Drowned in a whiskey bottle

Once I under huge pressure bowed down to drink whiskey with my friend Dilip many many years ago. The day I consumed is still in my memory. I was unable to walk or stand freely and somehow got into a local suburban train to reach my home. Sat down close to one family. The aged couple looked at me with all hatred. Remarked, "Look at our next intoxicated generation. Afraid! what kind of future citizens of our nation would run the society." He was endorsed by the veteran lady, "it has become troublesome for young ladies to roam freely now a days." The sentimental attack brought me to sense and I left my sit to hurriedly get out of the train compartment with the promise never to touch such illicit drink in my lifetime. The promise has not yet been broken. And I can assure the world that I never violated any social norms and never shown disrespect to any woman. I'm still trying my best to deliver values and behave like a true gentleman.

In The Name of Secularism

My wife offered Puja to the Hindu God and brought Prashad (sweets) and flowers to distribute among our known neighbours. There a was Muslim neighbour who refused to accept it for fear of being branded as a Kafeer (a  non-believer of Islam).My wife got hurt and left the place silently. 

On 20th, Eid festival was celebrated. Our Muslim neighbours enjoyed the festival with colours. They came to my home and begged money for organising a musical night with the trust on me that I do not hate them and inspired them to held their head high. I generously contributed much to the pleasure of the fund raisers.

The same day in Red Road of Calcutta, Mamata Bannerjee, the TMC supremo and chief minister wearing a Muslim dress joined the Namaz offered by a million Muslims and in her reply she loudly read out the long list of welfare measures she initiated for Muslims residing in  West Bengal. She was greeted by the crowd. Before she took the dais, a leading Muslim cleric lambasted her for doing nothing concrete for local Muslim population except wide range publicity. The crowd loudly greeted the cleric too. 

The Muslim population residing in Burma was massacred for their alleged anti-national attitude and activities. Similarly, migrant Muslim people in North Eastern Indian land for Boro tribes of Assam is subjected to brutality similar to that of Burma for the same reasons. 

The same sect of people inhabiting in bordering districts of West Bengal, have been forced to undertake smuggling racket in complete dismay of the Indian government and its armed forces. The counterfeit Indian currency and smuggling of tones of Indian coins to Bangladesh has created crisis in the country. Lets talk less about Pakistan. 

From the facts narrated above, it reveals that our Muslim brothers and sisters do not believe in secularism and uniform law of the land. Their dissatisfaction will diminish with the concur of a non-Muslim country like India to install a Taliban raj in place of a secular state and its government run by all faiths.   

PROMOTION TO WASTE PUBLIC MONEY

The sellers of reservation for SC/ST are up in arms in Parliament once again to reintroduce the benefits rejected by the Supreme Court. The government neither said yes to the Apex court ruling nor opposed it. It bought time without doing anything in matter that the law framed by the court was not accepted  by issuing an office order to stop reservation in promotion in government jobs. Rather, its non action in the matter otherwise allowed or continued the benefit enjoyed by scheduled categories of staff in government department, autonomous bodies etc. The concern rises if somebody files any public interest litigation (PIL) in the Apex Court or High Court to declare those promotions given during the intervening period of the new law of the Court and new bill of the government for reintroduction of the benefit was illegal and contempt of Court, the situation may jeopardize  the vested interest of those politicians survive on selling reservation cards. The ruling regime will perhaps find no other alternative but to repeat Shah Banu episode by denouncing the judiciary and enacting a new law by Parliamentary brute majority to continue the benefit for SC/ST. Lets God save our nation !

Growing Intollerace

In a fast moving modern Indian society a section of youths have become restless in achieving anything that may dwindle their future. Electronic gadget is one such and others are of course girls, jeans, intoxicated items, face or black book or other course of action to waste time that nothing but to destroy the generation. Ask them why such - they are prompt to reply, "you people are not of our time".

