Author: anilg

not every seeker got what she wanted
at your door
yet people seek answers to their quest
why not put up a sign board outside
seekers are invited to face silence
and yet answers will be sought,
may be the journey is the answer

no road ever told,
where will it turn,
nor did i ask when she fused into a misty nowhere,
but then now that it is the morning,
and the jumbled hairs are lying outside your window,
you must have tried hard
to disentangle your hairs night
last night,

kuchh muskurao to

hotho ko thoda dabao to kuchh baat aagey badey
kuchh muskaro to
jindagi mein kai baar aisa bhi to hua hoga,
kuchh kaha aur kuchh suna hoga
thoda usko dohrao to baat aagey badey
thoda muskaro to

tum khamosh wahan door tak nigahey failao
kuchh dekho aur kuchh mujehy mere bheetar dikhlao
ab thoda befikra ho kaho,
jo bhi hai man mein to baat aagey badey

thoda msukaro to

medha ne janm diya,
man ki meemansa ko,
urwashi ne udwalit kiya,
hridaya ki aakanksha ko,
manthan bahut hua,
leheron ne palko kochhua,
vishpaan karey kaun,
is par bahut dandwa hua,
shiv ne phir yeh kaam kiya,
devo ka uthan kiya,
vidambana to dekho lekin,
murta bana vish ke wahak ko,
shakti upasak satta ne,
samvedana ke sanskaron ka aaahwan kiya,
nadiyon ka muhn mauda,
dharaon ko bandha tumney,
paschatap karo mat devo,
tumney urwashi ko kiya upekshit,
parwati ko paidaan diya,
shiv ki pooja karkey hi to,
rawan ne paayi thi shakti,
raam ne tyaga,
law kush ne bandha,
ashwa megh mein jab mili chunauti,
tiraskrit maan ke vastalya mein lipti,
tumney hi to us shraddha ka, nit nayey rup mein balidaan kiya,

( uttranchal mein likhi kavita shiv se gussa hokar

why do i still keep awake
while eyelids seem to show the load they carry
is it just to learn
or keep avoiding the moment when one
has no choice but to surrender
in her arms
that dissolve the barriers between sleep and awakened self

heard about a cloud burst,
thought how impatient it must have been
but i know a cloud
which has not rained for long

steps of a staircase, winding around walls
have not yet finished
let me climb a bit more
who knows
whether the roof will show all the sun rays
that lay scattered there for so long
in wait of shadows
that i bring with me in my bag on my back

can i step out
it is no more as wet
as to
splash drops on those
who do not wish to be disturbed
by my walk along the path
on which we walked together
for so long
unquestioned, undisturbed

Thirsty Peruvians harvesting fog with nets Buzz Up Share
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( in the light of the recent meeting of launch accelerator i attended at nasa, this news will be of interest to those concenred with water. in india prof Girija saeran had tried this in kutchh with good results)

Catching fog with nets is the solution to water scarcity for people who live beyond the reach of utility lines in this sandy hillside shantytown overlooking Peru’s capital, Lima.

Lima, which along with Cairo is one of the world’s two driest capitals, gets only a few drops of rain each year. But thick fog from the Pacific Ocean blankets the coastal hills surrounding the city for eight months a year as hot tropical sun mixes with cold waters of the Humboldt current.

Using nets similar to those used in volleyball, residents condense fog, drip-by-drip, into drainage pipes running down the hill into tanks that store hundreds of liters (quarts) of water for irrigation, bathing and cooking.

“Pure water from fog, can you believe it?” Noe Neira, Bellavista’s community leader said, as he dipped his hand into a brick tank filled to the rim. “There was so much water in the air and we didn’t know how take advantage of it.”

President Alan Garcia won the 2006 elections in part on a promise to deliver water to millions of impoverished Peruvians, though as he nears the end of his term, Lima’s long-term water problems are more vexing than ever.

Lima depends almost exclusively on glacial runoff for water. The United Nations, which has called March 22 World Water Day to raise awareness about shortages, says melting caused by warming in the Andes has already cut by 12 percent flows to the country’s arid coast, where two-thirds of the population lives.

That has left the government not only trying to lay more water mains to improve delivery, but also looking into installing desalination plants along the ocean or pumping water out of the Amazon basin to secure future supplies.

Even after a decade of booming economic growth, about a quarter of Peru’s city dwellers and half of its rural residents still lack access to working toilets and clean drinking water.

Bellavista is no different. Like most of Peru’s poor, the community gets its water from tanker trucks that sell it for two soles a barrel ($0.71), about 10 times more than what residents of Lima’s richest neighborhoods pay for tap water.

“We’re paying like millionaires for water,” Josefina Ortiz, a mother of three, said as she waited for a tanker truck outside her plywood home in San Juan de Miraflores, another slum far from Bellavista. “We’ll never be able to progress because of the lack of water.”

A SCALEABLE SOLUTION?

The nets in Bellavista, which were set up by biologists at German non-governmental organization Alimon e.v., turn fog into a viable alternative to end dependence on overpriced and often contaminated water from trucks.

“Sometimes trucks won’t come up here for days, so we store water from fog as a backup,” said Sandra Atusparia, who lives in Bellavista. “The only thing I regret is that we don’t have more tanks for storage.”

Though the netting system in Bellavista is rusty after just three years of use and it runs dry during Lima’s short fogless summers, poor residents dream of having the mayor net the hillsides surrounding the city.

“This whole area lacks water,” Abel Cruz, head of the group Peruanos Sin Agua (Peruvians Without Water) said, pointing to thousands of plywood homes with tin roofs built by squatters surrounding Lima. “But with 50 nets, we could supply them all,” he said of a series of shantytowns on Lima’s south side.