Hindi Poem “Not My Intention” by Guest Poet Ashish Rasila

Ashish Rasila

Hello readers! Welcome to lekh my name is Ashish Rasila and I wrote Hindi poem “Not My Intention — मेरा मक़सद नहीं”. I am an extensive reader and writing poetry since 2015. My birthplace is Firozpur; however, I grew up reading and writing in Haryana. However, I love to read biography of the famous personalities around the world. My favorite food is 'Kheer' as well as most of the famous Indian foods.

My favorite book is Encyclopedia. I believe, Chandigarh is the most beautiful city he has ever seen so far. Because of two things, I graduated in the city and second thing, I completed my education with my best friend and real brother, Nitish Rasila.

Hindi Poem “मेरा मक़सद नहीं” by poet Ashish Rasila and its Analysis

Poem “मेरा मक़सद नहीं — Not My Intention”

खुद को किसी से बेहतर कहना मेरा मक़सद नहीं,
किसी का दिल दुखा कर खुश रहना मेरा मक़सद नहीं।

मैं जो भी था,  मैं जो भी हूं , मैं जो भी होने वाला हूं ,
अपने हालों पर किसी को मुजरिम बनाना मेरा मक़सद नहीं।

मुझ से अनजाने में किसी का दिल भी टूट सकता है ,
मगर मैं पलट कर माफ़ी ना मांगू, मेरा मक़सद नहीं ।

कुछ टूटे हैं मुझ से रिश्ते, कुछ लोगों ने मुझ से तोड़े हैं,
मगर रिश्तों के टूटने से मैं ख़ुद टूट जाऊं, मेरा मक़सद नहीं ।

मैं  किसी के ऐब गिनाता फिरूं ये मेरी ज़हनियत नहीं है ,
अपने दुश्मन को भी बुरा कहना, मेरा मक़सद नहीं ।

झुक जाए सर मेरे एहतराम में, ऐसी शोहरत का मोहताज नही,
किसी का सर झुका कर उसे गले लगाना, मेरा मक़सद नहीं।

किसी के सपनों पर मैं अपने सपनों की नीव नही रख सकता,
किसी को हरा कर जितने की मुराद रखना, मेरा मक़सद नहीं।

ये दुनियां एक दुनियां है मेरी दुनियां तो कहीं और है ,
ख्वाबों की दुनियां में हकीकत को भूल जाना, मेरा मक़सद नहीं।

मेरा गलत होना या सही होना तुम्हारे नजरिए से है,
किसी के कहने पर मैं बदल जाऊं, मेरा मक़सद नहीं ।

खुदा है तो खुदा होगा, मुझे उसके होने पर ऐतराज नहीं,
खुदा के नाम पर मैं मिट जाऊं ऐसा सोचना, मेरा मक़सद नहीं ।

मुनासिफ है की कल बुलंदियों का मैं आसमान चुमूं ,
मगर मैं अपनी ओकाद भूल जाऊं, मेरा मक़सद नहीं ।

इस दुनियां में रहने वाले हम सभी किरायेदार  हैं ,
मैं जैसे आया था, वैसे ही लौट जाऊं, मेरा मक़सद नहीं ।

मैंने बहुत सोच समझ कर ये अपनी बातें रखी हैं  ,
लोग अपने दिल पर ना लगा बैठें, मेरा मक़सद  नहीं ।।

Translation & Criticism of The Hindi Poem “मेरा मक़सद नहीं - Not My Intention” by Lokesh Umak

