लड़की हूं, गुस्ताखी माफ़

सुधाकर द्विवेदी जी की बिटिया द्वारा रचित एक कविता, एक बार जरूर पढ़े। शर्त है बिना रोए आप रह ना पाएंगे।

आज कुछ गंदा हुआ,कुछ गंदा था

आज किसी ने देखा

कल कोई और छुएगा।

कब तक सहूं मैं? कब तक ये चलेगा?

आज क्रोधित हूं, निराश हूं

सूरज की बाहों में जिस कलि को खिलना था

इसके बेरहम से कुचले जाने पर

मैं हताश हूं

आज कोई है, कल कोई औऱ होगा

अपने बच जाने की खुशी

या उसकी पीड़ा का ग़म बेशुमार होगा

किसी की गुड़िया, किसी की चांद सी बेटी

ऐसा क्या गुनाह हुआ हमसे

बदसलूकी, छेड़छाड़ और बलात्कार में हमारी

दुनिया समेटी...

नहीं कह सकती उसकी पीड़ा का अनुमान है

नहीं है उस दर्द का एहसास

साथ बस एक डर एक ख़ौफ है...

क्या मैं सुरक्षित हूं?

रास्तो पर चलना अब मंजिल पाने से मुश्कल हो गया

पा जाउंगी इंसाफ मैं, यह ख्वाब तो ख्वाब रह गया

दो आंसू, खेद, शोक और बस

चीखों का तूफान, दर्द का सैलाब उठा था

इज्ज़त पर आंच आई जब

मरना जीने से आसान हुआ था।

गहरी चोट है नहीं भरेगी

मुश्किल है इंतजार की घड़ियां

ना मालूम इंसाफ की रौशनी कब दिखेगी?

आज आंखों में खौफ तो देखती हूं

कब आत्मविश्वास, साहस औऱ निडरता की चमक

दिखेगी?

खौफ़ का अंधेरा है, विश्वास की लौ जलेगी

मंजिल को पाने चलूंगी बेखौफ

ऐसा होगा एक दिन, यह सोचती हूं

लड़की हूं, गुस्ताखी माफ़

--------------- मिहिका द्विवेदी(हमारे प्रिय सुधाकर द्विवेदी जी की बिटिया)

कक्षा 10

समरविले स्कूल नोएडा

शाम बेवक्त यूँ आ जाती है
कि हर पंछी को
अपने घोंसले में लौटने की फिक्र है
उसे फिक्र है कि
रात को बेटी का पेट भरेगा भी
इस थोड़े से पैसे से जो
उसने कमाए है
अपना खून जलाके

Human brain cells 'created from skin'

British scientists claim to have for the first time created brain tissue from human skin, a major breakthrough which may soon pave the way for new and more effective treatments for stroke and Alzheimer's disease.
Until now, it has only been possible to generate tissue from cerebral cortex, the area of the brain where most major neurological diseases occur, by using controversial embryonic stem cells, obtained by the destruction of an embryo.
Now, a team at the University of Cambridge says that it has produced human brain cells in the laboratory just by reprogramming skin cells so that they develop into neurons found in the cerebral cortex, 'The Sunday Telegraph' reported.
"The cerebral cortex makes up 75 per cent of the human brain, is where all the important processes that make us human take place.
"It is, however, also the major place where disease can occur. We have been able to take reprogrammed skin cells so they develop into brain stem cells and then essentially replay brain development in the laboratory.
"We can study brain development and what goes wrong when it is affected by disease in a way we haven't been able to before. We see it as a major breakthrough in what will now be possible," Dr Rick Livesey, who led the team, said.
The cerebral cortex is the part of the brain that is responsible for most of the major high-level thought processes such as memory, language and consciousness.
In their research, the scientists created the two major types of neuron that form the cerebral cortex from reprogrammed skin cells and show that they were identical to those created from the controversial embryonic stem cells.
Livesey said this may eventually lead to new treatments for patients where damaged tissue could be replaced by brain cells grown in the laboratory from a sample of their skin.
"You don't need to rebuild damage to recover function as the brain is quite good at recovering itself -- it does this after stroke for example. However, it may be possible to give it some extra real estate that it can use to do this.
"We can make large numbers of cerebral cortex neurons by taking a sample of skin from anybody, so in principal it should be possible to put these back into the patients," he was quoted as saying.
Dr Simon Ridley, head of research at Alzheimer's Research UK, which funded the research alongside Wellcome Trust, added: "Turning stem cells into networks of fully functional nerve cells in the lab holds great promise for unravelling complex brain diseases such as Alzheimer's."
The findings have been published in the latest edition of the 'Nature Neuroscience' journal.