Baa, baa, black sheep, Have you any wool? Yes, sir, yes, sir, Three bags full; One for the master, And one for the dame, And one for the little boy Who lives down the lane. ∼ Porter G., Hilda Offen, Pradera, Esme Eve, Alan Jesset, Richard Hooke

∼ Sanjay Ahluwalia

The meadow and the mountain with desire Gazed on each other, till a fierce unrest Surged ‘neath the meadow’s seemingly calm breast, And all the mountain’s fissures ran with fire. A mighty river rolled between them there. What could the mountain do but gaze and burn? What could the meadow do but look and yearn, And gem its bosom to …

Reveal the dragon thro’ the human; coursing swift as fire To the close hall of counsel, where his Angel form renews. In a sweet vale shelter’d with cedars, that eternal stretch Their unmov’d branches, stood the hall; built when the moon shot forth, In that dread night when Urizen call’d the stars round his feet; Then burst the center from …

∼ Sanjay Ahluwalia

∼ Sanjay Ahluwalia

~ मजरूह सुल्तानपुरी

बहुत समय पहले बंगाल में महाराजा कृष्णचन्द्र का राज्य था। उनके दरबार में बहुत सारे विदूषक थे। सबसे ज्यादा लोकप्रिय था – गोपाल। गोपाल नाई था लेकिन सब लोग उसे गोपाल भांड कहकर बुलाते थे। भांड यानी मसखरा, जो लोगों को हंसा सकता हो। अपने चुटकलों, हावभाव, टीका – टिप्पणी और महाराज या अन्य लोगों को मूर्ख बनाने के तरीको …

Enjoying his life far out in the sea, Walter the Whale was so glad to be free. He just swam about in the waves all the day- Sometimes he’d turn over and send up some spray. When he wanted some fun, after fish he would chase, Or challenge a sea-horse to have a long race. Then one day some sailors …

In 1994, the population of the world was over five and a half billion. In the year2020, scientists estimate close to 8 billion. In that same year, China’s population will probably grow to almost one and a half billion, about one fifth of all the people in the world