गर्विष्ठ की अभिमानी ??

आपण सर्वांनीच नितांतसुंदर असा "मी शिवाजीराजे भोसले बोलतोय" बघितला असेलच. तो किती अप्रतिम आहे हे मी वेगळं सांगायची गरज नाही किंवा त्याची उत्कृष्टता जोखण्याएवढी माझी कुवतही नाही. फ़क्त त्यातला एक खटकलेला मुद्दा मांडावासा वाटला जो (माझ्या मते) अतिशय महत्वाचा आहे आणि तो विषयाच्या हेतुच्या आड़ येणारा ठरू शकतो किंवा मराठीत चुकीच्या शब्दांचा पायंडा पाडणारा ठरू शकतो म्हणुनच हा ब्लॉग प्रपंच.

या चित्रपटाची टॅगलाईन आहे "गर्व आहे मला महाराष्ट्रीय असल्याचा". माझ्या मते दिग्दर्शकाला "गर्व" च्या जागी "अभिमान" हा शब्द अभिप्रेत असावा किंबहुना "अभिमान" हा शब्दच तेथे जास्त समर्पक आहे परंतु हिंदी भाषेच्या अतिरेकामुळे (किंवा पगडा म्हणा हवं तर) हा चुकीचा शब्दा प्रयोग कोणाच्याच लक्षात आलेला नाही. कारण हिंदीत "मुझे गर्व है की मैं आपका बेटा हूं" किंवा "मुझे अपने भारतवासी होनेपे गर्व है" असे शब्दप्रयोग वापरले जातात कारण त्या भाषेतील त्या शब्दाच्या अर्थाप्रमाणे ते योग्यही आहे.

असं म्हणतात की कुठलीही भाषा जितकी जास्तीत जास्त वापरली जाते तितके तिच्यातील शब्दालंकार, तिचे आयुष्या वृध्दिंगत होत जाते. गुरुमुखी (किंवा पंजाबी) भाषा ही काही वर्षांपूर्वी मृतवत होऊ घातली होती परंतु त्या भाषिकांनी प्रयत्नपूर्वक अंगिकारलेल्या प्रयत्नांमुळे आज ती भाषा भारतातील अनेल हिंदी भाषिक राज्यांमधे संवाद साधण्याची एक प्रभावी भाषा बनली आहे। (आणि याउप्पर तिला बॉलीवुड च्या चित्रपटांमधे जवळपास राष्ट्रीय भाषेचा दर्जा ही मिळाला आहेच हे सांगणे न लगे). इथे मला मराठी भाषेच्या वापराच्या नावाने गळे काढायची इच्छा नाही. परंतु त्यामुळे वस्तुस्थितीत बदल होत नाही हे मात्र नक्की.

आपल्याला लहानपणा पासून शिकवण्यात आलेल्या "गर्वाचे घर खाली" किंवा "ग ची बाधा" अशा म्हणी किंवा शब्दप्रयोगांवरून गर्व हा शब्द गुणांच्या कक्षेत न येता त्याकडे अवगुण म्हणूनच पहिले जाते हे नक्की. (परंतु हिंदीत गर्व हे अभिमान या अर्थी आणि अभिमान हे गर्व या अर्थी वापरले जाते म्हणून आपणही मराठीतले अर्थ सोडून हिंदी अर्थ उसनवार घेण्याची गरज नाही.. आठवा अमिताभ आणि जया चा "अभिमान".... असो).

प्राथमिक शिक्षण झालेल्या कुठल्याही व्यक्तीच्या हे खरतर चटकन ध्यानात यायला हवं होतं. क्षणभरासाठी आपण हे विसरू की सामान्य माणसाच्या हे लक्षात आले नाही परंतु इतके साहित्यिक, लेखक, मराठी कथा/पटकथा लेखक इत्यादी कोणाच्याच हे लक्षात आल नाही हे खर तर मोठ्ठं आश्चर्य म्हटलं पाहिजे. किंबहुना चित्रपटाचा निर्माता, पटकथाकार हा महेश मांजरेकर सारखा प्रथितयश मराठी कलाकार असून ही त्याच्याही ही गोष्ट लक्षात आली नाही याचे सखेद आश्चर्य वाटते. कालांतराने पुढल्या पिढीने "गर्व आहे मला मी महाराष्ट्रीय असल्याचा" आणि "गर्वाचे घर खाली" याच्या संधितून "त्यामुळेच महाराष्ट्रीय माणूस खाली असतो" असा निराळाच अर्थ काढला तर आश्चर्य वाटायला नको...

(Anti)-Professionalism helps!!

What is best called as following your duties or doing justice to your job. Like doing it full heartedly, giving your full dedication, attention, time and interest for 8 hours of your day (or whatever your agreement to work per day). How would you describe the same while talking about special professions like say Doctors or Lawyers? Doctor can't say I'll just work for 8 hours a day, pack off and go home. He has to rush for emergencies during odd hours and extreme lengths. Neither do the lawyer can say I'll just work for my client's case during the court hours only. (Honestly if they realy start doing so they'll be the least working brains where their income would be inversely proportional to that considering the long(est) summer vacations, general holidays and their normal working days and hours. Anyways, that's not the point for today's forum. I'll write seperately about the whole topic of court/judge/laws in India. Remind me next time. :) ) He has to work on the case details, backgrounds, minute observations, references from old cases, judgements by other judges on similar cases in history. Basically everything which will prove his client non-guilty. Now assume his client is actually a guilty, a murderer, a rapist or a robber and knowing the fact if the lawyer still fights to prove him innocent, would you still call his/her efforts as a fulfilling his duties towards profession? I guess I'm not making sense to you. Read below and then read above para again.

