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Is talking to oneslf a psychotic problem?

adhip ghosh — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:06:16 +0000

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When Blogs are blocked,what's the way out

adhip ghosh — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 12:57:01 +0000

When blogs are blocked,what's the way out,my Dear,
when brains are clogged,are'nt we possessed with fear?
When thoughts get locked,whate'er comes isn't sheer
Nonsense that nobody bothers to hear?
When nobody hears you,isn't your try a mere
Running on the heels of a golden deer?
Both Rama and Lakshana knew not,- near
Panchavati Ravana spat his sneer,
For both treated Surpanakha with jeer.
And thus they proved themselves as no good seer
Of what was to befall in future near.
And we remember what follows next,Dear.

If such blog be written for Sailorbits,
Shouldn't it be treated as one of the hits?

A LETTERS TO THE EDITOR STATESMAN KOLKATA

adhip ghosh — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:51:43 +0000

The following was published to vent my objection against the Honourable Minister of HRD,GOVERNMENT OF INDIA:

The Editor
The Statesman
Kolkata
Dear Sir
Reading your Editorial,Portals of IITs,dated 21 October,I cannot help avowing, that it has been a very teasing experience for me.How could you nod to HRD minister Mr Kapil Sibal’s proposal of “80% as IIT qualifier”?You should have gauged that his was a ditransitive proposal,not two objects of course, but two objectives.Mr Sibal’s first objective cannot be,as you suggested”The tightening at the entry level can only be the first step.”Mr Sibal’s first concern is tactical disapproval of”teaching shops”.I would remind the Honourable Minister that such”shops”had there been in the past and both too long and not much long ago, of course not so nation-wide and not so multi-partnered as they are now.How much did Aristotle charge to privately tutor King Alexander?Four hundred talents,equal in modern purchasing power to about $7,000,000.Shelley spent pounds to learn Latin under a Welsh clergyman.Did the Sanskrit Pundit of Madras(now Chennai)teach our Epic Poet Madhusudan Dutta gratis?Raja Rammohan spent how much we do not know in taking lessons in Subhankari and Mahanirvantantra from Hariharananda Vamachari.Even Mahatma Gandhi was privately tutored in spoken English by one Dr Mehta in England.For two years,from 1872 to 1874,on withdrawal from Chakraberia Children’s School,Sir Ashutosh sat under a private tutor.Private tuitions were all our,the doyen of modern Bengali literature,Buddhadev Bose could sustain by till he got a lecturer’s job at Ripon(now Surendranath)College.The Exchange(!) principle has been the same all over in in distance of time and geography:Give them notes who give you notes.
Our Honourable HRD minister demands to be reminded of a very close accompanying issue in this regard.To effect a far wider coaching abroad,Pan Revision Aids,Coles Notes,Methuen Study-Aid Series,York Notes,not to attempt a complete list,have been system-authorized carry-home Edu-packs for long in many a country,particularly in England.Not avoiding this “road not taken” our Harinath De, the linguist-cum- polyglot,the first Indian to succeed Mr Macfarlane in the chair of Director,Imperial(now National)Library and the first to translate our National Anthem Bande Mataram(“Hail Holy Mother” etc.) in as early as in 1905,brought out a note on Golden Treasury.Dr S C Sengupta,a scholar and teacher extraordinary in every branch of literature,should not have”questions with hints for answers”as part of his banner for Shakespeare editions,published by A Mukherjee & co.What about John Broadbent’s Paradise Lost,Books 1 and 2!There is this “risk”report:”In the face of the syllabus-heavy for many subjects-`adventures of ideas’in wider fields,and the time-consuming operations of developing independence of thought…will be undertaken at`risk’”.Macmillan Casebook Series claims to”make available to undergraduate and graduate students distinguished work which otherwise tends to be lost in the over-stocked book lists”.What about the great Berdoe’s The Browning Cyclopaedia”I have not written for the`learned’,but for the people at large?”
Our HRD minister speaks volumes about the intellect expected of IIT aspirants.But it was he who had,not much long ago,wanted to abolish the pass-out examinations for our plus twelve students.This time he expects the latter to have to their credit minimum 80-85 per cent as just IIT-application-filling qualification.What a self contradiction!What a mess!With all my native humility I would only ask him:What’s wrong if one takes the fly-over, instead of pursuing the jammed roads to timely reach one’s destination?After all time is money,patience is money. My last two words.Judges ought to cast a severe eye upon the crime,but a merciful eye upon the person.And,where the wine-press is hard-wrought,it yields a harsh wine,that tastes of the grape-stone.
Thanking you
With warm regards
Yours sincerely
Adhip Ghosh
BL 124 Sector 2
Salt Lake
Kolkata

