Horoscope

My Soul

In the night, when I was sleeping
of doing something different
I was dreaming
I got up quickly, When I heard a voice.
There was all silence,
And not a little noise
A girl was weeping, sitting on my bed.
She was looking at me,
And was touching my head.
I asked who are you,
And what you are doing there?
She said me politely, please don't fear
In a little light, what did I see.
She was a girl, just looking like me.
She was giving me sympathy,
Inspiring me to do something
By doing hard work,
You will get everything,
She was going, and wishing me good luck.
Never feel hesitation, to do the right work.
On seeing her, I felt very glad.
But her departure, again made me sad.

Gurvinder Kour
(Mussa chak) R.S Pura

SOMEONE WILL BE WAITING FOR YOU’

Someone will be waiting for you,
Far away at some distant land,
Someone will be waiting for you.
Ready to forgive you for every mistake you make,
Ready to bring a big smile on your face.
Always there to treat you nicely,
Always there is to advice you wisely
Trying to tell you that everyone's not bad,
Trying to tell- "You're here that's why i am so glad".
Sometimes there to laugh with you,
Sometimes there to cry with you,
Someone will be waiting for you.
Just look above at the ubiquitious sky,
Whether it's day or it's night,
You'll come to know surely, that
Far away at some distant land
Someone will be waiting for you.

Adeleta

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Valentine

A Valentine is nothing like
A chocolate or a rose.
For in a week these shall be gone,
But Valentines remain.
If love were always sweet to tongue
Or fragrant to the nose,
Each day would be like Valentine's,
And we would go insane.
A Valentine just hangs around
Waiting to be kissed
Long after special days have passed
And every days are here.
So one is wise to choose one well
And chocolates to resist.
For in the midst of mania
It's nice to have one near.

Bhanu Vohra

Saccharine voice

There is a touch of sweetness,
In her voice there is some soothe ness.
The voice is so all serene,
That it rectifies doubts clean.
The touch of her voice is a dream;
It seems as soft as cream.
The voice signifies her words,
It all carries off heavy loads.
The listener's ears get a clean call,
They seem to drown in her voice stall.
There is an innocence in her voice,
It carries of her character as choice.
The voice implies the life within you,
With its sweetness, your appreciation
is due.
The voice explains as what you are,
It repels the suspicion as far.
No ebb is seen in her voice,
Her voice repels ebb as a magical dice.
The effeminacy is seen her throat,
It balances her as the water below boat.
The sweetness adds fire to it,
The sweetness in her voice makes all to sit

