Thursday, October 30, 2008
















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.

Sunday, October 26, 2008

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.

Monday, October 20, 2008

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


Sunday, October 19, 2008

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"


Friday, October 17, 2008

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.

Monday, October 13, 2008















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”.

MOCKING BIRD

SHOOTING THROUGH SOUL
" WHO KILLED MY MIRROR BIRD?"


On a sumber evening was a call from a distant buddy ,up went the receiver like a shot in the heart."Oh Nagesh" and history was rewritten. A sweet gal was to become the changing face of history probably a "Jodha akbar" when Imran met Tina.the first few weeks were the ups and down the bar chart of emotions when cupid struck and life was never the same again. what followed was a hidden phase of rainbows lurked with desire, lies and videotape. The journey was a sea of uneasy murkiness as life progressed building wings of desire and breaking all the sectorials of life.meanwhile" love was all life went missing" and the obvious was to follow suit..........."love dried dead at the feat of life".the return to innocence was not the same again when love:life broke away from life when life took the front seat."Love was always lingering to fly but soul was dying when years passed.the sweet memories of past was the only resting nest where the memories of past were woven,life became a devil and there was no more love.a fight between life and love was on the anvil when imran met life again.............this time as a fashion photographer and critic in a uptown daily.but memories were climbing high up the lacunae when life became too demanding and love was taking a front seat again.the sense of beauty,personification,imagination drove down the countryside and wordsworth was born again in the hearts of imran."Hi said his grey" and memories migrated to beauties of nature.the image of oneness with nature was lost and life and love got mingled.Imran chanced upon many uprising celebrities as his profession demands and his memories tingled him to the murkier world of lies,deaths and betrayal.lonely nights gazing into the sky imran was trying to breakaway from the handcuff and welcome love but memories made him a vagabond .He soon realised his past and love was never the same again.meanwhile his memory met Rima,a suave city girl.he tried to rest his wounded soul into the proximity of unknown world...as he was always cuyrious of.but life had already taken a reserved seat in his journey of life.Imran bore a devilish lover image and went on shooting and penning down memoirs of life and tragedy.soul and heart were now interlinked and matured memories of past got carried away.

..........AND THE SONG WAS NEVER THE SAME AGAIN.....................AND SOUL GAVE HEART A HISTORY.......

Imran won the coveted “Special Lifestyle India Fashion Week " award for fashion photography.

