tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29303801644080441232024-02-08T05:22:10.033+05:30Two-Mins-GyanUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930380164408044123.post-89606964455431656942020-09-20T10:48:00.002+05:302020-09-20T10:48:17.978+05:30Ganga Sagar – A pilgrim Voyage <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjHUlP42ahlDtkc4GnyQvjzdOhocAZQ-Z3NKf7C7lo_l-z_ctQyeP-mPnSfscjVWy0GrRUfPLxKtmLU1z8iPudM9ny6z2kTjyzTZn9rwIdcbOOK_tRrnjfV_MFliI80qa0eXIf3E1TX8I/s605/Ganga+Sagar-1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="287" data-original-width="605" height="205" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjHUlP42ahlDtkc4GnyQvjzdOhocAZQ-Z3NKf7C7lo_l-z_ctQyeP-mPnSfscjVWy0GrRUfPLxKtmLU1z8iPudM9ny6z2kTjyzTZn9rwIdcbOOK_tRrnjfV_MFliI80qa0eXIf3E1TX8I/w320-h205/Ganga+Sagar-1.png" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">Pilgrimage was never planned, it happened for me. Had been
to various places with mythological connect all over India – a land of
historical significance. Most visits had a story from the Indian epics or some
of its branches or the dynasties that fill in our history books. Each beholds
an era and either teaches one a moral lesson or help realize the essence of the
place. With greying hairs feel these trips often help resetting values and
virtues of life. Let me share a not so fresh, yet not so old experience.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Mahalaya</i> was just over and city was getting ready for
the Durga puja madness four years back. It was a Sunday and a Red-letter day for
the country. November till January is the best time to visit, but we preferred
a month early and in a week’s time decided to visit Ganga Sagar. Have read
about this place in many Bengali novels and heard over national news clips.
Every year on Makar Sankranti (14<sup>th</sup> Of January in general) lakhs and
lakhs of devotees visit the place for heavenly blessings. Was curious but never
had the courage to venture presuming the hardship of the transit would be tough
to bear.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ganga Sagar is down south of West Bengal in the district of
South 24 Parganas. It is an island which experience the confluence of river
Ganga and Bay of Bengal. In geography books that part of the map looks so
cluttered with land and water bodies. Had never zoomed into these till we made
this trip.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Googled all that I could and stood out to be the
self-proclaimed guide to four elderly members who had the urge to make it
happen. With old age comes anxiety that needs to be handled on time! We were
all ready but the cab driver was late. Assuring that we would make up the lost
thirty minutes delay on road (not sure how) we started making a move from the
main city towards Diamond Harbour road.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It was exactly 6 am, when we stopped by the gas station before
heading for NH12. We kept moving, leaving behind the management college at
Jokha, the road side open market full of fresh vegetables and fish at Sarisha, the
age old Sagarika lodge, advertisement of fairly new Punyalakshmi resort
and the Ganges at Diamond Harbour… finally after two and half hours reached Kakdwip
lot 9 – the Harwood Ferry. Decent crowd which had mix of locals and devotees.
It costed us 8 rupees per person to get an entry pass for the ferry ride. A
group of young men from Nepal and two officials from the local District office
were co-passenger. With selfie stick the young team took lot of photographs of
the mass and the nature. They were on a pleasure trip to India and had selected
this spot to begin with. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sharp at 9 am the ferry started. The water ripples were
shining and we rode the tide. We managed to get some real estate. While waiting
for the ferry, I had bought a coconut from a young teenager who stood beside
the ticket counter. She had given a poly-pack which had a few more items, some
which I couldn’t identify. She said I need to throw it in the Ganga to get
blessings. More than blessings I thought she need to earn so I had got one. In
the ferry realized that I can’t throw it. Glaring at the silver water, I sorted
blessing for keeping the Ganges and the confluence clean. Dilemma of ritual and
rational at times is very painful. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The young team posed to get themselves clicked in various
posture combination while the government officials kept explaining his
colleague some problem for a plan sanction. Same vessel, carried many minds
from the same source to the same destination. Some enjoyed, some worried, and some
remained oblivious. Such is life and its mood. I constantly toggled between the
youthful action and the bottlenecked conversation. Suddenly realized the
minutes arm had hopped 40 milestones. We were on the other side of the ferry. Google
map was absolutely right!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Deal was struck at 600 rupees each leg. Five of us happily
took our places in the Van. This was the third vehicle in the journey. The road
was quite good. It was green and green on either side of the road with
habitants here and there. In conversation learned during “<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ganga Sagar”</b> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mela</i> (fair) in
the month of January around eighteen lakhs of people visit and the roads are so
flooded that footfalls result in overstepping. It was another forty minutes’ drive
till we reached the ground that hosts the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mela</i>
every year. One can walk from there, but we opted for the open vans which was a
make-shift green room for next thirty minutes. <o:p></o:p></p>We dumped all our belongings and rushed to the river that
looked more like the sea. The bank had fresh bricks and hence balancing the
slope till the clay sand was easy. The fine clay better known as “<i>Poli Mati</i>” in the regional language, is
believed to be a medicine for many chronic diseases. <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitjZ36A3lWQ5YLYVorCv6U5ae65AAGhVVv2M69W16Ghu_D4JEBCRJf3uxyRuwDUGbr5KMeeGM2Ko3Nx9mViv9dqAKa30w1_pZzeWJTUKiBtnIvRwPQ-DBOLfRLxJZt0AHZ7XaNoCstleE/s564/Ganga+Sagar-2.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="564" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitjZ36A3lWQ5YLYVorCv6U5ae65AAGhVVv2M69W16Ghu_D4JEBCRJf3uxyRuwDUGbr5KMeeGM2Ko3Nx9mViv9dqAKa30w1_pZzeWJTUKiBtnIvRwPQ-DBOLfRLxJZt0AHZ7XaNoCstleE/s320/Ganga+Sagar-2.png" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">Devotees were spread across the river bank. A dip in natural
cold water was relaxing. It had a conditioning effect – which I realized later.
After a satisfying bath, all headed for the make-shift changing rooms on the
bank of the river. In fresh apparels we sat on the wooden benches of the conch
shell shop and had sweet water of the tender coconut. Visitors were
experimenting but the shop owner was the best in blowing it the right way. It
almost reminded me of the title song of the Television Mega serial revolving on
<b>Ramayana </b>the epic. Well this old
serial is my best lunch partner on these pandemic afternoons.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">With contented mind we sat on the open van once more. The
Temple – <b>Kapil Muni’s ashram</b> faces
the river ghats, within a distance of around 200 meters. It was evident that
investment were made to maintain and enrich the place to improve facilities for
devotees. The best part of this pilgrim voyage was this temple. The temple is
rectangular in shape. It had a few doors, however the main door was open for
that day. One gets to see deceits in a row covering the long stretch of the
temple floored with white marble. It was cool inside. Prayer was at free will.
During the <b>Makar Sankranti</b> I suppose
all the doors to the temple are opened and one can expect a huddle of devotees.<o:p></o:p></p><p>
<span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-IN; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We spend some time in the temple hearing some
history. How things went wrong for the King and finally how Ganges came down
from the heaven to restore back life for generations to live. </span>The healing touch of mother Ganges re-instilled life that
stood as statute for long. The young priest offered us balls of sugar –
popularly known as “<b><i>Nokuldana</i></b>” in our region as prasad. Mythology always offer some
energy. With refuelled mindshare once more got up on the van. It took us back
to the car parking lot around 500 meter from the temple. It was fifty bucks
that we paid to that humble man who was a guide all through.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It was a few minutes past noon. Hungry souls had to munch
some chips and Cadburys. The car was soaked in a sense of good feelings of
having done something they wanted to do for a while. We crossed passed a local
school where a cultural program was being hosted on the occasion of Gandhiji’s
birthday. With that sweet tune in mind, reached the ferry point. The return
trip started at 1 pm. The crowd was leaner. Learnt from regular commuters, that
post 2 pm the ferry frequency decreases as river water starts ebbing. Early
start is a key to this day trip.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Harwood ferry point was almost visible when it started
raining cats and dogs. We got ready with our umbrellas – a must have for this
trip. A quick call to our driver on that side of the river. We walked fast and
he too was prompt. We had just reset ourselves in the cozy SUV that a T-storm
hit the nature. The wipers kept moving and we opened up our packed lunch boxes.
It was sharp 2 pm. The cold puri and the fried potato wedges tasted like never
before. Sincere hunger turns all cold food warm. It’s all in mind! That was the
lessons learnt from this pilgrimage of mine. Yes, off course we had some <i>Sandesh</i>
too to say the lunch was over. We are Bengali’s at the end of the day.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTtqOWiUWmPhK7ir_oMCZtz-CUjR0TjbC0lmIIHe4bGQRrVFhZe5XsowhCPPF9R9i3KUfv8VuwRw-4FfE-SIAm1qhOrnl3YovmTbGGv92lSOr4QHhiURZevEKlAGadGr0hmUAi8QzRv7Q/s584/Ganga+Sagar-3.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="584" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTtqOWiUWmPhK7ir_oMCZtz-CUjR0TjbC0lmIIHe4bGQRrVFhZe5XsowhCPPF9R9i3KUfv8VuwRw-4FfE-SIAm1qhOrnl3YovmTbGGv92lSOr4QHhiURZevEKlAGadGr0hmUAi8QzRv7Q/s320/Ganga+Sagar-3.png" width="320" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal">God was kind, the storm gave way to sunshine – the one that
one gets to see on a calm evening. The city was still in the wrap of after lunch
nap when we hit the roads of the city of joy. We sensed the festivity in the
air. Yes, pandals almost ready, with the biggest festival of eastern India –
Durga Puja knocking the door. The wheels had covered exactly 200 Kilo meters
when we got off at our residence at Dhakuria, in south Kolkata.</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It was 5 o’ clock on the walk clock. The washing machine had
started revolving to act on the laundry we carried back home. I sat with in the
living room with a hot cup of tea. Between the sips opened up facebook … and