How to generate reading public:Some steps

adhip ghosh — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:10:19 +0000

All eyes are these days fixed on how to have,whence to have i.e. amassing more on more on more,always.Consequently,there is no spare for any soul to shift his focus.THIS IS SUICIDAL,SELF-IMMOLATION.But unless one reads,how can one enrich oneself?Reading is enlightenment,mapping unchartered realms leagues beyond those leagues.Reading establishes a tie between one and another.And this facilitates the founding of a society,a society of reciprocity,both between a character high-placed in intellectual acquisition and one humbled in this regard.Afterall,no man is supposed to be self-sufficient or too self-equipped to pay deaf ears to what others say.Moreover,so encyclopaedic is the Book of Life that one's solo study of it avails little.At most what can one take pride in in such a dogged pursuit is just a few scraps of information that no engineer can design any thing whole out of them.To mataphorize it in a Shakespearean mould,it shall be just"a tale told by an idiot,full of sound and fury,signifying nothing!"
Now,a questin.Why my choosing such a topic?Sailorbits has for long offered to its members a SKY,to style it precisely.The members are all freed birds to wing about this Sky.And as they would do so fom above shall be poured adown the ether dews and rains that would moisten many a thirsty soul on the earth,resulting in inspiriting them to discover themselves.Nobody can deny that self-awareness is the highest conceivable wisdom for Man to aspire for in his life.Members are actually under an imperative to lend themselves for the good of others;they cannot shirk this responsibility.In order to take one into brother's arms,one must enlarge oneself;one must accomodate another into one's ideas,beliefs,convictions,attitudes.Ofcourse,it involves time,tolls one's patience,taxes one's nerves,and the like.Let Sailorbits be a skylab where alamb may be transfigured into a tiger and vice versa.The image of lamb is purported to represent one who is just a lump of innocence, but who is avid to fathom a depth and mount a height.Allow me to sing to myself in this context a hit Bengali song of Hemanta Mukhopadhyay:"Bandhu,tomar pather sathire chine neo/Paro jadi tare buker majhete tene neo."
On the contrary,the image of the tiger,As Blake interprets it,is the image of the knower,one who knows but seldom is in the habit to allow others partake of it.For he fears, in that case, his supremacy is likely to be at a stake.Absolutely wrong is this self-complacency.It is egotism at other's cost,hence heinous.The more one gives oneself away the more one acquires.It is like digging a hole in the earth to find it grow into a pond one day.When knoledge is spent nothing is spent.Because it is an investment that entails no loss,Never,Never.
This septuagenarian only wants this much from his young friends:Explore yourselves to discover that you are really great and worthy to be associated members of the internatinal enterprise,called Sailorbits.Thank you all and good luck1

A sonnet on-How to earn Name

adhip ghosh — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:01:26 +0000

It's an Italian proverb that poets and
Pigs earn posthumous name after their death.
But we must have in our lifetime in hand
Name even at the cost of our health.
But how, we know not, so grope in despair-
Here are a few tit-bits to success fair:
Give friends treats after treats emptying purse,
That all may cry,"Our host is generous!"

Next,pass your comments only after all,
When everyone's memory suffers fall.
Choose outlandish garb to draw every eye,
To lead all to speculate'Who's this great fry!'
But you maintain discreet silence always-
To watch all eyes praise it in varied ways.

