झुठी शान के परिंदे ही ज्यादा फड़फड़ाते हैं !
तरक्की के बाज़ की उडान में कभी आवाज़ नहीं होती

मैंने कुछ लोग ऐसे भी गरीब देखे हैं
जिनके पास पैसे के सिवा कुछ भी नहीं.

दिखते हैं पर नज़र नहीं आते
कुछ लोग कितने दूर हो जाते हैं.

खुद” को “अच्छा” साबित करने में
“वक्त” बर्बाद मत करना,
क्योंकि…
“सभी” इसी में लगे हुए हैं।

मुसीबतों से उभरती है शख्सियत यारो
जो चट्टानों से न उलझे वो झरना किस काम का.

हर किसी को खुश रख सकूँ, वो तरीका मुझे नहीं आता
जो मैं नहीं हूँ वैसा दिखने का, सलीका मुझे नहीं आता

लगी है प्यास चलो रेत निचोड़ी जाए ,
अपने हिस्से में समंदर नहीं आने वाला

जो झुकते हैं ज़िन्दगी में वो बुज़दिल नही होते
यह हुनर होता हैं उनका हर रिश्ता निभाने का

मंजिल मिले ना मिले
ये तो मुकदर की बात है
हम कोशिश भी ना करे
ये तो गलत बात है..

The post सुविचार appeared first on Monica Gupta.

Add a Comment

कार्टून … आप छोडो झाडू आम आदमी पार्टी में बवंडर की स्थिति है लेकिन पार्टी के मुखिया अरविंद केजरीवाल दिल्ली से 2,140.9 किलोमीटर दूर बेंगलुरु में प्राकृतिक इलाज करवा रहे हैं। केजरीवाल पार्टी में मचे घमासान से बेफिक्र हैं। बेंगलुरु में केजरीवाल ने खुद को खबरों और राजनीति की दुनिया से दूर रखा है। यह … Continue reading Cartoon …. Leave AAP

The post Cartoon …. Leave AAP appeared first on Monica Gupta.

Add a Comment

The post Cartoon AAP appeared first on Monica Gupta.

Add a Comment

कुछ जानी अंजानी बातें इकबाल आजाद से (मशहूर टीवी अदाकार) एक अच्छे अदाकार की यही खासियत होती है कि वो जिस भी किरदार मे ढले अपनी अमिट छाप छोड जाए. मशहूर टीवी अभिनेता “इकबाल आजाद” अपने हर रोल में ना सिर्फ अपनी छाप छोडने में कामयाब रहे हैं बल्कि असल जिंदगी मे भी उनके व्यक्तित्व … Continue reading IQBAL AZAD

The post IQBAL AZAD appeared first on Monica Gupta.

Add a Comment

कुछ दिनों पहले INDIA”s DAUGHTER देखी थी..पूरी तो नही देख पाई पर जितनी देखी उसमे निर्भया का दोस्त जोकि उसके साथ बस मे सवार था उसके बारे मे कुछ नही देखा. मन में विचार आया कि शायद डोक्यूमैंटरी के आखिरी मे उसका बाईट होगा.पर कल नेट पर सर्च करते हुए उसी Avanindra Pandey जोकि बस … Continue reading INDIA”s DAUGHTER

The post INDIA”s DAUGHTER appeared first on Monica Gupta.

Add a Comment

Drive …. कुछ देर पहले एक मोटरसाईकिल वाला अपनी बाईक को एक किनारे पर लगा कर मोबाईल पर बात कर रहा था. बहां से तीन लडकियां जा रही थी उसे देख कर मुंह पर हाथ रख कर हसंने लगी और बोलने लगी ये बदलने चले हैं समाज को … by chance मैं वही खडी थी.. … Continue reading Article …. Drive

The post Article …. Drive appeared first on Monica Gupta.

Add a Comment

मुझे यह बताते हुए बहुत खुशी हो रही है कि “नेशनल बुक ट्र्स्ट” की और से प्रकाशित मेरा लिखा बाल उपन्यास ” वो तीस दिन”अब On line हो गया है अब ना सिर्फ आप इसे आर्डर पर भी मंगवा सकते हैं बल्कि On line पढ भी सकते हैं… !!! मुझे पूरी उम्मीद है कि आप … Continue reading Wo Tees Din

The post Wo Tees Din appeared first on Monica Gupta.