It is not my intention to call myself better than anyone,
 It is not my intention to be happy by hurting the heart of someone else.
 Whatever I was, whoever I am, whatever I am going to be,
 It is not my intention to make anyone guilty on my status.
 I can unintentionally break someone's heart,
 But I will not apologize by turning back, it is not my intention.
 Some have broken relationships with me, some people have broken with me,
 But due to the breakdown of relationships, I break myself, it is not my intention.
 It is not my duty to count someone else's name.
 It is not my intention to call my enemy bad.
 Bow down head in my respect, do not want such fame,
 It is not my intention to hug someone by bowing their head.
 I cannot lay my dreams on someone's dreams,
 It is not my intention to wish to win by defeating someone.
 This world is one world, my world is somewhere else,
 Forgetting reality in the world of dreams is not my intention.
 My being wrongs or being right is from your point of view,
 I should change at the behest of someone, not my intention.
 If God is there, then God will be there, I don't mind being there.
 It is not my intention to think that I should perish for God.
 It is beneficial that tomorrow I should kiss the sky of heights,
 But let me forget my position, not my purpose.
 We are all tenants living in this world,
 I should return as I came, it is not my intention.
 I have kept these things very thoughtfully,
 People should mind it, is not my intention.

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Criticism of the poem “Not My Intention”

The poet has many things to discuss here and has different intentions. However, they are unique and special for him. He prefers not to call himself good, nor wanted to hurt someone. He feels it would be better not to live his life guilty any more. The poet never wants to break someone's heart, if at all, for that, he is always ready to apologize. He wants not to finish himself on the broken relationship with his loved and dear one. His soul is pure, he never wants to call his enemy bad. The poet neither lay his dream on someone else, nor win by defeating anybody. There is worship for God, but not ready to die for him. He wants to touch the sky irrespective of this position, however, don't want to forget his purpose. Whatever is his thought people should mind it, isn't his intension at all.

Shakuntala Devi: “number links us together, they hold the world”

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Shakuntala Devi (credit to Anupama Instagram)

Shakuntala Devi (b. 4 Nov 1929 — d 21 April 2013) Indian writer, numerologist and famous for her god gifted brain of the fastest human calculator (Guinness world record 1982). This was a prodigious gift to India in the late 19s when India was progressing to achieve its presence globally. Devi was just three years old when she had discovered her talent of calculating the numbers in seconds.

Number links us together, they hold the world, so I thought to bring people together. I built a bridge between nation to nation. Country to country, race to race.

Shakuntala Devi

Devi, being A daughter of a circus performer, Started earning at the young age

A daughter of a circus performer who could hardly earn daily wages for his family expenses. And another day again searching for another place and work. Devi was the elder daughter in the family. When a melancholic father came to know that his daughter is a no more ordinary girl, he stopped going to circus ground and started showcasing Devi's talent in public.

Shakuntala, remember, I got so many ambassadors all over the world, but you are a very special  ambassador. Because you are a rowing ambassador, you are a mathematical ambassador. Who can win fame for India and build up close relationships between country to country.

Indira Gandhi

The Journey of Shakuntala Devi To London and other countries

Shakuntala soon earned fame and was called to Mysore University for her first official test (the university examination) and there also she successfully proved the first Indian woman. She has a god gifted arithmetical endowment. The family decided to lead the great Shakuntala and Devi moved to London in 1944, just three years ago when India became an independent country.

The Greatest strength of number that they never lies, real, true. It's beautiful, it is the greatest philosophy. It is truth in the whole world.

Shakuntala Devi

Writings and Books

Being a Brahmin from the generation of seven centuries, her god gifted brain was well expert in astrological consultation too. She wrote few books on Sexuality, Thriller and others on numerical calculations. She also helped many students through her books, calculating the numbers effortless.

In one of the interviews: she was being asked that does your capability of brain looses with age? Her reply was astonishing. Shakuntala said, “I am getting younger day by day.” she also gave a very fine example of local and branded wine. It was true that branded wine gets special attention when it is specially old. It's value increases day by day.

Watch Shakuntala Devi Interview: Talking about her Life and Career

Interview of Shakuntala Devi with RT

She never attended any English classes and read her first book at 13, gothic mother, and also wrote a book in English when she was 14. In 1977, she wrote a book called homosexual and strongly criticized by guy communities.

According to Shakuntala Devi, Russians are god gifted talent

Devi travelled many countries and her observation also revealed that which country has the most intelligent brain. According to Shakuntala Devi, Russian got much talent in numerical calculation and  china at the second place in the world. At her personal level, Devi found many jealous people in her career. Especially, intervened, thinking about her progress and fame.

