New Year

"A weasel comes to say "Happy New Year" to the chickens"

“Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”

"An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leave"

“Here's to the bright New Year, and a fond farewell to the old; here's to the things that are yet to come, and to the memories that we hold.”

Comments of Dr Scion Sarma on Indian National Congress

It is a pity that while Bengal had produced several statesmen before Independence, today, there is not a single Bengali behind whom ten people can assemble to take the country forward. The only person, who could have steered the country to a greater heights, in my opinion, was Siddhartha Shankar . Jay Prakash Narain had bred indiscipline in every sphere of life in the name of civil disobedience of Gandhi style, and the Emergency devised by Siddhartha had overnight transformed the country into a powerhouse of energy in every sphere. Unfortunately, Indira Gandhi, and her second son created such excesses that the whole idea collapsed. Rajas and Kalmaddis could not have been born if Siddhartha had leadership supported by Emergency. That is my individual opinion.

Indian National Congress

Its 125 years of Indian National Congress. Someone like Rajani Palm Dutta, a Bengali communist in London wrote in his India Today book it was Lord Duffrin, governor general established the political platform in India through a British officer, Alan Octavian Hume in order to defuse the anger of the colonial people. It could be someone’s opinion but it can’t be a history. The Marxists have used the theory to defame the Congress Party in political interest. History suggests something different. It was Indian upper class and bourgeois were aggrieved with the un-British rule imposed by some wrong persons of British origin. After 100 years of uninterrupted British rule in India, the Congress was formed on 28th December 1885 in Bombay and it was presided over by the Barrister Womesh Chandra Bonnerjee, an eminent lawyer in Calcutta High Court. Womesh Chandra died in 21st July 1906 in his own residence in Bed ford Park, London. It was none other than Mohondas Karamchand Gandhi successfully engineered to reform the Congress into a mass based one and fathered the Indian nationalism in the sub-continent. It was Subhas Chandra Bose who brought revolutionary zeal into the national movement. It was many thousands and millions actively participated and led the movement to end the British rule. The people of the country have given many opportunities to this party to rule the country with the expectation that it will fulfill the aspiration of the people. Still a larger population dies of malnutrition, hunger and diseases. A vast majority of unemployed people have become restless day by day. Using all these, secessionist force, religious fanatics and traders of vulgarism accompanying with the enemies of this country are active in destroying the spirit of nationalism through insurgency or other destructive force. The Marxist brand of rulers have displayed their anti-people face and they have lost all credentials. The people of the country are already disillusioned with Maoists or Hindu/Muslim militancy. In absence of nation wide social movement against price rise and corruption in all places, society as a whole has become helpless and restless. People of India have reduced their trust and confidence in the established political outfits and they are eagerly looking for a savior statesman to come forward to lift a drifting nation from possible destruction. God bless India.

The Imposter

I've unfortunately observed an insect in disguise of a human being. But I cant kill it because it has grown at a corner of my home. The insecticide is needed to spray will obviously have a toxic effect on other elements. Hence I shall perhaps have no immediate alternative other than demolishing my home to get rid of the insect. And I'll do it sooner or later.Some wanted to pacify me to be merciful on such a God's creature and let it move out on its own.  Please give it another chance. Don't hurt it. 


 But I knew it from the beginning that insect is after all insect. It cant behave like human and cant mend its nature. It is there to increase its class to pollute the environ. The class of insect cant be a friend or trusted. It rather pretends to be like this. It will continue to damage so long it is alive. There is hardly a fellow listener who is able to recognize it without further wasting time and act accordingly. But I'm sure that the day is not far from them to cry for another deadly bite of the insect hides under cover. 