Add a Comment

बेशक, आज समाज मे महिलाओ को लेकर टेंशन का माहौल है पर इसका अर्थ यह भी नही कि हम नकारात्मक ही सोचना , बोलना और लिखना शुरु कर दें. फेसबुक से जान पहचान मे आई एक महिला जोकि अक्सर टीवी पर भी दिखाई दे जाती हैं बहुत नकारात्मक सोच है उनकी महिला के बारे में. … Continue reading लेख … महिला दिवस

The post लेख … महिला दिवस appeared first on Monica Gupta.

Add a Comment

कमाल है लोगो की सोच की … कुछ देर पहले वटस अप पर एक मैसेज आया कि भूल जाओ अब राज कपूर, अनिल कपूर, एकता कपूर, ,साहिद कपूर, रणवीर कपूर, अर्जुन कपूर, करीना कपूर … आज की जरुरत सिर्फ “इलाईची कपूर” सच मानिए पहले तो मुझे समझ ही नही आया पर जब समझ आया तो … Continue reading लेख इलाईची कपूर

The post लेख इलाईची कपूर appeared first on Monica Gupta.

Add a Comment

The post कार्टून … मौका विवादित बयान appeared first on Monica Gupta.

Add a Comment

वटस अप से जुडी एक सहेली अचानक वहां से गायब को गई. आज मिली तो मैने पूछा कि क्या हुआ ???. इस पर वो बोली कि वटस अप को बंद कर दिया. कारण बताया कि उसके एक पारिवारिक रिश्तेदार ने वटस अप पर हैलो किया तो उसने भी स्वीकार कर लिया उसके बाद वो लगातार … Continue reading लेख … वटस अप ???

The post लेख … वटस अप ??? appeared first on Monica Gupta.

Add a Comment

Little bee, no swerving from your line when you deliver the goods back home.

A busy place with no door but when you enter you still use your buzzer.

Then back again from flower to flower, collecting the pollen that gives you power.

It’s home again, little bundles carried to feed the Queen

Add a Comment

Justice is a matter of belief that fairness has won the day, that truth and honesty has prevailed …

But alas, Justice is only a perception that many times is corrupted by greed …

Add a Comment

 

As they come together and chatter about this and that the world watches to see if they can really fly or are just a lot of noise …

Add a Comment

What’s on my mind?
Indigenous peoples and their worry about being over run by other populations I guess could sum it up.
I suppose if cougars, wolves, elephants and such learned to shoot guns or band together better they would kick out the human populations who have transgressed on their land but as people go I believe we need to understand the reason for others unlawfully entering areas already overpopulated.
Overpopulation where they come from, economic despair, greed, the making of money into a God and the lust for power over others seem to be good places to start .
Seems to me that as people from a planet with finite resources we need to try to make all places a good place to live so people want to stay where they are. Make everywhere a good place to be.
Sharing with others does not have to mean give away my happiness but it could mean helping you gain yours. I hope I can do that with more than one other and if we all did it for just two other people it would cure the problem in my mind at least.

Add a Comment

When you are feeling all alone, if you just sing out loud you may be surprised how many others will join in with you …

Add a Comment

 

I was just thinking that it’s not the perfect flower I look for in my photography, it’s the perfect feeling, same with my friends, they all have little flaws just like me but when I close my eyes and think of them I only know the sweet essence of their perfection and see how wonderful life is to let me see them … Love you all !

Add a Comment

creative commons search "name"

As someone who has a background in feminist studies, I know that the naming of things is important.  There is a power in a name, and politics exist within the realm of naming as well.

What does this have to do with libraries and librarianship? Quite a bit.

When I was in library school back in the mid 90s, my graduate school was going through reaccreditation.  One of the issues on the table was renaming the school.  On the table was changing the degree from a Masters in Library and Information Studies to a Masters in Information Studies.  Heated debates ensued, but at the end of it all, the students felt that it was really important to leave the word library in the title of the degree.

In the world of school libraries, after a stint of media centers, it seems that the term of favor now is Information Commons.  My response to this is that I think that the very idea of information commons is implicit in the idea of libraries.  I do understand that the term IC is probably much sexier when it comes to funding. Whenever I tell folks I am a school I usually get a chuckle and nudge and told either I don't look like a librarian, or asked if I still teach Dewey.  I know if I told them I was worked in an information commons in an academic setting I might get a little more respect.  I find myself, however, sticking to the terms library and librarian.