then on you know what <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930380164408044123.post-28320698846324701762020-08-09T18:49:00.004+05:302020-08-09T18:49:34.747+05:30Pandemic chronicles - 8 August ' 20<p> 8 August</p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">বর্ষার দিন |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">একফালি বারান্দা , তাতে কিছু ছোটখাটো গাছ আর প্যাচপ্যাচে বৃষ্টির দিনে তার সাথে জুটেছে আরো দুটো ছাতা | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">ঋতু রানী বর্ষা ! ছোটবেলায় অনেক রচনা লিখেছি | গ্রীষ্মপ্রধান দেশে এর কদর আলাদা | তবে এই বছর, কেমন অনাড়ম্বরভাবে সে এবার চলে এলো | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">অগোছালো আকাশের দিকে তাকালে ভাবনার সূচক মাঝেমাঝেই নিচের দিকে নেমে যাচ্ছে | বিমান দুর্ঘটনায় আকস্মিক হারিয়ে যাওয়া কিছু মানুষ | যাদের আর বাড়ি ফেরা হলো না | আনাচে-কানাচে চিকিৎসা পরিষেবার বেনিয়ম | আর আছে কিছু চেনা খবর- শ্রীরামের নতুন বাড়ি, Corona ভয়াবহ থাবা আর এক রাজপুতের চলে যাওয়া, এই ত্রিভুজ খবরের মধ্যে ঘুরপাক খাওয়া|</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">না আরো আছে, যা ঠিক খবরে প্রকাশ পায় না |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">কল্পনার মার রুটির দোকান টা প্রায় বন্ধ | শ্যামল আর রোজ মাছ নিয়ে বসে না, বড় পরিশ্রম, কম আয় | মাঝেমধ্যে লকডাউন এর দিনগুলোতে মিতালীর দোকানে ওর ফলগুলো পচে | বাড়ির সামনে চায়ের দোকান টা কদিন হলো বন্ধ | শুনেছি ভদ্রলোকের পা ভেঙেছে | ডাক্তার নেই দেখার | গৃহস্থালির কাজ কর্ম করতে আসে রিনা মাসি, তার ছেলে কারুর একটা গাড়ি চালাত | অনেকের মতো তারও মাইনে অর্ধেক হয়ে গেছে | বেসরকারি আইটি সংস্থায় ঝাড়পোঁছ করার কাজ করত বাপি | অনির্দিষ্টকালের জন্য এখন আর কাজটা নেই | পিংকির কাছে ফেসিয়াল করতে গেলে এক সপ্তাহ আগে বুকিং করতে হতো, তারও আজকাল হাত ফাঁকা |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">নাম গুলো হয়তো আলাদা হবে, তবে এরকম হয়তো আপনিও কাউকে চেনেন | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">এদের অনেকেই প্রশ্ন করেছে - "আচ্ছা আর কি করা যায় ?" </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">ওরা দিন আনি দিন খাই মডেলের এন্ত্রেপ্রেনিউর বটে | আমার থেকে শতগুণে চৌখস এবং মেহেনদি | সহানুভূতির হাত, সংবেদনশীল মন, ছাড়া আর কিছুই দিতে পারিনি | উত্তর না দিতে পারার একটা অদ্ভুত যন্ত্রণা থাকে | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">দস্তুর মত মনের যত্ন নিতে হচ্ছে | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">কেন পারছিনা উত্তর দিতে.. ক্ষমতার অভাব নাকি জ্ঞানের | তবে একটা উপলব্ধি আছে - ওরা সকলে সাহায্যের হাত নয়, রোজগারের পথ চায় | ঠিক যেমন চাই আপনি আর আমি ! </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">ভাইরাল হয়ে যাওয়া কবিতা কিংবা গানের থেকে তুলেই বলি আপনি বা আমি কেউই সাতে-পাঁচে থাকি না | তবু আমি নিশ্চিত আপনার ও আমার মত মাঝে মাঝে এরকম কষ্ট হয় | এই দেখুন, লিখতে লিখতে কালো মেঘের ফাঁকে ফাঁকে কেমন উজ্জ্বল রোদ বেরিয়ে এসেছে | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">নতুন ছাতা বাঁধতে হবে | কি হবে তার রং.. আজ তা জানা নেই.. তবে সে রঙিন হতে হবে, হতে হবে মজবুত | ছোট বড় মাঝারি | ঝড় জল রোদ.. সবটা সামলে দিতে পারবে এমনটা হওয়া চাই | ভাবনারও একটা ছোঁয়াচে প্রভাব থাকে | তাই লেখার ঝুড়ি থেকে আজ এই ভাইরাসটা নিক্ষেপ করলাম |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">আসছে পুজোয় জামা নয়,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">ওদের মানানসই একটা ছাতা চাই |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">দেখুন না ওদের জন্য নতুন কিছু একটা পারেন কিনা |</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimfXCZX0Dagug4Nm9gBdeXr1N6ZLxl6g-SuPy5y12gLu9PdgRZKAG3w-w-J9IvSNh2F1LX-42dOUDSfm3MjcrYhP7tPs6Vilyqx4heT1Wq-l3z0Vc1ToFvkT2tM9WI6sLZkwf_Tl6Fm7s/s2048/Aug+8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimfXCZX0Dagug4Nm9gBdeXr1N6ZLxl6g-SuPy5y12gLu9PdgRZKAG3w-w-J9IvSNh2F1LX-42dOUDSfm3MjcrYhP7tPs6Vilyqx4heT1Wq-l3z0Vc1ToFvkT2tM9WI6sLZkwf_Tl6Fm7s/s640/Aug+8.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930380164408044123.post-80112186836020976972020-08-09T18:47:00.006+05:302020-08-09T18:47:55.406+05:30Pandemic chronicles - 26 July ' 20<p>26 July</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Heal and get well soon, one and all.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Quite a few members of my extended network are fighting tough battles as someone there in their family is a Covid19 warrior. Each experience leaves behind a lull moment. The latest blog of the greatest cine star of our times who himself is suffering, itself stands as a testimony to the pain. Both physical and mental. Common citizen is banking on 'luck' or 'fluke' more than ever. Still believe prayers does wonder and that is all we can offer with an open mind.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Care, Distance, Cure.. Does the pattern have a disorder.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Is the phrase "social distancing" - a juxtaposition?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Forget, hard questions. It is easy to stay put with daily chores.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">There is enough.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Mundane is on the burner and rest in deep refrigerator.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Simple tasks call for so much planning these days.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Last evening the working mixer gave up after grinding for years. Today had to turn up in the local shop. Stepped out after a while to get it sorted. My market facing apparels are now hand-picked. They are the most ostracized ones. May be an unconscious bias I have to get over soon. Years back had brought a pair of sneakers in hope of joining my marathon runner friends which I never ran. In last few months they are now fit to run.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The worst feeling of a Sunday noon is the uneasiness of that undone bucket which is still half full. Go slow - had to whisper, in purpose. No point rushing. Let it be pending. Indulged in giving back the mind a baggage free me-time.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Played instrumental music of old Kishore songs and was lazily browsing the screens of my device that a new mixer and crusher popped up. oops..I searched for repair details in the morning; it is following me crazily. Before all types of fancy stuff fill-up I geared up to beat the intelligent artificial mind hiding in my own device.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I managed to run but stumbled on something new.. DIY. Heard this word first time. May be you know, but in case you are in the same boat thought of alerting you, as it is now going to be true..</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">DIY means 'Do-It-Yourself' and that is a serious upcoming industry. Something that will enable you to do every thing under the sun yourself. It was there in a small way (contributing to countries economy) but analysts can foresee post Covid19 era, this is going to be a big revolution. A fresh new world yet to opened up, you too may check out as researchers are on job with various point of views and indicating business trends. In this world sadly enough mind may not but money always matters.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Now have to really get ready, just sneakers would do. For my friends who follow Bengali in true sense have to do জুতো সেলাই থেকে চণ্ডীপাঠ ...</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaHIANPufguU0-jRbsYMv4zNL8Vr3L11DTOpt4Wo4z8kYHlLmYeOnq70eazEM-mcc4_ux8xtxySPX4fR_x0dQBt49A1jKq4dsl1UD0E7xvCWHS2NGTeQHvg7Nu48cu8BVqXzrVmHfLX4k/s2000/Jul+26.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="2000" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaHIANPufguU0-jRbsYMv4zNL8Vr3L11DTOpt4Wo4z8kYHlLmYeOnq70eazEM-mcc4_ux8xtxySPX4fR_x0dQBt49A1jKq4dsl1UD0E7xvCWHS2NGTeQHvg7Nu48cu8BVqXzrVmHfLX4k/s640/Jul+26.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="stjgntxs ni8dbmo4 l82x9zwi uo3d90p7 h905i5nu monazrh9" data-visualcompletion="ignore-dynamic" style="border-radius: 0px 0px 8px 8px; font-family: inherit; overflow: hidden;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="cwj9ozl2 tvmbv18p" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 4px;"><span class="pmk7jnqg g0aa4cga q45zohi1" data-html2canvas-ignore="true" style="clip-path: polygon(0px 0px, 0px 0px, 0px 0px, 0px 0px); clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); font-family: inherit; position: absolute;"></span></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930380164408044123.post-39844331480912994992020-08-09T18:45:00.006+05:302020-08-09T18:45:49.262+05:30Pandemic chronicles - 19 July '20<p>19 July</p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">More than 120 days over.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Confinement is now a habit. After shocking electricity bill amounts pinging us (almost pricking us too) and the related conversations all around in my city, suddenly realized the peak summer days by calendar are over. The seasonal feeling was hijacked by the epic story of virus. Debates of all kinds small and big, tactical and strategic, human and not so human is ongoing. Vaccine, Immunity and unending dilemmas gripping mind.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Consciously read health and happiness posts and keep a tab on Radhika and Korno Sir (never mind if you don't know them.. they are script characters in love these days) to keep HQ high. Regularly check out delicious receipe posts from friends and their spouses. It is another story that my kitchen disaster continues. Today failed second time to make a Dosa. But my pursuit to be lively is full on. Evening spent some quality time watching Royal Bengal Rohashya. So much of green, the spice of mystery and touch of science .. felt detoxed. Yes it is long that I have seen the saloon rate card, met the smiling girl in the parlour who practiced spoken English with me while I relaxed. So had to find a better method to rejuvenate. Some thing beyond the silver, gold and pearl. It was a colour splash this evening.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Tomorrow is Monday.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">No more blues.. As all seven days have levelled in the last few months. Still would like to call Monday a start of the week. Have to get going with an extra ounce of energy.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Long back had brought a pot in an office outreach event. Well it was auctioned. The first and last time I participated in such a price negotiation experience. It was more an ego game than cause, is what I realized after it was over. But with due love carried it all the way home from my office. Either side near and dear wondered why. Me too was not sure untill some days back.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">It found a corner in my room and stood there since then. After lockdown became a serious reality started dusting it everyday as it is now my workspace energy spot. Yes, miss all those lovely women who would deck up well for office and the men who would peep in to greet or share a pie of their last week end in between the packed up meeting slots and decision makings.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The office staff who would offer a cup of tea before the most difficult calls of the week or the hilarious breaks with peers before some boring ones..</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Now this pot holds them all for me. Yes the meetings continue. And I now know who has a growing kid at home and who has a super noisy mixy..</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">I appreciate noise more than colors these days.</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXbFmV3dtPlldr-qsMz8ONTLVvinjd03RwgWZ1VLWMw6LKa1zocD9sKDTGBfNNZkhr5hQGbg4DTA0KojC1uAasMUxQzcDLgDMUx-lwHCLB0MJ3KZ3kn0P1yOK1XHLCw8oS1JWT2J2EkTQ/s2048/Jul+19.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1119" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXbFmV3dtPlldr-qsMz8ONTLVvinjd03RwgWZ1VLWMw6LKa1zocD9sKDTGBfNNZkhr5hQGbg4DTA0KojC1uAasMUxQzcDLgDMUx-lwHCLB0MJ3KZ3kn0P1yOK1XHLCw8oS1JWT2J2EkTQ/s640/Jul+19.jpg" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span><p></p><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="stjgntxs ni8dbmo4 l82x9zwi uo3d90p7 h905i5nu monazrh9" data-visualcompletion="ignore-dynamic" style="border-radius: 0px 0px 8px 8px; font-family: inherit; overflow: hidden;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="cwj9ozl2 tvmbv18p" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 4px;"><span class="pmk7jnqg g0aa4cga q45zohi1" data-html2canvas-ignore="true" style="clip-path: polygon(0px 0px, 0px 0px, 0px 0px, 0px 0px); clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); font-family: inherit; position: absolute;"></span></div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930380164408044123.post-53186567486292811362020-08-09T18:43:00.003+05:302020-08-09T18:43:31.237+05:30Pandemic chronicles - 14 July ' 20<p> 14 July</p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Top of the house Mark's in newspaper lifted the mood a few inches. I don't know them but their accomplishments in difficult times is a hope for sure..Keep up as learning will not cease to end.. you love it or not...