Anupama Banerji life in London

Devi and her daughter, Anupama Banerji was living together in London and Her daughter was her strength, power and hold special bond between them. Anupama also has received some genetic contribution of inheritance (of bit) from her mother, but she does not use them as a profession. However, she is a brilliant student in her mathematical studies.

Shakuntala Devi Family Picture (credit to Anupama Banerji Instagram)

The most famous calculation ever done by Shakuntala Devi are as follows

On 18 June 1980 Shakuntala did below multiplication

  • 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779 the correct answer was 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730 in just 28 seconds

She never liked comparing a human brain with a human made computer.

Cube roots calculations,

  • 95,443,993 = 457 in just 2 seconds
  • 204,336469 = 589 in 5 seconds
  • 2,373,927,704 = 1334 in 10 seconds.

Higher calculation she ever answered

455,762,531,836,562,965,930,666,032,734,375 = 46295 in 40 seconds (Berkeley, 11988)

Psychologist Jensen in 1988 at University of California

Arthur Jensen, American psychologist and writer and professor of educational psychology at the University of California said (read original page),

None of the objective test results begins to explain why or how Devi is able to perform feats with numbers that are so far beyond what most of us can do in this sphere as to seem incredible. Her peculiar ability is indeed rare, perhaps one in hundreds of millions.

Jensen

The later days of Devi were few frequent visits of hospitals and died on 21 April 2013 due to respiratory and cardiac health related issues.

Furthermore, read about the first Indian woman, Anandi Joshi, who got a medical degree from the USA, and the woman who sacrificed her life, Janaki Ammal, who was the first botanist. She was the reason for the sweetness of Indian sugarcane. Indian pioneer and first teacher of India, Savitribai Phule who contributed toward the Indian education system.

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Alexander Pushkin’s tender, selfless love Life And poem

Alexander Pushkin, the great poet from Russia

Alexander Pushkin (26 May 1799 – 29 Jan 1837) wrote his first poem at 15 and have written much controversial poetry. The one who had written the poem, “I Love You” in 1829. Pushkin was a famous romantic poet as well as expert in bringing realism into his work. Anybody who reads the poem, feels his love as fresh as green, soft and tender like petals of a lotus. Conscious awakening poem is motivated talks of one side love and brings no selfishness, respectful attitude toward his lady love.

Poem: “I Love You” by Alexander Pushkin

I loved you, and I probably still do.
And for a while, the feeling may remain.
But let my love no longer trouble you,
I do not wish to cause you any pain.
I loved you; and the hopelessness I knew,
The jealousy, the shyness- though in vain-
Made up a love so tender and so true
As may God grant you to be loved again.

Next person in this poem is not revealed whether she was his wife Natalia Goncharova or his lover Anna P Markova — Vinogradskaya (Kern).

Pushkin was soon died post serious wound when he was 37, his brother-in-law wounded him. The cause of death due to peritonitis (his brother-in-law, George d'Anthe's shot a bullet into the abdomen of Pushkin).

The fight between Alexander Pushkin and George d’Anthe’s was a baseless conflict that did not solve. It was a rumour that the wife of George, and Alexander was in love. Alexander's Married Lover Anna Petrovna Kern (11 February 1800 – 27 May 1879) is very popular for Pushkin's famous romantic poem “To Kern” (wrote in 1825, and translated by Dimitri Smirnov)

Poem: “To*** Kern” Love poem

I keep in mind that magic moment:

When you appeared before my eyes

Like ghost, like fleeting apparition,

Like genius of the purest grace.

In torturous hopeless melancholy,

In vanity and noisy fuss

I’ve always heard your tender voice

I saw your features in my dreams.

Years passed away, and blasts of tempests

Have scattered all my previous dreams,

And I forgot your tender voice,

And holy features of your face.

In wilderness, in gloomy capture

My lonely days were slowly drawn:

I had not faith, no inspiration,

No tears, no life, no tender love.

But time has come, my soul awakened,

And you again appeared to me

Like ghost, like fleeting apparition,

Like genius of the purest grace.