Trust me, I have done plenty of reflection regarding whether or not I am simply becoming one of those "GET OFF MY LAWN" people.  I really don't think that is it.  I don't think that I am clinging to something that is outdated.  Rather, I think that folks really need to broaden their view of what it means to be a librarian and work in a library.

What do you think is in a name?

Add a Comment

                   जय रक्तदाता

बात 1974 की हैं तब मैं  नौ साल की थी. हम हरियाणा के जींद मे रहते थे. वहां शाम को अक्सर रेस्ट हाउस मे खेलने जाते. वहाँ  एक पानी से भरा pond था. खेलते खेलते अचानक एक लडकी उसमें  गिर गई बच्चे तो बहुत खेल् रहे थे पर मैने आगे बढ कर  उसे डूबने से  बचाया.  दिन सभी बच्चे मेरी जयजयकार करते  हुए  उस लडकी को घर ले गए. उस दिन के बाद से  और लगभग आज से तीन साल पहले तक मैं यह बात हर किसी को बताती कि मैने एक बच्ची को डूबने से बचाया.( वैसे वो लडकी आज चंढीगढ मे सफल वकील है) 

पर तीन साल पहले जब मुझे  रक्तदान के बारे मे जानकारी हुई और  मैने इस क्षेत्र मे काम करना शुरु किया तो उस बचपन की धटना को मै बिल्कुल भूलती चली गई. तीन साल पहले एक मित्र का फोन आया कि 2 साल की बच्ची के दिल आप्रेशन होना है खून चाहिए तब  संजय गुप्ता जी की मदद से दो चार डाक्टरो को फोन किया और  अनायास ही उस बच्ची की मदद  हो गई यानि खून का इंतजाम करवा दिया और दस दिन बाद बच्ची  सकुशल घर लौट गई. इसके बाद और भी फोन आने लगे और  मैने अपना देश भर में नेट वर्क बनाना शुरु किया और तब से अब तक कितने  लोगो की मदद कर चुकी हू अब गिनती भी नही है इसके लिए मेरा अकेली का  योगदान नही था. इसके लिए मेरे मित्र  बहुत सहायक सिद्द हुए हालाकि बहुत को तो मैं जानती भी नही हू मात्र फोन पर ही बात हुई  पर यह जरुर पता था कि यह लोग रक्तदान के प्रति बेहद बेहद जागरुक है और वाकई मे इस क्षेत्र मे कुछ करना चाहते हैं

14 जून वर्ड ब्लड डोनर्स डे के उपलक्ष मे मैं अपने कुछ रक्तदाता  दोस्तों को धन्यवाद देना चाह्ती हूं  डाक्टर संगीता पाठक(दिल्ली), डाक्टर रवनीत कौर(चंडीगढ), श्री राकेश सांगर (पंचकुला) , दिल्ली की ब्लड कनेक्ट की पूरी कर्मठ, जोशीली और मेहनती  टीम,  श्री राजेंद्र महेश्वरी(भीलवाडा), श्री दीपक शुक्ला(जलगांव) , डाक्टर सोनू सिह (दिल्ली),  जगदीश कुमार (जम्मू) संगीता वधवा(मुम्बई) 

बात ये नही है कि ये कहाँ  कहां रहते हैं  आज आन लाईन के जमाने मे सब तुरंत हो जाता है. इन  का नेट वर्क इतना मजबूत है कि कोशिश करके ये कही न कही से रक्तदाता खोज ही लेते हैं आज की तारीख मे मेरे पास ऐसे 30 से ज्यादा नाम हैं जो इस क्षेत्र मे अभूतपूर्व कार्य कर रहे हैं और मेरा प्रयास यही रहता है कि आज की तारीख मे किसी भी जरुरत मंद का फोन आए तो मै कैसे भी करके मदद कर सकूं.

इन सभी ने मुझे विश्वास जताया है कि जब भी रक्त की जरुरत हो आप फोन करिए इंतजाम हो जाएगा. मुझे लगता है कि दुख और परेशानी की घडी मे अगर ये शब्द सुनने को मिल जाए तो तकलीफ आधी हो जाती है. 

