THE NUMBERS GAME IN TALAQ GOING WHICH WAY?

THE NUMBERS GAME IN TALAQ GOING WHICH WAY?

THE CONTRIBUTION OF MUSLIM WOMEN IS A PHENOMENON,A STUDY CLEARLY PORTRAYSTHE LONG STANDING CULT OF A HUMAN PARADIGM WHERE RELIGIOUS NORMS HAVEBINDED OFTEN BLINDFOLDEDLY THE EXISTENCE OF LIFE.WHO CAN FORGET NURJEHAN,EMPEROR JEHANGIRS REDOUBTABLE QUEEN,AND THE REAL POWER BEHIND THESCENE OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE?IN LATER YEARS BHOPAL WITNESSED WOMEN FROMTHREE GENERATIONS REIGN IN SUCCESSION,A RARE PHENOMENON .MUSLIM WOMENDOMINATE THE SEVA ORGANIZATION IN LUCKNOW SPECIALISING IN THE EXQUISITECHIKAN EMBROIDERY ON GAUZY CLOTHES,AND QUARUNISSA IS FAMOUS FOR REVIVINGTHE MAGNIFICIANT ZARDOSI EMBROIDERY IN GOLD THREAD,SILKS AND JEWELS OFMUGHAL TIMES,WHICH CREATED FABRIC AND GARMENTS LIKE TAPESTRY,ON HANDEMBROIDERED BROCADE.THERE ARE MANY PROMINENT MUSLIM WOMEN WHO HAVE BEENVERY ACTIVE IN VARIOUS FIELDS LIKE BEGUM AKHTAR AND ROSHANARABEGUM.QURRATULAIN HYDER,THE FAMOUS NOVELIST AND POET HAD AN EARLYGROUNDWORK IN JOURNALISM FROM HER MOTHER,ZAZAR SAJJAD HYDER,WHO EDITED ACHILDRENS MAGAZINE AND WAS HERSELF A NOVELIST WITH FAR RANGING VIEWS ONWOMENS ROLE AND WOMENS RIGHTS.WHILE THE LIST IS ENDLESS UNDENIABLY MUSLIMWOMEN IN INDIA,HAVE CONTRIBUTED AT EVERY LEVEL OF SOCIETY TOWARDS THEDEVELOPMENT OF FEMINA AND THE NATION IN GENERAL.AMIDST SUCH HIGH YIELDINGDEVOTION AND DEDICATION THEIR LIVES HAVE BEEN THORN CAST FROM TIMEIMMORABLIA WHERE STRICT RELIGIOUS LAWS HAVE DEPLORED THEIR BASIC RIGHTS TOFREEDOM AND VENT OF ENERGY.SUCH CULMINATING FACTORS HAVE BEEN OFTENOPPRESSIVE TO SUCH EXTENT AS TO EAT UPON THE BASIC INGREDIENTS OF THEIRLIVES AND ACTIONS.THE CAMPAIGN FOR BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS OPPOSING THEFUNDAMENTALIST MISINTREPRETATIONS OF SHARIAT BEING THEIR MOST RECENTENDEAVOUR.ALMOST 20 YEARS AGO SHAH BANO,HAD SOUGHT LEGAL RECOURSE FOR SUPPORT FROMHER HUSBAND,FOLLOWING THE ANNULMENT OF 43 YEARS OF MARRIAGE.THE SUPREMECOURT HOWEVER TURNED DOWN HER HUSBAND PLEATHAT HAVE BEEN BOUND BY ISLAMICLAW ALONE.THE COURT RULED THAT A HUSBAND MUST ASSIST HIS WIFE FINANCIALLYEVEN AFTER A DIVORCE IF SHE HAD NO MEANS.BUT THE COMMUNITY PROTESTSDILUTED THE ISSUE FOLLOWING VIGOROUS DISCUSSIONS IN THE HOUSES OFPARLIAMENT.IN COURSE OF TIME THIS RESULTED IN THE COMPLETE ABSORBANCE OFMUSLIM WOMEN BEING DELETED FROM CLAIMING MAINTENANCE BEYOND “ADDAT” OR THETHREE MENSTRUAL CYCLES.TALAQ-I-BIDAH IS A INNOVATIVE FORM OF DIVORCE OFTENA PURIFIED VERSION WHERE THE MAN PRONOUNCES “I DIVORCE YOU ,I DIVORCEYOU,I DIVORCE YOU”.THE HANAFIS THOUGH BELIEVE THAT THOUGH THIS FORM OFDIVORCE IS SINFUL AND INNOVATIVE THIS FORM IS NOT VALID AND DIVORCE WILLTAKE PLACE.ACCORDING TO THE DIALECT PRONOUNCEMENT OF SUCH STANCE SEPARATESTHE MAN TO SUCH EXTENT WHERE HE CAN NEITHER NIKAH WITH HER NOR CAN CLAIMHER AT ANY POINT OF TIME BUT CAN DO SO ONLY AFTER A SECOND MARRIAGE BY THEWOMAN AND HER DEPARTURE FROM THE SAME.NEGLIGENCE OF SUCH DIALECTS WOULDPRONOUNCE THE RELATION AS HARAM.THE ALL INDIA MUSLIM PERSONAL LAW BOARD(AIMPLB),THE APEX LEGISLATIVE BODY FOR RELIGIOUS AND PERSONAL ISSUES OFMUSLIMS,HAVE PRONOUNCED SEVERAL LAWS WITH LESS SUCCESSS PERTAINING TOWOMENS RIGHTS.REFORMISTS QUESTION AS TO HOW REPITITIVE UTTERANCE OF ASIMPLE WORD CAN CHANGE A MARRIAGE?ACCORDING TO MAULANA UMAR AHMAD USMANITHIS IS NOT ONLY TO POSITION OF HANIFA BUT ALSO IMAM MALIK THAT THIS FORMOF DIVORCE IS QUITE VALID.HIS STAND CLEARLY PORTRAYS THE BELIEVE OF THEMAN TAKING BACK THE WOMAN WITHIN THE IDDAH PERIOD OR GOING FOR NIKAH IFTHE IDDAH PERIOD IS NOT OVER,WHICH IS BASED ON A RECONSTRUCTING MODULE OFTHE QUARANIC POSITION.THE ITHNA ASHARIS(12 SHIAS) AND IMAMIYAS BELIEVETHAT IF THREE DIVORCE TAKE PLACE,AND IF ONE IS OCCLUDED LET ALONE THREE BEGRANTED WISHES.ACCORDING TO ULAMA OF LATER PERIOD,SHEIKH SHALTUT BELIEVESIN THE THOUGHTS THAT ONLY ONE DIVORCE TALAQI RAJI WILL TAKE PLACE AND THEHUSBAND WILL HAVE THE RIGHT TO TAKE BACK THE WOMAN BY SAYING SO OR BYHAVING SEXUAL CONTACT WITH HER.IN QURAN NIKAH IS DESCRIBED AS MISAQANGALIZA,WHERE A STRONG BOND IS CREATED WHICH CANNOT BE DISSOLVED WITHOUTPROPER REASONS.EARLY ARABIC VERSES PRONOUNCED DIVORCE THOUSAND TIMES ANDKEPT THE SWORD HANGING ON THE HEAD OF THE WOMAN FOR LONG WHICH WAS HIGHLYDEPLORED BY QUARANIC INJUNCTIONS WHICH CLAIMED THREE INSTANCES OF PURITYWHERE ONLY ONE TIME OF PRONOUNCEMENT OF TALAQ FREES THE WOMAN FROM MARITALBOND AND SHE BECOMES FREE TO CHOOSE HER FUTURE AFTER COMPLETING THE PERIODOF IDDAH.WHY TALAQ THREE TIMES?WHATS THE MORALITY?THE QUESTION BEWILDERSSTILL………IN DARKNESS.MUHAMMAD HAYKAL PROCLAIMS THAT WHEN ARABS CONQUEREDSYRIA,EGYPT,IRAQ THEY BROUGHT MANY WOMEN FROM MEDINA AND MECCA WHOCAPTIVATED THEM WITH THEIR MYSTIC BEAUTIES.BUT THE WOMEN WANTED THE MEN TOGRANT IRRECONCIABLE DIVORCE TO THEIR FORMER WIVES TO WHICH THE MEN GRANTEDTHREE FORMS OF TALAQ AS IF FOR THE GOODNESS OF TIMES.SUCH WAS THEOPPRESSIVE FEATURES OF A MALE DOMINATED CULT WHICH MANY BELIEVES HAVETRASCENDED THE BELIEFS AND THOUGHTS OF QUARANIC INJUNCTIONS.THE SUBSEQUENTINJUNCTION PROCLAIMED AIMPLBS LIKE BOARDS PRONOUNCE FIVE GROUNDS FOIRDIVORCE:CRUELTY,DESERTION FOR TWO YEARS,REFUSAL TO PROVIDE MAINTENANCE FORONE YEAR,SEPARATION FOR ONE YEAR.WHILE THESE ARE VALID GROUNDS FORDIVORCE,THE COMMUNITY MEASURES INVALID THE TRIPLE FORM OF TALAQ AND WANTSGREATER FOCUS ON WOMEN DEVELOPMENT AND CRITICAL ISSUES PERTAINING TOSOCIETY REFORMS.EVEN THE PROPHET TERMED IT AS “A HATRED SITUATION BUTPERMISSIBLE” WHERE VARIOUS NOTIONS PROCLAIM THE ISLAMIC VERSES DENYINGEQUAL RIGHTS TO MEN AND WOMEN AND CONSIDERING WOMEN ONLY TO BE OBJECTS OFDESIRE.QUARANIC VERSES OF SUPPORT FOR POLYGAMISM IS HIGHLY DEBATABLE WHEREMANY GO AGAINST SUCH NOTIONS BUT ARE VALID FOR FEW ON GROUNDS OFMORAL,PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL DEMANDS OF HUMAN LIVES.THE VERSEPROCLAIMS “AND IF YOU FEAR THAT YOU CANNOT ACT EQUATABLY TOWARDSORPHANS,THEN MARRY SUCH WOMEN AS SEEM GOOD TO YOU,TWO THREE AND FOUR,BUTIF YOU THINK YOU CANNOT DO JUSTICE TO THEM THEN MARRY ONLYONE”(4:3).BETWEEN THE SILVER LINING OF THOUGHTS THERE HOPES DWELL WHERETHE RIGHT TO FREEDOM BREATHES AWE OF WOMENS DESIRE TO EQUAL RIGHTS OFEXPRESSION RATHER THAN BEING CONSIDERED UNHOLY OBJECTS OF DESIRE.

CAN IT MAKE IT TO HEADLINES?