ANADHI GADOO

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1. By what margin India defeated Sri Lanka in the third ODI to clinch series?
2. How was declared man of the match in the second ODi between India and Sri Lanka?
3. By what margin South Africa trounce Australia to clinch the ODI series?
4. Name the highest wicket taking bowler in ODIs?
5. To whom world No 1 Rafael Nadal of Spain defeated to clinch Australian Open title?
6.. How many medals did J&K Sqay team won in the recently concluded 54th National School Games?
7. What is the full form of NSP?
8. Tennis legend Steffi Graff belongs to which country?
ANSWERS TO QUIZ NO 677
1. 5 runs
2 8 wickets
3 Chahat Masoom
4 8 disciplines
5 Nadia Petrova
6 100 runs
7 Table Tennis Federation of India
8 United States of America
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Q: The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Please comment?
A: The service of mankind is considered the service to God and the one who strives hard in selfless service forgetting about himself, certainly makes acquaintance with himself, and that is the right way for one and all to remain prepared for helping those who need your help the most, so that you could meet yourself in all the forms of life.
ROHAN TRISAL, VIA e-mail
Q: Each day is the beginning of the rest of your life. Focus on the future to make most of it. Comment?
A: Each and every day brings hope for life, not only for human beings but also of animals and other creatures in this world. Since dawn one should set targets for the day and put all the might to ensure that these get accomplished by dusk. And there lies the key to success for every human being.
ANEEL JMU, VIA e-mail
Q: As per PMO, the Union Ministers do not come under Right To Information Act. What is the logic behind shielding them, if they are really honest?
A: There are various policy decisions in the matters of governance, where secrecy is to maintained and each and every elected member of any house even in Assembly is administered an oath of secrecy in the discharge of his or her duties for the welfare of the State. The PMO is in no way wrong if it has sought to remind even the Union Ministers about the oath taken by them to keep some secrets for the welfare of the country. I am also of the opinion that Union Ministers should be kept out of the purview of RTI Act for various reasons, which the people of the country must understand themselves.
TOUSEEF DEV, KISHTWAR
Q: Where lawlessness becomes law, honest citizens become cheats, crooks and dacoits. Your comment?
A: Your question very much pertains to the Indian conditions in general and those in the Jammu and Kashmir State in particular. In the days of Governor Rule under Mr Jagmohan, though the corruption had come to a halt, but the menace had assumed alarming proportions as the rates of getting jobs accomplished had alarmingly gone very high, that too under the very nose of the then Governor, who was a honest administrator, but failed to smell the rot under his very nose. In the otherwise popular Governments, the credentials of all public celebrities always remain under stake. And such conditions only brood corruption and lawlessness.
VIKRAM KATOCH, RAMBAN
Q: Can a Hindu citizen of Jammu and Kashmir can become Chief Minister of the State?
A: Perhaps not. Because from the outset, the facts about the demography of the State has been distorted to such an extent that even if Hindus form a majority, Jammu and Kashmir State would always be called as Muslim dominated State and the people of Jammu, especially Hindus, left with no choice than to remain as second class citizens.
SMARTY, BISHNAH
Q: If we love some one, we try to be like that person. If we love God, should not we attempt to be Godly?
A: The love of God is an eternal blessing and very few are there who obtained such position like Meera and Radha or Swami Tulsidas, Bhagat Kabir or Rishi Valmiki and the like. In our today’s life of materialism, we remain confined to our so-called self-centred cocoons and never realize that the world is vast and worth realization for love and co-existence.
AJAY DEEP, SAMBA
Q: What should a person do to get control over his or her anger?
A: Every human being should learn the art of putting a check on his or her emotions and it is only after that one can learn the art of getting control over one’s anger. It may take a time, but the formula is well worked out and proven to be the best.
RAMA GUPTA, BISHNAH
Q: Pakistan wants no war, so say Zardari and Gillani. India wants no war, so says Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. World powers want no war, so say Gordon and others, strange, then who wants it and what is all this tension about? Your views?
A: Though no country or its citizens want war, but sometimes it become a necessary evil. As far as India is concerned, it never ventured out to wage a war against any country. It was first China which waged a war against India in year 1962 and then Pakistan waged two full fledged wars, the first one in the year 1965 and got defeated and then in 1971 when it had to lose East Pakistan (Now Bangladesh) and of late the Kargil intrusion, where also India won. It is Pakistan which earlier waged war and may do same kind of mis-adventurism in the future also.
VIVEK B RAINA, JAMMU
Q: When the fuel prices were high, the transporters went on strike for hike in fare. Now when the fuel prices have been slashed, why is there no action taken by RTO to bring the fare rates down?
A: It is general perception that even a mother won’t feed its baby unless it starts crying. Transporters went on strike and got conceded their demand. Now let some body from the public come forward and agitate for the same and make the Government to bow before their genuine grievance.
SUNJAY DHAR, SARWAL
Q: Physical beauty can be lost by marks of age and accident, but spiritual beauty cannot be destroyed. Comment?
A: Spiritualism in itself is a beauty of mind but there are a very few people who are able to attain that place where the man rises above the worldly rituals and makes acquaintance with God Almighty. Otherwise, in this world, physical appearance is always given priority, which is always short-lived.
JOGINDER ANGOTRA, JAMMU
Q: Is the Pakistan Government serious to curb militancy and crush militants?
A: How can a mother kill its child, which she nurtures with her blood in the shape of milk. It was the sinister design of Pakistan that first it encouraged militancy in Punjab on the name of Khalistan, which caused mush blood-shed and mayhem and when it saw that its designs have failed with strong action taken by Indian Government, it encouraged militancy in Kashmir and a few parts of Jammu province also. As per me, there is lot of difference between what Pakistan Government says and what it does.
PRABHAT KUMAR JHA, JAMMU
Q: While reading your column, my father often refer to you as a ‘Gandhian’. But quite amusingly, he himself deals with the problems of life, in a manner, you suggest through your column. Still he seems to be always disagreeing with Gandhiji’s preaching and philosophies. How do you explain this?
A: Why don’t you ask the same question to your father? As per me your father seems to be a right thinking person, who knows, how to deal with the problems of life, taking right clues from whatever quarters these come. As of me, whatever I say is the crux of life experienced by me so far.
SHIVAM KOUL, TALAB TILLO
Q: Why citizens of India despite of being highly qualified are not interested for jobs in India and prefer to go outside and settle there?
A: The problem of brain drain is always there among the developing countries. The highly educated youth of the country think that they could earn more in a foreign country rather than at home but they fail to understand the fact that now-a-days the world has become a global village and also Multi-National Companies (MNCs) has started establishing their branches very much in India with high pay packages for suitable persons.
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