</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Learning of recent times is ability to pick up and render proper medical care giving is a basic skill for everyone to handle most homes. It calls for structured training much beyond empathy and care which too are of paramount importance. It is as much important as understanding of what is false positive and false negative of any detection process. Yes, pathological detection is the process much in discussion today.Recall and Precision are hints to errors of machine learning..the way these words appear in prints these days for general consumption..in newsdailies one n all needs to have a clarity before opinion overcasts. An yes to err is just not human .. machines too go wrong and there is maths behind. And let machines' error not be business lever..let engineers and scientists fix them and we serve humanity with trust. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">While machine learning has micro learning courses.. medical faternity should now start rolling out micro learning packs for general people as we need a different level of preparedness to combat the situation in hand.. </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A morning thought as the bud peeps out of the green..</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEf5cHu2iUvXplOm-FK7kjKK5ei9HyanPGtT6rCZdYk6eNZaOchbwWYT648_pMF6vYMNWVRqPZw2FqCxS1Ju4lbQ9bPqlBcc5jwPLIbuNkcnnJUJFFWrfc0f2tWqH022FYV1hxuSVlT_A/s2048/July+14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEf5cHu2iUvXplOm-FK7kjKK5ei9HyanPGtT6rCZdYk6eNZaOchbwWYT648_pMF6vYMNWVRqPZw2FqCxS1Ju4lbQ9bPqlBcc5jwPLIbuNkcnnJUJFFWrfc0f2tWqH022FYV1hxuSVlT_A/s640/July+14.jpg" /></a></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930380164408044123.post-28118659738694669082020-08-09T18:41:00.007+05:302020-08-09T18:41:51.454+05:30Pandemic chronicles - 5 Jul ' 20<p> 5 July</p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">বৃষ্টি ভেজা সকাল |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">রবিবার দুপুরে ভরপুর খেয়ে, মনের জানলা খুলে দিলাম | ভাইরাস, তুমি চলো ডালে ডালে, আর আমরা চলি পাতায় পাতায় | ঠিক ধরেছেন সোশ্যাল ডিস্টেন্স যতই বাড়ছে, সোশ্যাল কানেকশান ততই বৃদ্ধি পাচ্ছে, অদ্ভুতভাবে রিলেটেড | ঠিক যেমন রবিবার দুপুর আর সিনেমা |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">হইচইয়ে তানসেনের তানপুরা !</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">অনেক বছর এই তানসেন নামটা ছিল আমার ঠিকানার সাথে যুক্ত | তানসেনের নামে যে রাস্তা যেত, সেই রাস্তার সবচেয়ে কোনের বাড়িতে কেটেছে শৈশবের অনেকগুলো বছর | মোগল সম্রাট আকবরের নবরত্নর সাথে এভাবেই বড় হয়ে ওঠা | না, হারমোনিয়াম, তানপুরা কোনদিন কিছুই বাযায়নি | তবে ছোটবেলা থেকেই সিনেমা দেখার একটা আকর্ষণ ছিল |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">পাড়ার মাঠে মেরাপ বেঁধে সিনেমা দেখানোর চল ছিল | চল ছিল যাত্রা ও থিয়েটার দেখার | একটানা 7 দিন সবকটা সিনেমা দেখলেই, হাতে যা পাওয়া যেত তার নাম ছিল সিজেন টিকিট | বাড়ির লোকেদের বিশেষ উদ্যোগ না থাকলেও ঠাকুরমা কিংবা মামার সাথে এহেন সিনেমা দেখতে গিয়েছি কয়েকবার | বেয়ারা আবদার মেটানোর জন্য বাড়িতে সব সময় কাউকে লাগে | সেই সময় সিজেন টিকিটের ছিল এক বিশাল কদর | নিজেকে সিনেমাপ্রেমী বলে অন্তত দাবি করা যেত !</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">টিজার বা ট্রিলার বলে তখন কিছু ছিল না | নতুন চলচ্চিত্রের পোস্টার ছাড়াও যেটা পাওয়া যেত, তার নাম হলো লিফলেট | নিস্তব্ধ দুপুরে চলচ্চিত্রের লিফলেট ছড়াতে ছড়াতে রিকশায় চেপে কেউ একজন এনাউন্সমেন্ট করতে করতে বেরিয়ে যেত | চাকরির শুরুতে অনেকে যখন জিজ্ঞেস করত – “তোমার হবি কি ?”, অনেকবার মনে হয়েছে বলি - ছোটবেলার ছুটে গিয়ে রাস্তা থেকে নতুন চলচ্চিত্রের লিফলেট কুড়োনো আমার খুব শখের জিনিস ছিল |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">রান্নাঘরে জানলার তলায় একটা বিশাল বড় সিমেন্টের দেওয়াল ছিল | দেওয়ালটা ভর্তি ছিল আমার সেই কুড়িয়ে পাওয়া সব লিফলেটে | জিতেন্দ্রর হিম্মতওয়ালা থেকে মিঠুনের payar jhukta নেহি | সব ছিল এই গ্যালারিতে !</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">তানসেন নিজের নাম নিয়ে কালভার্টে উজ্জ্বল হয়ে দাঁড়িয়ে রইল, আর আমি একটু একটু করে বড় হলাম | পড়াশোনার আবহাওয়া প্রবল হলো | সতীর্থদের ভালো লাগার সাথে এই ভালোলাগার কোথাও খুব একটা মিল পেলাম না | বাড়িতে চার চৌকো বাক্স ঢুকলো | প্রথমে সাদাকালো, তারপরে রঙিন | লিফলেটের গ্যালারি তখন অতীত |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">তারপরে একদিন হলো বাড়িবদল !</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">নিজের ঘর ছাড়া, সবচেয়ে প্রিয় জায়গা ছিল ওই দেওয়ালটা | বেশ অনেকক্ষণ ধরে শেষবারের মতো দেওয়ালটা দেখেছিলাম | আজকের হইচইয়ের গ্যালারি থেকে কিছু কম ছিল না !</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">সে যাই হোক, সময় কেটেছে অনেক |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">নতুন যুগের নতুন সিনেমা হল - হইচই | প্রিয়া থেকে আইনক্স হয়ে ..নেটফ্লিক্স. অ্যামাজন প্রাইম | তাদের আবার হাড্ডাহাড্ডি লড়াই | আপনি দেখান তো | আর ব্যাপারটা না জানলে জেনে নিন | লজ্জার কিছু নেই | এখন বাঁচতে গেলে, প্রতিদিনই নতুন কিছু শিখতে হবে |</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">আপনি যাকে বলেন অনলাইন, কর্পোরেট তাকে বলে ডিজিটাল | দিকে দিকে এখন খালি ডিজিটাল প্রজেক্ট | রেশন কার্ড থেকে রেক্রিয়েশন | এই নতুন সমীকরণে নিজেকে ফিট করাও কিন্তু একটা প্রজেক্ট | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">ওহো, আপনি তো সবই জানেন মশাই | তবে যদি একই সোফার কোণে বসে বসে, সিনেমা দেখতে দেখতে একটু ক্লান্ত লাগে, তাহলে একটু অন্য কিছু চেষ্টা করতে পারেন | মেঝেতে বিছানো সুন্দর কার্পেট কিংবা খালি মেঝে যাই হোক একেবারে সোজাসুজি বসে পড়তে পারেন ! মেরাপ বাধা সিনেমা হলে, এহেন আয়োজনকে বলা হতো ফরাস ! </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">ভাবা যায় স্কুল, কলেজ, ব্যাংক, বাজার, অফিস, বিনোদন, সবকিছুই প্রায় এনিটাইম অনিওয়্যার হয়ে যাচ্ছে | শুধু সেলুন টাই নিজেকে মেন্টেন করতে হচ্ছে ! চোখ কান খোলা রাখুন আর হাতের যত্ন নিন, কারণ ডিজিটালি অপারেশনাল থাকতে গেলে হাতের প্রিসিশন থাকাটা খুব প্রয়োজন |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">চুপিচুপি বলে রাখি বাড়ির বাচ্চাদের ফলো করুন, দেখবেন অজান্তেই কেমন অনেক কিছু শিখে গেছেন | ওরাতো বাই বার্থ নেটিজেন, আমরা তো চেয়ে-চিনতে পেয়েছি | তবে লেখাপড়ার ফাঁকে, আজ আকাশের চাঁদটা দেখতে ভুলবেন না !</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">আজ গুরু পূর্ণিমা |</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-hyc0kcAWcKM0fEanTluGXyfFrMmVGPlGCf_NQbOIBb2J8Wmk2vhARrI7YmytS7hPxOIM1DLQLX-F_1Z49Ufp0IbJHHakgl1AT2Y6RDDvi1JqiBR1EI2sNyIjXhDnFMWiBN8x9mcxeJk/s1080/July+5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-hyc0kcAWcKM0fEanTluGXyfFrMmVGPlGCf_NQbOIBb2J8Wmk2vhARrI7YmytS7hPxOIM1DLQLX-F_1Z49Ufp0IbJHHakgl1AT2Y6RDDvi1JqiBR1EI2sNyIjXhDnFMWiBN8x9mcxeJk/s640/July+5.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930380164408044123.post-89581494497536180232020-08-09T18:39:00.005+05:302020-08-09T18:39:53.356+05:30Pandemic chronicles - 23 Jun ' 20<p> 23 Jun</p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">আজ রথযাত্রা |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">"রথযাত্রা, লোকারণ্য, মহা ধুমধাম,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">ভক্তেরা লুটায়ে পথে করিছে প্রণাম।</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">পথ ভাবে আমি দেব রথ ভাবে আমি,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">মূর্তি ভাবে আমি দেব–হাসে অন্তর্যামী"</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">স্কুল জীবনে এই লাইনগুলো নিয়ে অনেকবার ভাব সম্প্রসারণ লিখতে হয়েছে | কোনদিন 10 এ 5 এর বেশি পেয়েছি বলে মনে পড়ে না | তবে লাইন গুলো ভালো লেগেছিল বলে আজও মনে আছে | রথ বললে মেলার কথাই মনে পড়ে | না না, আজ মেলার গল্প করবো না, মেলা কাজ পড়ে আছে |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">দুপুরের লাঞ্চের পরে আজ একটা গজা জুটেছে | রোজ রোজ এই খাবার, খাবার পরে ছুটে-ছুটে গিয়ে, বদ্ধ ঘরে কাজ করতে বড় ক্লান্ত লাগে | প্রতিবছর পাড়ার মন্দিরে যে রথ আসে, তার দড়িতে হাত দেবার সৌভাগ্য হয়, এবছর তাও হলো না | অগত্যা স্মৃতির ভাঁড়ারে টান পড়লো |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">চাকরির প্রথম বছর | পার্কস্ট্রিট এর উপর অফিস | এ রকমই একটা রথের দিন ছিল | দুপুরের পর থেকে কারোরই আর কাজে কর্মে মন নেই দেখলাম | আমি বসতাম 8th ফ্লোরে | বলা যেতে পারে বসার জায়গা থেকে খুবই কম দূরত্বে ছিল বেশকিছু জানলা | সে জানলা দিয়ে উঁকি মারলে দেখা যেত সুদীর্ঘ পার্ক স্ট্রিটের রাস্তা | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">সেদিনের একটা ছোট্ট ঘটনা আজও মনে আছে, কারণ সেদিন একটা নতুন জিনিস শিখে ছিলাম | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">বিকেল তিনটের পর থেকে হঠাৎ দেখলাম জানালার পাশে জায়গা গুলো ধীরে ধীরে ভরে যাচ্ছে | অভিজ্ঞতা নেই তাই একটু সময় লাগলো ব্যাপারটা বুঝতে | প্রশ্নের চিহ্ন নিয়ে মাথায় বেশিক্ষণ ঘুরে বেড়াতে পারি না | একে তাকে জিজ্ঞেস করে বলা যেতে পারে এক প্রকার হল কালেকশনে যা বুঝলাম - এখান দিয়ে ইসকনের রথ যায় |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">সে এক অভিজ্ঞতা | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">রথ আসার তখনো অনেক সময় বাকি, আমার পাশে জানালাটায় আর তিল ধারণের জায়গা নেই | আমার যে কোন চান্স নেই সে আমি বুঝে গেলাম | বেশ মনমরা হয়ে কোন এক Power Plant কোম্পানির ড্রইং এর উপর মনোযোগ সহকারে রাবার স্ট্যাম্প লাগাতে লাগলাম | এই হাসবেন না কিন্তু, রাবার স্ট্যাম্প লাগানো কিন্তু কোনো সহজ কাজ নয় | এমন স্ট্যাম্প যেটা দেখবেন শুকনো খটখটে; তাতে দুই এক ফোটা জল দিলে কেমন ভাবে ব্যাপারটা যেন সজীব হয়ে ওঠে | পুরো ব্যাপারটা কিন্তু একদিনে জানা সম্ভবপর নয়, এর পিছনে কিন্তু একটা বেশ অনুশীলনী দরকার |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">সেদিন আমার রথ দেখা হতোই না যদি না আমার উজ্জ্বল সহপাঠী সেদিন হেসে আমাকে জিজ্ঞেস করত - "কি করছিস রথ দেখবি না |" জানলার দিকে তাকিয়ে ইঙ্গিত করলাম আমার পক্ষে হবে না | কেমন বীরদর্পে আশ্বাসের সুরে আমাকে বলল - "আমার সাথে আয়" | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">রথ দেখার লোভে চলে গেলাম | আমি যে ফ্লোরে বসতাম তার দুটো ফ্লোরো উপরে ছিল বিল্ডিং এর ছাদ | ছাদের দরজা টা যেন কেমন আলগাভাবে লাগানো ছিল, একটু ঠেলাঠেলি করতে খুলে গেল | মনে হল ও যেন কত বার এই ছাদে এসেছে |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">দৃশ্যত বিশেষ কিছু ছিল না বলেই বোধহয় কেউ খুব একটা ছাদে আসতো না | কিছুক্ষণের মধ্যেই অনেক মানুষের ঢল নেমে এলো , রাস্তায় রথের চাকা ঘুরতে ঘুরতে এগিয়ে এল ঠিক অফিসের নিচে | রথে ধ্বজা উড়ে চলেছে আর তারই সঙ্গে কত মানুষ খোল করতাল বাজিয়ে হরিনাম করতে করতে এগিয়ে চলেছে | দুই বন্ধু জমিয়ে রথযাত্রা দেখলাম | রথ এগিয়ে গেছে চৌরঙ্গীর দিকে আমরাও সিঁড়ি ধরে নিচে নামছি | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">বন্ধুর জন্য সেদিন রথ দেখাটা হল | ধন্যবাদ দেবো দেবো ভাবছি | </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">জিজ্ঞেস করলাম - "তুই কি মাঝে মাঝেই আসিস এই ছাদে?"</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">"অনেকদিন ধরে অফিসের ছাদটা দেখার খুব ইচ্ছে ছিল |"</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">"মানে, তুই ছাদ দেখতে উপরে এলি , রথ দেখতে নয় | "</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">"ঐ হল আর কি, রথ দেখা, কলা বেচা বলতে পারিস |”</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">"বলিস কি?"</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">"একেবারে একা একা অ্যাডভেঞ্চার করব তাই partner in crime করলাম তোকে | প্রতিবছর কি আর ছাদ থেকে রথ দেখার সুযোগ পাবি!" </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">কিছু মানুষ থাকে কিভাবে জানি সমস্যার ছিদ্র গুলোর মধ্যে দিয়ে সমাধানের দড়ি গুলো বেঁধে দিতে পারে | কথাটা আগে শুনেছিলাম সেদিন যেন হাতেনাতে টের পেলাম | ভাগ্যিস সেদিন জানলায় অতো ভিড় হয়েছিল, তাই ছাদের দরজাটা খোলা হল | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">কিছু পুরনো স্মৃতি গজার থেকেও মিষ্টি লাগে |</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgANNYzYJH6ZMTYKzDbQYllm6gv7pkzKMe_7ga_je0YM6EiCjZdIuaabpSHtxv6yqBFwI0KEaTFTyZaJ4N6Qv0UB4nuTapT0-ndL5ts_l70Q_dsAfcuNC53DwRaGpK3Z9LqNV1R_hDyQtg/s1600/Jun+23.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgANNYzYJH6ZMTYKzDbQYllm6gv7pkzKMe_7ga_je0YM6EiCjZdIuaabpSHtxv6yqBFwI0KEaTFTyZaJ4N6Qv0UB4nuTapT0-ndL5ts_l70Q_dsAfcuNC53DwRaGpK3Z9LqNV1R_hDyQtg/s640/Jun+23.