A sonnet on--IN defence of a Fool

adhip ghosh — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:55:27 +0000

To be a fool is not an act of joke,
That you drink through nose a bottle of coke.
It's a latent talent ingrained in gene,
Ne'er, ne'er, should it be reckoned as a sin.
If his brain can't clutch a point when he's taught-
It's not his fault,for he has enough fought
To have it.Can all brains clutch everything?
Can all knowledge be stuffed just in one bin?

A fool is a citizen of that state,
Where he is protected against all bait-
That's feared to bring him down in public eye,
But when away from there on mission,aye!
He's torn into two-confusion and fear,
That tolls his wisdom and cost a tear.

The story unknown

adhip ghosh — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:28:15 +0000

AN OBSERVATION ON “STORY UNKNOWN”
The “Story Unknown”demands to be perused by all who claim to be true humans.As I venture to probe it,to my great awe, I feel to stumble upon certain MUSTS for everyone of us to admit as true and hence conscience-abiding for us:
(1)No wonder,as long as there shall be God,shall there be His reversed antagonist ,the Dog:
(2)God’s Eden,thus necessarily,turns into the Dog’s den:
(3)It’s a cycle,after all,as winter bites the summer,darkness gulps the light:
(4)But for this, Man can’t just spit on his fate and ruin himself in a surrendering morbidity:
(5)He must jerk up to rehearse to himself the ageless stimulant `Never say die’:
(6)He must also inspirit others around himself to do the same,resulting in a choric togertherness:
(7)All must then realize that on expiry of night’s gloom, shall dawn the dawn’s bloom:
(8)After all,man is given a life,not to live for himself, but for others;he who lives for himself alone,lives for nobody.Goddamn this I-conscious man!:
(9)It’s the monosyllabic word`Fear’ that does actually sup up the latent heroics in man:
(10)Hence the cry for togetherness,hence the birth of society,the latest call for global brotherhood:
(11)But there is a But!Who’ll bell the cat?Who’d volunteer the first bullet?The question is WHO!
(12)The identity of this WHO is to be traced in chronicles of history.Who first fell prey to the British hounds’ bestial blood-bath at Jalinwalabag?Hundreds.Then the problem is resolved;WHO is a plural,not a singular:
(13)`Ah,Love,let us be true to one another’!
(14)Unless we,right from now,take others as brothers in arms,we’d only unwittingly pave the serpentine path for the satan to take hold of everyone of us,one pill at a time or the whole in one devour.Unless we abhor the the Lucretian pleasure,taking delight in other’s misery while I’m safe on the shore,Doomsday is definite to befall us in its deadliest cruelty soon,too soon:
(15)Since shaped out in the very image of God, Man is an empyrean entity,never subject to mortality:
(16)Man resurrects himself in his progeny,in his associates,and unfailingly always:
(17)The history of Man is,therefore,the history of repetition,the torch of life is being relayed fom one generation to its next,never for once does it cease at any point of time:
(18)Now,-a stainless truth.INGRATITUDE IS THE AMNESIA OF OUR CONSCIENCE.

The Princess And The Frog

Mohana — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:27:37 +0000

I recently spent an extremely pleasant and wonderful time with my family and friends watching the latest Walt Disney animation of "The Princess And The Frog". To start with, the original storyline itself has always been a favorite of many around the world. But the movie in itself was a unique and beautiful experience, not to be missed by people of any age group. The fresh twists and turns, the new character additions, the entirely new outlook, focuses on a completely unique perspective of the age old art of fairy story telling. Of course the talk of the town is the fact that for the first time in the history of fairy stories, the proverbial blond, golden skin, blue eyed beauty has been replaced by a dusky skinned,african american, brown eyed girl from the working class. For many all over the world this particular feature has been the focus of the movie. But everything aside, the movie is fun, entertaining and should not be missed by anyone at any cost!!

