कलियुग की कहानी

आज मै आप लोगो को एक कहानी सुनाती हूँ 

समय की रफ़्तार 

एक घर मेने ऐसा भी देखा जहाँ बस बस प्यार ही प्यार दिखा,

न तेज आवाज दिखी न ही चिल्लाना दिखा 

बचपन बीता लाड प्यार में, न दिखी कोई कमी 

पर एक दिन घर के मुखिआ की मृत्यु ने समझदारी सिखा दी  :( 

घर के २ नौजवान लड़के अब बड़े हो गए 

उन्हें समाज ने जिम्मेदारी समझा दी 

घर का बोझ उठाते हुए समाज में बड़ी पहचान बना ली 

वो माँ जो त्याग की मूरत थी, दिन रात करती थी काम 

पूरा घर ऐसे संभाला जैसे माँ अन्नपूर्णा हो नाम 

फिर आई वो विकट घडी जब उस माँ को, अपने ही घर से उठा फेका बाहर 

क्योकि अब बारी थी प्रेयसी की, घर में लाने को बहार 

धीरे धीरे घर का हो गया बटवारा, अब तो माँ को भी दो भाइयों ने आपस में बाँट डाला 

अपनी अपनी जिंदगियों में हो गए इतने मगन 

छोटी बहन क्या संघर्ष कर रही नहीं है कोई शिकन 

घर में नहीं है अब आटा दाल चल रहा गुज़ारा 

पर उन संस्कारित बेटो का नहीं है कोई सहारा 

घर की छोटी लड़की की कमाई से चल रहा घर 

बेशर्मी इतनी की और मांग रहे धन 

आगे की पढाई के लिए नहीं है रुपये, 

पर उससे ज्यादा जरूरी जीवनसंगिनी का जन्मदिन 

उसकी शादी की चिंता ही क्या, समाज का कोई डर नहीं 

उम्र बीती जा रही, समय की कोई फ़िक्र नहीं 

बौद्धिक, राजनीतिज्ञ, सामाजिक पिता का नाम यूँ ही डुबो दिया 

उनकी पत्नी और बेटी को बेनामी में छोड़ दिया 

वैयक्तिक जीवन में हो गए इतने मगन 

न लाज लाज बची न शरम 

एक घर मेने ऐसा भी देखा।

आज के कलियुग में कुछ आदमियों को औरत की गुलामी इतनी पसंद है, की वो उसका नौकर बनना पसंद करेंगे न की उस माँ का बेटा जिसने पूरी ज़िंदगी ही राजा बेटा बना कर सेवा की | 

एक महिला जिसने अपने पूरे सुख त्याग दिए अपने बेटो के लिए उनसे बदले में क्या मिला तिरस्कार, उपेक्षा, जिल्लत की ज़िंदगी ?  

एक स्त्री

एक स्त्री घर से निकलते हुए भी नहीं निकलती
वह जब भी घर से निकलती है
अपने साथ घर की पूरी खतौनी लेकर निकलती है

अचानक उसे याद आता है
गैस का जलना
दरवाज़े का खुला रहना
नल का टपकना और दूध का दहकना

एक-एक कर वह पूछती है
प्रेस तो बंद कर दिया था न !
आँगन का दरवाज़ा तो लगा दिया था न !
किचेन का सीधा वाला नल बंद करना तो नहीं भूली !

अरे ! हाँ ! वो सब्ज़ी
वह मँहगी हरी पत्तियों वाली सब्ज़ी
जो अभी कल ही तो लाई थी सटटी से
प्लास्टिक से निकाल दिया था न !