SCARLETT KEELING

WHY THE LAND OF SUN ,SAND AND RHYTHM OF THE SOUL GOING SCARLETT-------- SCARLETT KEELING AFFAIRS------IN GOA AND BEYOND---------------
-----‘WHO STOLE FEMINISM? HOW WOMEN HAVE BETRAYED WOMEN.’ CHRISTINA HOFF SOMMERS, SOCIAL FEMINIST, ACTIVIST.
THE JOURNEY OF SCARLETT IS ITSELF MURRED BY THE BLACKS AND WHITES OF LIFE.IF WE GO DEEP INTO THE PHILOSOPHIES OF THE GIRLS LIFE, HER ROOTS PORTRAY IGNORANCE ,DECEIT, BETRAYAL AND ABUSE .HER LIFE ITSELF PORTRAYS A DEFINITE PICTURE OF INSIGNIFICANT PARENTHOOD AND DILEMMA OF LIFE.LIFE HAS ITSELF KILLED THE MORALESOF THE GAL FROM HER CHILDHOOD, MAYBE SHE, MAYBE HER FATE, IT’S A JOURNEY OF ETERNALMISTAKE WHERE THE BLAME HANGS BLINDFOLDED. IF WE PROPERLY ANALYSE HER ROOTS WE CAN DEFINITELY CONCLUDE THAT HER ROOTS GOES AGAINST HER MORAL PROGRESS IN LIFE.MAYBE THE CULTURAL EFFECT, MAYBE INHERITENCE OF LOSS, SHE PORTRAYS A WOMANS JOURNEY FROM IGNORANCE TO ULTIMATE FREEDOM.“ WAQT AUR TAQDIR NE CHOR GAYA NISHAN “IF WE ANALYSE THE INCIDENT ON A INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE,IT DEFINITELY PORTRAYTS SOME DEFICIT IN GLOBAL POLICIES AND PRACTICES------“ BLURRED GENRES,THE PRICE OF LIBERALIZATION”.1) PROPER FRAMEWORK OF INTERNATIONAL TOURISM.2) NEGATIVE CROSS BORDER CULTURAL INFILTRATION.3) SOCIAL ILLS .4) CROSS BORDER TOURIST ADAPTATIONS.
ONE THING SURELY HITS THE MIND IS “WHY FIONA MACKEOWN AND HER PARTNER THOUGHT OF TAKING SEVEN KIDS ON A 6 MONTH “DREAM TRIP” TO INDIA-AND THEN LEFT ONE OF THEM TO FEND FOR HERSELF? WHY WASN’T SCARLETT IN SCHOOL STUDYING FOR HER GCSES? “
THE JOURNEY OF THE FAMILY TO INDIA NOT ONLY SKETCHES THE UNDERLYING MALICES OF WESTERN CULTURE BUT ALSO PORTRAYS “ HOW WOMEN STILL IN TODAYS GLOBAL CONTEXT ARE STILL NOT TRULY CHAMPIONED.”IS THIS THE FREEDOM OF WOMAN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT? THEN ITS FREEDOM WITH CHAINS AROUND THE HEART. POINTING TO THE FACTS THAT MISS MCKEOWN LEFT THE YOUNG BRITISH GIRL OF 15 YRS OLD TO EXPLORE THE UNKNOWN FRAGRANCES OF GOA WHILE THE REST OF THE FAMILY WAS TRAVELLING IN THE NEIGHBOURING STATE OF KARNATAKA IS INDEED A LOOPHOLE IN PARENTHOOD.
IT IS MY IMPRESSION THAT MOST PEOPLE SEEMED TO ACCEPT THE MURDER AS INEVITABLE—MANY SAID THAT SHE SHOULD HAVE HAD ENOUGH SENSE TO BE WARY OF SUCH CHARACTERS.OTHERS WENT TO THE EXTENT OF ATTEMPTING TO CHARGE FIONA MCKEOWN ,SCARLETTS MOTHER OF CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE.THE POLICE COVER UP IS NOT THAT SHOCKING IN COUNTRY RIDDEN WITH CORRUPT AND LAZY COPS.SO,WHY WAS THE KEELING CASE SO FASCINATING?WHY DID IT HAVE THAT STRANGE FEELING OF BEING FAMILIAR AND DISTANT AT THE SAME TIME?