The East goes to waste:an execrable sight

adhip ghosh — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:22:09 +0000

What hadn’t the East ? The richest in mineral wealth in India ,the ageless torch-bearer of the oldest heritage in this sub-continent ,the very natural abode of the most phantasmagorical coalescence of the heights and the hollows ,the green and the gray ,the pedantic and the gentry ,the embryo of the time-defying literary gullivers like Tagore and Bankim ,the world-struck religio-social samaritans like Buddha , Chaitanya and Vivekananda ,the most self-sacrificial Freedom-martyrs like Khudiram and Bagha Jatin ,the most hailed national patriots like Netaji and Shyamaprasad ,the astounding scientific path-finders like Satyen Bose and Mahalanobis ,the safest haven for pursuit of varied beliefs and rites ,this East , has for long time past, been gradually sinking into decay,dust and desert .And ,pathetically, right before our hapless eyes .Unless we buckle our armour right now ,the whole of East is feared to exist as a footnote to Indian history , yes , I mean ,West Bengal ,Bihar , Orissa and Jharkhand ,the quadruple children of East India seem to hang on tenterhooks of a forthcoming ominous political headcrash somersault.
The ills of the East are a long list , of which , overpopulation ,environmental degradation ,pervasive corruption ,poverty ,illiteracy ,superstitions,dogmas ,gender in equality ,exploitation , atrocity , unemployment ,no-autonomy of women , vapid political brain-washing , are just a few to rehearse from memory .The much-coveted National Rural Employment Guarantee Act ,touted to have worked miracles in Andhra Pradesh ,has miserably met with a downright failure in the States of the East .And , why? Because the too-wise Eastern politicians make this unequivocal answer that the scheme is target-oriented when it is desired to be people-centric.The tribals of the four States are simply allowed to feed on nothing even though they are symbolically represented in the States’political bodies .For long the tribals , who revered the Earth as their fount of subsistence and sustenance , are severed from their ancient roots on the pseudo-ground of maintenance of ecological equilibrium or by the most shamelessly blatant political masquerading of promises delivered in maidans which do never echo . When pretence and hypocrisy ,pose and gimmick ,blaring speeches and sententious quotes of the so-called foreign political prophets do not avail ,the politicians take resort to secretive , and more often , to lethal measures to silence the hungry mouths .Indeed,they are the modern Edmund Burkes to uphold the view,`If requests fail ,force remains .’ What they do not recite to themselves is ,`If force fails ,nothing remains .’
Our politicians ought to remember that a hungry man is more dangerous than an angry man ,a saint can sleep for years over sex ,but a beggar cannot , over an empty bowl .There is no ethico- political bar for the latter to dog the footsteps of whosoever gives him a handful . Incidentally ,our politicians should please remember a very contextual line from St.Luke:`Take heed not to do your alms-giving in presence of men lest you are seen by God .’The implication is ,public verbal tabloids won’t work , they can’t ; instead ,they should take all their political antagonists as their brothers in arms,shedding off their own long-practised egos and step-brotherly attitudes towards them , to work to-gether ,heads and hearts sincerely joined , to better `them’ who are the most removed from our ken .This is the last straw for them to clutch on to save their doomsday deluge lurking in the near shadows .

A Sonnet on Sleep

adhip ghosh — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:47:40 +0000

Sleep should come when fatigue demands
Sleep should come when stress reprimands
Sleep should come when nerves are aching
Sleep should come when eyes start itching,
Sleep should come when intake is full,
Sleep should come when all's beautiful-
Sleep should come when cares are over,
Sleep should come when mind's a flower.

But Sleep is ever free as bird-
Not bound by rules first,second, third;
It can perch on anyone's eye,
Sleep after all is not that shy,
That it would hover on whole night,
And expel fatigue in a fight.