My heart again pulsates in rapture,

And everything arouse again:

My former faith, and inspiration,

And tears, and life, and tender love.

The Poet talks sensible, changes of his life irrespectively because of his lover. In his pain, living alone or troublesome voice, Alexander hears her as clear as she is near him. Every time he watches her features in his dream clear and crystal. Away from hospitality and in dark solitary life, he slow down his days and Pushkin feels — there is no life when I'm not with you.

But, soon his love appears in heartbroken time, on the field of uncultivated land and as soon as her feet touched the infertile soil, it turns into green. The rain of hope starts pouring on the thirsty land and flowers blossom in no time. The life restores its faith and love again, the inspiration for broken heart one more time and tears of tender love. 

It is best to learn about learn what is Desire of Soul by Abay Kunanbayev and you may also like: Saint Kabir sayings.

Walt Whitman poems inspired by Abraham Lincoln?

Walt Whitman

Read one of the intriguing Walt Whitman poems “O Captain my Captain” bring patriotic feeling and the great respect for Abraham Lincoln.

Walt Whitman (b. 31 May 1819 — d. 26 March 1892) of Long Island, who lived around and studied from public school. What was the connection between both? Though Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln never met in life.

When he was 12, began falling in love with written words of Shakespeare, Homer, Dante and an avid reader of the Bible. Whitman taught many students on Long Island in one single room and became a teacher.
Finally, he found long waited movement of his true wish, he jumped off the cliff of a single room school house to the bay of journalists. His thoughts and words spinning around in his head prove his journalism best.

The founder of The Long-Islander Walt Whitman poems inspired by Abraham Lincoln
Walt Whitman poems inspired by Abraham Lincoln? | Image credit to Twitter.

The founder of The Long-Islander

He founded a newspaper called “The Long-Islander” Walt also known as one of the famous editors who edited many newspaper articles of Brooklyn and New York City. Whitman’s poems, O Captain! Written shortly after the death of US President Abraham Lincoln (<< read handwritten letter of Abraham Lincoln to Lydia Parker Bixby). Whitman expressed his intense grief and mythical connection of Mr Lincoln. The Poem, O Captain! My Captain! Became so famous and popular during his time.
During the American Civil War, Whitman soon reached to the Hospitals of Washington DC and volunteered.

He worked for government although he never met Lincoln in his life. Walt felt so close to him and shook upon the assassination of the president. “The Saturday Press” was the first who published the poem, “O Captain!

Abraham Lincoln: Walt Whitman poems inspired by Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln

The poem “O Captain” generated a lot of connection of Walt Whitman for Abraham

It is one of the famous Walt Whitman poems and it is the most enjoyed

O Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done,
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring;
But O heart! Heart! Heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! My Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills,
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding,
For you, they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! Dear father!
This arm beneath your head!
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.

Read collection of Walt Whitman's poems published by Oxford University Press

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Mencius: “Friendship is one mind in two bodies.”

Mengzi (385–303 or 302 BC) was a great philosopher of China. The one who left the world with written text that is compiled seven books into two parts A and B. He was raised in very ancient tradition, for better effect on his early growing brain. Ancient history stated that his mother changed the places of living three times when he was a kid.

Mencius’s mother moved three times

The above idiom was well famous and simply says that to grow a kid in an environment of wise thoughts, and most importantly it states the area of living matters. And thus mother of Mencius moved or changed three times while traditional education to her son and keep away and saved from bad thoughts. This helped built Mencious human nature.

Quote From Mencius

If you try to guide the common people with coercive regulations and keep them in line with punishments, the common people will become evasive and will have no sense of shame.

Mencius

Mencious Teachings

According to Mengzi one is hopeless who conquers the world by warfare: Climbing a tree in search of a fish In his life most of the time, he travelled many parts of China and educated many rulers. The basics of the Mencius. (it is anecdotes, conversations and real interviews of Confucian Philosophers). Chinese culture considered one of the immense and oldest of the world out of the four measure civilizations, Babylon, India, and Egypt. He suggested that “The core of benevolence is serving one’s parents. The core of righteousness is obeying one’s elder brother. The core of wisdom knows these two and not abandoning them. The core of ritual propriety is the adornment of these two.”