Justifying the causes of news: “barefooted nun” or “queen of hearts”
The causes of news and its making has from time and again haunted the
chambers of thoughts were glamour and glitz has been dominant over blurred
shades of life. The architectural parameters of newsworthiness in this
respect is not truly championed where true emotions takes a back seat to
power domes of existence. In this respect media holds a big question where
the occupation of Princess Diana and mother Teresa in the facets of
tabloids have questioned the ethical concerns of today’s media world. On
the occasion of the death anniversary of two power ladies; one a bare
footed nun traversing the global parameters for the causes of society and
its upheaval and on the other side a Mercedes borne princess whose deaths
are distanced by only three days have distanced itself by long miles on
the issue of tabloid occupation. As the charming princess holds the
headlines with subsequent dedication of numerous pages and broadcast to
the causes of the tragic incident, the sacred nun holds the caption or
footnote often bewildered and lost among the pages of tabloid. Why such
distance in occupation? Has the media lost relevance?
Thinking on par with media one surely cannot forget the newsworthy
appearances of lady Diana who was the hot cake of media domains and
paparazzi delight; where the frenzy media has portrayed time and again the
credibility of Diana as a news item even to the extent of its paralyzed
notion holding the thin red foil responsible for queens rusty death. On
the other hand mother Teresa though a global phenomenon holding the
torchlight of society devoid of glamour might not have caught the medias
crazy eyes. Still the justification of footnote to a sacred cause is a
deplorable issue where the ethics of journalism instruments fail
repeatedly.
Their deaths, three days apart, evoked comparisons between the two.
Both were women.
Both were Christians.
Both worked among the poor and the needy.
Both were world travelers and received international honors.
But indeed the loss of the queen was a shock at a time when British
tabloid was restructuring the history of a charming face where the death
parameters sounded truly tragic .the tragic incident sent shock waves
around the world with Diana’s easy to recognize face of magnetic
influence. Such a cause truly champions the newsworthiness. In this
respect an old saying,
“When a dog bites a man its not news but when a man bites a dog its news.”
Such a coronation is justified by the cause that glamour and catchy items
surely interests the reader where princess Diana proved her capacity
several times whereas mother Teresa sacrifice of her soul for the causes
of society may not be very news friendly but the tragic value of her death
should have been portrayed in a much valued sense. Making headlines with
shine can be viewed in many ways where “the saint” would have fitted a
better bill.
A discerning look at the lives of these two "SAINTS" reveals more
contrasts than similarities, as noted here below.
One was young, tall and beautiful.
The other was old, short and homely
One kept herself in good shape physically.
The other took no special care of her body.
One was royalty.
The other was a commoner.
One was a princess.
The other was a nun.
One was rich.
The other possessed nothing that she could call her own.
One led the fashion parade for the world.
The other wore a simple blue and white cotton sari.
One left her palace for occasional excursions among the less-privileged.
The other was always in their midst.
One returned each night to the lap of luxury.
The other lived among the destitute and the dying.
One stored up treasures on earth.
The other stored up treasure in heaven.
One was of the world.
The other was in the world, but not of it.
One dabbled in astrology and 'New Age'.
The other devoted time to prayer.
One had a nominal Christian faith.
The other lived a life of faith in God.
One broke up a family.
The other built up a community.
One tried to take her own life.
The other gave her life for others.
One fed the gossip columns with her questionable life-style.
The other was admired for her righteous lifestyle.
Let's be honest with ourselves.
One was known as having committed adultery.
The other had opted for life-long celibacy.
One's husband [Charles] was a spokesman for anti-Christian New Age
philosophies.
The other's spouse [Jesus Christ, the Bearer of the Water of Life] ushered
in the true New Age of man.
One died with her lover in a high-speed car chase after a night of wining
and dining, while her sons and their father were in another country.
The other died surrounded by her family, a sharing and caring community.
One's last words were reported to be "Leave me alone."
The other's were "I love you, my Jesus."
Missions and visions may be different but some thin redline uniting the
causes would have lifted the relevance of media portray. Media not only
portrayed todays emptiness of spiritual wisdom and purity but also
deplored its sacred image as the voices of the society. The values of
human existence got a backseat with teresa’s occupation of caption space.
In that respect a living princess would have deplored the same with a more
vibrant response.
Jesus said: 'By their fruit you shall know them' (Mt 7:16).So, judging by
their fruit, which one was the true saint and which one the counterfeit?
Last but not the least headline writing took a historic blunder on its
stride with dianas occupation and denial of the same honor for “the
saint”.

CLIMATE CHANGE AND YOU

ARE WE CONVERSANT WITH CLIMATE CHANGE?
DREAM BASIC –UNFOLD MAGIC-SAVE EARTH.
Climate change is a problem related to changes in the concentration of the
greenhouse gases (watervapour, co2,ch4,n2o,cfcs)which trap infrared
radiation from the earth’s surface and thus cause the greenhouse effect.
This effect is a natural phenomenon, which helps maintain a stable
temperature and climate on earth. Changes in solar cycle of 11 years,
changes in earths orbit and its variations, aerosols and human factors,
abrupt change in land use, atmospheric aerosols lead to climate change.
The IPCC was established to provide the decision-makers and others
interested in climate change with an objective source of information about
climate change. The IPCC does not conduct any research nor does it monitor
climate related data or parameters. Its role is to assess on a
comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the latest
scientific, technical and socio-economic literature produced worldwide
relevant to the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change,
its observed and projected impacts and options for adaptation and
mitigation.
Climate change is a very complex issue: policymakers need an objective
source of information about the causes of climate change, its potential
environmental and socio-economic consequences and the adaptation and
mitigation options to respond to it. This is why WMO and UNEP established
the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988.
According to the “Principles Governing IPCC Work”, published at the 25th
Session in Mauritius in April 2006, the IPCC's role is:
1)To assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the
scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to
understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate
change.
2)To monitor the potential impacts of such human induced climate change.
3)To highlight the options available to adapt to such climate change and
the means to mitigate against such changes.
4)The issuing of major reports, including Assessment Reports, Special
Reports and Methodology Reports.
Despite the global community having agreed to combating
anthropogenic climate change through universal acceptance of the UN
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) as far back as in 1992,
global GHG emissions continue to increase, with a substantial jump of 70%
between 1970 and 2004. Within a long-term perspective the atmospheric
concentrations of CO2 and CH4 in 2005 exceeded by far the natural range over
the last 650,000 years. The last time the polar regions were significantly
warmer
than present for an extended period (about 125,000 years ago), reductions in
polar ice volume led to 4 to 6 metres of sea level rise.
Transport is important as well, with the following currently available
options listed:
More fuel efficient vehicles; hybrid vehicles; cleaner diesel vehicles;
biofuels; modal shifts from road
transport to rail and public transport systems; non-motorised transport
(cycling, walking); land-use and
transport planning. The effect of mitigation options may be counteracted
by growth in the sector.
Market forces alone, including rising fuel costs, are therefore not
expected to lead to significant
emission reductions.
The waste sector can also positively contribute to GHG mitigation at low
cost and promote sustainable
development.
In order to stabilize the concentration of GHGs in the atmosphere,
emissions would need to peak.
This assessment, of the likely changes to the hydrological cycle from
global warming, is largely derived from published studies
of the use of General Circulation Models (GCMs) coupled with smaller,
catchment scale, hydrologic models.
GCMs are based on physical laws represented by mathematical equations that
are solved on a three-dimensional grid over the
globe. The solutions are obtained using high-powered supercomputers.
Generally speaking, the greater the power of the
supercomputer the finer the grid and/or the more complex the model that
can be integrated forward in time to provide an
estimate of the climate when greenhouse gas concentrations (for example)
are increased according to some pre-specified
scenario.
There are a number of major drawbacks in using these models.
The first relates to scenarios.
Any projection of future climate change is based on scenarios. These
scenarios are idealisations of the rates at which
greenhouse gases will be emitted in the future and there are, of course,
widely varying estimates of just what these emission
rates will be.
Secondly, when studying the impacts of changes in the hydrological cycle
there is a scale mismatch between the GCMs, that
might only have a grid point every 200 km or so, and the catchment scale
hydrologic models, where the entire catchment might
fit within three, or less, grid points of the GCM.
Thirdly, there is a temporal scale issue. Generally, GCMs provide monthly
mean data, whereas catchment scale models
require hydrologic data (rainfall or streamflow) on daily or hourly time
scales.
Nevertheless, the TAR WGII report summarises the trends in precipitation
due to global warming, as assessed from published
reports of combined GCM/hydrologic model studies. According to these,
there is likely to be:
(1) an increase in annual precipitation in high- and mid-latitudes and
most equatorial regions; a general decrease of annual precipitation in the
sub-tropics;
(2) small changes in annual precipitation, even by 2080, when compared
with natural multi-decadal variability;
(3) increased frequency of heavy rainfall events as the world warms;
(4) a smaller proportion of precipitation may fall as snow (decreasing
snow pack), thereby increasing winter runoff,
but diminishing spring (snow-pack melt) run-off commensurately.
�� Aviation Traffic: Passenger traffic has grown since 1960
at nearly 9% per year, 2.4 times the average Gross
Domestic Product over the same time period. Global passenger air travel is
projected to grow by about 5% per
year between 1990 and 2015, where-as total aviation fuel use (passenger,
freight and military) is projected to
increase by about 3% per year, the difference being due largely to
improved aircraft efficiency. The
assessment developed a number of long-term (1990 – 2050) emissions
scenarios for both subsonic and
supersonic aircraft, including a reference scenario which used mid-range
assumptions for each of the key
determinants, using a range of assumptions for economic and traffic growth
and fuel burn, which is dependent
upon rates of change in technology and air traffic management.
AVIATION CREATING HAVOC IN CLIMATE CHANGE:
1) Aircraft Emissions: Aircraft emit gases and particles directly into the
upper troposphere and lower
stratosphere where they have an impact on atmospheric composition. These
gases and particles alter the
concentration of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, ozone, water
vapor and methane, trigger the
formation of condensation trails (otherwise known as contrails), and may
increase cirrus cloudiness – all of
which contribute to climate change.
2) Radiative Forcing: The major contributors from aircraft emissions to
the radiative forcing, which is a measure
of a change in climate, are carbon dioxide, ozone, methane (negative
effect) and contrails, with minor
contributions from water vapor, sulfate aerosols (negative effect) and
soot. The contribution from cirrus
clouds is projected to be positive and could be quite significant, but our
current lack of scientific
understanding precludes a quantitative assessment of its contribution.
While the contributions from carbon
dioxide, ozone, methane (opposite sign) and contrails are comparable in
magnitude, the uncertainties
associated with ozone, methane and contrails are much larger than those
associated with carbon dioxide.
Current Impact of Aviation Emissions on Climate: The best estimate of the
radiative forcing in 1992 by
aircraft is 0.05 Wm-2 (0.01 to 0.1 Wm-2) or about 3.5% of the total
radiative forcing by all human activities.
These estimates of forcing combine the effects of changes in all
greenhouse gas concentrations, aerosols and
line-shaped contrails, but do not include possible changes in cirrus.
From the above discussions it is quite clear that apart from natural
inflictions of elements inducing climate change human induced factors
primarily globalization, cross binding parameters of technological shifts
have facilitated the rapid change in the climate where global warming is a
serious concern. Its not only the duty henceforth of any international
institution to monitor the progress but its human element which is basic
and should be proactive in stopping the menace of climate rollover. Proper
awareness programmes, good governance, civic senses, and a responsibility
for a good earth is all we require to fight the terror of environmental
disaster. It can be well said that research alone is insufficient, so is
monetory funding and latest technologies; the real magic is in our
hands……..lets unfold the magic and breathe and dream a healthier EARTH.

