Lend your voice.... AWAAZ DO !!

In India UNICEF has been working since 1949 to help ensure that each child in this country gets the best start in life... yet the fact remains that there are 8 million children in India who are denied their basic 

right to education.

Awaaz Do is a movement started by UNICEF which dreams of an India where 

every child is free to live a happy childhood ,

every child knows the way to school...

To this day several have joined the cause and the support of many more is required 

to help Awaaz Do realize its dreams...

so....

    lend your words, lend your support

champion the cause and show them the light

join  Awaaz do  and help bring the change you want to see in India tomorrow....

[HRI runs a school for the children of the nearby villages. the photograph was taken by P. Bandopadhay during a program at HRI where the children from the village-school participated.]

Mistake not the silence .....

Too many times we have let our pride speak for us
       and therefore remained silent....
Too many times we have resolved to revolt
       but just then quietened...
                but mistake not our silence for weakness or consent.....

       we feared being unveiled
       we feared being naked
             while your deaf and blind selves  judged, mocked and littered us again...
       we feared being misconstrued and lightened..
so every time we resolved to protest
    we walked up to you

    then swallowed and smothered ourselves again ......
               but mistake not our silence for weakness or consent .......

[image by google search]

.......................................................................... ................ waking from social anesthesia...

i am done being pretentious

  done playing by the norms

it was never my way i realized

  and will never be at all.

    'tis reposeful to be honest, -  say what i feel

or be sober sometimes and everything conceal .

i'll rather be a woman with passion and flaws

 than play by the norms 

   and be a petty pretentious petite doll...

[image via google search]

i do not care nomore....

i used to be complacent .... and then i was not....
  i accept the blame for that...

   i let them interfere way too much 

 ........ and let their views tear me apart...

each time when life was falling into place
    and i fancied good times were ahead

i sought their judgment and at times shared my joy ...
unfailingly, each time they analyzed me harshly

...... left me lost, left me distressed and dissatisfied.....

so i have resolved to cut myself from the lot

   cut myself from those whose opinions bother but do not matter much

lead a simple but orderly life 

   in a world full of abstractions,    full of  trees, flowers, and butterflies...

in a world where i will work from dawn to night

     work towards my dreams,
                       work to my dearies and my delight !!

[image from weheartit]