हाँ, हाँ अरे सब तो ठीक है
आपको ध्यान है आलमारी लाक करना तो नहीं भूली
अभी कल की ही तो बात है महीनों को बचाए पैसे से नाक की कील ख़रीदी थी ।

इस तरह वह बार-बार याद करती और परेशान होती है
कि दूध वाले को मना करना भूल गई
कि बरतन वाली से कहना भूल गई कि उसे कल नहीं आना था
कि पड़ोसिन को बता ही देना था कि कभी कभी मेरे घर को भी झाँक लिया करतीं ।

इस तरह एक स्त्री निकलती है घर से
जैसे निकलना ही उसका होना है घर में ।

~ श्री प्रकाश शुक्ल 

जिंदगी की कश्मकश

मुझमें शोर बहुत है
खामोश सा लेकिन अलग है
सेल्फ़ी तो कोई भी ले सकता है
मगर दर्द ले पाओ तो बात अलग है
यूँ तो कश्मकश से भरे हैं जिंदगी के रास्ते
इन्हे संभाल पाओ तो बात अलग है
सीने में जलन और आंखो में तूफां लिए
इस शहर में हर शख्स परेशान बहुत है
चुप रहना भी तमीज़ है संस्कारों की
पर कुछ लोग बेजुबां समझ बैठे हैं
कोमल की कलम बेफख्त सी चल रही
पर लोग समझ ना पाए तो बात अलग है

~कोमल गांधी

विरोधाभास जिंदगी का

अजब सा है यह विरोधाभास

अवधारणाओं का है आभास
दौड़ भाग से भरी जिंदगी
और प्यार का आगाज़
इस पावन मिलन की घड़ी में
प्रियवर हुआ उदास
उल्फतों से भरी जिंदगी में 
करें किसका लिहाज़
कोमल की जुगलबन्दी 
और आपका आशीर्वाद 
गजब ही है यह विरोधाभास

~ कोमल गाँधी

Womaniya - 2

Hello friends,
My blog post is about to final report on Womaniya event. ;)
 

Womaniya Outline:
The growing access of the web in the late 21th century, has allowed women to empower themselves by using various tools on the Internet. With the introduction of the World Wide Web, women have begun to use social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to start online activism. Through online activism, women are able to empower themselves by organizing campaigns and voicing their opinions for equality rights without feeling oppressed by members of society.

Womaniya has been the first ever WoMoz event for launching, introducing and creating awareness about the program within the Bhopal community as well as we will identify the challenges facing women in technology and ways to solve and increase the number of Women in technology and open source.

WoMoz – Women + Mozilla: - Mozilla is a global community of technologists, thinkers and builders working together to keep the Internet alive and accessible.
 

WoMoz is a community composed of members from different Open Source projects. We are mainly dedicated to improving women's visibility and involvement in Free/Open Source and Mozilla, and to increase the number of women contributors in technology.

The seminar aimed to provide technical knowledge for woman empowerment and the whole program would help in developing a better understanding regarding the tools and technology used nowadays.

Womaniya is basically 2 day event Organized by Mozilla Community Bhopal on International Women’s Day 8th and 9th March 2014 in BHEL Auditorium Bhopal.

This event is getting associated with the Madhya Pradesh Police. Read here (http://komalgandhi-4evevr.blogspot.in/2014/02/womaniya.html)

On 8th March Womaniya started at 10:00 am, the first half dedicated to the Bhopal police department. They have covered Demo on Self Defense, Presentation on Cybercrime, Mahila Help line.

Additional Director General of Police Pawan Jain informed that the knowledge was the primary tool of empowerment and in the current scenario technical knowledge had become important for everyone.

Mozilla’s technical sessions were started from Second half.

We have covered “Introduction to Mozilla and its Products”, “Introduction to WoMoz and Womaniya ”,“ LightBeam ”,“ Quiz and Fun Activities”.

All students enjoyed and even they raised their hands and ask their questions and queries related to mission of Mozilla, and browser tracking – light-beam.

Well, after having an awesome time on the first day we were prepared to make it more awesome for the second day.

On the second day we started 3 simultaneous sessions in the auditorium.
Webmaker Session by Sumantro Rijandal mukhargee

Dev Tools by Soumya Deb

Firefox Student Ambassador by Umesh Agarwal.