DRUG ABUSE AND SPORTS

Drug abuse is serious concern in today’s sporting scenario where to some
the “boost” of drugs claims upheaval but destroys the very ethics of
sporting spirit. From a long time the use of drugs by sportsperson have
bewildered the retrospect of sporting arena. Such is the realization of
drug abuse that mere banning fell short of its abolition. From legends to
arts men of sports most have succumbed to the use of drugs irrespective of
the effects of its contamination.”Drug abuse” a word often misquoted has
since mystified and lost in the soul of the powerhouses of sports. Drug
abuse among athletes is a problem as old as time. In certain instances, it
may not even be the fault of the athlete, especially if the athlete
prefers to self-medicate himself for minor illnesses. As some of these
substances are readily available in the market, athletes are more prone to
mishandling these drugs. Drug abuse has been reported since the Greeks
started the Olympics in 776BC. It was then reported that certain
substances were ingested by competitors in attempts to gain some ground
against fellow competitors.
However, it was not until the early 19th century that the problem of drug
abuse became a great menace to the sport.
There were incidents where death ensued following drug abuse. In the late
19th century, it was reported that French athletes drank a concoction of
cocoa leaves and wine in order to reduce the sensation of fatigue and
hunger. As a result, they were able to withstand strenuous forms of
exercise and physical activity.
POSSIBLE RISK OF DRUG ABUSE :
Impaired judgement.
Increase reaction time.
Impaired muscular coordination.
Impaired balance.
Impaired performance of complex activities.
Decreased strength and flexibility.
Decreased accleration and accuracy.
Sport has been promoted as an alternative to drug abuse, especially among
the young. Ironically, instead, drug abuse has been perversely associated
with success and glory in sport. The patriotic slogan that "what counts is
not the winning but taking part" seems to have lost its vitality.
Drug-taking has corrupted the ideal of sports. The pressure of winning
will make athletes do almost anything to find the extra bit that could
make the difference. Many techniques are introduced and employed by
athletes in order to gain that extra mileage in their respective fields.
These methods are used to increase the effects of drugs and to avoid
detection during drug tests.
Another form of doping is blood doping , either by blood transfusion or
use of the hormone erythropoietin (EPO). Doping is considered unethical
by most international sports organizations and especially the
International Olympic Committee.
Social commitment and sports excellence must go hand in hand and not
undermine one another. The emphasis should be on educating and motivating
athletes, not to abuse drugs. It would be more encouraging if sport
organizations are more consistent and logical their decision-making.
Otherwise sports will be reduced to a contest between drugs, money and
politics.
The number and variety of drugs use by athletes are rather alarming.
Substances used as ergogenic aids are meant to primarily increase size,
endurance and strength of the athletes. Some of the substances that have
been identified and associated with drug abuse in sport are listed below:
1) Amphetamine.
2) Darbepoetin.
3) Dhea
4) Diuretics.
5) Ephedrine
6) Human growth hormone.
7) Insulin.
8) Methamphetamine.
9) Modafinil.
10)Norandrosterone.
11)Nandrolone.
13)Testosterone.
The use of anabolic steroids is banned by all major sporting bodies,
including the WTA, ITF, International Olympic Committee, FIFA, UEFA, all
major professional golf tours, the National Hockey League, Major League
Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the European Athletic
Association and the National Football League.
The World Weightlifting Championships of 1954 featured the first
unconfirmed attempt at doping. Testosterone injections by Soviet Athletes
resulted in the Soviets winning the gold medal in most weight classes and
breaking several world records.
Since time and again the penetration of drugs has been influenced and
traversed a long journey haunting the corridors of sporting
fraternity.
The Anti-Doping Convention of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg was
opened for signature on 16 December 1989 as the first multilateral legal
standard in this field. It has been signed by 48 states including the
Council of Europe non-member states Australia, Belarus, Canada and
Tunisia. The Convention is open for signature by other non-European
states. It does not claim to create a universal model of anti-doping, but
sets a certain number of common standards and regulations requiring
Parties to adopt legislative, financial, technical, educational and other
measures.
Though many conventions and charter bodies have been created

TECHNOPHOBIA

TECHNOPHOBIA- A DISEASE IN DISGUISE


The incumbent technological advancement has created a phenomenal shift in the way human lives has been transformed. From robotic science to computers use of modern day electronic gadgets has lifted the way one looks at life. The word technophobia basically means fear of technology or technological devices. The way professional world has developed, use of modern day technologies has closely linked human race to devices making one closer to virtual world and lifting the soul from practical domains.
For many of us life, without computers is unimaginable! The first thing that almost 90% of the knowledge workforce does when it gets to work is turn on the computer and check the email! Those are the lucky ones! Many others, live with pagers, beepers, and wireless devices 24-hours a day. If life without computers were unimaginable, life without microchips would be, simply speaking, miserable. Our remote car keys help us to open car doors from a distance; our microwaves are programmed to pop the perfect popcorn; music is no longer just turning on the radio; telephone manuals read like instructions for a nuclear reactor; VCRs and DVD players are humiliating experiences as highly intelligent individuals learn how to play a tape or a DVD; the list is endless.
In such a confused situation human lives are transformed into phases seldom undiscovered. In such trespassing phases technophobia penetrates the very basis of survival. Recent studies have pinpointed on the use of excessive gadgetries on the result of technophobia which culminates into a fearsome disease paralyzing the existence of human physiology. Corporate world has witnessed such phenomenon in a larger scale where technophobia has penetrated the human resource cycle.
Take for example, the printing press, the automobile, flying, highways, and medicine. Progress in these fields gave men and women to adjust their mindsets to a new and evolving world. In other words, growth and change in these domains has, to a large extent, gone through what we call the human life cycle: birth, infancy, adolescence, and maturity. In technology, however, the change for many individuals has been from birth to maturity. And just when they think they have a grasp on it, the world of technology handles another baby to them, only that this one has four legs and six eyes! Hence it is no surprise that individuals are overwhelmed with technology. An early example of technophobia in fiction and popular culture is Mary shelley’s frankenstein. Such disturbances have been closely studied by MNCs who have given technophobia a major concern for the health of its workforce. In Microsoft test of two studies of communication: an ethnographic study of communication primarily in homes, cars, and public places, and a survey of communication in a large corporation were performed. A clear pattern emerged. To a greater degree than expected in the ethnographic study, people were familiar with a broad range of communication tools. Awareness and a lack of anxiety was the norm even for tools that a person rarely or had not yet used. As a result, people frequently shifted to the tool that was most appropriate for a task at hand. The resulting behaviors conflict with popular press images and have implications for the designers of communication tools.
Question arises to why should one care about technophobia?
Technophobia is a serious disease in disguise penetrating rapidly in the world of gadgets. it not only creates psychological imbalances but shifts human nature from reality .Psychological studies have pointed on the inflictions of technophobia more on people adapting slow to change than fast adaptations of technology. Higher usage of technology has inversely affected its friendliness where fear of adaptation to latest innovations have paralyzed human advancement.
What are some symptoms of technophobia?
1) Fear of computers and related technologies
2) Resistance to automating processes
3) Unwillingness to change from one system to another or one software to another.
4) Highly critical of any technology changes or implementations
5) Passive resistance to new technology initiatives
6) Unwilling to attend training classes
7) Slow to learn new technologies
8) Providing excuses for not attending training sessions
9) Relentlessly arguing the lack of need for technologies
10) Pleading "the old way is the best way!"
11) Convincing colleagues that "I have made it this far without technology. Why now?"
Technophobia has been also studied positively in education sectors where latest usage of technology has paralyzed the motion of educational deliveries. In such a scenario a Harvard study has revealed a (+) mode of educational awareness to the extent of beta variation to be an ultimatum in releasing shock waves of brain.
Last but not the least technophobia is a disease in disguise, it is not shameful, it rocks the corporate enigma more. Proper awareness programmes , brown bag lunches, seminars on technophobia, sustained support to technophobic may shift the imbalance to a more phylogenic module of technology.

TECHNOPHOBIA

THE BALANCING ACT OF MEDIA AND LAW-A BLINDFOLDED ANALYSIS.

THE BALANCING ACT OF MEDIA AND LAW-A BLINDFOLDED ANALYSIS.
Media plays a vital role in today’s diversified aura of life. It not only
creates faith in democratic deliveries but also networks among the voices
of the people. In its liabilities and duties, media is not above law.
According to Albert Schweitzer, German Nobel peace prize winning mission
doctor and theologian (1875-1965) “the first step in the evolution of
ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.”
The axiom “freedom of press” has
always been debated where press
had to fight the corridors of law
and was pardoned by the democratic
institutions of the “fourth
estate”, in delivering the needs
of the citizen and carrying
forward their aspirations. If we
have a proper look at the
background which laid the
foundations for freedom of
thoughts and installed belief in
penfight we will hit upon the
first press commission set up in
1954 which uplifted the cause of
Press gave vent to a Press council
which promulgated a press without
outside or governmental influence
lets look at the general context
,at the overall framework of law
in Indian life. The men who
founded india and wrote our
constitution understood the need
for a government and for laws for
sustainability of identity and
independence.
The earlier laws at the time of lord Wellesly saw more of restrictions
than regulations over the way media usually delivers. However the most
significant day in the history of media regulations was the 26th of Jan
1950 when constitution was brought into force and paved the way for
“freedom of press” as a fundamental right . article 19 (1)(a) and (2) saw
raging wars between media and several sectors ,for eg the Ajay Goswami vs
Union of India which brought into focus the need for more stringent
regulations bordering the infiltration of malpractices in media In that
context “freedom of press” is a nightmare where headline writing may
defame an individual ,where quotations may disrepute a judicial
proceeding, where pornographic imitations may hamper the storyline and
corrupt innocent brains. I n such a confusing situation a media personnel
may face a challenging time sorting out relief for plaintiff actions. Such
need was carried forward by the founding principles of Press Act 1978
which healed the tiring bones of press and served as a council looking
forward to the “dos and donts ” of press.
In such an imposing balance of media and law, a union of the same would at
one hand paralyse the very roots of media where Ndtv,Tehelka like channels
have uplifted the causes of society but on the other hand ‘nothing is
above law ‘will bring justice to million young hearts falling prey to
corrupt infiltrations of mass media.

“OUR LIBERTY DEPENDS ON THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS, AND THAT CANNOT BE
LIMITED WITHOUT BEING LOST”.

In such an imposing balance of media and law, a union of the same would at
one hand paralyse the very roots of media where Ndtv,Tehelka like channels
have uplifted the causes of society but on the other hand ‘nothing is
above law ‘will bring justice to million young hearts falling prey to
corrupt infiltrations of mass media.

A CULMINATION OF ASTROPHYSICICS AND ROCKSTAR-AN EXQUISITE FEATURE OF Dr BRIAN COX

A CULMINATION OF ASTROPHYSICICS AND ROCKSTAR-AN EXQUISITE FEATURE OF Dr BRIAN COX

EARLY LIFE-
BIRTH- 3RD MARCH 1968, OLDHAM LANCHASHIRE ENGLAND. COX IS MARRIED TO TV PERSONALITY GIA MILINOWICH AND HAS A STEPSON.

PROFESSIONAL LIFE- MEMBER OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS GROUP AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER.
WORKS ON THE ATLAS EXPERIMENT AT THE LARGE HADRON COLLIDOR, CERN NEAR GENEVA. ELECTED AN INTERNATIONAL FELLOW OF THE EXPLORERS CLUB IN 2002 CHAIRED BY SIR EDMUND HILLARY .
ACCORDING TO COX,CERN’S NEW MACHINE MEASURING 27 KILOMETRES LONG ARE USED TO DETECT PARTICLES SUCH AS THE HIGG’S BOSON,THE SO CALLED “GOD”PARTICLE.
PASSION- AT THE AGE OF 17 COX WAS ASKED TO JOIN THE ROCK BAND DARE ON KEYBOARDS(BAND MEMBERS-JIMMY PAGE,GARY MOORE.)
ANALYSIS- GOING THROUGH THE FACETS OF BRIAN COX,LIFE BORE NOT ONLY A DOUBLE INSTINCT OF A SCIENTIST AND A ROCKSTAR BUT ALSO TRESSPASSED INTO VARIOUS FACETS OF ADVENTURE,MEDIA,PUBLISHING AND OFCOURSE SPREADING THE KNOWLEDGE OF SCIENCE.COX HIMSELF AN ADVENTURER BY SOUL CULMINATED THIS BELIEF THAT HIS URGE FOR MONEY MOTIVATION TOOK A BACK SEAT TO HIS ENDEAVOUR FOR FREEDOM OF THOUGHTS,INNOVATION AND EXPLORATION.THE LEGEND IS A VIBRANT SPEAKER NOT ONLY IN SCIENCE CONFERENCES BUT ALSO A RAPID KEYBOARD PLAYER AND SHOWED THE SAME MERIT PLAYING THE SAME FOR BAND- D-REAM,AN EUROPEAN TOP TEN CHARTBLASTER.
A FILM BASED ON COX “SUNSHINE” BASICALLY A SCIENCE FICTION WAS WRITTEN NO OTHER BY FELLOW MANCHESTER ALUMNI AND BEST SELLING AUTHOR ALEX GARLAND.
A WRITER INSTINCT IS ALSO PORTRAYED WHERE COX VIVIDLY LAYED DOWN THE PRINCIPLES OF RELATIVITY,SPACE AND TIME.COX HAS BEEN INVOLVED WITH BBC’S ACCLAIMED HORIZON SERIES PROPULGATING HIS CAUSES FOR ASTROPHYSICS.HE ALSO WRITES FOR SEVERAL SCIENCE MAGAZINES.
A CLOSE LOOK AT THE SOUL OF BRIAN COX DEFINITELY PROCLAIMS A MULTIFACETED PERSONALITY IMBIBED WITH NATURE AND EFFECTING SERIOUS HUMAN CAUSES WITH PURE AFFECTION OF MUSIC.

