viharinama: ROOLDOO RAM !!!!

viharinama: ROOLDOO RAM !!!!

viharinama: ROOLDOO RAM !!!!

viharinama: ROOLDOO RAM !!!!

Also see my blog 'I escaped this sweet'

MERA YEH KAAM TUM KARDO

मेरा यह काम तुम करदो !

न शिकवा है न रुसवाई
चलो सब बाँट लेते हैं
पुराने ख़त वह तस्वीरें
सभी कुछ छंट देते हैं ;
जो तेरा है तुम ही लेलो
मेरा भी पास ही रख लो
मै रोऊ गर तुम्हे क्या है
मुझे चुप चाप सहने दो
आवाजें छन के आती है
फसीलों को खड़ा दो
हवाएं तंग करती हैं
दीवारों को बुलंद कर दो ;
लबों में क़फल कानो में रूई
या प्याले में ज़हर भर दो ;
मेरा यह काम तुम करदो
प्याले में ज़हर भर दो !

दमन
०७/०७/२०१०

(English rendering of above poem.  Mistrust between the two neighbouring countries, and ban on the social media prompted me to pen these lines)

Please do this for my sake!

I have no grievance or complaint
Let's divide everything;
Old letters, and pictures
Let's sort out everything;
You take whatever is yours
Keep my objects as well;
Why bother if I cry
Let me bear it all quietly;
Sounds percolate and reverberate
Erect fences with concertina coils;
Tumultuous winds distract
Construct the walls higher;
Put lock on the  lips,and plug the ears
or put the potion in my cup;
Please do this for my sake
Put the potion in my cup!!!!!!!!!

daman
07/07/2010

KOOLE GHAH UTTE !!!

Image by Athena's Pix (Catching up) via Flickr

koole ghah utte!!!


Koole ghah 'ute 
ik chhinn jehda
Yaad teri vich
asaan bitaya ! 


Assi zindagi da
moonh chumya
Akhian vich
ik supan sajaya !


Jadon jadon assan 
yaad teri vich 
Kooli ghah 'ute
dehun bitaye !


Dil vich 
Hookan di laat uthi
Sooraj dehun de 
khamb vich laaye !!!

---daman
09/09/2010


ਕੂਲੇ ਘਾਹ ਉਤੇ!!!!

ਕੂਲੇ ਘਾਹ ਉਤੇ 

ਇਕ  ਛਿੰਨ  ਜੇਹੜਾ 

ਯਾਦ ਤੇਰੀ  ਵਿਚ

 ਅਸਾਂ ਬਿਤਾਯਾ !

ਅੱਸੀ ਜ਼ਿੰਦਗੀ 

ਦਾ ਮੂੰਹ ਚੁਮ੍ਯਾ 

ਅਖੀਆਂ ਵਿਚ  

ਇਕ ਸੁਪਨ ਸਜਾਯਾ !

ਜਦੋਂ ਜਦੋਂ  ਅਸਾਂ

ਕੂਲੀ ਘਾਹ  ਉਤੇ

ਯਾਦ ਤੇਰੀ ਵਿਚ 

ਦੇਹੁ  ਬਿਤਾਏ  !

ਦਿਲ ਵਿਚ ਹੂਕਾਂ

ਦੀ ਲਾਟ ਉਠੀ 

ਸੂਰਜ ਦੇਹੁ  ਦੇ ਖੰਬ 

ਵਿਚ ਲਾਏ  !!!

---ਦਮਨ

੦੯/੦੯/੨੦੧੦ 

कूले घाह उते !!!!

कूले  घाह उते 

इक छिन्न  जेह्ड़ा

याद तेरी विच 

अस्सां  बिताया  !!

अस्सी ज़िन्दगी

दा मूह  चुमया 

अखिआन  विच  इक

सुपन सजाया  !!

जदों जदों  अस्सां 

कूली घाह उते 

याद तेरी विच 

देहों  बिताये  !!

दिल विच  हूकां

दी लाट उठी 

सूरज  देहों  दे खंब

विच लाये  !!!

---दमन

०९/०९ /२०१० 

!!! کولے  گھھہ  اتے 

کولے  گھھہ  اتے 

اک چھینن جهدا

یاد تیری وچ 

اسّان بتایا

اسسی زندگی دا موہ 

دا موہ چومیا

اکھیاں وچ اک 

سپن سجایا 

جدوں جدوں اسّان

کولی گھھہ اتے 

یاد تیری وچ 

دہوں بتاے

دل وچ ہوکاں

 دی لات اٹھی        

سورج دہوں دے کھنب 

وچ لاے 

دمن

٠٩/٠٩/٢٠١٠ 

ROOLDOO RAM !!!!

Image via Wikipedia

I was posted in Jammu and Kashmir during Indo Pak war in 1965. As an Artillery Officer I was attached with a Dogra Battalion which was a highly decorated unit. The Dogras are  known to be very fierce fighters.


The unit was located very close to borders between the two countries and every other day there used to be skirmishes between our troops. Often there used to be raids from the opposing side.


I was posted on a hilltop named Pt. 62 along with infantry officer Capt Anup.


We had to keep a constant vigil round the clock. We were directly overlooking the battalion headquarters.


The danger of sudden raids was so great that even the non combatants were issued weapons and were given  a preliminary training in the use of the firearms.


It also created very comic situations at times. 


I cannot help recall one such incident in which Rooldoo Ram, the masalchi or 'assistant of the unit cook' kept constantly firing from his trench and was controled after great effort  and lot of persuasion by the Subedar Major who belonged to the same village as Rooldoo.


Once on a pitch dark night the sentries sounded a raid alert at 0230 a.m. by blowing whistles and firing from verey light pistols. We as well as the other picquets surrounding the battalion also fired Verey lights.


The whole skyline was abuzz with verey lights and tracer bullets. 

Image by Digital Terrorist via Flickr

As per standing instructions by the Adjutant every combatant and non-combatant was to take immediate position or get into the nearest trench and challenge any moving object.


As soon as the raid alert was heard our cook and masalchi  Rooldoo Ram left everything and jumped into the nearest trench with there  .303 rifle and ammunition. Rooldoo Ram ducked his head and started firing indiscrimnately into the sky and shouting obscenities at the top of his voice.


The raid was repulsed successfully without any casualties apart from some minor injuries sustained due to the melee in the night.


But long after the raid was repulsed Rooldoo Ram was still shouting and hurling invectives at the enemy. He kept firing without listening to anyone. He had become hysterical and it became a problem

Image via Wikipedia

to pacify him. When every effort had failed, our Subedar Major who belonged to the same village as Rooldoo Ram, started shouting at very high pitch and matching every invective with an even dirtier invective in his native lingo. Rooldoo Ram suddenly stopped shouting and on recognising the voice of Subedar Major he uttered


'' sahabji tussi?''  he came out on the orders of Subedar Major, trembling like a leaf .


Next day he was hauled up and marched upto the Adjutant. The Adjutant handed out a very lenient punishment and let him off with a warning...


We all had a hearty laugh whenever we recalled this very funny incident.