Heaven sees as the people see; Heaven hears as the people hear.

The king asked abruptly, “How shall the world be settled?”

“It will be settled by unification,” Mencius answered.

Who will be able to unify it?”

Someone without a taste for killing will be able to unify it…. Has Your Majesty noticed rice shoots? If there is drought during the seventh and eighth months, the shoots wither, but if dense clouds gather in the sky and a torrent of rain falls, the shoots suddenly revive. When that happens, who could stop it? … Should there be one without a taste for killing, the people will crane their necks looking out for him. If that does happen, the people will go over to him as water tends downwards, in a torrent — who could stop it? (1A6) […]

Read another philosopher, John Dewey: Education Is Not Preparation For Life; Education Is Life Itself. And, The Emphatic Philosopher Of Strange Confusion, John Mill On His Theory Of Poetry And Philosophy Found Futile. Moreover, read Chinese monk Xuanzang's travel to India

Power of Love: Complex relationship of Frida and Diego

“Love letter of Frida Kahlo to Diego attracts souls against each other after losing the bond of weak and complex relationships. The letter expressed the deep inside their nerdy love for each others”


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Self-portrait of Frida Kahlo

The notable couple of 21 years gap in their birth, it must have been the first couple of their family or the city. Painter Frida Kahlo (6 July 1907–13 July 1954) when married to divorced and 21 years senior and mentor Diego Rivera (8 Dec 1886–24 Nov 1957) they had many mutual infidelities. However, they seek a source of love of infinite strings attached to each other. Ardent, deceiving and no ashamed of their relationship went on exploring life with each-other passionately.

Their love started gearing up in 1928 and both got married on 21 August 1929. How she coped up and survived on convalescence throughout her life (visiting hospitals frequently till the end of her life) and infrequent temper tantrums of her love life were two of the reasons made her strong. Someone could easily infer from her letter how their ten-year relationship abruptly ended and was rekindled a year later.

Anson Goodyear with Diego and Frida
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Diego Rivera

Read one of the letters of Kahlo to Rivera after her leg infected with gangrene. This letter was written before she was going under an operation to amputate her leg. Kahlo expressed her anger, love, concern and hope of her souls. Although thought to informed to her loved one, Rivera.

Love Letter Of Frida Kahlo To Diego

Mexico,
1953

My dear Mr. Diego,
I’m writing this letter from a hospital room before I am admitted into the operating theatre. They want me to hurry, but I am determined to finish writing first, as I don’t want to leave anything unfinished. Especially now that I know what they are up to. They want to hurt my pride by cutting a leg off. When they told me it would be necessary to amputate, the news didn’t affect me the way everybody expected. No, I was already a maimed woman when I lost you, again, for the umpteenth time maybe, and still, I survived.

I am not afraid of pain and you know it. It is almost inherent to my being, although I confess that I suffered, and a great deal, when you cheated on me, every time you did it, not just with my sister but with so many other women. How did they let themselves be fooled by you? You believe I was furious about Cristina, but today I confess that it wasn’t because of her. It was because of me and you. First of all because of me, since I’ve never been able to understand what you looked and look for, what they give you that I couldn’t. Let’s not fool ourselves, Diego, I gave you everything that is humanly possible to offer, and we both know that. But still, how the hell do you manage to seduce so many women when you’re such an ugly son of a bitch?

The reason why I’m writing is not to accuse you of anything more than we’ve already accused each other of in this and however many more bloody lives. It’s because I’m having a leg cut off (damned thing, it got what it wanted in the end). I told you I’ve counted myself as incomplete for a long time, but why the fuck does everybody else need to know about it too? Now my fragmentation will be obvious to everyone to see, for you to see… That’s why I’m telling you before you hear it on the grapevine. Forgive my not going to your house to say this in person, but given the circumstances and my condition, I’m not allowed to leave the room, not even to use the bathroom. It’s not my intention to make you or anyone else feels pity, and I don’t want you to feel guilty. I’m writing to let you know I’m releasing you, I’m amputating you. Be happy and never seek me again. I don’t want to hear from you, I don’t want you to hear from me. If there is anything I’d enjoy before I die, it’d be not having to see your fucking horrible bastard face wandering around my garden.

