Friday, June 11, 2010

The Barbarians

The barbarians in the Aryan sect who ruled during Brahman Tantra under the Hindu Raj in the ancient India butchered peace loving Buddhists in millions. Many Buddhist temples were demolished, many of the oppressed people were forced to leave their soil. The barbarians were largely successful in combating spread of Buddhism on Indian soil and unleashing a sense of terror. But they failed to resist its expansion in other Asian countries like China, Japan, Indonesia, Lous, Cambodia, Thailand etc similar to that of the period of Asoka where Buddhism became the state religion. It was only the Buddhist emperor Asoka who was earlier converted from Hinduism effectively and peacefully ruled India for many years. He developed a sense of national integration and good governance across the country. As a mark of respect, the Independent India puts Asoka Chakra as a national emblem. Indian foreign policy is primarily guided by the Pancha Shil ( five cardinal principles) of Buddha. Buddhists are now constitutionally treated as a  minority community. 

But power greedy barbarians subsequently fought each other which paved the way for Muslim invaders to invade India and rule for thousand years. The invaders made the Hindus marginalised. In the name concurring Hindu kingdoms one after another, Muslim barbarians massacred Hindus in millions. Their places of worships, cultures were demolished and converted Hindus by force or other tactics. Here the barbarians were defeated by more dangerous barbarians and established its solid base with expansion of Islam in Indian subcontinent.

With the erosion of Mughals, European barbarians invaded India and expanded Christianity in the country. In order to establish its colony, the English barbarians massacred Hindus and Sikhs also in millions. Muslims were largely untouched rather pampered subsequently that ultimately engineered the partition of India.

Thursday, June 10, 2010

Lovely Kabir

My friend is untraceable. He lives near hills and forest. He has perhaps gone off the plains. Imagine, he is now wandering undressed and lost in the dense forest. Certainly he is yet to meet any man eater and busy in talking to the wild birds, trees and deers in his melodious tone. Songs he so far sang for us were in perfect scale within certain grammatical limits. The nature does not at all care for all these scales or grammar. It only responds to a voice of the heart. Is he doing that?

Well! Adam is there, but where is any Eve? As a scientist of Botany, he is aware which plant is poisonous or sweety. So, there is no worry that he'll allow Eve to commit mistake and perish what happened in Old Testament. Therefore, I believe my friend will come out of his solitude shortly. I'll wait outside the Jungle with a carry bag containing therein a 3-piece dress but with a chappal (foot-slipper) considering his state of the foot. May God bless him! 

Friday, June 4, 2010

The June

"If a June night could talk,
it would probably boast it invented romance."
                                     - Bern Williams


"Who comes with Summer to this earth
And owes to June her day of birth,
With ring of Agate on her hand,
Can health, wealth, and long life command."
                                                   - June

"No flowers, no bees;
No bees, no flowers.
Blooming and buzzing,
Buzzing and blooming;
Married and still in Love."
                     - Mike Garofalo

"Spring being a tough act to follow,
God created June."
                            - Al Bernstein

“To read a poem in January is as lovely as to go for a walk in June”
                                                              - Jean Paul Sartre

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

The Fanatics

My friend Mohit mailed me today informing Md Nazim a Maldivite citizen would be hanged to death for his only fault to desert Islam. A theocratic state never allowed other religions to practice by dint of their sahriati constitution. Yet the people of India particularly the secular brands never find time to protest those Muslim fanatics in home and abroad. The promoters of Hindu or Christian or Sikh religions are the same indifferent lots. This is the religion called Islam is fascist in nature and spirit. It denies existence of all other religions those who are seen as non-believers or kafir. So the true peace and Islam can not live together. U have to discard one. SAARC or Amnesty International or UN may inquire such a strong case on rights abuse in Maldiv and issue statement as we found their promptness  in condemning Israel for blocking Gaza strip. Let the foreign tourists land on the fascist soil only after open declaration for respecting other religions and human rights of the people of all faiths.  