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930380164408044123.post-5021942175258347842020-08-09T18:38:00.001+05:302020-08-09T18:38:07.555+05:30Pandemic chronicles - 14 Jun ' 20<p> 14 Jun</p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">অনেকদিন পরে কাগজওয়ালা এলো বাড়িতে |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">সচরাচর বাড়িতে প্রায় কেউই আসে না আজকাল | বলা ভালো বাড়ির ডোরবেলটা বাজলে আজকাল আতংক লাগে| | নিজেকে নিজের মতো গুছিয়ে নিয়েছি - হোয়াটসঅ্যাপ টেলিফোন ইমেইলের মাধ্যমে |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">ঘরের এক কোণে বোঝাই হয়ে আছে অনেক খবরের কাগজ | প্রথমদিকে ভয় পেলেও ওই অভ্যাসটা ছাড়তে পারিনি| | সকালবেলা চায়ের সাথে ওইটুকুই তো আর পড়ে আছে | অনীহা সত্বেও দরজা খুলে দেখি, মুখে মাস্ক পড়ে পরিচিত মানুষটা দাঁড়িয়ে আছে ! সচরাচর ওর মুখে একটা সুন্দর হাসি থাকে, আজ আর সেটা দেখা হলো না |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">হঠাৎ উঠে এসেছে দেখে মনে একটু খটকা লাগলো | বলা ভালো একটু দ্বন্দ্বেই পড়লাম | প্রথমে খানিকটা দোনামোনা করলাম, কাগজটা দেবো নাকি ওকে চলে যেতে বলব | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">কেন জানিনা কড়া গলায় বললাম - "বাইরেই থাকো" | </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">কোন কথা না বলে, সে অক্ষরে অক্ষরে কথা গুলো পালন করল | </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">ঘরের বাইরে চুপ করে দাঁড়িয়ে রইলো |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">অনেক কাগজ জমেছে তাই ছোটাছুটি করে ঘরের কোণে রাখা পুরনো বাসি খবরগুলো এনে ওর সামনে ফেললাম | আমাদের বাড়ির ওজন মাপার যন্ত্র টা অনেকেরই পছন্দ, ও ব্যতিক্রম নয় | ওর জন্য বরাবরই ওজন যন্ত্র আমরা আনি | প্রথমবার, আমরা চোখের আন্দাজেই ওজনটা মাপলাম | বলা যায় চোখের পলকে কাজটা আমরা সেরে ফেললাম; সেও বস্তা গুটিয়ে চলে গেল |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">যাক বাবা বাঁচা গেল ! তবে ভাবনাটা সাময়িক, কারণ শোনা যাচ্ছে ভাইরাস রোবটের স্পিডে নানান গতিতে নানান ভাবে এদিক ওদিক ঘুরে বেড়াচ্ছে | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">সব প্যারামিটারে ভাইরাস বাবাজীবন বেশ তুখর ! </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">অ্যাকুরেসি, প্রিসিশন, স্কেল, পেনিট্রেশন, কভারেজ, কোনকিছুই নজর এড়ায়নি | লক্ষণীয় জাতি, ধর্ম ,দেশ সব একসাথে ব্যাংক-অন লঞ্চ করেছে | যে স্কুলে পড়ে থাকুক না কেন, ট্রেনিং টা খাসা | না না ,তবু তোমাকে আমার একদম ভালো লাগে নি | আমার তো আর তোপসে নেই, তাই আপনাদেরই বলি - আর শান্তিতে থাকা যাচ্ছে না |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">পুরনো খবরের বোঝা নিয়ে কাগজওয়ালা তো কত দূর চলে গেল | ঘরের কোন টা ফাঁকা হলো ঠিকই, কিন্তু মনের কোণে ধুলো জমেছে |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">চলে যাবার পরে বেশ কিছুক্ষণ মনটা খুব খারাপ ছিল | এরকম তো করিনা , কেউ এলে তার সাথে দুটো কথা বলি | এরকম ভাবে পালিয়ে বেড়ানো একটা অসুখে দাঁড়িয়েছে | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">আবার দরজা বন্ধ, আর কেউ আসেনা, আবার সেই দিন গোনার পালা |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">ইস, ওকে জিজ্ঞেস করতেই ভুলে গেলাম ঈদের পরব কেমন কাটল ; এই সময় এলে অনেক ভালো গল্প করতো, সেসব আর করাই হলো না | সবই অধরা বিচিত্র প্রাণীটার জন্য | আমার কাউকে একটা চাই দোষ দেবার জন্য তাই তোকেই দিলাম |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">পুঁজিপুথি আর ক'জনইবা থাকে,যাদের আছে তাদের নাম সকলেই জানে | আর যাদের নেই তাদেরতো ছিল শুধু এইটুকু সামাজিক সম্পর্কের সম্বল | তা তুই সেটাও কেড়ে নিলি.. Not done..</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">তবে একটা দৃষ্টিকোণ উপেক্ষা করতে পারছিনা | সে যাই বলুন, ভাইরাস বেশ রসিক বটে | মানুষের ভিতরের মুখোশ গুলো যেন কেমন জ্বলজ্বল করে ফুটে উঠছে | তাই দেশের মানুষও পারিজায়ী হয় , কে কাকে ত্রাণ সামগ্রী দিল সেটা ত্রাণের চেয়ে বড় হয় | মানুষের কান্না আর পলিটিক্যাল তরজা সমান্তরাল হয়ে ছুটে চলে |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">চলতে চলতে একদিন পথ যাবে বেঁকে | সময়ের সাথে সাথে হয়তো তুইও যাবি কোথাও মিলিয়ে | আর যাই করিস ভালোমানুষিটা কেড়ে নিস না | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">সকালে উঠিয়া আমি মনে মনে বলি ,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">সারাদিন যেন আমি ভালো ভাবে চলি ||</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuKTC1VxfYGOr6idKJe3HJEc_aA6SBoZTfuVVkBWeEhLzjEXlWPEruKDxc14jKegbgNay3SzsBf5QwPVSN8saLpa7URfINcGUYF-bDq_y-7WrAR7sjDRrhQSvvsby2yDmLMJUGrwV4E-o/s1828/Jun+14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1828" data-original-width="1080" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuKTC1VxfYGOr6idKJe3HJEc_aA6SBoZTfuVVkBWeEhLzjEXlWPEruKDxc14jKegbgNay3SzsBf5QwPVSN8saLpa7URfINcGUYF-bDq_y-7WrAR7sjDRrhQSvvsby2yDmLMJUGrwV4E-o/s640/Jun+14.jpg" /></a></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930380164408044123.post-65136051825406891722020-08-09T18:36:00.002+05:302020-08-09T18:36:23.553+05:30Pandemic chronicles - 7 Jun ' 20<p> </p><p>7 Jun</p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">আজ হঠাৎ বৃষ্টি এলো !</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">ঘন কালো মেঘ করে বিদ্যুৎ চমকে প্রচন্ড জোরে বাজ পড়ে ঝমঝম করে বৃষ্টি হলো | ছোটাছুটি করে জানলাগুলো আবার বন্ধ করতে হলো | অনেক ঝড়-ঝাপটা গেছে কিনা, তাই জানলা থেকে নানান সাইজের দড়ি এখনো ঝুলছে |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">হইহই করে বছরের অর্ধেকটা প্রায় কেটেই গেল | অনাগত আগন্তুক এলে মনে হয় কখন যাবে | চলে যাবার পরে মনে হয় এসেছিল তাই এত কিছু হল | Work from anywhere anytime, work life মিলেমিশে একাকার, ডিজিটাল গণসম্মিলন, গান-বাজনা , হাতের কাজ , রান্নার রেসিপি, বই লেখার টিপস কত কি হলো | কত পুরনো বন্ধু আদর করে খোঁজ নিল | পুরনো Album এর পাতা উল্টানো হলো | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">দিনগুলো যেন গড়গড়িয়ে এগিয়ে গেল; মনে হল যেন কিছুই করা হলো না | ভাইরাস, লকডাউন , আমফান সাইক্লোন কত কি না ঘটে গেল | এখন আবার আনলক এর পালা | যারা প্রিয়জনদের হারিয়েছে তারা মনে জোর পাক, যারা গৃহ হারিয়েছে তারা মাথায় ছাদ ফিরে পাক | কাজ হারা মানুষ কাজ ফিরে পাক | </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">না, হাত ধরা মানা শুধু মনের সংযোগ-টা থাক | ধাপে ধাপে তালা গুলো এবার খুলবে; কিছু মানুষ বড় বেশি আহ্লাদে আটখানা |</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">একটা অনুরোধ রইলো, পথে-ঘাটে চলতে এমন মানুষ যদি দেখেন - যে কান থেকে মাস্কের ফিতেটা ঝুলিয়ে আরাম-সে গল্প করছে তাঁদের দিকে একটু বড় বড় চোখ পাকিয়ে বলবেন - Mask টা পড়ে নিন ! </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">এ ব্যাপারে Suji পিসি আমার ইনস্পিরেশন | </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6KPcWDagnOuRwrnO2wLkzXRevhsZS2ukyUhqJLd18hB6kuCNeGfSHQlJtW6mpLx3-egM-zuSAYhNhU0oMirGNZ5Hu41xjbMw790ra4v7JbGdt96YiLZ-rYZFmbkDXLKgzwUQYWlnuLsc/s2048/Jun+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6KPcWDagnOuRwrnO2wLkzXRevhsZS2ukyUhqJLd18hB6kuCNeGfSHQlJtW6mpLx3-egM-zuSAYhNhU0oMirGNZ5Hu41xjbMw790ra4v7JbGdt96YiLZ-rYZFmbkDXLKgzwUQYWlnuLsc/s640/Jun+7.jpg" /></a></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930380164408044123.post-66375101392064287552020-08-09T18:33:00.004+05:302020-08-09T18:33:39.027+05:30Pandemic chronicles - 21 May ' 20<p> 21 May</p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">All of us in the state of bengal more so in the south and east, seeing another morning - that is still looking grin, have to thank God. Yes good morning. Nature dusted and washed the city ruthlessly yesterday for little more than four hours. My city has seen it all last evening. The trees and the walls around had lend all arms...fought with the demon that ran pillar to post .. house to the hut...shook poor and wealthy.. sick and healthy.. The roads are water clogged .. trees uprooted, walls broken..There were terrible knocks on the doors and windows. Rain water creeped in the rooms. Many eyes were teary with fear last night..and the pain lingers today to see Krishnachura n Radhachura trees lost its branches. The pregant mango tree is in pain. The Neem has amputated arms.. Damage is too deep than what we can just see now..Some on the land and rest in the mind.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">And today the recovery starts.. it's a new day. The Sun has come to visit us..may not be with best of its glory but it comes forth to show the creator is around. Scouting begins to list what is broken.. Am sure am fortunate but my state needs lot of care and love to heal.. Need to volunteer.. And we all need to join hands...</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Have never experienced such a cool breeze this date of the year. Give me some sunshine... no we don't need rain for now.. Let the tears dry soon and smile restore.</div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpghAhoezocauqy2WQypM-m7JQP8b3dP-OLBCrJOVtDhjrLCIeolW0JrJSIGWkxcdv-pXtAg6dONalRZJt5Cau2AhpRdlOnuGUve0AFqf-j2wdvmpOJjrfpP02O8IjNRqQF3rJfJZOorw/s2048/May+21.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpghAhoezocauqy2WQypM-m7JQP8b3dP-OLBCrJOVtDhjrLCIeolW0JrJSIGWkxcdv-pXtAg6dONalRZJt5Cau2AhpRdlOnuGUve0AFqf-j2wdvmpOJjrfpP02O8IjNRqQF3rJfJZOorw/s640/May+21.jpg" /></a></div><p><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930380164408044123.post-11396750922998891492020-08-09T18:29:00.004+05:302020-08-09T18:29:56.721+05:30Pandemic chronicles - 17 May ' 20<p> 17 May</p><p><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Surprise Test.. Yes remember the first time you gave one; no preparation, sounded difficult, being pushed to the corner you did try till you ran out of ideas. That was may be an hour of ransacking your grey matter (I wish brain was colorful </span><span class="q9uorilb tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me fgm26odu gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu" face="" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; display: inline-block; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;"><img alt="🙂" height="16" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/ta5/1.5/16/1f642.png" style="border: 0px;" width="16" /></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> ) . No one threw you out of the class but you did feel helpless for a while. No wonder, whether we scored or we didn't, that maiden-over taught us to accept that there will be such surprises and they will spring up awkwardly. There will always be a sense of fear and failure and a wish to overcome and succeed.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">2020 is a year which gave world a surprise test.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Yes, and the whole world now knows how to react to such a test - one day at a time. We are still figuring out. Life didn't change just that the norms of life changed. Energy is constant. So when warmth of hands have to be a few feet away, power of word layered with tone of voice should be far more powerful. Being empathetic, inclusive, intuitive, crisp as a speaker, being attentive, engaging, mindful, creative as a listener is so important today. It should be a new dictionary altogether. Admit a difficult one. This surprise test is probing us to start a fresh outlook for communication.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Agreed, every day can't be a good one but every communication needs to be a cool one. Month of May always motivate me to think new..Language for future is top on mind...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">For now trying to decipher the known voices behind the mask.. masky voice.</span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-tpXgSJH6qCdsWu-DDvtusvzwpmOXzIoLVukACeF0Iy3R5wdqj5R_XVDZFff6lHQbsQnkGFO18WJl7YNYSNJBaLMMs4EkNXg36BWVNyieXqMexeOoxaoKBRUJWRNhVdNLDZ8EGh-gkg4/s933/17+May.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="933" data-original-width="700" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-tpXgSJH6qCdsWu-DDvtusvzwpmOXzIoLVukACeF0Iy3R5wdqj5R_XVDZFff6lHQbsQnkGFO18WJl7YNYSNJBaLMMs4EkNXg36BWVNyieXqMexeOoxaoKBRUJWRNhVdNLDZ8EGh-gkg4/s640/17+May.jpg" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930380164408044123.post-74315525476258500212020-08-09T18:25:00.004+05:302020-08-09T18:25:47.892+05:30Pandemic chronicles - 7 May ' 20<p> </p><p>May 7</p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">After a long day..looked at the sleeping neighborhood from my window. Personal tiredness is lying much behind the panic of rising scoreboard of virus attack..fellow countryperson in disaster in another city. We are dealing a serious unknown unknown timeframe. Unlocking SOP may not exist. Checks and Balances many be unknown for many units of work and life. Possibilities of mistakes are immense. Loads of pressure on leaders to take the right decision and huge responsibility on workforce to make it perfect. Ability to get better at noise isolation ..in difficult times being alert and carefull in our small actions ...paying care to safety and empathy are of great importance..to make a difference around us as we all have to travel unknown roads in work and life in days ahead! </div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Buddha Purnima r gol chand, .o-chena halka hawa .. r kobi r katha e aaj rath er songi.. 