Then, Faisal Aziz started their session on Localization after that Jafar Muhammed took his session on HTML5, HTML5 crimes and RWD – Responsive Web Designing, I was facilitator there.

Continuing with more session on App development and other activities we moved on to quiz and Fun activities.

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How we measure success of Womaniya?? (Via metrics)

Metric 1: - Women Developer

Success scenario: - 1 We will get at least 450 + women developers

Result: - 50% completed

Metric 2: -Promote WoMoz

Success scenario: - We promote the WoMoz program

Result: - 100% completed (We were having 4 WoMoz sessions on different topics)

Metric 3: - Creativity

Success scenario: - 100% Women Creativity for Mozilla

Result: - 80% completed

Metric 4: - Fun

Success scenario: - 100%

Result: - 101% completed ;)

Metric 5:- Developing

Success scenario: - Focused development event, we will develop Firefox OS apps, Thimble Templates, and Add-ons.

Result: - 75% completed (we were having these all development sessions, but due to some connection problem we could not develop any app.)

Metric 6: - Teach - Learn - Hack

Success scenario: - Teach hacking tips and lots of knowledge. And learn creative things.

Result: - 100% completed (attendee feedback says they learnt lots of new things)

Metric 7: - Awareness

Success scenario: - 100% - about Open source and Mozilla

Result: - 100% completed (we had a great session on the introduction of Mozilla and about open source by Faisal Aziz sir)

Metric 8: - Webmaker

Success scenario: - To teach attendants how to use the webmaker tools and get innovative makes 100%

Result: - 100% completed

Metric 9: - Media Coverage

Success scenario: - We will spread the word about open source, and mozilla with a local news channel and local newspapers.

Result: - 100% completed

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Womaniya has been the first ever 2 day’s events organized by Mozilla Bhopal In association with Madhya Pradesh police. Mozilla Bhopal has all teenage members, we all managed everything nicely. I really thankful to all who contributed to making this event succeed.

Womaniya Team: - Vaibhav Bajaj, Smriti Jain, Shiva Goyal, Jitendra Khasdev, Aartish Kumar, Prince Shankushal, Anju Chandel, Chandan baba, Arpit Singhal, Jai Sharma, Saket jain.

Womaniya Speakers: - Komal gandhi, Soumya Deb, Umesh Agarwal, Jafar Muhammed, Tanha Islam, Sumantro Mukharjee, Faisal Aziz.

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Event Pics 1: http://tinyurl.com/nn6m4qk
Events Pics 2: http://tinyurl.com/py6gn9c

Womaniya

Hello Mozillians,

Today I am going to tell you: How Womaniya Gets Sponsored by State Police.

First, I would like to share you about Womaniya Concept:

What Womaniya is:
Womaniya is the event of 'Mozilla Community Bhopal', It is Specially for Women Developers to promote 'WoMoz' program in India.

This is the first ever WoMoz event for launching, introducing and creating awareness about the program within the Bhopal community as well as we will identify the challenges facing women in technology and ways to solve and increase the number of Women in technology and open source.

 

We were searching venue for our event with 1000 audience capacity. But, some of the venues are already booked in the city because it’s time for ‘International Women’s Day’ they are booked for some functions related to Girls Empowerment.

In the meantime, I have met an IPS Officer. I have shared with him about my Womaniya plan. I explained about Mozilla – It is a Non-profit organization and struggle for Open web and open source; also I explained to him what the open web is and why we have to protect it. And I explained the WoMoz program and convinced him to try to helping us to provide any resources.

He liked the whole concept very much and then he introduced me to city DIG - Additional Commissioner of Police, Bhopal. I explained him my event theme and concept, He really amazed that our students are doing this type of work apart from our study, for a common goal/mission and we’re planning for a big event with theme of women’s in Technology. He wondered, after knowing about Mozilla, and Mozilla Communities working way/concept. He really impressed with the event concept and theme. He gave me his contact number and He expressed his interest to meet with all rest of the community members. So, I invited him for our community Meetup. 

