I Love You!

They’re all saying it these days… in schools & colleges, in Parks and restaurants, at workplaces and in bedrooms, over the phone and through emails. They first say it as a declaration, then as an assurance. Even people who normally don’t converse in English, when it comes to express their primary emotion, prefer ‘I love you’ to its vernacular equivalent. Just as the way it happens in movies: The Hero or the Heroine will flirt in the regional language, but the flirtation usually culminates with the mouthing of the inevitable- ‘I Love you.’

Choices is Ours...

We all know it; in fact we have been reading this since our childhood, ‘When not interfered, everything nature does is done with perfection!’ We have learnt it in our school textbooks and we all do agree with it... but when I see those little angles on 4thfloor of Emergency building of IGMC ( that is our Prdiatrics ward) suffering from diseases which have got no cure and which are going to make the life of these little angles miserable one, I ponder where has the natural order of things gone? Where is the so called nature’s perfectness?

आज का प्रण...

आज फिर तुने प्रण किया है -
" झूठ नहीं बोलूँगा, मन से पढूंगा
माँ-पिता के सपनोंको साकार करूँगा
जग मैं अपना नाम करूँगा "
लेकिन,
ज़रा ठहरो तो -
उस प्रण का क्या जो पिछले इतवार किया था ?
और न जाने ऐसे ही कितनी बार किया था !
"अरे हाँ उस प्रण पर सोमवार को अमल किया था न !"
पर आज तो बुधवार है ना !

आज-कल तो किस्सा ही यही है-
रात मैं प्रण, प्रातः विस्मरण !
"कल से करूँगा !"
'कल'- जो कभी आया नहीं और न आएगा
अतः प्रण कभी पूरा होगा नहीं !

वैसे आज क्या कर रहे हो ?
"बुधवार के प्रण पर अमल करने का
प्रण कर रहा हूँ !?"

डॉ विराट
इंदिरा गाँधी आयुर्विज्ञान संसथान
शिमला, हिमाचल