That is all, I can now go to be chopped up in peace.

Goodbye from somebody who is crazy and vehemently in love with you,

Your Frida

Sylvia Rivera: “…don’t even like the label transgender.”

“Sylvia Rivera, the woman who faced child abuse, pushed to the doors of a child prostitute and threw out of The Gay Rights Movement


In her later days, Sylvia Rivera (b. 2 Jul 1951 — d. 19 Feb 2002) called herself half-sister. Her essay she kept herself an optional human who admit that she is neither transgender, nor she was a lesbian. Sylvia wrote in her essay, “Transvestites: Your Half Sisters and Half Brothers of the Revolution” one who dresses in clothes of opposite sex. Here statement does not show any evidence that she was a transgender or lesbian.

I left home at age 10 in 1961. I hustled on 42nd Street. The early 60s was not a good time for drag queens, effeminate boys or boys that wore makeup like we did. Back then we were beat up by the police, by everybody. I didn't really come out as a drag queen until the late 60s when drag queens were arrested, what degradation there was. I remember the first time I got arrested, I wasn't even in full drag. I was walking down the street and the cops just snatched me. People now want to call me a lesbian because I'm with Julia, and I say, “No. I'm just me. I'm not a lesbian.” I'm tired of being labelled. I don't even like the label transgender. I'm tired of living with labels. I just want to be who I am. I am Sylvia Rivera. Ray Rivera left home at the age of 10 to become Sylvia. And that's who I am.”

Marsha and I fought for the liberation of our people.

In a 1981 interview

Her childhood was almost too sad to live like an ordinary girl. Sylvia in her young age soon learned how suicidal mothers behave and why a broken relationship had that ugly end. Her mother committed suicide when she was just three (her father already had left both mother and daughter so early). Thus, the abandoned girl started living on the streets, worked as a sex-worker and met a group of drag queens. The Sylvia name was her welcoming (token) name Marsha had given and Rivera became another drag queen.

Also, The Stonewall Riots protests was occurred in 1960, she claimed that she was the part of it, but Johnson said loud and clear that Sylvia was not the part of the riots. Rivera was a kind of exaggerated her presence at every protest. She was co-founder of the Gay Liberation Front and STAR.
Moreover, her never-ending feelings of poor, orphan, stamp of sex-worker, and living on blood of all time drugs remained till the end of her life. The riots, thousands of Transgender and Gay came out on the streets for the rights of liberty, however, she disliked being herself tagged for the same. Rivera died sudden due to liver cancer.

Sylvia Rivera once pushed out of the “Gay Rights Movements” is now well recognized figure

However, the legacy of Sylvia has registered through many incidents, one of them was on the 50th anniversary of Stonewall Riots, a large painted mural depicting Marsha P Johnson and Silvia Rivera in Dallas in 2019. Also, on the Christopher corner, was renamed to Sylvia Rivera Way on Huston Streets.

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Kipling’s Poem: “The White Man’s Burden” on colonial control

The English journalist Joseph Rudyard Kipling (b. 30 Dec 1865 — d. 18 Jan 1936) was an Indian-born, renowned writer of the United Kingdom. His poetry explores and travel the readers back in 1899, the war between Americans and Filipinos. Moreover, the poem dig down racist behaviours toward non-white. The poem was written in the same year 1899. The fight lasted for three years. In the poem “The White Man’s Burden” Kipling well elaborate this piece of poetry of war and social inequality.
The most famous expression of literature of the western world and colonialist whim over Filipinos were expressed here. It was an effort to persuade the United States to join the empirical club and seize the Philippines.
The eagerness of Rudyard and his effort seems touching the readers on urging the Americans.
The war had begun on 4th Feb 1899 two days ago the US Senate accepted the treaty. More than 4000 American soldiers were died. And on the other hand, over 20,000 Filipino fighters were down. The loss of the Philippines were more, almost 200,000 civilians died in the war due to violence, famine and disease. The battle was occurred at Manila Bay.