-Kasab demands Perfume, toothpaste & stroll outside cell : 30 Apr 2009

-Kasab demands for 'mutton biriyani' in jail : August 07 2009

-Kasab’s lawyer seeks time as Kasab demands chargesheet in Urdu : April 21st, 2009

-Kasab Demands Urdu Newspaper, Perfume in Jail : 28 Apr 2009

-Smiling Kasab demands Pakistani lawyer : April 15, 2009


Here we are speaking about some DEMANDS by the person (?) who killed hundreds of innocents and is rather demanded unanimously to be hanged. I don't care what the bunch of fools or let's call them humar rights people instead for suitability, (who, by the way, care only for terrorists and their families and easily forget the families of victims of blasts or terrorist attacks. Dont blame coz that's what I've seen them doing in India all the times), NGOs or so called experts has to comments about individual's right for justice and in this case this individual is the one who got caught live, millions of eyes saw him shooting and killing the innocents ruthlessly. Do we really need to follow the so called justice path for some one who caused this massacre? I know you are with me and you accept it but you don't want to accept it coz somewhere down in the head we have been feeded that "Let Hundred Guilty be acquitted but one innocent should not be convicted" and we run Kasab's case too assuming him innocent coz the edifice of the Indian Criminal justice administration system is based on this very fundamental maxim.
Okay. So we want to follow/respect indian law, justice, court and its procedures for running the case. Can there be some way which will ensure the criminals (real criminals/terrorist to whom millions have seen committing crime) are being punished severely while we follow his (so called) right for justice too? The immediate answer might be NO. But if we tried to explore further then YES. There might be something. Like let the lawyer of such sociopath (Mr Abdul Kazmi and Kasab in same order....just to make it clear) can pretend to run his case or actually run his case but with putting very very less or negligible efforts towards proving him innocent (which he is not actually). Like not provinding the enough (artificial) evidences or not running his case strongly thus proving him guilty. This is little out of the way or not a normal practice as such. But it's doable. I know what are you trying to say. If we just want to play this game then why the hell we have to do this farce of running the case in the first place. Exactly. That's what I am also trying to say from the beginning. We should NOT. But since a moment ago we agreed that we want to givea fair chance to Mr Kasab and we don't want any innocent to be convicted, we have to play this farce to get a satisfaction that we are resepecting the the justice system of India and also watching by our own eyes that the criminal actually get a severe punishment. So Mr. Lawyer(s), Can you please do a little injustice to your professionalism in order to get a justice for the victims of such incidents and their families (though you have not actually taken up their case)?

Call it "MUMBAI" or just don't call it !!

"Difference between Chennai, Beijing, The Netherlands, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Kolkata AND Mumbai is, ONLY while calling MUMBAI your tongue gets twisted and pronounces "BOMBAY" !!!" : Raj Thackeray

Ok. Before starting further let me make it clear I'm not a hardcore fan of Raj Thackeray or anything but above statement makes sense. Thus as we are on same page now, let's proceed.

Do you know all the cities/countries mentioned in above statement are either changed their names or regained their old names and those are mentioned in above caption. Did you ever hear these places being called by their old names after they renamed or regained their old name? Or do you really even know/remember their old names now? (I'll mention later why I'm stressing on this "Re-gain" part) . No.. You'd never hear those old names now ... or may be hardlyyy ever.

Whenever I run into the discussions with American friends, colleagues, people in general and the discussion comes somewhere to Mumbai and they want to know general things about Mumbai and they end up asking "so how'z the weather of Bombay" or "what's the population of Bombay" I don't blame them but don't stop correcting them "No. It's Mumbai". So the obvious statement comes "Oh right, you guys changed it to Mumbai... right right.." and again I can't stop myself from correting them one more time "No it's not changed. It got it's original name back. It was always Mumbai. Throughout the history. But the brits changed it to Bombay since their heavy tounges could not pronounce it correctly. So we are just trying to let Mumbai have it old name back". I seriously don't blame americans or any other people who don't hail from India. But it always amazes me how we indians always feel it shy to call it Mumbai and always want to call it Bombay despite knowing the fact that it was always Mumbai.. I think Shakespeare himself must have hardly believed his statement when he said "What's in name" coz we all know name is everything. Otherwise we would have called Aishwarya Rai Brad Pitt or vice versa or would have called Mohd Azharuddin Marilyn Monroe (or vice versa again)...

Thus if you don't wanna call Barack Obama Bin Laden (or vice versa), please call Mumbai as Mumbai and not BOMBAY... !!!

PS : Raj Thackeray never uttered anything like that in his life. It was just me who came out with that since I wanted to stress my point :)