Yes, it is true. It is your time where everything is welcomed whether good or bad. There is no value addition or virtue to carry on. The crime record among youths is growing up. Teen boys are raping their fellow girls. Teachers are being abused or beaten. Youths are caught in selling illicit drug, snatching money from the pedestrians. If caught, please call our old dad or mom, the older generation to rescue. If survived, you won't get any return from this class of modern generation because they have no time or they have their own assignments. Selfishness, mean-mindedness, dishonest, arrogant, respect less etc are the other names of that section of this generation. 

ANNA & MY COLLEAGUES

As a responsible Indian, one can not close his eyes to what has been going on at juntur muntur park in Delhi by Team Anna men and women against alleged corruption in high and low places.They claimed to have possessed documents and evidences against 15 union ministers including Dr. Singh and Mr. Mukherjee or xyz. The principle accused holding the chairs of the country's top managers and corrupt parliamentarians have elected them. So the medicine for the decease is a strong Lokpal what has not so far been achieved despite Fasting or Fasting unto death staged by the activists. This is a sustained struggle received wide media publicity. But the fights waged by a few of my colleagues in our workplace against corrupt officials making money out of abuse of official powers have largely gone unnoticed. 

One such young staffer hails from Himachal Pradesh having brilliant academic background has been fighting a lone battle against one of its highly corrupt colleagues despite pressure launched by that guy's influential mates. His fight whether he wins or otherwise shall remain largely unknown alongside Team Anna. When I raised voice found those microscopic corrupt force gone underground and the culprit surrendered to my friend to avert punishment and finding illicit means to win over my friend. I believe my colleague is not a salable commodity.  

The Love That Reunited

A 70 old former Indian diplomat has married yesterday to one 59 years old divorcee -  The Statesman informed me today with a morning cup of tea. They started to live together happily with the gentleman's only daughter.The report may be read in between the lines that the lady married to one pilot and settled in Canada leaving his fiancee unmarried for 20 years in India. The gentleman patiently waited almost his entire life and did not turn up to other ladies. After 20 years, the reunion took place in the form of a sweet marriage in a simple manner in Delhi. 

What transpires from the report that ladies often become indecisive in matter of love and fall in trap of immediate gains to be apparently happy. In the process, they neither can make their present lives happy nor they can forget their past and hence unhappiness prevails throughout prime time of their lives. They often attempt to turn back when their present becomes intolerable and passionately desires to go back to the lives they left as half destroyed. Most fails to translate the old age passion into reality, except the lady like Archana Mohan. God bless them.

The Isolated Maoists

The enemy's enemy is the friend. The war strategy has so long been followed among the warriors - the Maoists are no separated lot. They also follow the same strategy for ages in India in order to ensuring organisational growth in the states of the country. Sometime they render tacit support for Congress or sometime for non-Congress political outfits to ensure their survival in the political map of the country.

Bengal's case has now backfired. Once friend becomes foe. The orthodox strategy failed to yield result this time; it rather becomes counter productive. Bengal new ruling party is not agreeable to allow the Maoists to continue their killing spree in the name of annihilation of the class enemies.   

The Maoists brand of armed political outfit adopted line for political uprising through protracted armed struggle with the participation of armed squads in Chinese way. They remain ardent followers of the erstwhile Chinese political supremo who is dead. But his overseas strategy to create disturbance in India religiously followed by his successors despite difference on domestic political and economical strategy in China. 

The poorest of the poor in districts of western plateau in West Bengal have of late recognised narrow politics of selling poverty of Tribal people. They realised that they have also equal right to live like human. They require roads, drinking water, food, jobs and other essentials what politics of extremism so far denied them.

With the emergence of new leadership in Kolkata, the people of all walks in the Bengali or Tribal society eagerly waits for something positive to happen for development cause. The people are not in a position to fall in trap of negative and destructive politics for so called Maoism or anything else. The very recent rejection of the Maoists strike call by the local people is evident. Let the troubleshooters take rest for some years. Its now turn for the great masses of the people. So, bye bye Maoists.