'ami poth bhola ek pothik esechi..'</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhH9WHYqrI5e8LMdjjCFTTRCg9MRq97JNyGujnUMDMtO_zRanGkEJh9qcNbBwvx2Wq_lxOvHYZUlcPJsx1y45F1Z8pBk5XZ6hErrFIGjycAS9oIIbgNxGPpqppdAZzpBDK_lMZmbE3qzc/s2641/May+7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1191" data-original-width="2641" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhH9WHYqrI5e8LMdjjCFTTRCg9MRq97JNyGujnUMDMtO_zRanGkEJh9qcNbBwvx2Wq_lxOvHYZUlcPJsx1y45F1Z8pBk5XZ6hErrFIGjycAS9oIIbgNxGPpqppdAZzpBDK_lMZmbE3qzc/s640/May+7.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930380164408044123.post-8854050840109534712020-08-09T18:23:00.004+05:302020-08-09T18:23:43.480+05:30Pandemic chronicles - 1 May ' 20<p> </p><p>May 1</p><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">...roj koto ki ghote jaha taha –</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">emon ekno sotti hoy na aaha ?”</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">What if I could put on a raincoat press a button and fly up there in the air. Land up in my little nephew's place play bat n ball for a while..read Secret 7 together.. have one scoop of vanilla icecream from the same cup. solve some numerical patterns..mimic to be a master chef to cook great recipes..open up snake n ladder board just to stay hanging at 99 and finally settle to watch a pokemon movie.. yes, just waiting for that raincoat:) ..someday beyond the digital window we will play again.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz-r7nQIsIA14YvB1qShF6mQ701w3rIufvvwTtL0V_nxseXldHvL4gtMCJMmXLA1471jICasMuj5Fnn-jJPj1uI8Cb3KTla2yTrfpWsIu0UWD3nm0rhTqO8naYNUua10juxpifaSdveGg/s2048/May1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz-r7nQIsIA14YvB1qShF6mQ701w3rIufvvwTtL0V_nxseXldHvL4gtMCJMmXLA1471jICasMuj5Fnn-jJPj1uI8Cb3KTla2yTrfpWsIu0UWD3nm0rhTqO8naYNUua10juxpifaSdveGg/s640/May1.jpg" /></a></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930380164408044123.post-19337096799910718272020-08-09T18:20:00.005+05:302020-08-09T18:20:43.842+05:30Pandemic chronicles - 14 April ' 20<p>April 14</p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">শুভ নববর্ষের প্রীতি ও শুভেচ্ছা | </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">সকাল দশটা | বারান্দা সাফাই করার কাজটা আজ আমার ছিল| মন দিয়ে কাজ করছি হঠাৎ কানে এলো "তিনটে পঞ্চাশ একটা কুঁড়ি:| হান্ডেট পার্সেন্ট কটন!!" | এক নতুন ফেরিওয়ালা | নিচে তাকাতেই চোখাচোখি হলো | জিজ্ঞেস করল "দিদি লাগবে | ঘাড় নেড়ে বললাম "আছে"| অনেকদিন পরে ফেরিওয়ালার গলা শুনে মন ভরে গেল | ওদের একটা সময় থাকে ওদের একটা সুর থাকে | </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">নানান রঙের রঙিন Mask হাতে ভদ্রলোক বেরিয়ে গেলেন| </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">নতুন বছরে সবার জীবনে আসুক কিছু নতুন সুর আর ছন্দ !</div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930380164408044123.post-61579373275207312482020-08-09T18:17:00.002+05:302020-08-09T18:17:10.072+05:30Pandemic chronicles - 3 April ' 20<p> 3rd April</p><div style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="" dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="ecm0bbzt hv4rvrfc ihqw7lf3 dati1w0a" data-ad-comet-preview="message" data-ad-preview="message" id="jsc_c_h4" style="font-family: inherit; padding: 4px 16px 16px;"><div class="j83agx80 cbu4d94t ew0dbk1b irj2b8pg" style="display: flex; flex-direction: column; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: -5px; margin-top: -5px;"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d" style="font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px;"><span class="oi732d6d ik7dh3pa d2edcug0 qv66sw1b c1et5uql a8c37x1j muag1w35 enqfppq2 jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; color: var(--primary-text); display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.9375rem; line-height: 1.3333; margin-bottom: -4px; margin-top: -4px; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; word-break: break-word;"><div class="kvgmc6g5 cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">As I wait for the lively world to embrace us once more random thoughts peeping in.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Nature says it is darkest before the dawn.The scoreboard is scary and facts behind is overloaded with pain, conflicts and agony. It is that part of the showtime when I feel like pressing a fast forward button to jump into future.It is a role shift all around. Household rules mostly reset. Ignoring biased ones as outliers. Medical practitioners in jumpsuits like astronauts caring for mankind in war footing. Players giving stadium to hospitals. Police singing on the streets to keep society alive. Many homes who live by the day have started cutting their meals. 2020 is testing the height of human adaptation. Many kind hands have come across but appears not enough. Beyond all colors most governing members must be having sleepless nights. Their worried faces on public forums reflect their mindshare. The small crazy creatures have shaken the planet and exposed the politics. Aah ha..I meant politics of my room. yes these days a bulbuli (a local bird) peeps in each morning to wake me up - not sure who gave so much courage. Nature was never so close to my room boundaries. Well definitions are changing..Our homes are the new address for School College and office.It can accommodate some more <span class="q9uorilb tbxw36s4 knj5qynh kvgmc6g5 ditlmg2l oygrvhab nvdbi5me fgm26odu gl3lb2sf hhz5lgdu" style="display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; height: 16px; margin: 0px 1px; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;"><img alt="🙂" height="16" src="https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/ta5/1.5/16/1f642.png" style="border: 0px;" width="16" /></span> Internet has replaced playground, tuition class, living room, cinema halls.Time will tell its stories. (Tune to Mahabharata in DD ..Time is a very important character..Mythology teaches us the value of time series better than anyone..We live in the era of prediction .. still we missed..)</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">For now idle mind is sitting on the empty bench thinking if home is where work is happening 'Home Work' will be a historic phrase soon.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Take this time as strategic break. 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font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">কোথাও</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 15.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Shonar Bangla",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">আমার</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 15.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Shonar Bangla",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">হারিয়ে</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 15.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"> </span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "Shonar Bangla",sans-serif; font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;">যাওয়ার</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">নেই</span><span style="font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">মানা</span><span style="font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">মনে</span><span style="font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">মনে</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 18pt;">–</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">মেলে</span><span style="font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">দিলেম</span><span style="font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">গানের</span><span style="font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">সুরের</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 18pt;">এই</span><span style="font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">ডানা</span><span style="font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">মনে</span><span style="font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 18pt;">মনে</span><span style="font-size: 15.5pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: Kokila, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;">।।</span><span style="font-family: Cambria, serif; font-size: 18pt;">…</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_KP28SMYsYKpbDoYI8bhqr1AMJhvHiEkCeeWn3FsHGumnsqM4VIuGAat7xny7uDEHUypDQf5_9nZjsi35078SKxqJxMpZxHn6aljZaroOCzo7IiIN_kNtVgYp7dBvc_wMGM0BevgjOkQ/s2048/April+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_KP28SMYsYKpbDoYI8bhqr1AMJhvHiEkCeeWn3FsHGumnsqM4VIuGAat7xny7uDEHUypDQf5_9nZjsi35078SKxqJxMpZxHn6aljZaroOCzo7IiIN_kNtVgYp7dBvc_wMGM0BevgjOkQ/s640/April+3.jpg" /><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 13.5pt;">All doors closed. All faces behind
masks of varied kind..Every one is working and at home. counting days..for the
lock to open some day.. Missing the loud voices of the specialists in the chai
r dokhan in front of my house. Lately realizing I loved the unknown
voices..Mercury rising..After ages reading "Thakumar Jhuli".. So much
correlations of what we are witnessing. Imagination can take creative minds
years ahead..beyond the sufferings and losses with be the smiling planet ..sob
bhalo galpo toh tae bole.. love to trust..Let minds speak each day.. After CV
how will life be.. History boe e notun chapter.. Weekend thoughts gripping
mind..Old Album keeping life alive..and in case your contribution to household
had been above and beyond dip your legs in warm water for a cool sleep.</span></a></div></div><p></p><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930380164408044123.post-20717590563995611462020-08-09T18:00:00.025+05:302020-08-09T18:06:50.838+05:30Pandemic chronicles - 29 March' 20<p><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 18px;">March 29</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="color: #050505;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2930380164408044123/2071759056399561146"><span style="color: #050505; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 19.26px;"><b>Hoping for health and happiness for one and all. </b></span></a></div><p></p><p><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0yF80jO3ovy6LHwAtC0TURcLzmJSRnZ5xEsyre0Z7m45TbuXu4044jBp9eRX1QO3kJXMxhyJ0ZCE66WJuke51ovuoiX4hUMyvKTjzzk6H0qCHQMJgyW86AnIVL6vdwNs4L6BReasZ1cw/s2048/March+-+29.jpg" style="clear: right; display: block; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1151" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0yF80jO3ovy6LHwAtC0TURcLzmJSRnZ5xEsyre0Z7m45TbuXu4044jBp9eRX1QO3kJXMxhyJ0ZCE66WJuke51ovuoiX4hUMyvKTjzzk6H0qCHQMJgyW86AnIVL6vdwNs4L6BReasZ1cw/s640/March+-+29.jpg" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">Fresh bloom this
summer..As main door is mostly closed verandha is the only choice to feel
upbeat. Resetting ways of life is never easy. Inconvenience has become habit
and perfecting each day. 3/4 of the world is water, now I know why </span><span style="background: white; color: #050505; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN; mso-no-proof: yes;"><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shapetype id="_x0000_t75" coordsize="21600,21600"
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design for unknown unknown. Jol e jeevan.. well <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2930380164408044123/2071759056399561146"><b><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: blue; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0cm; padding: 0cm;">#Zeebangla</span></b></a> just next in queue. </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-IN;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Radhika ke dekhte..(in case you know who they are.) quarantine reliefs.