Poem: “The White Man's Burdenby Rudyard Kipling

 Take up the White Man's burden —
Send forth the best ye breed -
Go bind your sons to exile
To serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness
On fluttered folk and wild -
Your new-caught sullen peoples,
Half devil and half child.
 Take up the White Man's burden -
In patience to abide
To veil the threat of terror
And check the show of pride;
By open speech and simple,
A hundred times made plain,
To seek another's profit,
And work another's gain.
 Take up the White Man's burden -
The savage wars of peace -
Fill full the mouth of famine
And bid the sickness cease;
And when your goal is nearest
The end for others sought,
Watch Sloth and heathen Folly
Bring all your hopes to nought.
 Take up the White Man's burden -
No tawdry rule of kings,
But toil of serf and sweeper -
The tale of common things.
The ports ye shall not enter,
The roads ye shall not tread,
Go make them with your living,
And mark them with your dead!
 Take up the White Man's burden -
And reap his old reward,
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard -
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah slowly !) towards the light:-
“Why brought ye us from bondage,
“Our loved Egyptian night?”
 Take up the White Man's burden -
Ye dare not stoop to less -
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloak your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent sullen peoples
Shall weigh your Gods and you.
 Take up the White Man's burden -
Have done with childish days -
The lightly proffered laurel,
The easy, ungrudged praise.
Comes now, to search your manhood
Through all the thankless years,
Cold-edged with dear-bought wisdom,
The judgement of your peers. 

Joseph Rudyard Kipling

You may also like Poem: Soul” by Marsha P Johnson on equality and Karma and Poem: “My Native Land” by Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj is whose poem not only talks about patriotism but also shows unending love for his motherland.

John Mill, The emphatic philosopher of strange confusion

John Stuart Mill (1806 – 1873) was the most influential personality of the nineteenth century. He was a liberal, naturalist, and utilitarian. John combined enlightenment thinking of eighteenth century with the emerging fashion of romantic and historical philosophy of nineteenth century.

Ask yourself whether you are happy or you cease to be so

John Mill

The Theory of Poetry Philosophy Changed John Mill

John was the one who was got his early isolation from his friends of his age except his siblings due to continuous pushing of Mill's father (the Scottish philosopher, historian, and economist James Mill) forming him a genius intellect. John was considered in his family a precious gem. His uninterrupted journey of education had started at the age of three, when Greek became his first foreign language. At eight, he turned the pages of Aesop's fables, Xenophon's Anabasis, the whole of Herodotus and many others.

Replica of a portrait commissioned to G.F. Watts by Sir Charles Dikes

As well as, his brain also scanned thousands of pages of history in English along the way studied astronomical physics. In his reading list he had many historical authors and writers. Moreover, at the age 20 he went under dejection of suicidal depression. According to his biography, he was losing his happiness striving for his goal. It was due to dearth of fearful interest in his objective (creation of just a society).

Poetry of William Wordsworth changed Mill

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; It takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.

William Wordsworth
Sketch of Caroline

However, It was the poetry of Wordsworth who helped him find joy, and he continued achieving his goal. The theory of William Mill arises from the mental crises of 1826. Mill onwards in his life complete changed man of confused and muddled of two different things, Poetry and Philosophy.

— Miss Caroline Fox (Cornish Diarist) on John Mill,

Not a little; he was most emphatically a philosopher, but then he read Wordsworth and that muddled him, and he has been in a strange confusion ever since endeavouring to unite poetry and philosophy.

In his biography, it revealed that the book was unable to relate his personal experiences to his thoughts. Most of his impotent work seemed to be to hide rather than revealed the man. Some evidence had seen ignored.

Mill's early letter to Carlyle and Sterling, his criticism of Benthamism in the 1830s and his autobiography have been seen as indicating emotional tensions, and his praise of WORDSWORTH and COLERIDGE has often been recognized as awareness of these tensions.

Also, read: Mencius: Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” and Phule: Lack of education leads to lag in everything

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