The Pakistan Connection

The Blame game continues between Pakistan and India. Its I heard an army dictator in exile complained that Pakistan was taking revenge of war defeat in Bangladesh in seventies by making trouble in Jammu & Kashmir. In a TV debate he blamed Indira Gandhi for dividing Pakistan by a war in the former East Pakistan now Bangladesh. He cited example why India did not intervene in Sri Lanka when Sri Lankan army bulldogged Tamil Tigers and killed their leader Pirvakaran was said to be the internal matter of a sovereign state. In case of Pakistan, Indian stand was different. The former prince of Kashmir Dr. Karan Singh lamented things would have been different had the issue not been referred to UN by Nehru or demanded for plebiscite in J & K.
To my view, both are partially true. First, liberation movement of a nation can not be exported what India fought for two hundred years and gained independence whatsoever. Such movement has to be fought indigenously with the external support, but not allowing army of other nations to liberate. Che Guevara’s venture in liberating Bolivia grossly failed. LTTE initially failed with Indian Peace Keeping Force and launched its own struggle though defeated miserably in the hands of mighty Lankan army. The insurgents made ruling party in India non supportive and arrogant for their grave mistake of killing a former Indian Prime Minister. The chauvinism or a fight for a minority nationalism devoid of Marxism, socialism or principles of people’s democracy can not last long. One can conclude that Tigers fought hard for the Tamil nationals to accept the defeat.
The question of religions of Tamils in Jaffana peninsula was not an issue. So, qualitatively, struggles of Tigers could not be equated with Islamist hot heads in Kashmir. Here, Musharaf’s argument is back fired. Neither the Liberation of Kashmir is made possible with the export of insurgency from Pakistan nor by driving out the Hindu minority from Kashmir valley and looting of their property. The true has established all the time. Recent fight between Islamist and non Islamist people of Sudan is advanced to create another theocratic state of North Sudan with Islam as a state religion. In fact, civilization and progress is halted in front of Islamist believers around the world. Nothing can be compared with these primitive sects.

Politics of Convenience

Its like your wife. You took everything from her. You created your generation, good or bad whatever. You made a home for comfort. You used every breath of her and everything. She loved and trusted you. She adhered to whatever you desired for years. She never questioned you even the voting symbol she voted for in the election after election. She mortgaged her conscience to you. She tolerated everything except insult of her soul. You blamed her of adultery and threw her out once she stopped supporting your wrongs.

Its after 34 years, people of West Bengal voted against a Marxist party to dislodge from the state power. The party despite rejection by the people failed to learn lessons and corrected its way of actions. The deadly disease called cancer has infected its entire body and nothing can cure its now. It is only counting days to be destroyed by storm.    

A Man In Need

Please don't expect anything for your contribution to a friend in need. He will obviously forget it. There is a gentleman who feels it his responsibility to render assistance to any person seeks his help. He does it if things permits. If doesn't permit he at least shares feeling of his counterpart. While extending help to some one in need it must be kept in mind you will suffer immediately or in future. But you simply do not care it. You go on doing your duty as long as you breath. Some people pretend to be the promoter of all kindness. As if he is the only surviving lot to do this on earth. Some assures of help but never help. But he is thankful for his gesture to help the helpless. You only recognise the helper while in extreme need.

A Shocking Fact

                                            
                                               Forwarded by Jagannaudha Rao and his friends
                                               Reproduced without comment

If you cross the " The North Korean " border illegally, you get .....12 years hard labour in an isolated prison .....
If you cross the " Iranian " border illegally, you get ..... detained indefinitely .....
If you cross the " Afghan " border illegally, you get ..... shot .....
If you cross the " Saudi Arabian " border illegally, you get ..... jailed .....
If you cross the " Chinese " border illegally, you get ..... kidnapped and may be never heard of - again .....
If you cross the " Venezuelan " border illegally, you get .....branded as a spy and your fate sealed .....
If you cross the " Cuban " border illegally, you get ..... thrown into a political prison to rot .....
If you cross the " British " border illegally, you get ..... arrested,
prosecuted, sent to prison and be deported after serving your sentence.....

Now ..... if you were to cross the " Indian " border illegally, you get .....

