Saturday, May 1, 2010

ગુજરાતી લોકો જેવી નફટ જાત કોઇ નથી....

ગુજરાતી લોકો જેવી નફટ જાત કોઇ નથી. કુતરાની પુંછડી ભાયમાં ઘાલી હોય તો વાંકી તે વાંકીજ. કેહતા કેહતાં મ્હોડું પણ થાકી ગયું. પણ તેઓ બેશરમીપણાંથી એક કાને સાંભળે છે ને બીજા કાનેથી કાઢી નાંખે છે. નકટી નાક કાપ્યું તો નવ ગજ વધ્યું. આ જાતના લોક છે ગુજરાતી. ખરાબ રશમો, નિચા વ્હેમો, ગાંડા વિચારો, શરમ ભરેલી રીતો, એ બધા વિશે લખતા લખતા કાગળો ખુટ્યા, સાહી આવી રહી અને કલમ થાકી, પણ આખરે તેઓ તેવાનાં તેવાજ રહા. વર્ષો પર વરષો બદલાતાં જાય છે. પણ આ લોકોનાં વિચારમાં મુદ્દલ ફેર દેખાતો નથી. આજ નહિં તો કાલે, કાલ નહિં તો બે મહિના રહીને, બે મહિના રહીને નહી તો બે વરશ રહીને, બે વરશ રહીને નહિ તો પાંચ વરશે કંઇ પણ તેઓનાં મન પર અસર થશે એવી આશાથી પણ કંઇ પણ જીવને સંતોષ વળતો. પણ આજકાલ કરતા પંદર વર્ષ થયા.....હાયરે ! હો, ઓ ગુજરાતીઓ, તમારા કાન ઉઘાડો નહી તો પછી હવે મારી દાંડીથી છેક નાગો થઇને મારીશ.
- નર્મદ ડાંડિયો, ૧ ફેબ્રુઆરી, ૧૮૬૫

10 comments:

  1. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Why did Narmad say that? Or did he?

    ReplyDelete
  3. Narmadji said truth.. Actually Gujarati people r like this.. bt Gujju people will never accept this...

    well said...

    ReplyDelete
  4. The dearth of ideas.
    The hardcore reality is saying Narmad.
    savji chaudhary.
    99980 43238.

    ReplyDelete
  5. " A country or people who do not learn to take pride in their own culture are either swallowed by another culture or lose their identity in a brief passage of time, only for historians to remember", said Swami Vivekananda.
    Sadly, it has become a common fashion among the so called advanced and learned Gujarati people to condemn their own culture.Why always say that the glass is half-empty ? Gujaratis need to borrow some pride from their neighbour Maharashtrians who are so proud of their culture.
    If you happen to visit a supermall or a multiplex in Ahmedabad, you will see that when two Amdavadis meet there, they will start their talk in English if they know the language, or, they will start talking in HINDI if they don't know English well, or, will start talking in English and then come down to Hindi if their English vocabulary falls short ! BUT IN ANY CASE THEY WILL FROWN TO SPEAK IN GUJARATI, THE LANGUAGE TO WHICH THEY ARE BORN, AS IF IT WAS A SHAME TO SPEAK IN GUJARATI, AS IF IT WAS A SIGN OF BACKWARDNESS TO TALK IN THEIR MOTHER TONGUE !
    If this continues to be the modern trend, then we are a people without selfconfidence, people who do not have either faith or respect to their own roots,an artificial and imitated culture that is fed upon imported ideas but has lost its backbone !
    When shall we learn to take pride in being Gujarati and pride in speaking Gujarati ? How silly and humiliating it is to hear from a Gujarati that 'We Gujjus will never improve ! "
    If u don't believe in ur own culture, where is ur unique identity then ?
    Garv thi kaho "HU GUJARATI CHHU "
    all the people of Gujarat should look towards the dynamic chief minister of Gujarat, Shri Narendrbhai Modi Saheb, who loves Gujarat so much, who takes pride in being a Gujarati, who is a symbol of Gujarat's pride and a born lover of Gujarati language and himself a writer and a poet in Gujarati !

    ReplyDelete
  6. Ishaan Bhai Tamane Narmad kon hato teni khabar lagati nathi...hashe have. aatla mota lakhan ma aapnu bharo bhar agyan chalake che aevu kaheta mane sankoch nahi thai.

    - Ashish Vashi

    ReplyDelete
  7. Ham Kahaan Ke Daanaa the
    Kis hunar me Yaktaa the
    Besabab huva dushman
    Ghaalib aasma apna !

    Dear Aashishbhai,
    ham to aapke bade FAN hai yaar..galti ho gai bhaai saab..jaane bhi do yaar

    ReplyDelete
  8. are bhai ishaan aevu nathi. tane tari vat kahevano pure puro adhikar che. cheers
    - Ashish Vashi

    ReplyDelete
  9. ye huyi na baat..aap jo zaraa musuraaye, ek boj hat gayaa dil se mere..
    thanks for unburdening my heart as i was feeling guilty of having hurt ur sentiment, though unintentionally
    Is baat pe, Aashis Bhai, ek gaana yaad aaa gayee..it is from old hindi movie Kaajal, featuring Raj Kumar n Meena Kumari..some of its lines ran thus;

    "
    Duniya ki nigaaho mein bhalaa kyaa hai buraa kyaa
    Ye boz agar Dil se utar jaay to achhchhaa..
    Ye Julf agar khul ke bikhar jaay to achhchhaa...'
    and, please, keep on writing. the honesty, sincerity and the detached view of life you take..like that of an umpire if life were a cricket match... very rare. why not publish a book ?

    ReplyDelete
  10. narmad tena samay ni vat kari chhe ,have to guju loko ghana badalay gaya chee

    ReplyDelete