ORANGE CRUSH

PLAYING THE GUITER ON AN ORANGE CRUSH----“GANJIKA SEBON”

FROM “DIARY OF A DRUG FIEND” TO SALIVOR DALI OR MORE LOCAL TO THE CITY LIGHTS ARE THE UNDERDOGS OF CIVILIZATION PUFFING AND SMASHING AWAY AT THE TRANCE MOVEMENTS OF GREY MATTERS-ITS NO OTHER THAN THE OLD FACED GRIM LOOKING HUMAN NATURE OF ADDICTION-THE ADDICTION OF GANJA OR MORE SPECISE “THE MARIJUANA”.
GOING THROUGH MEDICAL CHAPTERS CANNABIS BELONGS TO THE TAXONOMIC ORIENTATION OF CLASS MAGNOLIOPSIDA CONTAINING THE CHEMICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUND TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS THC.THE MIND OF THE DOLPHIN STILL SWINGLES HARD TO FIND IN THE COLOURFUL FACES OF BRAIN WAVES WHICH TRASENDS ONESLF FROM REALITIES OF HUMAN EXISTENCE.CANNABIS IS POPULAR MOSTLY AS SMOKING JOINTS BUT IS ALSO MODIFIED AS CHILLUMS, BONTS, SMOKING PIPES.”GANJIKA” AS SANKSRIT PRIESTHOOD CONFINES IS 20 FOLD MORE HARMFUL THAN NORMAL CIGARETTE SMOKING; CAUSING CANCEROUS GROWTH, CONSTELLATION OF LUNG AND BRAIN PROCESSES AND SEVERE PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS.ITS POTENCY IS SO ACTIVE AS TO CLOUD THE VENOM EVEN IN DAYS OF INACTIVITY.
COMING BACK TO OUR OWN KOLKATA,CITY LIFE AND PAGE 3 HAS WELCOMED IN MISCHIEF THE CRUSH FOR HALLUCINATION AND MISTAKENLY CARCINOGENICITY HAS WIDESPREAD AMONG TEENAGE DWINDLERS.THE CENTRE OF THE CYCLONE OF HALLUCINATION HAS FLEW FROM COLLEGE CAMPUSES,STINGY LOCALES TO MODERN VILLAS OF CORPORATE BIGWIGS.THE HIPHOP CARICATURE OF EVERYDAY LIFE,THE HARDSTICK OF PROFESSIONAL LIFE HAS GIVEN WAY TO HALLOWEEN PARTIES,CLOUD A SHORT WALK INTO THE NETWORK WILL TAKE YOU TO THE STINGY ZONES OF DISTRIBUTION WHERE DIM LIGHTS HAVE FADED AND UPLIFTED THE VERY BASICS OF ADDICTION.
IN KOLKATA PARTICULARLY DHAKURIA, LANSDOWNE, TOLLYGUNGE, DUMDUM NAGERBAZAR AREA ,GARIA, JADAVPUR ETC HAVE BEEN EARMARKED FOR THE DENS OF THE CRUSH WHERE AGE IRRESPECTIVE THE SELL CONTINUES FOR A SIMPLE PUFF-THE PUFF OF TRANCE,THE PUFF OF ZEN BONES.
COLLEGE LIFE ,CITYLIFE,CAMPUS ROCKS ARE SHADOWED BY THE FLAVOURS OF MIXING GANJIKA WITH OTHER ADDICTIVES TO ENHANCE THE MOODSWING.ON A HANGING BRIDGE HANGING AROUND BABYLON WE CAN IMAGINE A SIMILAR FACE ROLLING OVER ON THE CIGARETTE LEAVES BLENDED WITH GANJA ;SWINGING TO THE TUNES OF PINK FLOYD.SOME OFFER IT TO CREATIVE UPRISING,SOME BELIEF IT A NATURAL HEALER,BUT THE JOYOUS COSMOLOGY FOR THE WAR OF ADDICTION STILL REMAINS UNTRACED.
THE AFTEREFFECTS OF RED, BLACK, WHITE FORMS OF GANJA AS IS POPULAR WITH ROCKLIFE ADDICTS STILL IS HALLOWEENED IN SOUL WHERE RETURN TO INNOCENCE IS A FORGONE CONCLUSION.THE SEVERE NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS ACCOMPANYING THE PLAY OF BRAINS IS SHADOWED BY TIMEMACHINE RELIEFS OF SHORTER DURATION.FROM THE ANCIENT TIMES OF BHANG AND CHARAS ADDICTION,GANJA HAS TRAVELLED A LONG TIMEFRAME TO ACHIEVE THE ROCKCULT OF GENERATIONEXT.THOUGH SEVERE LEGAL ACTIONS PREVALENT IN COUNTRIES SUCH AS JAPAN,CHINA,ETC INDIAS FIGHT AGAINST DRUG ADDICTION HAS DONE MINIMAL IN CURBING THIS UNKNOWN TERROR.EVEN THE NDPS ACT 1985 AND RCS ORDER 1993 OF NARCOTICS CONTROL BUREAU ON SALE,EXPORT,IMPORT,DISTRIBUTION OF PSYCHOTROPIC DRUGS HAVE BORNE A BLATANT FACE AT THE RAPID MOBILISATION OF THE SAME .
IN THAT SCENARIO “SAY NO TO DRUGS”CAMPAIGN IS STILL AN UNEXPLORED HEARTCRYING PHRASE.LET US AS CITIZENS THROUGH PROPER AWARENESS OF ILL EFFECTS OF DRUG ABUSE
CURB THE BIGGEST TERROR OF NARCOTICS….”THE GRIM FACE OF DOORS” AND SAIL A HAPPY AND HEALTHIER JOURNEY OF LIFE.

BRAND “PUTIRAM”---THE HIERARCHY OF SWEETMEAT
“12B SURYASEN STREET”-BEARS THE HOLOGRAM OF A HERITAGE WHICH FEW PEOPLE SYNCHRONIZE WITH MODERN DAY DELICACIES OF UPSTREAM SWET MEAT SHOPS LIKE BANCHARAM,KC DAS,ETC.THE SHOP AT THE BASEMENT OF A THREE STORIED BUILDING BEARS THE TRADITIONAL BRIDGE BETWEEN POST INDEPENDENCE FLAVOURS AND GLOBALISATION PHASES.
“PUTIRAM” A NAME SYNONYMOUS WITH “DALPURI” PICTURES THE CHANGING FACES OF POST INDEPENDENCE CULTURE,SOCIOPOLITICO FIELDS OF A WAR TORCHED NATION WHERE DIFFERENT SECTORIALS OF SOCIETY MINGLE AND TWINKLE AT THE BEHEST OF A CREATION-THE CREATION OF A SWEETMEAT SHOP AT THE HEART OF OLD KOLKATA,WHERE ON ONE SIDE “BOIPARA”WITH EDUCATIONAL HERITAGES LIKE CALCUTTA UNIVERSITY.PRESIDENCY SPRAWLS WITH THE AURA OF COFFEEHOUSE AND ON THE OTHER SIDE THE “BABU”CULTURE OF UPSTREAM SOCIETY BLEMISHES THE NATURAL FLORA OF THE SAME.INCIDENTLY “PUTIRAM”HAS SEEN ALL.THROUGH ITS INCEPTION IN AND AROUND 1870-1880 WHEN THE SHOP WAS SHIFTED FROM MIRZAPUR UNDER THE AEGIS OF ONE PUTIRAM FLANKED BY THE INSPIRING HANDS OF PACHKORI ,THE SHOP WAS PRONOUNCED TO BE A BIG HIT IN THOSE DAYS CULMINATING THE PHASES OF HISTORY WHERE ALL SECTIONS OF SOCIETY FROM HOSTEL TO HOTEL,FROM EDUCATION TO PERJURY ,FROM DIFFERENT REMIXES OF CASTES IN THOSE NASCENT BENGAL PHASES WHICH BORE A SIGN OF HISTORIC TRIUMPH.
SUCH A HIT WAS NOT TO BE BUILT IN ONE DAY WHICH FURTHER IS EXEMPLIFIED BY THE STRUGGLING HANDS ROLLING FROM ONE FINGER OF PUTIRAM TO HIS SON JITENDRANATH AND CHOIRED BY ABU MISTRI,GOPINATH WHOSE ABLE DEDICATION TO THE CAUSE WAS FLANKED WITH ENTREPRENAURIAL CLASHES COMMON TO THE GROWTH OF AN INC.THE UPS AND DOWNS OF PUTIRAM WAS EVIDENTLY MOULDED TOWARDS SUCCESS BY NO OTHER THEN BENGALS SPIRITUAL BELIEF WHEN “JITU”AS JITENDRANATH WAS BETTER KNOWN, WAS INFLUENCED BY THE DISCIPLE OF VIJAYKRISHNA GOSWAMI,KULADRANJAN GOSWAMI WHOSE INSPIRITIONAL MOTIVATION LIKE TODAYS MANAGEMENT GURUS SPRINKLED SUCCESS AND VISION TO THE GROWTH OF “PUTIRAM”.THE POST INDEPENDENCE CONFLICT SAW THE RISE OF “PUTIRAM” EXPAND TO NOT ONLY CONSOLIDATED SECTORS BUT TO DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF SOCIETY IRRESPECTIVE OF CASTE,CEREMONIES AND SITUATIONS.ENVIRONMENT TO BE SPECISE PLAYED A DEFINITE ROLE IN LIFTING THE SUCCESS STORY OF PUTIRAM CULMINATED BY THE TASTE AND TRIGGER OF JITU.AT THE RIPE AGE OF 66,JITU THOUGH COVERED BY THE SACRIFICAL BRAINS DESCENDED THE HANDS OF CREATION TO HIS SON GURUPRASAD,FLANKED BY HIS SON KANAILAL,NEPHEW MONIMOHON CARRIED THE SIMILAR INSPIRATION OF KULUDRANJAN WHEN THE SWEET SHOP GOT SPREAD TO OTHER AREAS OF SURYASEN STREET,AMHERST STREET.RELIGIOUS INSPIRATION WAS FURTHER EXTENDED BY ABU MISTRI WHOSE CONFLICTING THOUGHTS OF HINDUSIM AND MUSLIM DIALECTS BROUGHT A DIVERSIFICATION IN WRITING THE HISTORY OF THE CREATION AND THE HERITAGE SAFEGUARDING WAS TRANFERRED TO CURRENT OWNER ABHIJIT MODAK.
“PUTIRAM “ IS FAMOUS FOR ITS “RAJBHOG” A FAVOURITE WITH THOSE DAYS MARWARIS,DALPURI AS JITU WAS CREDITED TO CREATE HISTORY IN ITS FLORA AND FAUNA INSTALLATION.”RAJ BHOG” ALSO KNOWN AS “ ROYAL MEAL” FOUND SPECIAL CHAPTERS IN THE DAYS OF QUEENS VISIT.IT IS A CLASSIC PREPARATION WITH 15 INFREDUANTS MOULDED WITH ROSEPETAL FLAVOURINGS.PUTIRAM IS ALSO FAMOUS FOR “CHOPSANDESH”,”BISCUIT SANDESH” AND “AM SANDESH”,KHIRER KHABAR”,ROSER MISTI”.
THE HERITAGE AT SURYASEN STREET WILL SURELY TRASCEND ONESELF TO THE PAGES OF HISTORY WHEN A SMILING BRINGSFORTH THE WELCOMING GESTURE OF BENGAL’S PRIDE-SWEETMEAT.

CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY.....RCGC AND GOT OFFICES ESCORTED BY ENVIRONMENT FRIENDLY LUNATICS

AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY NATIONAL LAKE"RABINDRASAROVAR"

ROMANCING THE AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY-RABINDRASAROVAR LAKE
WALKING THROUGH THE MYRIAD ECOLOGICAL WONDER OF ONE OF THE OLDEST BIODIVERSITY OF KOLKATA,RABINDRASAROVAR NATIONAL LAKE,THE PULSATING INTUITION CARRIED THE SOUL THROUGH THE DELEPADATED DWELLINGS ESCORTING THE GREENERIES “GOBINDAPUR SLUM”.BYPASSING THE SAD FACES OF THE SOCIETAL PYRAMID A HERITAGE IT SEEMS THE LOCKGATES OF GATE NO 2 AS FAMOUS IN COLLOQUAL TERMS “LAKE” WELCOMED THE VAGABOND SPIRIT WITH THE CHIRPINGS AND HUSTLINGS OF NATURE DWELLERS.THE SORRY STATE OF THE VEGETATION WAS A SHARP CONTRAST TO THE PARTY HOUSES OF THE DISTANT CLUBS OF THE ROYALS OF SOCIETIES WHICH RESEMBLED THE RED BATONS OF THE BRITISH RAJ OSTRAFYING THE NATURAL TREASURES.THE ROMANCE OF THE LIVES SHELTERED BY THE GROWTH OF VEGETATION BORE A DESTRUCTIVE FACE AMIDST THE PLAYING GROUNDS OF THE TEENAGERS WHERE WASTAGES ,EFFLUENTS AND AFFLUENTS WERE SACRIFICED AT THE COST OF NATURAL PRESERVATION.
A HISTORIC BRIDGE NEIGHBOURING A SOLITARY MOSQUE BORE A SHARP CONTRAST TO THE HANGING BRIDGE OF BABYLON CONNECTING THE DESTRUCTION OF BIODIVERSITY WITH THE RECENTLY RESTORIFICATION EFFORTS OF THE “LAKE”.WALKING PAST THE CRICKET COACHING GROUNDS AND SMILING TO THE MISCHIEVIOUS ROMANCING OF HUMAN LIVES ,NATURE PLAYED A HAVOC AT THE BEAUTIFUL SITE POPULARLY CALLED “THE LUNGS OF KOLKATA” WHERE A GRIEVED SECURITY STOOD LONELY TO THE ATROCITES OF NATURAL PARADOX,AS ROWING ON ONE SIDE AND CRICKET COACHING ON THE OTHER BLINDFOLDEDLY WITNESSED THE EXCITING RESTORIFICATION PATHWAYS TO THE IRRESPONSIBLE ACTIVITIES OF THE RESPONSIBLE CLUBS.A WALK THROUGH THE “LAKE” IS A SURE RELIEF TO THE TORTURED HEART WHERE NATURE LOVER’S DREAMS OFTEN FLIES AND CRIES “HUM AZAD HE”.

AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY

ROMANCING THE AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY-RABINDRASAROVAR LAKE
WALKING THROUGH THE MYRIAD ECOLOGICAL WONDER OF ONE OF THE OLDEST BIODIVERSITY OF KOLKATA,RABINDRASAROVAR NATIONAL LAKE,THE PULSATING INTUITION CARRIED THE SOUL THROUGH THE DELEPADATED DWELLINGS ESCORTING THE GREENERIES “GOBINDAPUR SLUM”.BYPASSING THE SAD FACES OF THE SOCIETAL PYRAMID A HERITAGE IT SEEMS THE LOCKGATES OF GATE NO 2 AS FAMOUS IN COLLOQUAL TERMS “LAKE” WELCOMED THE VAGABOND SPIRIT WITH THE CHIRPINGS AND HUSTLINGS OF NATURE DWELLERS.THE SORRY STATE OF THE VEGETATION WAS A SHARP CONTRAST TO THE PARTY HOUSES OF THE DISTANT CLUBS OF THE ROYALS OF SOCIETIES WHICH RESEMBLED THE RED BATONS OF THE BRITISH RAJ OSTRAFYING THE NATURAL TREASURES.THE ROMANCE OF THE LIVES SHELTERED BY THE GROWTH OF VEGETATION BORE A DESTRUCTIVE FACE AMIDST THE PLAYING GROUNDS OF THE TEENAGERS WHERE WASTAGES ,EFFLUENTS AND AFFLUENTS WERE SACRIFICED AT THE COST OF NATURAL PRESERVATION.
A HISTORIC BRIDGE NEIGHBOURING A SOLITARY MOSQUE BORE A SHARP CONTRAST TO THE HANGING BRIDGE OF BABYLON CONNECTING THE DESTRUCTION OF BIODIVERSITY WITH THE RECENTLY RESTORIFICATION EFFORTS OF THE “LAKE”.WALKING PAST THE CRICKET COACHING GROUNDS AND SMILING TO THE MISCHIEVIOUS ROMANCING OF HUMAN LIVES ,NATURE PLAYED A HAVOC AT THE BEAUTIFUL SITE POPULARLY CALLED “THE LUNGS OF KOLKATA” WHERE A GRIEVED SECURITY STOOD LONELY TO THE ATROCITES OF NATURAL PARADOX,AS ROWING ON ONE SIDE AND CRICKET COACHING ON THE OTHER BLINDFOLDEDLY WITNESSED THE EXCITING RESTORIFICATION PATHWAYS TO THE IRRESPONSIBLE ACTIVITIES OF THE RESPONSIBLE CLUBS.

RABINDROSAROVAR A ROMANTIC ESCAPADE

AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY

THE VALUED CHAMBERS OF LEARNING

“SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT WE LEARN OUR MOST IMPORTANT THING IN SCHOOL OTHERS THINK DIFFERENT.”
THE WORD “SCHOOL” IS DEFINITELY A PROCLAMATION FROM THE OLD AGE SAYING “PYRAMID OF LEARNING”.SCHOOL IS THE PLACE WHERE WE ARE ENDOWED WITH THE TORCH OF LEARNING AND WE MEET OUR TRADITIONAL “GURUS”,WHO GUIDES US THROUGH THE DIFFERENT FACETS OF FACTUAL LEARNING OF THE UNIVERSE.IN WESTERN LEARNING SOUL MODIFICATIONS IS GIVEN EQUAL WEIGHTAGE TO BOOKISH KNOWLEDGE WERE FROM A LONG TIME OPEN LEARNING PROPAGATION IS ABURST WITH WIDE ACCEPTANCE.
BUT ACCORDING TO FEW PEOPLE,THE REAL LEARNING PRONOUNCES OUTSIDE THE DOMAIN OF SCHOOL.WHERE WE LEARN BY VISION,TOUCH,SPEECH.THE DIRECT DEPICTION OF TRUE LEARNING WAS PRONOUNCED BY RABINDRANATH TAGORE WHOSE FOUNDATION “VISVA BHARATI”BORE THE MARVEL OF NATURAL INSTITUTIONAL CULMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE.
“OUT OF LEAPS AND BOUNDS AND SCHOLASTIC VENTURES”AS SAID BY ROBERT FORD WHICH DEPICTED THE UNDERLYING HARD FACT WHERE FOUNDATIONS OF GREATEST LEARNERS AND DELIVERERS OF HUMAN SOCIETY HAS BEEN BUILT SUCH AS BILL GATES OF MICROSOFT,KENICHI OHMAE WHO PROCLAIMED “BORDERLESS SOCIETY”,AZIM PREMZI OF WIPRO,FORD OF FORD MOTORS,AND EVEN THE GREAT US PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN .
EVEN IN INDIA WE FIND VARIOUS GOVERNMENT PROJECTS THE ONE BY KMC IN “SARBASIKHSHA ABHIJAN” BEING LAID TO PROPAGATE MASS LEARNING THROUGH HANDS ON TRAINING.THUS IT CAN BE APTLY SAID THAT SCHOOL DEFINITELY SHOWS THE GATEWAY TO KNOWLEDGE BUT KNOWLEDGE OUTSIDE SCHOOL IS A DOMAIN OF LIFELONG LEARNING.

ORTHODOX TO INNOVATION

DIFFERENTIATING PRINT MEDIA FROM ONLINE MEDIA-----
PRINT MEDIA- A MEDIUM THAT DISSEMINATES PRINTED MATTER
FEATURES------
1) IMMEDIACY-IS ABLE TO RECEIVE THE LATEST NEWS WITHOUT HAVING TO WAIT FOR TOMORROWS EDITION.
2) FLEXIBILITY-NEGATIVE FLEXIBILITY.
3)ADVERTISING- BETTER FOR RECALL AFTER VIEWING MATERIALS IN PRINT.
4)IMAGE RESOLUTION-PROFESSIONAL PRINT GRAPHICS ARE USUALLY AT LEAST 300 DPI AND SOMETIMES HIGHER.
5)COLOR RESOLUTION- USE OF CALIBRATED TOOLS.THE PRINTER AND DESIGNER WORK CLOSELY TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE THE CORRELATION .IN ADDITION 4 COLOR PROCESSES CYAN,MAGENTA,YELLOW,BLACK CAN BE APPLIED IN TINY DOTS WHICH THEN OPTICALLY BLEND WHEN VIEWED FROM A DISTANCE.A BROAD SPECTRUM OF COLORS CAN BE REPRESENTED WITH JUST 4 INKS.THIS IS CALLED CMYK PROCESS COLOR.
6)CENTRALISED.
7) STATIC.
8)IN PRINT ITS EASY TO FEEL YOU ARE AT ODDS WITH READERS BECAUSE PEOPLE WILL FIND ONE LITTLE THING WRONG.SO AS A JOURNALIST YOU GET DEFENSIVE.THE READERS WANT YOU TO GET THE RIGHT STORY.
ONLINE MEDIA-
DEFINED AS THE REPORTING OF FACTS PRODUCED AND DISTRIBUTED VIA THE INTERNET.THE ONLINE NEWS ORGANIZATION IS THE PREMIER ORGANIZATION REPRESENTING ONLINE JOURNALISTS WITH MORE THAN 800 MEMBERS.
FEATURES-
1)NEGATIVE FLEXIBILITY AND IMMEDIACY.
2)RESOURCES CAN PROVE TO BE AN OBSTACLE.MANY WEBSITES DO NOT HAVE THE MANPOWER TO CARRY ITS OWN DEDICATED ONLINE STAFF SO IT SHOVELS NEWS FROM ITS PRINT EDITION ON TO THEIR WEBSITE.
3)NEGATIVE ADVERTISING RECALL.
4)NONLINEAR,SELF GUIDED,REMOTE ACCESS.
5)LITTLE CONTROL OVER DISPLAY DUE TO VARIATION IN BROWSER IMPLEMENTATION OF TAGS.
6)WEB GRAPHICS ARE SAVED AT 72 DPI (BEST RESOLUTION THAT MONITORS CAN DISPLAY) DPI(DOTS PER INCH).
7)USES THREE COLORS RED,GREEN,BLUE MIXED IN TINY DOTS OR PIXELS TO MAKE ALL THE COLORS WE SEE.THIS RGB SYSTEM HAS ITS OWN SPECTRUM.
8)BACK ISSUES,GENERAL INFO,LINKS,URLS,ADVERTISING INFO,HISTORY OF DT,ETC MAKES IT USERFRIENDLY.
9)DISTRIBUTED,DYNAMIC,DEVOLVE CONTROL.
10)BLOGGING PODCASTING,ONLINE MARKETING,ADREVENUES THROUGH ADSENSE,YAHOO ETC HAS SPEARHEADED INTERNET BIZ AND INTERNET MEDIA IS FAST GROWING .
11)GRAPHIC MANIPULATION,MULTIMEDIA COMMINGLING OF EDITORIAL AND CONTENT.
BUT STILL ONLINE MEDIA HAS QUESTIONS TO ANSWER ON ETHICAL ISSUES WHICH ORTHODOX MEDIA HAS GREATLY SUCCEDED.
“THE NEWEST NEWS DISPENSER THE RUNAWAY INTERNET,MAKES A JOURNALIST OUT OF ANYBODY WHO HAS A MODEM.IT VALUES SPEED AND SENSATIONALISM ABOVE ACCURACY.”