1. A ration card
2. A passport ( even more than one - if you please ! )
3. A driver's licence
4. A voter identity card
5. Credit cards
6. A Haj subsidy
7. Job reservation
8. Special privileges for minorities
9. Government housing on subsidized rent
10. Loan to buy a house
11. Free education
12. Free health care
13. A lobbyist in New Delhi , with a bunch of media morons and a bigger bunch of human rights activists promoting your " cause "
14. The right to talk about secularism, which you have not heard about in your own country !
15. And of-course ..... voting rights to elect corrupt politicians who will promote your community for their selfish interest in securing your votes !!!
16. and right to fight election for MLA or MP Hats off ..... to the .....
A. Corrupt and communal Indian politicians
B. The inefficient and corrupt Indian police force
C. The silly pseudo-secularists in India , who promote traitors staying here
D. The amazingly lenient Indian courts and legal system. That's why people like Afzal Guru are still alive, same will happen with Kasab.
E. WE self centered Indian citizens, who are not bothered about the dangers to our own country.
F. The illogically brainless human-rights activists, who think that
terrorists deserve to be dealt with by archaic laws meant for an era, when human beings were human beings.

IN THE NAME OF ISLAM

The river Ganga is red with Hindu blood. The killers are Muslim by name those who seemed to have concurred Hindustan by killing and injuring a few innocent Hindu pilgrims in Varanashi. In fact, these fanatics did nothing to upset the nation. India is very big and could not be concurred by the foreign invaders permanently. Then what these handfuls of Islamist elements under the umbrella of Indian Mujaheddin will harm India? They are active here and there in the country because of our tolerance and democratic structure. They are destructive because our policy makers failed to declare all out war against the Islamist insurgents and to drive them out of our land. As a result, people of India suffer everyday irrespective of their religion, cast and creed.   

Trekking a lifeless life

Trekker, a hood less four wheeler, slowly ply on the roads of rural India. Its a cheaper variety for transportation of the underclass. Pedestrians come from the opposite direction of the road find only two faces of trekker's light. The rest of its body is unseen as it is overcrowded all the time. Once passengers can head way inside the car, they would suffocate due to toxic gas to come out of  Bidi, a country made tobacco stick and Chullu, a brand of country liquor. But they are habituated and don't complain. Some people cherished its riding. Some glorify travelling by a trekker and loves  to smell toxic gas regularly. On the countrary, the motor bike to cost one fifth of the trekker. Its  a cheaper variety for transportation of the underclass. Riding with a biker is breathing fresh air as any body's experience provided one can control its speed. Now choice of the passengers do matter as to what option they should like to avail. The same story is told in case of the married couple.     

December

“How did it get so late so soon?

 Its night before its afternoon.

December is here before its June.

My goodness how the time has flewn.

How did it get so late so soon?”

                                                                          

"Dont cry because its over

Smile because it happened."

“You know you're in love when

you can't fall asleep because reality is

finally better than your dreams.”

"Today you are You, that is truer than true.

There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

Mount Everest with Basanta & Party

Many thanks to Mr Basanta Singha Roy for a CD containing vidiography of their climbing and concurring the Mount Everest in the last March/April this year. Basanta the ace mountaineer and an employee in Punjab National Bank and his mate Mr Debasis Chakraborty of Income Tax Department both  hail from the working class background dreamt to concur the highest pick of the world. In translating their dream into reality, they had to arrange Rs. 72 lakhs in Indian currency which was impossible for them unless aided by some agencies including CPIM led West Bengal State Government. Both the mountaineers have exhausted their last personal resources amounting to Rs.17 lakhs only as I heard from one of their close associates, Mr. Goutam Chakraborty, an employee of the chief minister's office in Kolkata. I've no word sufficient enough to praise the gentlemen for their courageous act of scaling the Everest. But I've the best regard for these two Bengali guys for their sacrifices and success. They both aged 50 + years have proved that age was no way barrier to make it possible. Anyone can do anything if he painstakingly and passionately desires. I'm not of that group of intoxicated those who often refer a millionaire Bengali cricketer for making the Bengali nation proud. The struggle and heroic achievements of Basanta & associates are hardly promoted by the media. The CD, a publication of Moutaineers' Association of Krishnanagar, Church Road, Krishnanagar, Nadia, West Bengal is available at www.mak.org.in . Any  person interested in extending assistance may kindly contact basanta_singha@rediffmail.com or through their mobile 09433465868 as published on the CD cover.