Technology was running very fast than I thought was the need.. guess that too
was a need. Let's start thinking what will be the most dramatic social change
after we are done beating the unseen. I just hope we can once more hold on to
each other’s hand someday. and for the rest let our imagination fly..it has to
be much more intuitive than science fictions.. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">start thinking..</span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "segoe ui historic", "segoe ui", helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930380164408044123.post-85115975491348584292020-02-14T00:34:00.000+05:302020-02-14T07:54:58.624+05:30Correlation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">In
my school days looked forward for Friday evenings. I was addicted. Had to have
my dose of one movie each week on the big screen. Remember, occasionally was
desperate to have walked down the shortcut lanes all alone to visit the club
that parent's paid rental. Yes, just to consume the colorful fantasy on the
silver screen. They played the big reels of film via a projector well set in
club canteen. Blue and white rays travelled </span><span style="line-height: 107%;">the dark room full of patient
viewers to transform into colorful characters on the white wall - so unimpressive otherwise. I was extraordinarily attentive.
Unfortunately, the subject was out of syllabus in my school exams.<span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Am
sure some of my old neighbourhood friends, who loved listening to my narration
of these movies, on one of the following weekends, when families visited the
other, will vouch for my movie-telling sessions. I almost fed them what Amitabh
Bachchan and Rekha did on screen. This sense of communication gave me emmence pleasure. Still wonder why?</div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Now
movies are a matter of a click – we are digital and lazy. Friday is yet another
day. Though I still love watching movies but far from addiction. Lost the
passion of movie telling. But deep within the love persists. That made to pick
up two books from the airport bookstore on my back to back trips absolutely
official a few years back. Had picked them unmindfully but they had a
correlation. It stayed back.</span><u1:p></u1:p></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">These days when machines are proficient in
building relationship more than human thought of exploring the chemistry once
more with a new model. Let me share some more about these books. My learning about my teenage blockbuster pair.<o:p></o:p></span><u1:p></u1:p></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Book #1 Excellence: The Amitabh Bachchan Way by
Virender Kapoor. Much have been written about his personal life, but while
reading this book learnt how this superstar had contributed as an influencing
team player to bring in the best outcome in each project he signed up for –
both in his good and bad times. The book portrays his father’s presence in his
life in a deep way. Seed of happiness starts germinating so early in life that
it makes you perfect over time. Bringing out the best in oneself is a skill but
influencing the another one to break all barriers for collaborative best is a
rare skill. True Excellence!<o:p></o:p></span><u1:p></u1:p></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Book #2 Rekha The untold story by Yasser Usman.
Had read some of these in pieces in filmy magazines in past, but the book
revealed what her family had to offer all through her life was pain. The void
of a father had shaped her childhood. No love could have compensated that and
she must have been chasing one. That made her vulnerable yet bold. She ran
ahead of her time breaking all norms and rule books. Her untamed soul was
unleashed on screen. She lived life between the real and the reel. She made many realize Queen size is equal as King size, if not more. Excellence
at par!<o:p></o:p></span><u1:p></u1:p></div>
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<span style="line-height: 107%;">Time series of the events in their lives and the
performances on silver screen have a majestic correlation. Individually different and unique
to make their compositions compelling. May be that is the beauty of undisclosed chemistry, much
meaningful than how formulas appear in inorganic and organic text books. </span>Friday
evenings are no more addictive but the effervescence of sizzling silver screen
is still nostalgic.</div>
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<span style="color: black; line-height: 107%;">Nothing
special. Just another week end ahead. Breaking the monotony to keep the story
teller in me alive amidst the cacophony of life that offer challenges and
aspires excellence.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Yes, many had been watching the moon last night for science
to unfurl magic. No 'good effort' goes in vain. So, like many others, I too have faith that team in ISRO will rebounce and make it bigger someday soon. You have
inspired the nation!<o:p></o:p></div>
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With that, back to my promised stories for September on
three impactful teachers from my pre university days. My <a href="https://two-mins-gyan.blogspot.com/2019/09/celebrating-september-getting-ready.html" target="_blank">physic teacher</a> had
asked who teaches you maths. I said – “Ojha Sir”. Till date I know him that way
and had never asked his full name.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Some pre-cursor. I was rejected by two teachers who I thought will agree to
coach me. They were respected teachers and coached many minds. I was quite proud
of my maths score in school board exam and had an undue confidence. One of these teachers said
his batches were full and I was late. I realized that time is an important
factor, sometimes more than merit. Second one was unexpected and I think about
it deeper today than I did at that time. Yes, his son had married a girl from
my college possibly a year back. Not sure about the family matter, but the
outcome of this marriage was he stopped coaching girls. My network was poor, I got
to know this quite late. It was a situational discrimination.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Right, that took me to this retired teacher who taught me
maths and prepared me to cross the +2 check-post. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Mrs. Menon, Mrs. Iyengar and Mrs. Venkatesh a trio-series taught
me school maths. In debt to each one of them as they made my love for this
subject deeper with each promotion. The day when I meet Ojha Sir, had named
them. I was rejected twice and had to make my case stronger for his acceptance
in my own way. He looked at me and asked – “Who taught you at home?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I looked at my father who stood beside me to support, like
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“Father is the best teacher.” – He commented. I got enrolled.
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Later in life I deep dived into this statement. Father was
an embodiment of parents. Touch of parents in children’s learning curve is an
important element. Somewhere the knowledge givers dovetailed in that short
comment. And now years after I feel touch of young minds in your progressive
learning curve is equally important today. They learn and unlearn so fast.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We were ten girls and he had ten ways to interact. Same
problem he showed how there were ten ways to solve. And what makes one solve
fast when time was a lever. He had no hurry. He was like ever available to help
you solve your problems. The classes always ended with a humour. That was the routine.
His gesture taught maths is not a bunch of formulas and theorems, it was art of
being calm when you solve problems. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Started with Trigonometry and last chapter was possibly on hyperbola.
Hyper minds were busy in preparing for board and entrance exams.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Almost prepared and timers were giving a good sense of
preparation in the mock test series. Solving the problems before peers was an
implicit goal. Had appeared one day for such a test and realized I got a different
question paper. My goal dissolved. I struggled and half did it. Initially the dissatisfaction
of low score was bothering. With a disheartened mind was cycling back and half
way made a U-turn. He was reading newspaper. Seemed like he expected me.<o:p></o:p></div>
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He asked me to take a place. Tuition classrooms are part of
life. After a while you have a fixed place of preference. I went cutting across
the room to take the <i>mora (common cane chair)</i> in the corner. We spoke for an hour. <o:p></o:p><br />
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“Today I gave you some hard problems in purpose.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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He continued – “I call these as speed breakers. Today I
designed them for you. When you walk the same road every day it is not a
problem anymore. It is good to challenge and be ready to face hurdles.” Today, it is new norm every day. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Last time when I meet him, he was unwell. We spoke for
couple of hours. “Doctors said not to have too much water. Life long heard, one
needs to have plenty of water. Life is now teaching me otherwise. There is something
to learn till the end.” We ended with his signature humour.<o:p></o:p><br />
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..And Sir, you are not around, but your lessons are. You remain one of my best life
coaches!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The spell of autumn brings back memories of teachers.<br />
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This September, sharing stories of three impactful teachers
from my pre-university days.<br />
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Today, starting with my +2 Physics teacher. We all called him ‘PKM’ Sir.
Even he too, acknowledged this name of his. He was a professor of the Engineering
College, called REC then. Yes, we took tuition from him. That is how the world
would see. I realized much later, I learnt much more than Physics from him. And I know it is just not me!<o:p></o:p></div>
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My school leaving board results were yet to be out. Two of
the neighbouring boys who scored great in entrance suggested his name. Blindfold
enthused with their success I went and got myself enrolled. Yes, he did have a
word and reviewed by class X results. It was not all that great but my maths and
science was good enough to cross the toll gate. It was just a few years that
English as a subject, was dropped from the entrance exam in our state. But what mattered was Physics, Chemistry, Bio and Maths - <i>Mission Entrance</i>,
started!<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Who is coaching you on maths?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Great! Maths and Physics will meet somewhere, so the trains
have to run in parallel.” The sense of assimilation of knowledge, that was just a
message for me, then. There is an emotion called 'peer-respect' a bond that is much beyond how maths and physics are entwined. Over years I realized the sense that was left between the words.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mrs. Biswas, our strict school physics teacher had taught us
enough to face this learned teacher with all confidence till the pages of Newton’s laws. With trajectory
and DPC's (the famous curriculum book) harder problem texts turning lengthy, life
was not easy. Forms of energy unfolded one after the other in his classes. Once
in a week that was the routine.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Looking at the problems and posing as a great thinker, we
looked at each other. He gave hints. Now look at it. He said there are always a
few simple problems in the one single hard one. Search them. Though have not
been able to solve all problems in life, many a times this magic still works
for me!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Unprepared us often avoided eye contact with him. The worst
used to be, he would randomly pick (how accurate he would be to pick the one who
was most unprepared) and table a question. Continuous pick and choose made all
of us well prepared one day. We had appeared for our TEST (college selection
for board exam) and were in revision phase. He said now if you fumble to teach
the chapters to someone-else be sure you have something yet to learn there. What
a checklist!</div>
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The college had closed and we were getting ready for the
series of exams. The tuition classes were over, mock tests almost coming to an
end. That was the last day at his place. A learned teacher, a strict coach, a witty
man, who never forgot to celebrate when the football club of his choice won the
regional games, shared some wisdom on the last day of our tuition. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The batch before and the batch after always appear to get the
easy papers. And the fun is every batch thinks so. In the exam hall when the
paper looks too tough for you, be sure it appears tough for all. It is always a
fair play!<o:p></o:p></div>
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The physics question paper in the entrance exam ditto matched
his predictions. He knew, it was happening! But later I realized this was not
that single exam it is valid for life. <o:p></o:p></div>
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It’s long time I meet him. I forgot many chapters of the
physics book. But these conversations stayed back. Sir, you have been one of my
best coach for life!<o:p></o:p></div>
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All of us have one such teacher in our life. One teacher who had influenced many ways to get ready!<o:p></o:p></div>
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It is December! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Winter is in our minds. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Nolen
Gur</i> sweets (if you know what it means), peas kachori the Bengali style with
well garnished potato curry have certainly made its way to kitchens of many who
permanently resides in the city of joy or carry a pinch of culinary taste from
eastern India. Bored with the social media clips of big fat weddings, was
flipping through old files the real ones reflecting on the month named December.