DIG - Additional Commissioner of Police, Bhopal in Community Meetup Bhopal

In the Meetup I shared our event venue problem that we are searching a good venue for the Womaniya event with him and he said that he really impressed that all students are passionate working with their zeal, and everyone is an expert in the technology. He said, he will try to all possible help to get a venue.

Also, he discussed with us that Bhopal (City) Police will launch a public security system against violence and crime soon with highly secure technology as foreign lines. How they will work so fast? Same as they are implementing the complete setup. They advanced invited us to explore that system work technology and find bugs, there for State government, as we’re finding bugs in Mozilla Firefox browsers.. ;)

Then, on 28^th January He invited me to his office to discuss about sponsor our event. He Told me that he will sponsor me a good venue by the Madhya Pradesh Police (State Police Department) with 1000 audience capacity. I agree with that because, we were searching a good venue, but couldn’t find a good one. He called to police marketing dept. and asked to book BHEL Auditorium immediately. 

BHEL Auditorium

About BHEL: ‘Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited’ owned by the Government of India, is a power plant equipment manufacturer and operates as an engineering and manufacturing company based in New Delhi, India.

Now, State police is sponsoring only Venue for Mozilla Community Bhopal’s event – ‘Womaniya’ with the cost of 50,000/- Rs.

So, this is the story How Madhya Pradesh Police (State Police) Involved with us.

We’re inviting, Mr. Umashankar Gupta -  Higher Education Minister, Mrs. Krishna Gaur - Mayor, Bhopal and Mr. Pavan Jain IPS -  Commissioner of Police (State) as our chief guest at the event.

Also, we’re having some extra Demo sessions on self-defense for girls, and cybercrime. 

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Everything is going as per plan; we started our promotion by 20^th February 2014 for Womaniya.
Hope we will rock with ‘Womaniya‘

 

My Journey About Womaniya

Hello friends,

As we know, Community Bhopal going to organize WoManiya Event in the ‘city of Lake’ - Bhopal. This event is basically to promote Womoz program in the city and get more women developer in Mozilla and open source.

Before to going to tell you more about this event, I would like to share you the story of ‘WoManiya’.
 

This time was Gnuify’13 – ‘Mozilla community India Meetup’ in SICSR College Pune where I invent this name – ‘WoManiya’…. we were discussing about future big event in India on this Mopad .  Soumya Deb was standing there near to board and note down the details about events, I was discussing with Ashish Namdev sir, about Bhopal’s upcoming events. Sara Khan dii Suggested me organize a Women specific event to promote Womoz program in Bhopal. Suddenly this Name clicked in my mind - ‘WoManiya’.  I had raised my name and share this name to other Mozillians, this name is quite funny.
 

We have a Bollywood song also with this name- ‘WoManiya’ Lyrics are: - Oh Womaniya, ahh Womaniya. : P :) 

So, First I decided to organize this event in March 2013. But in that time we do not have strong community in Bhopal, then I decided to build a strong community first then I will plan for Womaniya. I have organized many events and meetups and recruited many students and make them aware about Mozilla’s Mission and open source.

   

Till December 2013 I had 21 active and enthusiastic Mozillians students. I did brainstorming meetups with all Mozillians. They started their contribution in Mozilla into different projects like AOA – Army of awesome, It is quite interesting and easy way of contributions; Blogging- Through this we can express ourselves and share our experiences about contributing in Mozilla or open source; Webmaker – It is another interesting project, generally students like to work on it.

Community Bhopal Contribution

So…

I shared with my community members to all about ‘WoManiya’ planning. Everyone got excited by this plan, and finally we decided to organize WoManiya event on 8^th March International Women’s Day.

Coming soon : More about #WoManiya

Komal Gandhi