BLACK PAPERS OF OLYMPICS

MALPRACTICES AT THE COLOSSIUM
THE OLYMPICS IS A MULTISPORT EVENT ESTABLISHED FOR BOTH SUMMER AND WINTER GAMES.
THE EXTRAVAGANZA OF THE GLADIATORS RING IS A SURE TESTIMONY OF THE HUGE INVESTMENTS IT CARRIES AT THE BACKSTAGE.TO OUR VIEWERS EYE OLYMPICS IS A GOLD CARVED FIELD WHERE SPORTING LEGENDS ARE BORN.BUT AS “ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD”OLYMPICS TOO HAVE BEEN TIME IMMEMORIABLE BEEN MURRED BY CORRUPTION AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL.A VETERAN JOURNALIST NAMED ANDREW JENNINGS PENNNING OF THE CORRUPT PRACTICES FROM THE HENCHMAN WHO PROPULGATED THE GAME TO ROYALTY ANDREW JENNINGS IS A SURE TESTIMONY OF THE FACT.
GUELFI,A SHORT STATURE MAN WHO PROPULGATED THE GAME BY UNITING THE SPIRITS OF EUROPE IN 1992 BY SIGNING THE MAASTRICHT TREATY WAS A VICTIM OF FALSIFIED CHARACTER,HIMSELF BEING AN ENTREPRENAUR HIS ENDEAVOUR IN LIFTING THE GAME IS MURRED BY NEXUS OF TRANSACTIONS PERTAINING TO POLITICO-FINANCE SCANDALS.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GUELFIS TIME-
1)MARRIED A NIECE OF FRENCH PRESIDENT GEORGES POMPIDOU.
2)PROPERTY IN PARIS,LAKESIDE VILLA ‘CITE OLYMPIQUE’LAUSSANE.
3)VERSATILE IN NETWORKING AND FINANCIAL PULL UPS.
4)OWNED THE LE COQ SPORTING BUSINESS WITH FRENCH RIGHTS TO THE ADIDAS LOGOS.
5)HE IS CREDITED WITH DASSLERS NOMINEE TO IOC PRESIDENTSHIP.
6)FOSTERING FATHER OF SAMARANCH.
7)GATEKEEPER OF THE FRENCH OIL COMPANY ELF OIL COMPANYS EXPANSION DRIVE TO THE EAST.
8)CURRENT SHELTERING LUXURY IN MADLIENA,PROPERTY IN MALTA.






THE RISE OF THE VETERANJUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH,A ONE TIME FASCIST VICEPRESIDENT OF IOC CATAPULATED THE PROMOTION OF THE SAME BY BULKING IN PRIMO NEBIOLO AS THE GENERAL SECRETARY OF IOC.GUELFI HAS BEEN ALLEGED OF CASH TRADING WITH THE PURE SPIRIT OF THE GAME BY CLICKING IN HUGE ADVERTISING MONEY AND SPEARHEADING THE POMPOUS AND PROSPEROUS JOURNEY OF THE GAME.UNDER THE AEGIES OF GUELFI,PEOPLE LIKE DASSLER AND OTHERS COULD EASILY PULL IN THE MARKETING RIGHTS AND LAUNCH INDEPENDENT COMPANIES LIKE THE ONE INTERNATIONAL SPORT AND LEISURE COMPANY.SO WAS GUELFI A FINANCE SPERHEAD FIRST AND THEN A SPORTSDRIVER?PROBABLY SO AS HIS ENTREPRENAUR ROOTS CLAIM SO IS HIS PLAYBOY FEATURE OF LAUNDERING MONEY AND WOMEN CLAIM.MEANWHILE CORRUPTION HAD ALREADY CRIPPLED THE GLADIATORS RING WHERE ISL HAS BEEN ALLEGED OF PAYING BRIBES TO THE AMOUNT OF 70 MILLION POUNDS.AS IS SAID APTLY “THE MORNING SHOWS THE DAY…….SO WAS THE LIGHT OF GUELFIS CORRUPT LEANINGS GAVE SAMARANCH THE BOLD FRADULENT INITIATIVE TO SPEARHEAD INVESTMENT ROCKETING BY FOOLISH NETWORKING POLICIES OF SAILING THROUGH OIL RICH GULF HOLDING HANDS WITH KLEPTOMANIACS OF THE GAME.GUELFIS FEATURE WAS APTLY TRANSMITTED TO HIS CONTINGENT WHICH FELL TO THE DESIRES OF HUMAN BLACKS “MONEY-SEX-THEFT” A JOURNEY ABSENT IN SAMARANCHS VENTURE “OLYMPIC MUSEUM”.SAMARANCH HAS BEEN CREDITED TO BUILD STRONG CONTACTS WITH HISTORIC FIGURES TO THE LIKES OF POPE,BORIS YELTSIN,EAST GERMAN LEADER ERICH HONECKER AND ELSE TO FOSTER INVESTMENTS FOR THE GAME.
SO IS OLYMPICS FELL TO MALPRACTICES?
OR FRAUD IS THE NAME/AND GAME IS THE NAME?
GUELFIS ENTREPRENAURSHIP SURELY DID MORE TO CORPORATIZATION OF NOT ONLY THE GAME BUT THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL KLEPTOMANIACS TOO ENJOYED HIS CUNNING ENDEAVOURS IN SCREWING THE GAME BY AMASSING ADVERTISING MONEY,PLAYING WITH NETWORKING,POWERHOUSING POLITICS.GUELFI IS SURELY A CRIMINAL OF THE TRUE SPIRIT OF OLYMPICS WHICH CARRIES A CULTURAL HERITAGE.HIS FLIRTING NATURE OF WOMANISING AND MONEY LAUNDERING THOUGH CATAPULATED THE GROWTH OF THE GAME AND SPEARHEADED EXPANSION AND RISE OF TYCOONS DESTROYED THE TRUE MORALE OF THE SAME.HIS LEANINGS TOWARDS REAL ESTATE PROPERTIES BROUGHT BAD NAME NOT ONLY TO HIMSELF LANDING HIM BEHIND BARS BUT GAVE THE GAME A FRAUDULANT NAME.IT ALSO PINPOINTED HOW ADVERTISING VENTURES CAN DESTROY THE MORALE OF A GAME.GUELFIS CROSSING THE THINLINE FROM THE GAME OF SPORTS TO GAME OF MONEY THREW HIM TO EVERY FRAUDS OF FINANCIAL CHAPTERS.THOUGH HE IS CREDITED TO BE OLYMPIC STAGEMAKER IN MY PERSONAL VIEW HE SHOULD BE CREDITED IN ENTREPRENAURSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND CROSSFIRING OF MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS.APTLY MEMOIRED BY THE MISTRESS OF FOREIGN MINISTER ROLAND DUMAS,AS ”WHORE OF THE REPUBLIC” GUELFI BORE A BAD NAME IN SPORTING HISTORY.THE ETHICAL GROUNDS OF NOT ONLY OLYMPICS BUT PERSONAL PROFILE OF THE MAN WHO BROUGHT BIG MONEY TO THE GAME HAS BEEN LOOTED BY HIS POLITICALLY WRONG MOVEMENTS.
THUS IT CAN BE CONCLUDED THAT AS MONEY SPEAKS LOUDER SOMETIMES,THE SPIRIT OF MONEY CRUCIFIES THE SPIRIT OF THE NOBLE.

GATEWAY TO HERITAGE-CALCUTTA TRAMWAYS

A WALK INTO HERITAGE

RETURNING FROM VOICES TO VOICES OF SOCIETY
OH! ITS SUNDAY;LAZY IN BED WHEN THE CALL OF PASSION DROVE THE EVERTHIRSTY HEART TO THE COURTS OF “STATESMAN HOUSE” WHERE VOICES MANAGED “VIBES” PREPARATION WAS ABURST WITH SMILES OF TEENAGERS CLAPPING AND SLAPPING IN THE MYRIAD COMPOUND OF THE HERITAGE BUILDING.AFTER A GRILLING SESSION OF MIND,I WALKED PAST THE MASJID AROUND WHICH A DWELLING OF EATERIES HAVE SPRUNG UP TO REACH THE TRAFFIC CONTROL COMPOUND OF CALCUTTA TRAMWAYS CORPORATION.IN MY HEART THE DESIRE OF FINDING MY LOST BAG WAS UPSTREAM WHEN THE SAD FACE OF ENVIRONMENT TOOK A RIGHT TURN.
THE “SLUM”BETTER TO ACKNOWLEDGE IN A TIME WHEN “SHINING INDIA”,”RISING BENGAL” CAMPAIGNS ARE FLOODED WITH PRAISES FROM DIFFERENT BEACONS OF CORPORATISATION.
HERITAGE IT SEEMS;”TRAM” IN COLOQUAL PARADOX HAS FALLEN PREY TO BLIND PRESERVATIONS.
WHILE PREVIOUS DAYS HISTORIC TRIP FROM CHOWRINGHEE TO COLLEGE STREET ON THE NEWLY LAUNCHED SLIM N TRIM TRAM WAS A MEMORY TO CHERISH THE SORRY STATE OF HERITAGE PROPERTY
WAS ALSO A VIEW ONE CANNOT FORGET.A DELEPEDATED BUILDING HOUSING THE OFFICIAL CHAMBERS
BORE A SORRY FACE AT THE HEART OF “ESPLANADE” BETTER KNOWN AS THE HEART OF OFFICEPARA AND FREAKY SHOPPING PARADISE.THE GATEWAY IS ADORNED BY WASTE RELEASES AS IF THE ECOLOGY BEARS “USE ME” SIGNATORY PAVEMENTING WITH FRUIT SELLERS WHO THEMSELVES SEEM TO DETONATE UNHYGENIC PRODUCTS BY THE SAME.A NEAR VIEW OF “SHAHID MINAR” BRINGS THE MARTYR SENSE OF ENVIRONMENT TO ONES SOUL WHEN MY MEMORY OF LAST DAYS GRAVITY OF LOOSING PROPERTY DROVE ME INTO THE POLITICAL MANIFESTO LAID CHAMBERS.A TALK WITH THE CONTROL ROOM ,THOUGH HAD A SAD OUTCOME THE VISUAL PERCEPTIONS DROVE ME TO THE NEAR GALLERIES WHERE HERITAGE TRAMS WERE BEING CONVERTED TO TICKET BOOKING CENTRES.HA HA HE HE,CRIED MY FOREIGNER INSTINCTS WHILE THE TRUTH IS THAT WE HAVE LOST OUR HERITAGE TO GLOBALIZATION.MY PHOTOGRAPHY INSTINCTS DROVE ME TO THE NEARBY GROUNDS WERE IT SEEMED “PHOTOGRAPHY IS PROHIBITED” .MY MISCHIEVIOUS HEART KEPT MY BODY OUT OF THE GROUNDS WHERE AS MY SOUL STARTED CLICKING.STINGY FOR SURE WHAT WAS A WONDER,STILL WHICH BORE THE TAGLINE OF ONE OF THE FEW COUNTRIES STILL CARRYING HERITAGE OF TRAM TRANSPORTATION
AND WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN A WONDER HAS THEFT THE EYES OF AUTHORITIES.
“A LONELY CROW SITTING ABOVE A CTC HOLOGRAM BORE POST” DEFINITELY PORTRAYED THE GRIEF.

