To begin with, I would love to borrow a quaint old saying of a divine, 'It is difficult to catch a black cat in a dark room, especially when it's not there'. This metaphor simply indicates that it is a hopeless pursuit to find a thing which isn't there where you are finding it. Few conditions should be met to enable someone to accomplish the task of searching. First of all, ‘the thing’ you are searching for must be available somewhere where you are searching for it, the second condition is one should completely open their eyes during the search operation; and the last condition that should be met is one should somehow remove the darkness of the room where one is searching. Only on these 3 conditions being met together one can accomplish their pursuit.
A religion is a set of beliefs that is passionately held by a group of people that is reflected in a world view and in expected beliefs and actions. Each religion also has a "moral code" which is a set of beliefs about how humans should act. Will not be picking up a detailed discussion over God and Human Spirit, but yes the major thing to discuss over is morality. "Morals" are the way a human behaves to other humans. Most religions make rules about human morals. The rules of how people should act to each other are different in different religions. Almost for every religion, following a "path" of goodness, truth and duty is very important, while not every religion teaches people to be kind to all other people. In many religions, it has been common for people to believe that they have to act kindly only to some people and not to others.

Whether we are Hindus or Muslims or any other by religion, by and large we are following the set of rules laid by our religion/community. In every religion we can easily come across people who are the religious preachers, then their hard core followers or disciples and then there are mute spectators as well. Though the ambivalence of thoughts and beliefs do exist in every religion, yet the disciples are never seen preaching the preachers, nor are any sort of reforms brought by the mute spectators. It is a universally acknowledged fact that the majority rules everywhere.
Martin Luther King Jr. said, ‘There comes a time when silence is betrayal. Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter’. Many of our irrational orthodox rituals and practices such as ‘Sati’ got abolished not by the elite religious preachers, not by the hard core disciples but by those who stood against these irrational practices as the reformers. The entire world has witnessed several revolts, reforms and campaigns from time to time. One of the latest reforms in today’s digital era is the #metoo against sexual harassment and sexual assault of women.

We all are prone to fault findings in others hence he who plays the donkey must not be surprised that he gets everyone on his back. To conclude I would like to borrow the wordings of Barak Obama to clear my stance, ‘Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek’.  - Devendra Lingwal

Maut, kal tak tujh se bhi haseen thi meri zindagi.
Aur zindagi se haseen tha wo shakhs jo,
Kal ki raat mujhe tere aagosh mein chhod gaya.
Kal ki raat use paa kar koyi bahut khush tha,
Kal ki raat kisi par bahut bhari thi,
Kal ki raat fir ek baar zindagi maut se haari thi.
Kal ki hi raat mujhe saza-e-maut huyi thi.
© Devendra Lingwal