view of 'timing'.
Raihan - by calculation - falls in the Gen Zee category unlike his young-but-56-year-old maternal uncle Rahul Gandhi.
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| Raihan's "soft launch" shows Desperation |
Hence, I have my doubts. The photographs/painting show was a soft -launch of a dynast though he belongs to 'Vadra' Khandan. His 'mamu jaan' is without a wife and without kid.
Thus; it was natural that my PTI bosses displayed their 'chamcha giri' characteristic. For my PTI bosses then - Sonia-Priyanka-Rahul was not only a source of Jugadu games.
There were many others. For some it was Sharad Pawar. This lobbyist came from Maharashtra. A senior Tamil journalist was a fan of P Chidambaram. No wonder -- there was some misreporting when Smriti Irani became Information and Broadcasting Minister.
Does PTI or IANS still sound pro-Congress ? In 2016 - a senior joker had turned IANS news agency into a 'publicity wing' for Arvind Kejriwal.
Thanks to Lord Swami-Narayan - the oldie joker would jump everytime Kejriwal tweeted.
Nevertheless - Raihan has been launched. The 'dynasty' knows well -- time is running out hence these multiple front work is on. -- Rahul's repeated protest drama, Sonia Manio's book and Raihan's photographs. All creative people are at work.
But will Raihan be a rival to his 'mamu' ?
Since long we know -- Sycophancy is a foregone conclusion with the Congress party, the dynasty and the Sickularism Zindabad ecosystem. We have just entered that arena.
Raihan Vadra made headlines when reports claimed he was made to remove more than half of the photographs that were to be included in his solo exhibition organised at the Rajasthan government-run Bikaner House in Delhi. It would not have been the case -- had Congress been in power in Rajasthan.
Just a small reminder : In July 2021, Raihan held his first solo exhibition, Dark Perception, at Bikaner House in New Delhi. In December 2022, he followed this with the exhibition Anumana. His third solo exhibition, Upamana, was held at Bikaner House in New Delhi in 2024.
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| A Faceless voter in Meghalaya : Garo Hils |
Just as birds long held in captivity are unable to fly when set free, so Congress women and men seem to have lost the habit of functioning in a milieu where they are led by someone who is only the first among the equals. At present Mallikarjun Kharge is not even the first among the equals. Congress leaders and workers long a towering and all powerful leader whom they can obey instantly. Raihan fits the bill.
Kharge's angry outburst at Patna is so natural. "Modi ka baap..." - sounds so effortless. Track - how Sickular media give twist to the tale.
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| Snap - 'Indian Express' |
Well, Raihan may become future Congress vice president or president and even Leader of the Opposition. To a youngster - I - as his mamu-jaan's age group can wish him luck.
'Propaganda Express' and Deep Raj bhais may soon interview him.
But I will keep praying -- both in my lifetime and even after my death - I or none else should not be assigned to write any piece glorifying him as India's Prime Minister.
The 'Mother of Democracy' ... will not mind a chai-wallah or a businessman from Gujarat cricket or anyone else.
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