I BELIEVE THIS HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE SPECIAL PLACE GOA OCCUPIES IN THE PUBLIC IMAGINATION-A LAND WHERE DELICIOUS AND HORRENDOUS THINGS HAPPEN GOA’S CONSTRUCTED ‘OTHERNESS’ IS,IN MANY WAYS,SIMILAR TO BOLLYWOODS ‘FANTASY WORLD’. IT IS THE PLACE WHERE WE GO TO INDULGE OUR ‘OTHER HALF’---THE HALF THAT SEEMS TO ENJOY SEX AND IS NOT NECESSARILY BOUND BY ‘TRADITIONAL INDIAN VALUES’. HOW DOES THE SCARLETT KEELING CASE FIT INTO ALL THIS? I BELIEVE THAT THE CASE IS VERY SIMILAR TO A RAKHI SAWANT CONTROVERSY.WHEN IT HAPPENS,IT IS ALL OVER THE NEWS.SUDDENLY,WE ARE FORCED TO FACE THE DANGER OF THE LICENTIOUSNESS THAT IS LATENT IN OUR QUOTIDIAN HABITS OF INDULGING IN FANTASY WORLDS. WE CONDEMN THE LICENTIOUSNESS OF THE MOMENT AND THEN FORGET ABOUT IT.SUCH THINGS ARE NECESSARY,EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE,TO REMIND US THAT WE DON’T TOLERATE ‘ BAD BEHAVIOR’,THAT THIS KIND OF BEHAVIOR HAPPENS TO EXIST ONLY IN OUR FANTASY WORLDS.
“ DARE TO THINK BEYOND?’---------CONSIDER SOME BARE FACTS------------
1) A MOTHER AND HER PARTNER TAKES SIX OF HER NINE CHILDREN OUT OF THE UK FOR 6 MONTHS TO INDULGE IN A HOLIDAY IN GOA( APPARENTLY THEY WERE BEING HOME EDUCATED BY MS MACKEOWN,’APART FROM SCARLETT WHO WAS FROM COLLEGE).
“HERB IS THE HEALING OF A NATION, ALCOHOL IS THE DESTRUCTION”.--------------BOB MARLEY.
2) THE 15YRS OLD IS ALLOWED TO DRINK IN THE BEACH BARS UNTIL THE EARLY HOURS (SHE WAS IN THE BAR AT 4 AM ON THE FINAL DAY OF HER LIFE), DESPITE IT BEING ILLEGAL(UNDER 18 CONSUMPTION OF ALCOHOL IS ILLEGAL NOT ONLY IN ABROAD BUT ALSO IN INDIA.3) SHE IS LEFT ON HER OWN BY ‘ THE FAMILY’ , WHO GO TO ANOTHER PART OF INDIA WITHOUT HER (AGAIN, ‘HOME ALONE’ PARENTS HAVE BEEN PROSECUTED IN THE UK WITHIN THE LAST 10 MONTHS.4) THE BEHAVIORAL PHASE OF SCARLETT IN GOATO EXPLORE SUN AND SAND IS QUESTIONABLE.THE HABITS AND RITUALS OF ONESELF PRACTICED IN ONES OWN LAND MAY NOT BE ACCEPTABLE IN A DISTANT TOURIST LOCATION.THIS SURELY WAS DEFICIT IN SCARLETTS BEHAVIOR.“ THINK GLOBAL ACT LOCAL”SURELY PORTRAYS A POSITIVE FACT.5) THE WITNESS,WHO ASKED NOT TO BE IDENTIFIED SAID THAT THE ATTACK TOOK PLACE AFTER SCARLETT LEFT LUI’S BAR ON ANJUMA BEACH HIGH ON A LSD,ECTASY AND COCAINE AT 5 AM ON FEB 18. CONSIDERING THE WITNESS FACTS SCARLETTS BEHAVIOR IN A FOREIGN LAND WITH ILLEGAL DRUGS IS CONDEMNABLE.
6) DAIRY REVELATIONS---- SCARLETT BEGINS HER DIARY AS THE FAMILY PREPARE FOR A 6 MONTH TRIP OF A LIFE TIME TO INDIA AND ENDS SHORTLY BEFORE HER DEATH WITH THE WORDS