CLAIMED TO BE ASIAS HISTORIC GOLFFIELDS...VIEW FROM TERRACE

THE HERITAGE"STATESMAN HOUSE"

BRAND "PUTIRAM"

FREEDOM

“IF I CANNOT HAVE FREEDOM,I WOULD RATHER PREFER DEATH"


THIS STATEMENT CARRIES WITH IT THE VIEWS OF MANY OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS IN THE NATION.IN OTHER COUNTRIES WITH DIFFERENT TRADITIONS
THIS STATEMENT MIGHT BE SEEN AS OBSCURE AND NAIVE.BUT THINKING ON A PARALLEL MODE ONE SURELY FALLS ON THE SAME GROUND THAT FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION IS KEY TO SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST.
" FREEDOM "...........THIS KEY WORD ENCOMPASSES THE BELIEF OF LIBERTY OF THOUGHTS,ACTIONS DREAMS WHICH ARE CLOSELY LINKED.THE BELIEF SURPASSES HUMAN SOUL NOT ONLY IN HOMO SAPIEN FORMS BUT IT CARRIES THE SAME TRADITION TO ALL THE LIVING ELEMENTS OF THE PLANET.CREATIVITY IS A FORM OF LIBERALIZATION OF THOUGHTS AND IMAGINATION.CREATIVITY ONLY FOR THE SAKE OF CREATIVITY IS BONDAGE.ON THE CONTRARY THE FLOW OF CREATIVITY IS NURTERED FROM THE SOUL WHERE THE "GREY" SELDOM FALLS SECOND TO THE HEART.HUMANS HAVE THE WONDERFUL SENSATION OF ONENESS WITH NATURE EXPRESSED IN PHILOSOPHY,ART AND TRUTH.TRUTH ENCOMPASSES WISDOM.FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION THUS BRINGS FORTH THE LINKAGE BETWEEN PARALLEL THINKING AND ORTHODOX THINKING.CREATIVITY WITHOUT NURTERED LIBERTY IS A DOOM TO THE DIANETICS OF LIFE.IF BRAIN IS DEAD THEN THESE THOUGHTS ARE SELDOM CREATED AND CREATIVITY BECOMES A BOON TO ARTIFICIAL EXPRESSIONS.THE ABILITY,ACTIVITY OF THOUGHT PROCESS RATHER FAILS AT THE BIOPHYSICAL DIMENSIONS AND HUMAN THOUGHT PROCESS AND PHYSICAL DOMAINS GET ENCAGED IN CAGES OR LEASHES.
ALTHOUGH THE CONSERVATISTS FEEL THAT EXISTENCE IN ANY FORM IS BETTER THAN SURRENDERING TO DEATH BUT MODERN STUDIES FIGHT THE SAME ON THE NOTES THAT RESTRICTED LIVES SELDOM FIND RELEASE OF ENERGY WHICH IS VITAL FOR THE RUN OF LIFE.THOSE WHO HAVE LEAD PHYSICALLY RESTRICTED LIVES LIKE STEPHEN HAWKING,FREEDOM TO THINK BEYOND HAS MADE HIS LIFE FREE FROM DEATH.HERE ONE SURELY MIGHT WONDER OVER THE THOUGHTS THAT " IS DEATH LIBERTY?" ON THE CONTRARY THE OPTIMIST BELIEVE THAT DEATH IS THE ENCAGEMENT OF LIFE......"LIFE THE GIFT OF GOD" IS A FREENESS OF NATURE TO FOSTER THE HIDDEN TREASURES OF THE SOUL.ANY EXPLOITATIONS AND PARALYSATION OF THOUGHT PROCESS IS ATHEIST NOTION OF LIFE.IF A PERSON LOOSES BOTH PHYSICAL AND MENTAL FREEDOM,WHAT IS LEFT?IF A PERSON BELIEVES IN IMMORTALITY OR MORTALITY THE FACT STILL LINGERS ON THE FREEDOM OF LIFE,BECAUSE LIFE HAS A COMMON THREAD.....THE THREAD OF SOURCE----

"Know these two- my higher and lower natures- as the womb of all beings. Therefore, I am the source and dissolution of the whole universe".
Bhagavad Gita Ch.7, Verse 6.

THIS DOESNOT MEAN LAW AND ORDER TAKES A BACKFOOT.HERE COMES THE CITIZEN POWER WHERE EVERY INDIVIDUAL IS INVOLVED IN THE SEARCH FOR ULTIMATE FREEDOM WHERE SEX,RELIGION,LOCATION CROSSES THE BARRIERS OF CULTURE,SOCIETY,POLITICS.HAYWARD LIBERTY MAY DESTROY THE FREEDOM AND BRINGFORTH ABUSE AND ADDICTIONS HARMFUL TO THE OVERALL GROWTH OF THE MASSES.HIGHER RESPONSIBILITY DIVIDED EQUALLY PRODUCES A JUST SEED HIGHLY NEEDED IN A POST COLONIZATION ERA TO COUNTER BALANCE THE ESSENCE OF LIVELIHOOD.THIS,IN THE LONG RUN WILL CREATE MORE FREEDOMS FOR THE PEOPLE,WHICH WILL NURTURE A BRIGHT SHINING PROSPEROUS NATION.
TO CONCLUDE,DEATH IS A PRIZE FOR ARREST OF INDIVIDUAL PHYSICAL AND MENTAL EXPRESSIONS.ALTHOUGH RULES AND LAWS ARE NECESSARY BUT THEY SHOULD BE USED TO FORMULATE FREEDOM FOR ALL NOT TO RESTRICT FREEDOM.AS CAPTIVITY PRODUCES CORRUPTION OF CREATIVITY.ONLY IN THIS WAY CAN A NATION PROSPER AND REACH ITS ULTIMATE GOAL-------FREEDOM OF SUCCESS.

FASHION SEMIOTICS

SEMIOTICS OF FASHION

“FASHION “ A MISNOMER IN ITSELF HAS ALWAYS ELUDED THE SOUL OF HUMAN DIANETICS.FROM THE GLOBAL LIBERALISATION OF EXPRESSION IN 19TH CENTURY TO THE CURRENT ERA FASHION HAS BEEN A STATEMENT OF THOUGHTS AND LIFESTYLE.
SO “IS FASHION A STATEMENT OF THOUGHTS OF AN INDIVIDUAL”
RECENT STUDIES HAS DELIVERED THAT FASHION DEFINITELY PORTRAYS AN INDIVIDUALS ORIENTATION TOWARDS LIFE,ITS DISCIPLINE,ACTIONS AND DAY TO DAY ACTIVITIES.FASHION CHANGES ACCORDING TO TIMEFRAME AND OCCASIONAL SHIFTS.FASHION CAN DEFINITELY REVEAL AN INDIVIDUALS FEATURES AND IS A PORTRAY OF SOUL.FASHION CAN NEVER BE IMBIBED UPON ,IT’S A NATURAL INSTINCT WHICH CAN BE CULMINATED BY VISUAL PERCEPTIONS.FASHION BORNE NATURALLY IS LESS VIMSICAL THAN FASHION BORN OUT OF CHANGING DEMANDS.TIMEAGAIN FASHION DESIGNERS HAVE TRIED TO EMPHASIZE ON SILHOUTTE OF SOUL,RATHER THAN EXTERNAL MODIFICATIONS OF HEART.FASHION IS A FORM OF LOVE WHICH TRASENDS THE VERY BASIC ROOTS OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION POLLINATING THE FLOWERS OF CULTURES,SOCIETY IN THE FORM OF SHADES OF COLOURS WHICH FORM AN INTEGRAL PART OF FASHION CREATION,MAY BE NEUTAL,MAY BE PLACID MAY BE SEASONAL OR MAY BE EARTHLY.
FASHION HAS ALWAYS BEEN ELUSIVE IN ITS OUTLOOK BY QUICK MODIFICATIONS IN OUTLINING THE SOCIETAL PAINTING THROUGH ITS DISPLAY. IN INDIA FASHION HAS TRASENDED FROM MERE POLITICAL EXPRESSION POST INDEPENDENCE ERA,IMBIBED WESTERN ROCK AND ROLL TO FALL INTO THE REALIZATION ERA OF ETHNIC CONFLICTS.FROM THE FASHION CAPITALS OF MILAN,PARIS TO OUR OWN NATIONAL CROSS BORDER FOSTERINGS FASHION HAS INDEED TRAVELLED A LONG WAY.THE CONSERVATIVE ERA OF INDIAN FASHION WAS HIGHLY INFLUENCED BY INDIAN FILMOGRAPHY WHICH BROUGHT CABARET ROCK ND ROLL SENSATION INTO ITS MANIFESTATION.THE 80S SAW THE INFLUX OF WESTERN INFLUENCE OF HELMUT LANG AND JILL SLANDER PORTRAYING INDIAN SOUL.THOUGH GUCCI AND ARMANI INFLUENCE IN INDIAN PANORAMA WAS A BIT LATE ,SO WAS PROFESSIONAL DESIGNING GOVERNMENT PARTICIPATION IN FRAMING DESIGNING INSTITUTES FOSTERED PROFESSIONAL GROWTH IN INDUSTRIALIZATION OF FASHION.POST NARASIMHA RAO GOVT WHEN MANMOHANOMICS FOUND LIBERALIZATION,INDIAN FASHION INDUSTRY DREAMT BOOM.DESIGNERS SUCH AS ANITA DONGRE,ARJUN KHANNA,ASHISH SONI,MANISH MALHOTRA,RAGHAVENDRA RATHORE,TARUN TEHLANI,WENDELL RODRICKS AND THE MAESTRO OF SILK ROHIT BAHL THOUGHTS LIFTED THE SPIRIT OF INDIAN FASHION.MONEY ALWAYS HAS BEEN A SETBACK THOUGH,CLAIMS FEW,FASHION NEVER WAS PAST.RETAIL BOOM BROUGHT GLOBAL INFLUX INTO INDIAN PANORAMA AND THE NATIONAL MARKET BECAME THE 2ND LARGEST FASHION TRADING ARENA WHERE GLADIATORS OF FASHION PLAYED HAVOC.CORPORATE PARTICIPATION FROM BRAND RECOGNITION,LAUNCH,BRAND ACCOMODATION BROUGHT FASHION AS AN INTEGRAL PART OF INDIAN BUSINESS SCENARIO.
“THE RECENT ECONOMIC GROWTH TRASCENDED FASHION TO LOCAL STATEMENT WITH RISE OF GLOBAL BRANDS “-IN SUCH A SCENARIO ARE WE FORGETTING OUR ROOTS?OUR CULTURES?DESIGNERS DENY.TILL TODAY GLOBAL ACCEPTANCE IS MORE ON ETHNIC WEARS LIKE SAREE,CHURIDAR,SALWAR KAMMEZ,LEHENGAS,CHOLIS,GHAGRA, THAN WESTERN MODIFICATIONS.SO HOW DO WE COMMUNICATE?OUR GEOGRAPHICAL FLORA AND FAUNA HAS ADDED LUSTRE TO FASHION WHICH HAS EVEN CROSSED BORDERS TO BE DISPLAYED BY GURUS OF FASHION PIERRE CARDIN AND ZANDRA RHODES.THE ELVIS PRESLY ERA SHIFTED FASHION TO HEIGHTS OF ETHNIC REALIZATION WHERE STATELY COLOURS FOUND HIGHER RECOGNITION.NIKE,NAKSHATHRA,TITAN,TOMMY HILFIGER,ADIDAS ,RALPH LAUREN,MARKS SPENSER ,HAS SHIFTED ITS BELIEF TO LOCATION BASED FASHION WHERE LOCAL SENTIMENTS FOUND GREATER REALIZATION.THE RISE OF INDIAN MODELLING INDUSTRY POST SUSHMITA SEN EXPLOITS HAVE MADE INDIAN BRAND CREATION GLOBAL.THOUGH FASHION EXPRESSIONS OF LOCAL BRANDS CREATED HAVOC IN VICTORIAS SECRET OR FCUCK LOCATIONS STILL ETHNIC COMMUNICATION IS IN NASCENT STAGE.
THE KOTWARA CREATION OF MUZAFFAR ALI,THE ROHIT BAHL BRAND,THE MASKA BRAND OF NIKI MAHAJAN SHOWCASING KALI IN KOLKATA,THE BRIDAL COUTRE OF NEETA LULLA,THE DIFFUSION LINE OF INDIAN CINEMATOGRAPHY,THE PUJA NAYYAR CREATIONSIS AN ALL OUT SUCCESS IN “CHOKHRI “
IN SINGAPORE,THE ETHNIC SHOE COLLECTIONS OF JJ VALLYA.THOUGH BENGAL FOUND A LATE ENTRY IN NATIONAL HALL OF FAME,STILL DESIGNERS SUCH AS KIRAN UTTAM SINGH’S KIMONO IS ONE OF THE HIGHEST SELLING BRANDS IN INDIA.AGNIMITRA PAUL CREATIONS FOR LINEN CLUB,HER FILM DESIGNER VARIETIES AND LOCAL SHADES “INGA”(PRET WEAR),THE ETHNIC LINKAGES OF PRITHVIRAJ,RITUPARNO INFERNO,SABYASACHI HAS LIFTED BENGAL FASHION BRANDS.
IN SUCH A CONFLICTING SITUATION ARE WE FORGETTING THE ROOTS?OUR TRADITIONAL KHADI?OUR STITCHING?NIFT OR OTHER INSTITUTES LIKE NIFD MIGHT BE THEN AT A LOSS IN CURRICULUM.GLOBAL PRACTICES DEFINITELY SHOWCASE A GREATER ACCEPTANCE OF RURAL REMIXES WHERE ONLINE SURVEYS AND STATISTICAL DATAS GIVE A POSITIVE SIGNAL.THE BANKURA ART,MURSHIDABAD FABRICS,TRIBAL ARTS OR CHINAMATI OR LALMATI CREATIONS IS STILL A HIT IN TODAYS INTERNATIONAL SCENARIO OF DOMINICO DOLCE AND STEFANO GABBANA.

