The things mentioned below are true to my knowledge, and I'm sure most of you aren't aware of these facts. We all are aquainted with these verses, few of them haunted us, few of them made us laugh. YES, I'm talking about the nursery rhymes, we were forced to deliver them infront of strange strangers just to prove that...YES I"M A SMART KID! ALthough we aren't (well most of us).
Keeping them aside, there's one more aspect to them, the REALITY. The circumstances involving the evolutions of these rhymes are a lil bit disheartening unlike when we hear them from a sweet innocent kid. To present you with few examples-
BABA BLACK SHEEP, HAVE YOU ANY WOOL-
baba black sheep, have you any wool?
yes sir, yes sir...3 bags full!
one for the master, one for the dame...one for the little boy who lives down the lane!
EVOLTUOION- few centuries back, there was this tradition in U.K. that whatever the farmer cultivated must be divided into three parts, one for the master that's the landlord...one for the dame which signifies the queen of england and one for the poor boy and that's the farmer himself!
the three bags of wool signifies the crop cultivated by the poor boy!
RINGA RINGA ROSES, POCKETS FULL OF POSES-
ring ringa roses, pockets full of poses
husha busha...we all fall down!
EVOLUTION- this one comes from the state of affirs of EUROPE which was severly hit by an epidemic (chicken pox)...ringa ringa roses is a metaphor for the pox, which was spread all over the body...and eventually it led to death so the pockets were full with white flowers used in graveyards...husha busha we al fell down...which said that ultimately everyone has to die!
Well I might not to be true but this is what I know about them, if any bugging is to be done... I would appreciate the suggestions!
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Friday, November 27, 2009
wake up........who?
At the stroke of midnight when the whole world sleeps, India will wake up…
Will wake up to corruption, failure of political systems, poverty and unemployment?
Will wake up to scams, scams of the order of few thousand crores and to deaths of farmers?
Will wake up to sound of guns blazing the streets of Mumbai, parliament being attacked, policemen being killed, schools blown away and aam aadmi being the soft target of terrorism?
I have seen India waking up to smoking bans, and the next day those bans mocked when we see policemen smoking on the streets. I have read about rapes and female fetus mortality rate go up than the inflation. I have seen criminals filing election nominations and even winning them.
At the stroke of midnight when the world sleeps, India will wake up to fevers of losing in cricket world cup but being smiling on losing in the Olympics. I have seen people dying of hunger and ministers spending crores to build a statue of theirs in parks. I have seen it all!
I know a lot will raise a finger on me as to what have I done, but before doing that ask yourself…have you played a part in waking up the biggest democracy of the world!
It’s time for us to wake up! It’s time for the Indians to wake up to the stroke of midnight!
Will wake up to corruption, failure of political systems, poverty and unemployment?
Will wake up to scams, scams of the order of few thousand crores and to deaths of farmers?
Will wake up to sound of guns blazing the streets of Mumbai, parliament being attacked, policemen being killed, schools blown away and aam aadmi being the soft target of terrorism?
I have seen India waking up to smoking bans, and the next day those bans mocked when we see policemen smoking on the streets. I have read about rapes and female fetus mortality rate go up than the inflation. I have seen criminals filing election nominations and even winning them.
At the stroke of midnight when the world sleeps, India will wake up to fevers of losing in cricket world cup but being smiling on losing in the Olympics. I have seen people dying of hunger and ministers spending crores to build a statue of theirs in parks. I have seen it all!
I know a lot will raise a finger on me as to what have I done, but before doing that ask yourself…have you played a part in waking up the biggest democracy of the world!
It’s time for us to wake up! It’s time for the Indians to wake up to the stroke of midnight!
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