“ I AM STUK(SIC)” AND “I WANT TO GO HOME” SHE TALKS OF TAKING HALLUCINOGENIC DRUGS AND HAVING SEX IN BRITAIN AND WITH SOMEONE SHE MET IN GOA.SCARLETTS DIARY SURELY PORTRAYS HER AFFINITY TOWARDS SEX,DRUGS,MUSIC THAT TOO AT A TEENAGE.THE DIARY REVELATION SURELY HIGHLIGHTS A WRONG PAST AND A RISKY FUTURE.7) FIONA MACKEOWN,43 WAS SENTENCED IN 1983 FOR MURDERING A MAN.SHE WAS CHARGED WITH “SERIOUS WOUNDING” AND SERVED ONE YEAR OF A 3 YR SENTENCE.HER REVELATIONS SURELY PORTRAYS HER WRONG PAST.MISS MACKEOWN,A MOTHER OF 9 CHILDREN BY 4 FATHERS,HAS ALSO BEEN VILLIFIED FOR HER”IRRESPONSIBLE DECISION TO LEAVE SCARLETT WITH JULIO LOBO,A TOUR GUIDE,DURING THEIR SIX MONTH HOLIDAY.“THE HORRORS OF PAST CAN SOMETIMES BE A MIRROR TO YOUR FUTURE.”
8) THE COP AFFAIRS AND MEDICAL REPORTS AS ALSO POLITICAL STATEMENTS THOUGH MAY NOT CLEARLY BE THE SOLE AFFIDAVIT IN BRINGING THE TRUE SENSE OF JUSTICE IN A DEMOCRATIC PARAMETER LIKE INDIA BUT PROPER INDEPTH ANALYSIS OF FACTS ABOUT “ GOA’S HIP-HOP CULTURE” AND A FOREIGN TOURISTS IMMATURE PAST MIXED UP WITH IMMATURE ACTIONS TRULY FREED FROM PARENTAL INSTRUCTIONS IN A FOREIGN LAND MAY SURELY QUESTION THE “TRUE ROLE OF GOA IN HER MURDER”.AS PER ALL VIEWS,THE MIXED UP SENSE PREVAILS WHERE GOA STILL REMAINS AS A LAND WHERE MYSTERY AND FREEDOM OF THOUGHTS PREVAIL WHEREAS SCARLETTS ACTIONS ARE OFTEN A CRIMINAL PROVOCATIVE ONE JUST AS A BOLLYWOOD “ITEMGIRL” FLICK.ONE SURELY CANNOTDEAL IN A WAY HE OR SHE PRACTICES IN THEIR OWN LAND WHEN YOU ARE IN A DISTANT TOURIST VENUE.
“MODERN TECHNOLOGY OWES ECOLOGY AN APOLOGY”.9) “THE GROWTH OF THE MAFIA IN THE US HAS BEEN TRACED TO PROHIBITION”.WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU BAN SOMETHING THAT HAS A HIGH DEMAND?THE UNDERWORLD GETS IN,ILLEGAL FINDS ITS WAY AND ULTIMATELY “CRIME”.
IF WE TAKE NETHERLANDS AS AN EXAMPLE,WHERE DRUGS ARE LEGAL AND CANNABIS IS PURCHASED MAINLY IN COFFEE SHOPS THEY HAVE THE LOWEST RATE OF DRUG RELATED DEATH PER MILLION IN EUROPE.
WHILE OUR COPS ARE BUSY BUSTING “BETTING RACKETS” AND “DENS OF VICE” AND“RAVE PARTIES”,DO NOTE THAT I AM NOT ENDORSING EITHER GAMBLING OR PROSTITUTION OR DRUG USE.I AM SIMPLY SPEAKING OUT FOR INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM,AND POINTING OUT THAT THE COSTS OF DENYING SUCH FREEDOM ARE GENERALLY GREATER THAN ANY INTENDED BENEFITS.