STING OPERATION

STING STINKS?
Sting sting sting
New in the wing
Redford and newman
Catch a thief
Christening the birth of a wing
Oh sting don’t stink my bed
Investigating the rest
The alchemy be called intrusion
But my job is investigation
To bring the culprit to book
And write about the cook
Might be nocturnal might be virtue might be vice
But tehelka has proved it right
To bring back black to white
and let there be light
in penfight.

DURGA PUJA 2008'

THE GURU OF ADVERTISING

RENDEZVOUS WITH ALYQUE PADAMSEE-------------

BACK IN THE EIGHTIES,THERE WAS A JOKE THAT WAS DOING THE ROUNDS IN ADVERTISING CIRCLES,ALYQUE PADAMSEE,CEO,LINTAS,ALSO KNOWN AS “GOD”,HAD A SCRETARY CALLED JENNY POPE.THE JOKE SAID THAT IN ORDER TO MEET GOD,YOU FIRST NEED TO MEET THE POPE.
OVER THE YEARS,AS I HAVE GOT TO KNOW ALYQUE CLOSELY,I HAVE OFTEN WONDERED WHY HE WAS CALLED GOD.HIS PERSPICACITY,HIS VISION,HIS CREATIVE GENIUS,HIS INIMITABLE ORGANIZATIONAL ABILITIES,HIS UNENDING ENERGY AND HIS UNCANNY OMNIPRESENCE-ANYONE MAN WHO IS ENDOWED WITH ALL THESE QUALITIES CERTAINLY QUALIFIED FOR THE POST OF GOD.HE CAME,HE SAW HE DELIVERED.FROM BEING MY SOUL RACER,GUIDE,PERPETUAL PACE SETTER,ALYQUE HAS INSPIRED,MOTIVATED,SOMETIMES BULLIED BUT ALWAYS ENCOURAGED IN MISSIONS.
HE GAVE 100 PERCENT OF HIMSELF TO ISSUE AT HAND.HE WANDERED AROUND LINTAS IN RUBBER CHAPPALS(WHEN HE HAD A HEEL PROBLEM),EQUALLY AT EASE IN THE CANTEEN AND BOARDROOM,GIVING FREELY OF HIS ADVICE TO ANYONE WHO CARED TO LISTEN.THE SMART ONES NOT JUST LISTENED BUT MADE MENTAL (IN MY CASE WRITTEN) NOTES.HIS ORGANIZATIONAL ABILITIES AMAZED ME.HE ALWAYS CARRIED A LITTLE DICTAPHONE INTO WHICH HE SPOKE ALL THE TIME,MAKING COMMENTS.HE ALSO HAD HIS LITTLE NOTEPAD(WHICH HE CARRIES EVEN NOW)THAT WAS MORE DEADLY AND INFALLIBLE THAN THE MOST COMPLEX ELECTRONIC DIARY.
SOME OF THE FAMOUS ONE LINERS,WHICH HE IS FOND OF QUOTING EVEN TODAY,REMAIN THE BIBLE FOR ANY NUMBER OF BUSINESS ASPIRANTS,CREATIVE FOLK AND PEOPLE IN GENERAL.
“RUNNING AN AGENCY DOESNOT MEAN RUNNING THE SHOW.IT MEANS RUNNING THE PEOPLE WHO RUN THE SHOW.”
THE TRUTH OF THIS LINE HAS BECOME EVEN MORE BLINDING FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC AS ONE REALISES THE CREATIVE AND BUSINESS ANGLES OF LINTAS OVER DECADES.I ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT CREATIVE AND BUSINESS ACUMEN DON’T GO TOGETHER.
HE BROUGHT NEW MEANING TO THE WORD MOTIVATION.HE MOTIVATED IN THE MOST INNOVATIVE WAYS.WHEN LINTAS BECAME TOO LARGE FOR EVERYONE TO MEET EVERYDAY,HE INSTITUTED THE CONCEPT OF “PRAYER MEETINGS”,WHERE EVERYONE GOT TOGETHER AND “BROKE BREAD”.HIS MONDAY MORNING MEETINGS WERE LEGENDARY.HIS SRBS(STRATEGY REVIEW BOARDS) WERE EXACTING,DEMANDING EVERY PERSON INVOLVED TO DO HIS HOMEWORK THOROUGHLY.”WHEN EXECUTION COMES BEFORE STRATEGY,YOU ARE COURTING DISASTER”.HIS CREATIVE REVIEWS SENT HOTSHOT CREATIVE DIRECTORS SCUTTLING FOR COVER,WHILE AT THE SAME TIME BRINGING A JUNIOR OUT OF HIS OR HER SHELL,WITH A SHY,TENTATIVE IDEA GETTING PRIDE OF PLACE IN THE LINTAS HALL OF FLAME.

MONEY MATTERS

MONEY SPEAKS------5 W +1H-----GOLDEN RULES OF JOURNALISM----


1) W---“WHO NEEDS IT”-------DEFINITELY THE VOICELESS SECTION OF THE SOCIETY WHERE GANDHIS THOUGHTS ARE EMBEDDED BUT THE “WONDER PAPER” WHICH OFTEN CREATES MIRACLE IS SELDOM DISBURSED.LETSJOIN HANDS TOGETHER TO FIGHT THIS EVIL…..LET GANDHI FROM “THE INDIAN MONEY PAPER HOLOGRAM” MIGRATE TO THOSE WHO ARE AFFECTED BY FATE.LET JUSTICE PREVAIL.
2) WHAT-------“IN HARDCORE BUSINESS TERMS----AT THE END OF THE DAY MONEY MATTERS----MONEY IS HONEY”OR “THERE IS NO EMOTION ON THE BUSINESS TABLE” SURELY HOLDS TRUE WHERE SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST COUNTS.MONEY IS PROSPERITY….MONEY IS FOOD…...RECOGNITION……..EXPRESSION……BUT MONEY CAN NEVER BUY LOVE.I REMEMBER A LONG TIME BACK AD OF A RENOWNED MNC BANK “MONEY CANT BUY LOVE REST WE CARE….”THIS SURELY HOLDS TRUE WHERE GANDHI IS OFTEN A TOY AT THE HANDS OF LUXURY.BUT TODAYS PROFESSIONAL WORLD SURELY DEMANDS MONEY TO BE GOD…..BUT THAT SHOULD DEFINITELY NOT BE AN INSPIRATION BUT A FEELING TO TOUCH THE HEART OF THE SOCIETY.
3) WHERE------IN OUR COUNTRY GANDHI HAS ALWAYS BEEN EXPLOITED……EVERYSYSTEM HAS FAILED….BUT THE SYSTEM MUST NOW MAKE WAY FOR BETTERMENT OF THE MASS….OTHERWISE MONEY WILL NOT BE EQUALLY CIRCULATED….NET RESULT….. “THE RICH BECOMES MORE RICHER…THE POOR MORE POORER”.THE FATHER OF THE NATION SHOULD BE GIVEN AUTHORITY TO MIGRATE FROM A FEW LUCKY ONES POCKET TO THE MASS.THEN ONLY THE HOLOGRAM WILL BE RESPECTED.
4) WHEN------MONEY CAN ONLY MIGRATE WHEN POLICYMAKERS AND PUBLIC-PVT INSTITUTIONS WORK CLOSELY WITH PEOPLE.LEAVING ASIDE SELFISH MEANS TO BURN POVERTY WE SHOULD JOIN HANDS TO FIGHT THE EVIL OF CONSOLIDATION OF MONEY.THE GOVERNMENT AND ITS VARIOUS FRAMEWORK SHOULD BE MORE PEOPLE FRIENDLY.THEN THE TRUE SENSE OF CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY WILL LET MONEY SPEAK TRULY.
5) WHY------OFCOURSE FOR,BY,OF THE PEOPLE……MONEY SHOULD BE CHANNELISED TO NOT ONLY POVERTY BUT EQUALLY SO THAT THE SENSE OF UNITY PREVAILS.AND PEOPLE BE GIVEN MORE RESPONSIBILITY TO ADDRESS TO THE NEEDS OF THE AFFECTED.THEN ONLY THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE OF INDIA WILL BE READ AND GANDHI FROM A MERE HOLOGRAM WILL STAND IN EVERY SOUL OF INDIA.
6) HOW-----OBVIOUSLY PEOPLE 2 PEOPLE COMMUNICATION….POWER EQUALLY SHARED….POLICIES CAN PLAY A DEFINITE ROLE IN TOUCHING THE LIVES OF PEOPLE…..NOT ONLY QUANTITY…..BY QUALITY…….MONEY SPEAKS LOUD…..LETS FEEL THE ESSENCE OF MONEY…..TO BRING SENSE TO THOUSANDS OF LIVES IN INDIA.THEN ONLY “INDIA IS SHINING”WILL HOLD TRUE….AND “MONEY” WILL SPEAK LOUDER “SATYAMEVA JAYATE”.