It meant the month we got promoted to the next grade in early school days. It
had a sense of fear and joy of new, well blended. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The homely cat with a big fat tail just beneath the brown
mountains was marked good in the report card. Yes, that is still in record in
my first report card. The cat was purple, mountain was green. No one asked why,
what, how. Pastel shades unduly pouring out of the boundaries. That ‘good’ gave
me courage to participate in the annual drawing completion hosted by the
neighbourhood community club. We were hand few when that started. Got a few
prizes (tiffin boxes stuffed with eclairs chocolates …) for exactly couple of
years. The weird drawings used to hang from the notice board of the club for
months with the badge of “Third Prize”. The club was also evolving. Many more
families were nurturing growing kids.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It must have been one such Sunday morning in the month of
December. Draped in woolen ware with two sharpened HB pencils, a scented
eraser (I called it <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">rubber</i> for long)
and a box of pastels reached the same venue. My drawing skills have elevated
from domestic pet to the village girl (yes, they had very beautiful looks in
Indian fable stories pictured in the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amar
Chitra Katha, </i>which I still love to read). Amidst many moments of surprise
that I had embraced in life it was one. The auditorium was full. The big
lawn on the backside of the club auditorium was half full.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some have settled and some settling. I tried
to understand, what are they all here for!</div>
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I too settled on the lawn. Made a few friends and shared
pastels. My village girl fell much behind the sketches, shades, colours that
others had painted. I still recall how I hunted her in the over crowed
paintings on the board that had the consolation prizes. We had movie show every
Friday and Saturdays in the club. I slowly moved into the dark auditorium and
took a chair among many to watch the silver screen. Yes, I subscribed to this
channel much before I could consume. The child mind gave way to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Amitabh Bachchan </i>on screen<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>– the best gel to forget the lost pride.
That is the power of entertainment. Looking back that was my first experience
of a game called competition and more so when it grips you all unprepared. The tryst
with the pain and the painkiller when one falls behind, stays back. The next
winter, I was doing something else as pastels where no more interesting. That is how resolutions shape.<o:p></o:p><br />
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Years later got to experience another flush of colours, yes
it was winter once more. Courtesy to SAIL, where my father worked for years, we
had houses that had land too. It had a backyard for kitchen garden. And a yard
in the front for flowers to bloom. We had a neighbourhood rich of boys. They
had sports that had no place for me. Short winter afternoons where meant for
gully cricket for them. For me it meant solving maths from O.P. Singhal. It is
very recent that I realized it was just by coincidence the diversity quotient
of the neighbourhood was skewed. But every coin has two sides, so is for situations. The friends that
started entering my life quite unknowingly were books and magazines. To spice it up one
such winter afternoon got an opportunity to visit a local nursery to bring back home
samplings and seeds. In a sporadic gardening spree picked the axe and the
sickle. Mud and water have a smell of its own.</div>
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With weeks flipping to month, it was a riot of colours, complete
natural - a pleasure to eye and mind. They came forth to give a seasonal
dividend and then dried away. It was a period of annual joy. Pursued this
cycle till I got a chance to step out from the small town into the metro just
to realize land is not free, every square foot is counted. Got occasional taste
of gardening later in life though never the landscape that the teenage me
enjoyed. They were king size pleasure, one size bigger than watching <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Muqaddar Ka Sikandar. </i>World is full of diverse friends, entwining
them in life is an art. Hobby is a reviler, must have in the gallery of friends.
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And now with December half through, Santa packing bags, cake
ovens warming up, marigold spouts ready to bloom, calendars fast filling up
marking get-together with friends and family, on a lazy noon raising a toast to
the silly pain and the priceless joy from good old days of December!<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Wishing all a Happy New Year!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Have a happy <em>Sankranti</em> too with loads of sweets hard and
soft, soaked in syrup or baked in heat. Recharged mind is back to daily chore.
The first month of the year comes with dipping centigrade, that’s the unit we
prefer. The stacked woollens have crawled out of the almirah to add some warmth
to the season and colour to the mind along with the lovely cosmos and chrysanthemum
in the garden. Well garden is an over statement as not many possess one in the
gated world we live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Life goes on no matter what happens. Too influenced by Mithali
Raj. Stole her words as read in the newsprint today. Such an inspiring life and
yet so simple. She said she is not fussy about fashion, however the mini poster
picture in blue reminded me of the dark beauty Smita Patel of the by gone years.
The brilliant eyes and the sharp look to see beyond, their styles resonate. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their excellence, spread across time, encourages
to strive and move on when many things around are not all well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I do pay annual subscription to two leading editions just to
enjoy the breakfast over the extra pages. Sundays are usually longer. The
headlines and the city news are mostly very disturbing and hence flip them only
when I have struck the SUDOKU right. However today saw a news clip that caught
attention. Esteemed academic institutes have been asked to prepare separate merit list
for girls. Now that was front page news and hence would presume it has some
merit for sure. Like every other measure that the country counts upon be it the
tigers or the migratory birds we have now a benchmark for induction to bump up the
diversity quotient where excellence, matters. Does it really matter?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">I reserve my views at this point. Infact it is often wise to
repeat facts than reveal feelings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Disclaimer at this point; I was not qualified for the range
of institutes in the question. No regret. I tried. And just because I tried
very hard I qualified for the next best of my times. I am happy that it was a level
playing ground and the best of the best rightfully got through that merit list.
Mine was a girl’s school from a small town. Our teachers made us bold to face
the ground, prepared us to fight the battle, enjoy the triumph and learn from
mistakes. Walk hand in hand, shoulder to shoulder. We learnt to move up the
stairs. Am sure a sudden escalator would not have been the preferred choice for
us – then and now!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Inequality nurtures enmity. Women has enough foes in this world
than friends. One should be conscious not to add on to it by detrimental
policies. Women have many reasons to feel disgraced for reasons beyond control.
More so in a democratic country who hugs west for adopting trends and kisses
legacy for being close to the most celebrated values of the world. So, at the
least give her a fair playing ground to make a point. Don’t give her a
graceless entry into list of merit. It will pain today or tomorrow. If in every
sphere of life women in this country from the village till the city have
excelled, they certainly would continue and emerge out to be even better. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Happily, treat them at par; no less and not even more!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">How much can one reserve! Does each woman in this country
feel safe on road, in office, in school, college and at home? Once more I reserve my views. Silence is
often the best answer. Elevating many minds is what is required to truly make
this diversity quotient work. A % reservation may fast track a few fair careers
but will never bridge the gap that is getting wide to wider. And the sad part
is this uncertainty makes a large part of the nation worried – some worrying on
trivial things like shrinking merit list and the rest breaking head on the major
challenges like the unsafe environment. It is a loss-loss situation across
board.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Come on, we have lot of grey matter together to play a
win-win. Let’s do something worthwhile!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2930380164408044123.post-90963790124908290772017-12-23T19:40:00.002+05:302017-12-25T16:01:57.322+05:30Bench Partner<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The pendulum had just struck four.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">For last few months around the clock depression engulfs me as a best friend. The medicines didn’t work for last two nights. With sleepless eyes and a dejected mood was resting on the long bed side pillow. Was blankly looking at the playground in front of the house, right through the window. The old cotton curtains were tugged to the window grills which made the view to the barren field more vivid. The goal posts stood out, waiting for the neighbourhood boys to turn up in the evening. In the stillness of the surrounding I kept self-healing a painful headache.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Silent afternoon broke into pieces as the phone started ringing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Can I speak to Kushal Basu?”, a distant voice asked politely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Speaking. Who are you?”, I hesitantly asked as no one other than Tiklu calls these days.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Roll Number 16.”, prompt came the reply. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It took a while to reassemble from long lost past. Memory card that we move with is also strange. Even without use for years it is indexed all well for recollection.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Lily, is that you?”, I asked bit nervous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“How are you?”, she asked firmly. The same voice of the class monitor made me alert.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Where are you?”, Instead of answer I questioned. Not many in the class had courage to interrogate her. She was too firm to be faced. I had a special gate pass.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I never left Kolkata.” After a second’s pause she continued – “I need a help. Can we meet?”. Some relations stand like the old black telephone, left unused mostly but ready to respond anytime.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Where? When?” – I was
hesitant to begin with. She coaxed just as in school. With still some doubts in
my mind we settled for a tea-meet the following Sunday afternoon. <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">As usual, Tiklu called me up towards the evening. Most days these
calls end with casual health updates and my kitchen status. The length of the long-distance
call was turning shorter. Tiklu can hear the silence that often spills over the
old telephone. He patiently shares news of sports and politics desperately
trying to keep me connected to the world that is fast changing. The earth is
spinning faster than I was taught in school. I often feel scared and compress
my presence.</span> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">That day, I spoke about my school friend’s call and our impending meet. With age, I tend to have become a natural child and keep posting every little happening to Tiklu. Disclosure gives comfort.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Are you sure you want to meet someone after so many years?” Tiklu sounded worried.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I sensed it and tried to dissolve the disturbance that started brewing. “Don’t worry. I will think over and may not even go.” We disconnected amicably.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On a second thought felt Tiklu may be right. Who knows, the caller can be an impostor! May be some motif. It is so common these days to fool senior citizens in the city. Too many murder cases get reported. Amidst all doubts for some reason I was slowly preparing for the Sunday afternoon. Tiklu also missed asking and I kept silent on this subject.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was Sunday. After a long time, felt the sticky melancholy have taken a day-off. Excitement was the taste of the day. I reached the shopping mall ahead of time. Unsure of what she may like, looked at the lady in the retail store for suggestion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She helped me inhale a few tester strips and the coffee beans in between. She soon realized I have no choice and my dilemma was leading nowhere. Pointing to the turquoise blue glass bottle the young lady suggested – “This has a mild smell, she will certainly like this one”. I got convinced.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With a branded paper bag in hand I stepped out of the lift to the food court on the top floor of the shopping center. A usual weekend afternoon. Families, young college goer, couple now and to-be, reunited friends and casual ones all added to the hustle-bustle in the court. Occasional noise of the fruit crusher and the coffee maker blew up the decibels a few notches higher. I kept walking and my eyes kept rolling in search of someone. I was not conditioned to the surroundings and for a moment wondered if I did the right thing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After several years, even beneath the shadows of uncertainty was experiencing an unknown pleasure. Realized at some corner of the almost finished life still I had some urge remaining. Cusp of childhood turning teenage had a different taste altogether. Lily summed it up all for me. Strange that the school parting day was when we last met. We exchanged a few letters and midway it was lost.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Paused by the cake shop. The smell of the confectionery was hard to ignore. I took a long breath to consume the aroma in the air. Just when I started thinking what next, felt a warm hand patting my shoulder on the right. Turned back to see her after decades. My teenage memories greeted me with a brilliant smile. I wish I could turn back the clock and bring the wheels of time to a stop. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was the first day in secondary school; students had huddled around the notice board to check on the section allocation. Lily Sen, was the name following mine on the roll register.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was not all well to begin with, we took a while to adjust and then bonded. We stepped out of childhood and marched through the deadly corridors of adolescence together. There was no formal coaching, no special guidance but we learned to co-exist, compete, respect and above all connect. Just as much as we did today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Breaking my thoughts, she said - “You still look so handsome Kushal!” – I heard this adjective after ages. Her expressive eyes remained as energetic as in school.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With a teenage smile, she looked at me and said – “Didn’t see anyone as old in the food court!” Saying so she broke into her signature laughter. I stood embarrassed. Her overflowing amusement was infectious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">With a shy look asked her – “How are you Lily?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Her grey plaited hair had a few black streaks. Through an ordinary glass pairs, she looked straight into my eyes. Her eyes said it all – a warrior of many battles. It had depth of pain within but her tears may have lost its ways as the magic of her sparkling smile overshadowed all.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Kushal, how do you spend your day usually?” – She always caught me on my weakness. But I never had to pretend. It was an unsaid understanding.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Sitting Idle, at home!” – I replied promptly and continued – “Took retirement almost five years back. Had kept buying big fat novels all through my work life. Planned to read them when I get out of the nine to six rigors!”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“But now you don’t love to read anymore.” She said with extreme sense of predictability.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Exactly.” I wondered how she guessed it right. We continued knowing more about each other’s life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In a sweet but sarcastic tone, she narrated. “My husband was in a tearing hurry to reach the heaven and the hell broke on me. I was thirty.