23
Nov
07

Minority Mayhem

If you and I want to live in this city, if you and I do not want to be ‘advised’ that it is safer to leave the city, then you and I must toe the line of fundamentalist forces. Its better that you and I toe the line otherwise someone will lose out on a few important votes to bask in power. You and I should have known better that it ain’t a free world. You and I must have been mistaken to even think that we ever lived in one. I mean how could we even think that way? No, we shouldn’t even half expect to live in a free world. You and I must learn to accept fundamentalism. After all this ‘–ism’ claims to know what’s right and what’s wrong for you and I . We must learn to accept the mongrel characters that our city recently saw on the streets burning buses, cars and harassing school children. We must submit to the whims and fancies of minority vote bank politics. You and I must get used to the thick haze of smoke hovering over the streets of Calcutta. You and I must make space for these mongrels to assert their ‘monochrome self hood.’ Sigh!


1 Response to “Minority Mayhem”


  1. November 26, 2007 at 8:00 am

    Agree. Agree. I’ve blogged on the same.


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Good Grief! *from The Statesman

Looking Back: Some youngsters find it 'fashionable' to know about their city's past. Perhaps they are easily inspired by plans government representatives present every year at tourism fairs to promote Kolkata as a 'heritage' destination! Sometime back a couple of youngsters turned up Statesman House wondering whether prints of old photographs of the city were available. They went on to reveal their plans of starting 'heritage walks' in Kolkata. It was suggested that they should meet people like PT Nair and Rathin Mitra for information about the city's past. Their reply was 'interesting' ~ "Who?..." What are they doing these days? Why don't you find out!

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In case you have made it this far and wondering where you are, I think I owe you an explanation. After all I must have done something that brought you here. Anyways.... About this blog - don't know what strange affliction it is to post random inconsequential snippets from the recesses of my demented mind. Its deliberate, but an accidental one. And it continues to evolve in that way. The word evolve should not be taken in a Spencerian understanding of things, it's perhaps a more random haphazard spurted 'growth' than anything else. Sometimes its just plain stagnant. It is quite embarrassing at times to put up anything here on this blog. In any instance this self publishing exercise will always be a scarred reminder of how stupid one can be. Therefore, without deprecating my efforts further, I want to say that this blog isn't about my photographs (that's what I primarily engage in - photography), it isn't about whether the opinions I have on certain issues matters less, it isn't about how I made a discovery by the way of a film or a place I just happened to have visited, it isn't about all those things I just mentioned and also isn't about those things that could corroborate with the above mentioned disclaimers. So what is it about? Well, I think, its about the emptiness that surrounds me, the emptiness of thoughts and memories and afflictions - by the way of a person, a place, a music, a film. Not much into analysis, more into observations. More visual than literal. Although sometimes the two mix well, at other times they're like oil and water. It's abstract, and its how I feel about life. Don't try to make sense of it. You'll probably be very disappointed. So what's the point of being here? None ~ Zilch. It's very personal and very selfishly so. Peace & love. Siddhartha