Who is a Leader..???

A leader is one who knows the way, who shows the way and who goes the way. Warren Bennis, a Ph. D has rightly said,” Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing.” A leader is one who not only do the things right but also takes the responsibility of making others do right things. He is the one who leads the team and ensures that he develops a leader in each individual of his team and makes that individual the son of the soil.

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future. A leader should be one who should make people say about him,” I am a sepoy and will follow the guidance of my leader.” He should be one who must not bring himself to the situation,” I wasted time and now time doth wasted me.” The most important quality expected in a leader should be that his actions must inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more. He should not be one who inspires people to believe in him rather he should be one who inspires people to believe in themselves. It’s easy to name some good leaders but it’s difficult to fathom the sacrifice of great leaders. Leadership is the challenge to do something more than average.
  

There's nothing more demoralizing than a leader who cannot clearly articulate why we are doing what we are doing? It’s the responsibility of leaders to speak the truth and expose the lies. A leader takes the people where they don’t want to go but they ought to be. And today our motherland lacks some great leaders. We don’t have those leaders who can take our nation to heights. We don’t have those leaders who can protect the glory of our country. Today the country has been shackled by the evil doings of some of the tainted leaders who are bickering. Yet till today the pathetic and panic stricken facet of Indian cannot be ignored. The oppressed section is still in deep slumber, for they are still instigated by the wrong doers. We have shown our amity when our country has faced natural disasters like tsunami, earthquake, etc. It’s time for us to join our hands and come together to eradicate these leaders from our country who all have destroyed the environment of the country. Let us pledge together that we will provide some good leaders to our homeland and make this country a harmonious place to live….Jai Hind..!!!

आतंकवाद

इतना कला स्याय धुआं कीस्ने उड़ाया है ?
बाबा बता न, मेरा नन्हा सा बसेरा कीस्ने जलाया है?

मेरा साथी भी पता नहीं कीधर खो गया है,

बाबा बता न मेरा भईया भी चुप चाप क्यों सो गया है?

बेटी, नहीं बोलेगा आज वोह अपनी बोली,

कैसे बताऊ तुझे की उसे लगी है आतंकवाद की गोली |

रोज़ तेरे कीतने ही साथी इस तरह खो जाते है,

बेटी, रोज़ तेरे कीतने ही भाई इस तरह सो जाते है |

कीतनी ही बहनों की राखियाँ इस तरह रोती है,

कितनी ही सुहागनों की मांगे रोज़ सुनी हो जाती है |

क्यों नहीं आता जरा भी कीसी को ख्याल,

रोज़ सो जाते है कीतनी ही माओं के लाल |

ए भारत की धरती ! कीतने ही शहीदों ने,

तुझे अपना खून पीला कर आज़ाद करवाया था |

आज तुने यह अपना कैसा रूप दीखाया है?

उसी समय तू कह देती मैं और प्यासी हूँ |

तुझे अपना लहू हम और पीला देते,

जहा इतने शहीद हुए थे वह कुछ और हो जाते |

क्या यह भारत की कल की तस्वीर है?

क्या यह आने वाले कल की तकदीर है?

आओ जागे, हम एक कर दे एडी और चोटी,

थाम ले बापू की लाठी और पहन ले फीर से लंगोटी |

जीसे पहनकर बापू ने अंग्रेजो को भगाया था,

जीस लाठी के  जोर से भारत को आज़ाद करवाया था | |

My India My Dream

“Baharein jaha aa k deti thi sadaein,
Haseen pankhudion ki who mausam adaein.
Jiske seene main the ILM ka khajana,
Sone ki chidiya jise kehta tha jamana..!!”

15^th August or 26^th January has become just an official holiday in the calendar of our nation. These two days inspires us to patriotic fervor that other few days in the year are able to generate. This is the day when every ‘galli, nukkad and mohalla’ chimes to ‘Bharat Mata’, children dressed in saffron, white and green, with paper flags held firmly in hand walk to their school functions, the revered ‘Jana Gana Mana’ is sung. Bhagat Singh and Gandhiji feature on TV screens and newspapers are full of tricolor ink. How else one could celebrate these special days, right? Sixty two years have gone by and India’s Independence story is still a fascinating tale. We are proud of the way we fought for freedom. The constitution makers deemed India a democracy and a secular socialist republic which we are proud to be even today. Or are we?

Look into the streets and you will see parallels that one cannot even comprehend. In the name of constitution equality, we have huge malls opposite huge slums. We have some women walking with huge heels, displaying branded shopping bags and Revlon lipstick while others cannot even afford clothing and they stare at huge AC buildings. India’s stead fast progress in the fields of science and technology has led to industrialization and capital formation yet the pathetic and panic stricken facet of India cannot be ignored. They say,” A good cover doesn’t really ensure a good book”. The truth is we have made a grand cover for our nation but we couldn’t design the content of the book.

Years back when we decided we are free, we chose a democratic system because it had the power to bring about change. Change we surely have brought about, but it has been one, concentrated in small pockets. It’s true that we seldom accept, but we are still a nation of people who don’t know where we are heading. Our problems are ever lasting and each Indian has learnt to put up with it. We don’t mind skipping a signal, paying Rs 100 bribe, jumping queues in the hostel mess; we don’t mind being sophisticated in another country and being careless and insensitive in our own. Neither we mind in just denying a junior child to issue her the book just because a senior student has told to keep the book reserve for him in the library (doesn’t matter this bloody senior turns backs or not). The same Indian, who will never dream of dropping a piece of paper on the streets of London, does not think twice before lowering the window of his Tata Indica and spitting on Gandhi Setu. 

A part of the problem is the people we elected to the parliament. For long the typical Indian Politicians has been above 60 years of age – and is usually a ‘paan’ munching, ‘dhoti ‘wearing man, with no idea whatsoever of his responsibilities except to do his bit for securing the future of his generation. A look at their educational qualification and you figure out why we don’t promote education at all. Why should we, when we choose almost illiterate idiots as leaders. Why then we should educate our kids when we don’t mind electing a man with no inclination whatsoever to bring about a change.

We are the fools that we elect a winner out of a dog race who is supposed to plan for next five years. Don’t they have the vision to look beyond the basics? May be Independence Day and Republic day should be about more than buying paper flags and watching movies with the fairer sex. Can we, as citizens of free India, do a little more? Why settle for whatever we are given? Why not resolve to make this country a harmonious place to live? Why don’t WE be the change that we want to see?