INTERPRETATION OF FREEDOM.

Well folks, my blog "Freedom of Speech" mentions a very strong, yet important word of the English language. "Freedom"! And as we approach the day our country achieved freedom against the British raj, i had to write a post about it. Different people across the world interpret this word in different forms. I read this story a really long time back but it is somehow etched in my memory since it taught me a profound meaning of the word!
An English gentleman decided to take a walk in a park, one fine day. As he was in good spirits, he started twirling his umbrella around as he strolled down the path in the park. Unfortunately, the umbrella ended up smacking another pedestrian on the nose, and the second gentleman was understandably very upset about this. When the injured man took up the issue with the first man, the first man said "I have the freedom to walk around in a public place in any manner i choose fit.” The second man replied, "Sir, your freedom ends where my nose begins."
This particular story redefines the word freedom for me. My rights should not hamper the way in which another person is accommodating his. Freedom has been a rallying call for reformers and revolutionaries throughout human history. The passion and sacrifice poured into that cause has however, not been based on any general consensus about the definition of the term. Almost the first thing to strike any student of the subject is the bewildering variety of concepts, social constructs and meanings that have become attached to this single emotive word. This is an issue in human history far too important to be ignored. An attempt must therefore be made to build the idea anew on the base of an acceptance of the axioms and choice of the dogma, and on the principles and aim of the society that arise from those decisions. The principle establishes that our survival both as individuals and as a species depends on our willingness to co-operate with one another, and to accept and maintain the degree of social order that makes a mutually supportive communal life possible. If it is to be consistent in its teachings therefore, the society should hold that freedom can only be enjoyed under conditions of social order compatible with that principle. The society will always teach that without stable social order no-one can hope to live long enough, or have sufficient liberty from the struggle to ensure the infinite survival of our species, to be fully free. This defines the word “freedom” for me!

IF ONLY.....

She came out of the house
remembering her childhood
when she played with dolls
wishing "if only i could"

she had cried bitterly
'coz of continuous blabbering
and then she realized her childhood dream
"if only i could sing"

the day had been a tiresome one
working, cleaning dishes
but she occasionally dozed off
wishing "if only i could recall those wishes"

only days had passed since she got married
but treated like a maid
her in-laws butchered her gruesomely
all she wished
"if only these memories could fade."

she remembered her parents
and her playhouse shack
but sitting under the kitchen roof
she wished "if only i could get those days back."

days went by, months went by
and so did years
her pain had turned to agony
agony to tears.

those tears made her frail
and weak
but her values taught her
to be gentle and meek.

and now hanging by the fan
with a note in her hand
her in-laws rest in jail
cursing those "torturous days"

the girl's dreams left with an "IF"
none of them fulfilled
to condemn such acts
the field of knowledge has to be tilled!

GIRL CHILD

The tender cry
on the soft pillow
drifts away the heart
far below

finding it might be difficult
as the heart drifts away
but killing the child forever
is a sin committed today

girl child, yes
is whom i'm talking about
but you don't care
as you yourself act as a lout

the poor soul
cant say a word
but hopes to fly away from you
like a bird

high up in the sky
will it soar
but you kill it
without a feeling in your heart's core

sons are all
you wish to have buddy
but killing the child,
is an act fuddy-duddy!

WHAT EXACTLY IS ENGLISH?

- By Ekakshra Mahajan

“Oh! My god! You’ve submitted your resume stating that you cannot converse in English! Is that true? Mr. Rathore asked the new employee. “ Yes” answered Mithilesh, since this is all he could to utter after understanding bits of Mr. Rathore’s flabbergasted look. Mithilesh had just come to this new alien town in search of a new job. His situation was stiff, he being the only earning member of a family of 8. His father had died when he was 10, and his elder brother had been a victim of acute pneumonia. Already been refused job in three offices before, he turned towards his rented accommodation with a heavy heart, cursing the language that he never got to learn- ENGLISH!

His refusal was not because he was incapable of working or that he did not possess a good degree. No! It was because that mithilesh had completed his high school and college in the national language of his country-HINDI! A language that he had been proud to learn through all those years of study, hard work and toil. But he had never realized that this alien language had uprooted our national language and had spread its roots deep in our mother soil. He felt the need to replace this language, awaken our citizens and make them realize the importance of our language. After all our language has a history, a contemporary history with proofs and theories. But he felt helpless. And so do I…………………..

This brings me to the point of my article.

Q. WHAT EXACTLY IS ENGLISH?

Q. HOW DID IT EVOLVE?

Q. HOW DID IT MANAGE TO COPY THE ORIGINAL LANGUAGES?

If ever you might have pondered upon this language, you would have noticed that most of the words have been derived from Latin, Greek, Sanskrit or Arabian. Four languages, which have a History of how, they evolved and how each word that was formed had a meaning, whereas in English, each word is derived from a word from another language.

To be continued…….