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“With our baby in my arms, I started a marathon.” It reminded me my bench partner never missed a trophy in school sports. I always stood in the common line clapping for her, often happy at times jealous. Life prepared her for the battles destined.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was getting very heavy for me. Though unfamiliar with the norms of the food court, I asked – “Lily what would you like to have?” My intent was genuine but my looks revealed my experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Who stood by you in those difficult times?” – I asked feeling sorry for reasons unknown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“My little son!” – She smiled.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Where is your son these days?”, I asked her very naturally.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But I regretted later. With a bleak smile the seasoned fighter replied – “Not sure why it happened with me once again. He gifted me a grandson and left without any notice.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was shocked. Tiklu’s face had just bubbled up in my mind, that she asked – “How old is your son?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Forty!” – I replied in a low tone. Not sure what this fact would do to her. But I continued as I wanted her to feel at home with me. “He works for an IT company. Stays in Texas with his wife and daughter.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Tiklu, hijacked me to Texas, after his mother passed away. That was a different school. I returned back as a failed student but a free man.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On my self-proclaimed failure, once more Lily poured into her signature laughter that was full of life. It was so refreshing. Most smiles are crafted these days and it hardly touches mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“So, after so many decades what made you call me last week?” I switched the topic. I was enjoying the new me inside that was trying to wake up and drink the unfinished enthusiasm buried for long. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“A dream!” It sounded crazy. She took the baton back from me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Last Wednesday, after lunch had fallen asleep. Eyes painted a wonderful picture. The wooden plate boldly held ‘Class V Section B’. Mrs. Menon, entered the class room. Her serene look was very prominent. Some unsolved maths on the black board. I completed the classwork and rushed to get it ticked. You kept chewing the cap of a fountain pen.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I started feeling the classroom. The wooden bench, smell of the chalk stick, the unsolved problem and the inspiring lectures of Mrs. Menon. Lily the front runner and I the laggard balancing the wooden bench with uneven knowledge.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“And just that I was about to show you the perfect score of ten that I bagged, the cat mewed from my kitchen.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“and then what?” as the trailer was not enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“I felt very restless with the incomplete dream.” She continued. “With blurred eyes, I picked up the old albums to dig up the group photos of school days. All in black and white but too colourful memories. We saved pocket money each year to buy these.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She provoked me to flip through forgotten days. Her dream had more caffeine than the coffee I was drinking. I smiled back to reciprocate as her positive vibes were contagious.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She pulled up a colourful booklet from her side bag. Almost like a pocket telephone book. Looked at me mysteriously and said – “Guess?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I failed once more giving her another chance to keep going. “It was all by chance this autograph book fell off the old album. On the school leaving day we ran around to get it signed by friends and teachers. No book in my life had so much emotion packed together. One page of that book is yours!”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She flipped through the pages and opened up one in royal blue ink. It had two wise words - ‘Keep running!’ with my autograph and proudly proclaimed phone number beneath the parting lines to my bench partner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I touched my autograph that was also in its youth, an identity in the make.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“The number worked. It was amazing to hear Roll number 15 after ages.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“True Lily, now when I look back feel very nostalgic.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Life was easy and carefree, how much we aspired to grow up. After school, we never met.”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">“Yes, my family shifted. I did my masters in Delhi, joined the pharmacy company. In a few years got married and started raising a family.” I took a pause to take a sip of coffee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">She filled in the gap. “I had just graduated when I meet him. Joined hands to protest for many a cause as students. After years of togetherness, we tied knot and proposed to live happily ever after. But God disposed.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Giving her a break, I continued - “Was settled in Mumbai. All went well till I retired. We were planning for a visit to Tiklu’s place, when she suddenly fell sick. Pathological tests, detection, operation, hospital, day care, we rode this merry go round for a year. It was beyond any cure and she boarded the flight to a different destination. I stood back bidding her farewell.” I realised to have opened up after a long. She allowed me to continue. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“It was a weeks’ visit to my ancestral home in Calcutta. Got stuck to the roots. Since then have continued. An evening walk in the park, some fresh vegetables from the road side shop, a visit to the local doctor’s chamber is the new time table of life. Living a life almost at no speed.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“I thought that was a perfect you. No change over the years. Amazing!” Lily gave me credit points.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">The food court was too crowded when she took the last sip of the black coffee.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“Was not sure what to gift an old friend after so many years!” – saying so I passed on the wrapped perfume. She was unprepared. For the first time, she gave a nervous look and she said – “I have nothing to gift you!”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“You gifted me a pie of my past that beholds plenty of fresh air. That was the best gift. But what was the help you needed?”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">In a school going spree, she pulled her chair by my side and with great precision clicked on her smart phone. Tiklu had requested several times but I refused to have a mobile handset. But my bench partner once more threw a challenge. Unsmart me wondered what makes her so full of life.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">“The other day my grandson asked if I had any picture with my best friend at school. I had to get this one for him.” I was stunned to feel the zeal in her. The passion to make every moment in life so interesting to live. We sat on the same bench, heard the same lectures but she learned something special. A wonderful afternoon came to an end as the elevator doors opened. We pushed ourselves into a packed box, a free fall and then parted once more!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">I was back home before the sun had set. The street lamps started glowing. The teenage players in colourful jersey were unwinding after the last match in the ground. As usual the telephone rang. Tiklu and me had our share of daily talks and finally I hinted my preference for buying a smart phone. The much-awaited consent got an overwhelming response on the other end.</span><br />
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Very unusual weather. Moody rain pouring once in a while.
Roads and lanes are half wet. I stepped into the <i>Kalibari</i> lane. Loads of devotees jostling to get closer to the deity.
I joined the league. Diverse minds meet on the ground of faith. All of us have something
to ask for. Do most people ask for the same thing or most us have unique demands.
Not sure, if ever a statistic is plotted, how would it look like! Chanted the
holy mantras with many unknown faces around and slowly stepped back to the shoe
rack. Happy to see them there. No joke, have lost it in past.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Back home with the <i>prasad,
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made by the local sweet shop. Indulging in sweets mark the taste of
celebration. After a late lunch, sat by the window. Few rain droplets were
hanging from the painted grills of the pane. It reminded me of dew-drops,
something I have missed seeing for decades. Yes, you guessed it right I am
lazy, connect with grass is long lost. But dews are also history. Nature has
fast changed to keep pace with the momentum of the civilization. Wish we had
gone bit slow. Now we have no choice. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Like those dew-drops have some memories of childhood which too
are long lost. This time of the year, it used to be mild cold in our place. The
small town, a connected neighborhood, candle lit homes and unending fun. Over
a week in increments we bought crackers. Religiously they were roasted under
the sun for couple of days prior to Diwali. This was when mutual disclosure
happened on what one possessed more than the other. Bridging inequality certainly
meant some more funding. Some cried to get attention, some negotiated to
bargain, some stole to make it happen the crook way and some latched on to go
the hook way. <o:p></o:p></div>
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And with the fall of night it was war of lights all over. <i>Tarabati</i>, was the starter for the
evening. The silver sulphur burnt till the edge before we threw the iron stick
on the sand bed made for the day. This was meant for girls or underage kids. Ever
long I remained in this category. The first burst of the <i>chocolate pataka (often called chocolate bomb) </i>far off from the
next neighborhood was a signal to begin. Most neighborhood had fiery boys,
who would move on with <i>dodoma – </i>the
cylindrical looking cracker that had only decibel effect but was sold the most.
The other popular one for our category of players was <i>rangmashal</i>. Colour, light, more than usual decibel and some burnt
chemicals made those evenings memorable. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Diwali was meant for children to assemble in the
neighborhood barren playground called ‘<i>parar
mat’.</i> Bappa, Babu, Munia, Tumpa, Bapi, Raju, Soma, Rupa guess every
neighborhood had these nick names to call upon. The resonance of the euphoria of
these kids went high as the sprinklers and the sparkles of the <i>Tubri </i>shoot<i> </i>up in the air
and oozed out for few minutes. Not each rose that high as much one would
aspire. Some occasionally lasted more than expected. A pack of <i>Kalipotka, </i>that is how most of us have
called it, was a must have recipe for the evening. Quite annoying in nature and
reflected how painful it is if a pack burns. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A few ventured for weird ones named <i>rocket</i> crackers which almost called for a launch pad. Trashed medicine
bottles severed the purpose. It was always a moment of fear and then eyes in
the air to trace the beauty unfurl in the mid-air. Last few years of childhood
had graduated to enjoy the floor cracker called <i>chorki, </i>the dancing queen of crackers. It was an area of overspend.
Had to do a stock clearance in the following days too. That’s how Diwali
spilled over to <i>bhai-phota (bhai-dhuj</i>)
the regional festival that knocked the door next. And with that our annual
autumn holidays would come to a closure.<o:p></o:p></div>
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All idols immersed. Dewdrops on the lawn-weeds quite visible.
Early winter must have crept in and schools reopened. In a school cardigan, face half hidden in the
hand woven woolen scarf, with history geography physics on shoulder, must have
stood in the same bus-stop for the school bus to arrive. It was just one more <i>Puja</i> holidays that got over. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In my country nature has mostly withdrawn winter as a season,
many governments have banned crackers for valid reasons, neighborhood have
given ways to gated communities for a purpose and most importantly life has
moved on and my school bus permit is long over. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Love and respect to all my teachers who spend some precious
time of their lives helping me shape what am today. Each one had their own
lessons, some helped me earn my living some helped me love my life. Some taught
me what was reality and some showed ways to dream. They shared history of the
good and the bad kings. The long tales of civilizations and how the globe
falls flat on the Atlas. The map pointing and how the economics made one
country look richer than the other. The first litmus paper turning purple and the
pendulum ball swinging wrong they all had some lessons in stored. Years do fly.
The last few years of school till college almost galloped; exams followed by
exams. I graduated. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The pass and the fail. The first time I failed I was in
class III. The report card had some number underlined with red ink. I had no
idea of what it was. Like many other ordinary facts had showed the card to my bench
partner, as it was very new to me. She was experienced and explained me. That was
when I touched a sense of deep fear. It must have been followed by depression
that caught me. Was too small to have related these heavy words then but it
must have been the state of mind. I failed in Maths. Parents, class teachers,
maths teachers they all played their parts to make this subject take a center
stage of my academic life later. But that red ink taught me the word fail and the
time taught me cope with failure. I failed small and big, many a times after
that. The maiden one remained special.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The time and the table. They together as timetable chased me
from school till college. Later realized office gives you only a chair and you
curve your timetable. The special reminders five minutes before the exam closes
till the unwanted reminders of Microsoft meeting schedules sound all the same.
Little more into this learning curve of time. Money and machine also pairs up
well, but the table is the best. Over time realized the reading and the dining
tables are the most fulling destination of simple living. I was brought up in
non-digital era in a small town. The Newspaper – the one in real paper prints use
to reach my town around noon. The distribution cycle was lengthy. No matter
what, dot at fifteen minutes past two, the folded newspaper used to hit our
front door. I was the first one to rush. Friday’s were special. It had a weekly
magazine packed along. I only had fifteen minutes to read the favorite serial
story before I pushed the cycle paddle for my tuition classes. The magazine
laid on my reading table all through the week. The rush to digest delicacy started
from those Fridays.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The library and the lobby. My missionary schooling had a
huge focus on library. Noddy to Nancy, I meet them there. Feluda and Sherlock
came over in later years. Like many in school days I turned up to library to
flip through Illustrated Weekly and carefully avoided Reader’s Digest. Library
taught to communicate in silence. Read beyond books and to feel beyond words.
The librarian of the college was a living house of big data, batch by batch,
name by name he indexed identity. Often the person who was an informer to let
you know the GPS of the friend you are looking for. Every one said visit
library and avoid lobby. It was not so good a word to start with. Realizations
later was different. Unlike library it has no boundary but it binds you for a
purpose. I learned and unlearned this word. It is so important we learn it the
right way and use it for good cause. There is no force that equates the
strength of collective. There is no view called neutral. <o:p></o:p></div>
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You have choice to pick. Teachers in life preaches you to
take decision and circumstances of life teaches you to reach outcomes. Library
and Lobby often help to overcome challenges. Time offers you both moments of fulfillment
on the table and often the empty top… And to fail is not a bad thing in the
walk of life. But just in case if all roads seem to have ended that’s the moment
you have something called U-Turn! <o:p></o:p></div>
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‘Never Give Up’ a spirit I owe to my small town – Durgapur,
a silent teacher of my life.</div>
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