“ADAPTABILITY IS NOT IMITATION.IT MEANS POWER OF RESISTENCE AND ASSIMILATION”—MAHATMA GANDHI. ON ONE HAND THESE ARE ‘GOOD’ SIGNS OF AN AMERICAN OBSESSION WITH AN INDIVIDUAL RIGHT TO THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS,WHERE WE FIND ‘ALTERNATIVE’ LIFE MEDIA LIKE DEODORANT ADVERTISEMENTS THAT PROMISE THE ATTENTION OF FAWNING WOMEN,ON THE OTHER HAND,THESE SIGNS ALSO POINT TO THE FACT THAT AVOID THE REALITY,THAT MUCH CONTESTED CONCEPT,WHERE PEOPLE ARE BRUTALLY RAPED AND MURDERED,WOMEN CONTINUE TO BE OBJECTIFIED,AND ALL OUR CONDEMNATION OF SUCH “BAD THINGS” ONLY SERVE TO STRENGTHEN OUR DESIRE FOR DELICIOUS FANTASIES,AND STATUS QUO.
“IF PARTICULAR CARE AND ATTENTION IS NOT PAID TO THE LADIES,WE ARE DETERMINED TO FOMENT A REBELLION ,AND WILL NOT HOLD OURSELVES BOUND BY ANY LAWS IN WHICH WE HAVE NO VOICE OR REPRESENTATION.”------------ABIGAIL ADAMS.WE NEED INTERRUPTIONS IN THIS SMOOTH,GLOSSY WORLD OF HYPER-SCHIZOPHRENIA-NOT INTERMISSIONS.WE NEED A POPULACE THAT UNDERSTANDS ‘THE WILLING SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF’IN THE THEATRE OF OUR LIVES,AND NOT ONE THAT SHIES AWAY FROM THE MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER LIKE EXISTENCE THAT IS INDIA TODAY.
“IS THIS TRULY DEVELOPMENT? ARE WE LIBERALISED?ARE OUR HUMAN RIGHTS PROPERLY ANSWERED?IS INDIA SHINING?”
I THINK PROPER ANALYSIS OF DATA GIVES A NEGATIVE NOD,STILL IN TODAYS GLOBALISED ARENA,DRUG TRAFFICKING,PROSTITUTION,RAPE,CHILD ABUSE,IS A SERIOUS THREAT AND CAN BE COUNTED AS A “GLOBAL TERRORISM”---A WORLD WAR LIKE CHALLENGE WHICH IF NOT PROPERLY ADDRESSED MAY SEE MANY INNOCENT BUT WRONGED BY FATE SCARLETTS DIEING YOUNG.HERE,INDIA OR GOA HAS LITTLE TO SAY AS GLOBAL TERRORISM OF ILLEGAL MOBILITY PARALYSES EVEN GANDHIS SCHOOL OF THOUGHT.
“IF GOD HAD BEEN A LIBERAL,WE WOULDN’T HAVE HAD THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.WE DID HAVE HAD THE TEN SUGGESTIONS.”
-------CHRISTOPHER BIGSBY AND MALCOLM BRADBURY.
FACTS AND FIGURES------
1) SCARLETTS DEATH ON FEB 18.2) SECOND POST MORTEM ON SCARLETT KEELING.3) THREE DETAINED OVER SCARLETT KEELING MURDER.4) SCARLETTS FAMILY DEMANDS CBI PROBE.5) SCARLETTS MOTHER ALLEGES POLICE-POLITICIAN DRUG MAFIA NEXUS.6) SAMSON D’SOUZA IN COURT –CONVICT OF MURDER.7) DIARY GIVES CLUE ON SCARLETTS LIFE(SEX,DRUG,MUSIC).8) SCARLETTS BODY RETURNED TO UK FROM GOA.9) BOLLYWOOD DIRECTOR PRABHAKAR SHUKLA PLANS MOVIE STARRING KATRINA KAIF BASED ON THE INCIDENT.10) PLACIDO CARVALHO,36,SAMSON’DSOUZA,28,BARMAN CONVICTED.
“IF YOU ARE NEUTRAL IN SITUATIONS OF INJUSTICE YOU HAVE CHOOSEN THE SIDE OF THE OPPRESSOR.IF AN ELEPHANT HAS ITS FOOT ON THE TAIL OF A MOUSE AND YOU SAY YOU ARE NEUTRAL,THE MOUSE WILL NOT ACCEPT YOUR NEUTRALITY.----------------DESMOND TUTU, NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 1984 WINNER.

