I Refuse!!!

I refuse to give up

I refuse to give in

I refuse to indulge in sin

I refuse to laugh

I refuse to cry

I refuse to live a life so dry

I refuse to be happy

I refuse to be sad

I refuse to listen to my emotions ah so mad.

I refuse to be good

I refuse to be evil

I refuse to accept god or the devil

I refuse to share your plight

I refuse to hear your sigh

I refuse to take not which is mine

I refuse to live at war

I refuse to die at peace

I refuse to exist in eternal bliss

I refuse to face endless draughts

I refuse to live in knots

I refuse to accept apathy at my thoughts

I refuse life as it was

I refuse life as it is

I refuse life as it turns out to be!

No dearth of Heroes!

Watever we say, theres no dearth of heroes in the real world, people who step away from the oft trodden path to lead a more free, independent life, for the sake of doing somehting worthwhile, giving back to society what they gained from it. Its been sometime since I ve been thinking of doing something like that, and such stories provide more inspiration than all the stories combined, as this is a real life scenario. I am no Gandhi, now will I pretend to be; nor shall I proclaim to abide by his rules and teachings, coz when I see around myself, I think that what differnece did it make? India is still the same, from the fire into the frying pan. But that aside, there are a selfless souls who have enough faith and love for their motherland, that they start up something like this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4219362.stm

Here's a story of a man who took upon himself to fight injustice and corruption. Meet Stalin K. (whose father named him after Russian leader Stalin, why I dont know), a human rights activist who has being running a revolutionary radio programme to expose corruption in India's western Gujarat province. He started this after the Gujrat earthquake in 2001. The programmes are run by the poor rural people themselves, although most are barely literate. The programme became a sort of public watchdog - and issued a warning to those tempted to abuse their position that somebody was watching.

Now, the biggest obstlace to community radio is the government's refusal to let programmes like Stalin K's broadcast independently. Despite a Supreme Court ruling in the mid-1990s declaring the airwaves public property, the government is wary about giving such programmes total freedom from state control.


This is a new form of entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship maybe, and we should do all we can to encourage such initiatives.