Intentional and conscious planning might be unethical sometimes.

"Better would be for a human having a relationship with someone in the social world to be involved in making responses and doing actions unconsciously and naturally rather than consciously containing some intentions of give and take. It is not the latter but the former, which is a more justifiable and ethical position, that makes relations sustainable, healthy, and strong for longue durée."

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24.07.2024

Rahul Khandelwal 

भाषा और सामर्थ्य

उस भाषा की तलाश में, जो अवगत कराएं संपूर्ण सच से। क्या कभी कामयाब (ख़त्म) हो पाएगी ये तलाश?

शायर बनना ख़ुद उसका

अपना फैसला ना था

कुछ जुदाई कमबख़्त

नसीब ही बदल देती है

वो और तुम देखते हो

सिर्फ़ ऊपरी सतह को

नहीं जान सका कोई भी

आंतरिक संघर्ष को

कलम-दवात का रास्ता भी

इतना आसान है कहां?

उसकी कलम से निकले हर लफ्ज़ की पहली शर्त-

उसके ज़हन से निकली कराह होती है

जो दिखा

उसी को तुमने स्वीकार लिया अंतिम सच

हे प्रिय! भाषाओं में नहीं शेष अब सामर्थ

कि पूर्ण सत्य जान सकें

क्या तुम सुन सकते हो वो ज़बान

और क्या पढ़ सकते हो वो भाषा

जिसकी तहों तले दबी है मुकम्मल वास्तविकताएं?

आओ अब लौट चलें

उसी अतीत काल की ओर

जहां भाव देख दूसरों के

मनुष्य पहचानता था उनके हाल

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20-07-2024

Rahul Khandelwal 

Why Grandma? Why do you shed your tears and not speak?

“We all fight two battles,

one outside and one inside,”

I have heard Vidura saying this,

many times in The Mahabharata.

I sensed that battle Grandma,

whose ground is your mind.

Does the same argumentative process,

take its place in others’ psyche as well?

 

Eyes full of tears,

dry patches of it on the pillow covers,

and on your cheeks enough,

proving evidently your struggle with inner conflicts,

that you keep it with you alone.

Why Grandma?

Why do you shed your tears and not speak?

 

Is it fear of someone,

that stops you not to raise your voice or,

the created structures,

whose artificial shackles,

you don’t know how to break?

Why Grandma?

Why do you shed your tears and not speak?

 

Intricacies are unheard and untraceable,

continue to go on internally.

We see and listen to what appears on outside,

assuming it, the only ultimate reality,

which is not many times.

Aren’t we able enough

to see those dilemmas with our eyes?

Can’t we sense them with our hearts?

Have humans of our times

become so weak to figure them out?

 

Sorry Grandma!

We are less HUMAN now,

failed to recognize your pain.

Stop shedding your tears,

and speak to the “DEAF US.”

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06-07-2024

Rahul Khandelwal 

Note: This literary piece is dedicated to those persons and to the ones, including my grandma, who sometimes doesn't speak for multiple reasons, and the silence chosen by such people has its subsequent consequences which many times we ignore and can't see. This is the context.

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