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

The Uncivilized

Bengal goes for election of civic bodies. A political battle is being waged for Sunday election. Hundreds and thousands political touts with their stooges are making our civic life a hell. The municipalities exist in urban Bengal will elect or select their lords. All eyes are on the civic body election for the great old city of Kolkata (Calcutta). The corporate backed parties are leaving no effort unattended in capturing the power to handle the finance in civic bodies. The corporate backed parties invested huge money for huge return. Hardly there is any party contesting election depend on public funding.

Once late Jamshedji Tata lamented he would rather prefer to be a politician than a business man if he was born again as a human being. Because politician does not require capital investment but false promises. Gone are the days of Sr. Tatas and Batas. Now political establishments are highly professionalised armed with the support of the corporate investment. Its a good business altogether. Some third graded people are allowed to shout in high pitch through microphone day and night making the city life hell. Big cut outs of their leaders or costly placards with wall writings on some substandard politicians would grill the civic population making life worse than hell.  No  law and order compliance. Its free for all.

The party in power may be dislodged in this election and the public will be in queue to get some financial relief from the new power brokers. But there will perhaps be no change in appeasing illegal occupants occupying the footpaths for trading goods in the name of hawkers. No change in work culture in civic bodies. No change in corrupt practices in order to hold cadres for next round of assembly election. The city of Calcutta has already lost its heritage, its culture, its language and its everything of pride. Yet power brokers are fighting hard for loot of the last remains. At this stage no magical change is found possible unless the state is ruled with great amount of conviction. Yet people cry for a change of guard of the state of Bengal.
    

Friday, May 7, 2010

The Tagore My Tagore

It was he, the great poet philosopher Rabindranath Thakur who shaped my mind to a great extent. In youth, yes, I was able to sing variety of songs, but my voice perfectly matched with Tagore songs. I started getting popular in signing his songs in my baritone voice. It was he who made me closer to the world of poetry. Wherever I went, whoever I met, a request would come through for a Tagore song. It was my weakness I never learnt classical music. Yet I was the master in truly copying his songs recorded by Hemanta Mukherjee and my dearest Jeorge Biswas. In those days, the songs the public would listen to my voice would invariably question the name of my music teacher. My well wishers thought one day I'll be a popular signer. But I failed to fulfill their aspiration.  Now I hardly find time and energy to sing songs.

It was rhythm in his poems that inspired me to write verses. Of course, the content of my poems was different. Those were more of social perspective than personal. It was he...he..and he who moved around my head that moved me closure to the melodies of Baul singers in rural Bengal. It was he who made me to take my first human rights lesson and observe the world from all angles. The internationalism what Tagore analysed a century ago, is still relevant in the current perspective. The great philosopher of our time who could foresee the pride of nationalism will soon be faded away with the globalisation. Thus he defeated all his contemporaries in his thinking and deeds. The university he founded a century ago bears the name of Viswabharati (international). 

It was his spiritual backing that gave me extra force in my essay writing and even publishing my short stories etc. In fine, I can conclude I never felt his absence even after 150 years of his departure. His influence will continue so long I live on this earth.  

Thursday, April 29, 2010

The Greed

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What a puzzle dad had to do for his spoiled kid other than searching for a supernatural power for doing some miracle? The gentleman who never believed in witchcraft or tantrik as called in India had to seek help from a tantrik to cure the kid in a magical way so as to enable it to regain its everything lost. His cowardice act was vehemently opposed by his family.

Macbeth the all powerful king had to rush to the witch to know his fate. The greed to become a king of Scotland turned a brave fighter to a coward and a secret killer. The secret greed he possessed in his heart got support from those witches and his lady at home. The readers know the tragic death of Macbeth and restoration of peace in the country.

Shakespeare sent message to the civilised world that every human being posses the evil desires to make things magically possible. If the force of Resistance in a man or woman is weakened, the evil prevails in the heart. In the same story, Branco, the friend and co-commander of the Duncan's army never believed in evil spirit or prophecies of those witches. He was brutally killed by Macbeth's hired goons. But the spirit of Branco exposed the King the Traitor, Macbeth that ultimately brought his destruction. The future showed the generation who carried the great name of Branco really ruled England instead of Scotland.

The story suggests there is no short cut to success. Only one has to be very patient and honest in his/her thoughts and deeds, the success will follow in its own course.