बेशक, रक्तदान के क्षॆत्र मे अभी बहुत बदलाव आना बाकि है लोगो मे जागरुकता लानी बहुत जरुरी है पर जब ऐसे कर्मठ और मेहनती लोग होंगें तो जल्द ही वो दिन भी आएगा कि जब देश मे शत प्रतिशत स्वैच्छिक रक्तदान होगा. 

यकीन मानिए बहुत खुशी का अहसास होता है जब वो स्वस्थ होकर घर चला जाते  है. जरुरतमंंद को जब कहती हूं कि आप चिंता मत कीजिए इंतजाम हो जाएगा तो उसकी फोन पर भराई आवाज मे जो एक खुशी झलकती है वो बयान नही की जा सकती. यकीन मानिए उस दिन खुशी के मारे  भूख प्यास भी उड जाती है.

अंत मैं बहुत  बहुत धन्यवाद देती हूँ डाक्टर युद्दबीर सिह ख्यालिया जी का जिन्होने मुझे ISBTI( इंडियन सोसाईटी आफ ब्लड ट्रासफ्यूजन एंड ईम्योनोहैमोटोलोजी) के माध्यम से रक्तदान की महत्ता से रुबरु करवाया.

मोनिका गुप्ता

 

 

Add a Comment

आपकी नम आखें देख कर कोई जब आपसे इसका कारण पूछे और आप कहे कि “शायद आखँ में कुछ गिर गया है ” तो इसका मतलब साफ है कि you have learnt how to survive …

 

अच्छे होते हैं बुरे लोग…..
कम से कम
अच्छे होने का दिखावा तो नहीं करते

 

बेशक मेरे ऐब मुझे उंगलिओं पे गिनवाओ
बस मेरी गैर- मौजूदगी मैं मुझे बुरा मत कहना

 

चंद सिक्कों को सिर से वार फेर देती है माँ
कुछ इस तरह से भी दर्द उतार देती है माँ (मोनिका )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Add a Comment

By Copyright by Fritz W. Guerin, St. Louis. [Public domain]

Gender seems to be perpetually in the air in the world of librarianship and children's literature.  I have been in this field for a while now and have worked in some different settings, but my setting of well over 10 years now has been in a school.

Over the past month or so I have been paying more attention than usual to our collection, gender and circulation.  I first started off simply with a post-it and two columns.  Each time a student would check out a book, I would mark off the column with the gender identification.  Every day the results would be similar.  The boys and girls in my school check out a similar amount of books.

I then decided to utilize the catalog software. (Anyone who knows me knows that I *love* running statistics!) I started off looking at the top ten patrons (those with the highest number of check outs) for the month, then I ran it back to the last 9 months of the school year.  The results?  Out of the top 10 patrons, 7 of them are boys.  Open the stats up to the top 50 patrons and the gender mix gets closer - 26 girls and 24 boys make up our top 50.

I have many thoughts about the why of this.  We have 4 librarians shepherding our students through their years at school.  Our early childhood librarian is a man, so one of the students first looks at what a reader looks like is Jesse.  We are very mindful about the books we share with our students, and we try incredibly hard to make sure there is a variety with characters who are diverse in all sorts of ways.  When we find stereotypes, we talk about them with the students.  We don't go in for the "Girl's Read" "Guys Read" variety of booklists or book talks.  In fact, two of my favorite anecdotes about assumptions helped make me more aware of my own gender bias after being steeped in this girls vs boys culture my whole life.  We have a boy who is a super reader, and he mostly (to my knowledge) was a reader of graphic novels.  He pretty much read everything we had for his age group by the time he was done with 4th grade.  At the end of the year, I ask the students to reflect and I ask them their favorite title.  His favorite title of all time?  The Penderwicks by Birdsall.  We also had a group of middle school boys who quietly came into the library and methodically checked out every single Clique book.  They didn't hide them, read them out in the open, and felt no shame along the way.

It's really up to the adults in the room to set the tone and fight against the pink and blue tide.  Create a reading culture, make sure you are not perpetuating the stereotype by handing boys sports books and girls friendship books.  Highlight books that get outside of the gender box.  Remember, there are no such thing as boy books and girl books, no matter what some marketing departments might say.

