Of what is left undone

To hold still waters and wait for the storm. To listen to silence with unusual calm To reflect deep in depths unknown To reach that high, you've never known I'm not what I used to be........... Reading lines written by a sweet cousin brought me back to this page. I had promised myself to write more often but oft did not find enough inspiration or the time to sit back and reflect. I knew there were changes in an around me and used to ponder what brought them about. Have I found the answers.... is a difficult thing to say however seeing her use silence as a different medium of expression definitely brings back unfolding memories about the basis of this blog... Of what is left undone....and I hope some day I will be able to complete my poem.

Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.” (NIV) 31:8-9

Shabbat Parashat Mattot/Masei, 26 Tammuz 5762 - No Neutrality: Silence is Assent Torah Reading : Numbers 30:2 - 36:13 Haftarah Reading : Jeremiah 2:4-28, 3:4, 4:1-2 Silence is assent. How often do we face acts of injustice or callousness with silence? A derogatory joke in our presence, an act of selfishness or cruelty, or simply reading of political oppression in our newspapers -- all of these instances summon us to choose a side. We can either verbalize our opposition immediately, or -- through our silence -- we become allies of the act or words we abhor. There is no neutrality. Silence is assent.

O ye who believe! stand out firmly for God, as witnesses to fair dealing, and let not the hatred of others to you make you swerve to wrong and depart from justice. Be just: that is next to piety: and fear God. For God is well-acquainted with all that ye do. (Quran 5:8) It is time that we speak our minds or history will not forgive us for remaining silent & being a mute witness to oppression. Those who remain silent and dont voice atleast their disapproval would be considered a party to the crime.........

Rao, stills a mystery but I got my answers for the other. Late last night while I read the political antecedents of BO's to be staff like Hillary, James Jones & Rahm Emanuel I was sure the muslim ummah wont be missing George at all. I can only sympathise with the American people, like I do with the Pakistanis, for being politically waylayed as they voted for 'change'. Indians are lucky because they weren't promised anything anyway, so they dont get anything.....

It is oft seen that silence is the modus operandi. We saw it with Narsimha Rao earlier & today with Barak Obama. Closing your doors does not stop the fire, it can only give you the trancient illusion that you are secure. I dont deny the right of Isreal to defend its territory but what surprises me is that the exessive use of force doesn't spurn the world leadership to stop the massacre except a feeble press conference from the Arab league which uses any such a situation to come togather in a five star hotel, have lunch, make a meaningless press statement and go home. A well earned luncheon indeed......or the holidaying president-elect, 'who actually deserved the holiday after such a painstaking election campaign', to keep on frolicing on the sands of Hawaii...after all the toll in the bombing is just 400.......

2009 ...........almost three years now ... since i wrote here last ..... it seemed like yesterday......however the recent of recent events have taken the toll on my mental psyche......... thinking would never be the same. The scars on the mind left with the Mumbai attacks and the Palestinian slaughter... would take a while to heal. Cant find the seams or the ends of my string of thought...dont know where to begin...