An old statement interpreted anew

adhip ghosh — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:15:52 +0000

We're given to understand,since uncalendered past, that one-fourth of this planet earth is land,while three-fourth is water.The statement has of late been challenged in this note of interrogation:Hadn't God,the fount of knowledge,been acquainted with the concept of ecological balance?Or,did He do this on purpose?Till date no answer to this effect sounded plausible.But,for this,we can't just scratch our bald in pursuit of a pertinent answer.
At long last,however,America is discovered.But how?
In the first cry of the just-born and the last groan of the departed we heard cries,bursting and dim ones respectively.Why these cries?Because earthly life is more a tale of tears than one of cheers.On earth man is doomed to taste salt of tears more than malt of cheers."Yes:in the sea of life enisl'd/Dotting the shoreless watery wild,/we mortals millions live alone!"
Hardly beyond the gloom of a midnight do we glimpse the bloom of a dawn.Hence the song:"AMI angul katia kalam banai,chokher jale kali"Then,calm of mind all passion spent!We ourselves have made this earth of ours to have in it three-fourth of water and one-fourth of land.we're our own grave-diggers.Who should we then blame?

An old statement interpreted anew

adhip ghosh — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:15:18 +0000

We're given to understand,since uncalendered past, that one-fourth of this planet earth is land,while three-fourth is water.The statement has of late been challenged in this note of interrogation:Hadn't God,the fount of knowledge,been acquainted with the concept of ecological balance?Or,did He do this on purpose?Till date no answer to this effect sounded plausible.But,for this,we can't just scratch our bald in pursuit of a pertinent answer.
At long last,however,America is discovered.But how?
In the first cry of the just-born and the last groan of the departed we heard cries,bursting and dim ones respectively.Why these cries?Because earthly life is more a tale of tears than one of cheers.On earth man is doomed to taste salt of tears more than malt of cheers."Yes:in the sea of life enisl'd/Dotting the shoreless watery wild,/we mortals millions live alone!"
Hardly beyond the gloom of midnight do we glimpse the bloom of a dawn.Hence the song:"AMI angul katia kalam banai,chokher jale kali"Then,calm of mind all passion spent!We ourselves have made this earth of ours to have in it three-fourth of water and one-fourth of land.we're our own grave-diggers.Who should we then blame?

So alike,yet so unlike

adhip ghosh — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:00:33 +0000

Originally`HODGEPODGE',later made into `HOTCHPOTCH',has much in common with`CHANACHUR(from`CHANA',meaning`nuts'.In Bengali linguistic juncture,popularly called`SANDHI' this `Chana'is compromised into`CHUR'i.e.`CHURNA',meaning`crushed'to cook out a sour-salty-hot snacks,albeit with pinches of crushed spices).The only difference between Hotchpotch and Chanachur lies in the former's viscosity and in the latter's crispness.From this sole point of difference issue out other differences like
(1)Hotchpotch or Khichuri is a rice- and- pulse based lunch-cum-dinner item
(2)Chanachur is a humble tea-coffee `chaat'
(3)Overeating Hotchpotch generates gas
(4)Frequent taking in chanachur generates gastric
But if one opts for Mukhoruchi or Bapi Chanachur in place that of Haldiram,the resultant reaction is feared to be-gastritis,So,BEWARE!

How to fight monotony:afew practical steps

adhip ghosh — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:11:53 +0000

Monotony is forced adjustment to life's inevitable repetitions.Since forced,it's not welcome.And since here is a demand for`adjustment',monotony empties a man of his native jollity.And since life's repetitions are never unfailing,monotony is an oppression.Judged this way,monotony is slavery.We're all,then,slaves to life.To effect a freedom from this unwelcome,oppressive slavery of life,here's a few tips:
(1)When nothing is in hand,sssssllllleeeeeppppp;
(2)When sssssllllleeeeeppppp is felt monotonous,sssssllllliiiiippppp away from home;
(3)When sssssllllliiiiipppppappears monotonous,llllleeeeeaaaaappppp into a habit that runs in pace with time;
(4)When llllleeeeeaaaaappppping is felt monotonous,go deep into EEEEEAAAAAPPPPP,which is the abbreviation of ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES
My contention is:READ,CULTIVATE,WRITE,SPEAK AND CULTIVATE ENGLISH TO FIGHT MONOTONY.