Add a Comment

A quite lively discussion has blown in from space on a friends Face-postcard about something I forgot because it went a completely different way in short order and is now a history lesson on indigenous peoples.

It was said the “Native “”American”” people” were here first and that they claim to be “Indigenous” and that they have their traditional stories to back up their claim to properties etc.

That got me to thinking (usually leads to minor disasters) that just because someone in your past lived some place and told creation stories doesn’t always mean you have any more rights than the guy who was born there after you lost the battle, in my case way after.

I know, growing up, my mother used to tell me, when I asked how I got here that I came from heaven and perhaps, if I’m a good boy, God will give me land there again though I think he may balk at the casino I want to build even if it is to take all the sinner’s money or credits or what ever the currency of his realm is.

And further more if in the past there was only one super continent, Pangaea or what ever they really called it, then we all have a claim to everywhere cause we are all descendants of the original inhabitants and I’ll bet a dollar to a doughnut there aint anywho who can tell me where they thought they came from even after the break up.

I thought perhaps we are all from Mars via the Pleiades star system but had to leave cause the Marshonians wanted the place back so we moved on as they had come from the Hercules system to Mars first.

To send every one back to where they came from is stupid, you can’t fit that many people on Ellis Island let alone grow enough hemp there to have a trade economy with New York.

I don’t know the answer other than if we don’t start being natives from “EARTH” the little grey men will boot us out and wipe out the myths of our origins from then to eternity.

It’s a race none us may win …

Add a Comment

Add a Comment

Each day is filled with work. My work is fun, but there are still decisions to make and a path to stay on. There are meetings to schedule and deadlines to meet. It can be a constant process of thought and movement.
I have stopped for the day. I stopped to look over my idea book and enjoy the summer breeze. The are ideas everywhere and sometimes you cannot find the ones that are in the calm of the day if you don’t stop to look and listen.
My doggie stands guard to protect me from squirrels, my other doggie wanted the cool of the air in the house. I listen to the wind kicking up. I hear cars from a nearby street. I feel sure that the birds are discussing what’s for dinner. My feel are hot in my sneakers that are still on since my morning walk. My daisies look like they are reaching for the sky. The weeds are tall on the north side of my house. My thoughts travel to what to make for dinner. (I resist that thought for now). My daughter turned 35 today! That makes me smile as I remember her entrance into this world and her loud voice!

All of these are but fleeting thoughts. Sometimes a fleeting thought will make into a story, but you must take the time to stop, look and listen.

Now I dive into my idea book!

Filed under: All Things Artsy, change, dream, Inspiring, Kicking Around Thoughts, Work is Play....?

Display Comments Add a Comment

---

2013 GradeReading.NET Summer Reading Lists

Keep your students reading all summer! The lists for 2nd, 3rd and 4th, include 10 recommended fiction titles and 10 recommended nonfiction titles. Printed double-sided, these one-page flyers are perfect to hand out to students, teachers, or parents. Great for PTA meetings, have on hand in the library, or to send home with students for the summer. FREE Pdf or infographic jpeg. See the Summer Lists Now!

---

When I teach writing, I realize that I make everything sound like it’s a straightforward process. Well, it’s not. Listen to Anne Lamott:

Writing a first draft is very much like watching a Polaroid develop. You can’t–and in face, you’re not supposed to–know exactly what the picture is going to look like until it has finished developing. Anne Lamott, novelist and essayist.

When we discuss writing, we separate out the voice, the character, the plot, the language used, etc. so we can actually find useful things to talk about. And there are many useful and helpful things to discuss. However, the actual writing is a combination of all these, a gestalt. The whole is greater than its parts.

It’s helpful to embrace uncertainty in the writing process, to just write and see what happens. Those of you who are outliners–who plot endlessly and have cards for every scene–you still have to just write. You’ve managed to remove one level of uncertainty, but there are still enough layers left to keep you on your toes. You still must make decisions on what details to include, what words will express the thoughts, and so much more.

For every sentence, there are numerous decisions to be made: the basic thought expressed, nuances of that thought, connecting the thought to what came before and what follow, the vocabulary, the sentence structure, and punctuation and spelling. Outliners only manage to eliminate the first choice and maybe ease the nuances and connections of the thought to other thoughts.

Every time you face the blank page, you face uncertainty. It’s a normal part of the writing process.

Add a Comment