PUFF DADDY

HOLY SMOKE………..ONE PUFF TO LIBERTY……..

“CAN I HAVE A PUFF?” SMOKING IS A GLOBAL PHENOMENON WHICH SURELY BREAKS THE BARRIER OF THE RICH AND THE POOR.ITS SURELY A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF THE THOUGHTS OF KENICHI OHMAE AS PORTRAYED IN HIS FAMOUS BOOK “BORDERLESS WORLD”.IT CROSSES THE DOMAIN OF SEX,RELIGION,LOCATION.FROM THE ANCIENT TIMES TILL DATE SOCIETAL PYRAMID HAS BOWED DOWN TO SMOKING .BUT WHY?MANY SAY THE NICOTINE KICKS HARD….SOME SAY ITS STATUS QUO…..SOME SAY ITZ A STRESS RELIEVER…SOME SAY IT’S THE OPTION FOR BEATING SLEEP……DO YOU COMPLY?EXPERTS SAY SMOKING THOUGH IF SURELY COMPLIES WITH FEWER OF THE ABOVE SURELY IS HOLY TO THE SOUL OF THE POOR THOUGHTS WHO WELCOME MANY CRITICAL AILMENTS ,THUS IS DISEASES HOLY BIBLE.VISUALISE UP THE HILL SAINTS SMOKING RAW TOBACCO TO THE CORPORATE ENIGMA SMOKING AWAY HAPPILY ON “MARLBORO” TO THE POWER HOUSES OF THE COUNTRY.SUCH A NOTION PENETRATES DEEP INTO THE SOCIETY WHERE UNDEREDGE SMOKING IS OFTEN EXPLOITED AND GOVT NOTICES OF RESTRICTION FAILS.IN SUCH CIRCUMSTANCES THE STATUTARY WARNING “CIGARETTE SMOKING IS INJURIOUS TO HEALTH” LEAVES A PALE FACE.ADDING TO THE SAME,THE CROSS BORDER INFILTRATION OF CHEAPER BRANDS HAS ESCALATED THE MENACE BY THE DISTRIBUTION OF IMPURE FORM OF TOBACCO.CAN ONE BELIEVE A LARGE CHUNCK OF GOVT REVENUE IS ABSORBED FROM CIGARETTE INDUSTRY?FACT IS HEALTH IS BEING COMPROMISED FOR PUBLIC WEALTH.THOUGH NICOTINE IN FILTERED VARIETIES AND ANTI NICOTINE BRANDS HAS BEEN TESTED BUT THE ESSENCE OF PURE TOBACCO STILL KICKS “ROCK ND ROLL” IN THE MINDS OF MANY .NOT ONLY THAT SMOKING HAS AGGRAVATED THE DIALECT OF OTHER ADDICTION BY FOSTERING ALCOHOL,DRUGS,AND OTHER PSYCHOTROPHIC DRUGS.
ITS SURELY A DIFFICULT PHENOMENON TO AVOID THE HOLY PUFF BUT PEOPLE SHOULD REALISE THE FACT OF ITS EFFECTS.THAT IS POSSIBLE WHEN PROPER HIGHLIGHTS OF SMOKING IS CHANNELISED AND RESTRICTIVE SMOKING IS HONOURED .ANY FORM OF ADDICTION IS A PENETRATION WHICH IS KILLING.SO PEOPLE AWARENESS AND ALTERNATIVE SHOULD BE APPLIED.BUT NOWADAYS PEOPLE ARE MORE AWARE ,THANX TO GOVT AWARENESS AS THE NOTION OF A FILMY HERO SMOKING AWAY HAS FAILED TO LEAVE FOOTPRINTS.MORE PROACTIVE STEPS NEED TO BE ENACTED TO MAKE SMOKING A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE.OTHERWISE THE HOLY SMOKE MAY BRING IN CARCINOGENIC MENACES TO SOCIETY.

CREATIVITY

IS RELATING UNRELATED THINKS CREATIVITY -----------A SECOND THOUGHT……….

THE STATUE OF LIBERTY,THE EIFFEL TOWER,THE TAJ MAHAL…….ALL OF THEM WERE CREATED TWICE.YES,TWICE---FOR THE FIRST TIME,IN THE MINDS OF MEN WHO CREATED THEM.
IDEAS,IMAGINATION ARE THE PASSIONATE BELIEVES CERTAINLY HUMAN NATURE EMBOLISHES TO MANIFEST CREATIVITY.SO WHAT WAS THE DRIVING FORCE TO CREATE,INNOVATE THAT NEVER EXISTED?PASSION IS SURELY ONE OF THE THINGS BUT HUMAN CONVICTIONS AND TRUST IN IDEAS ARE CERTAINLY ONE OF THE PREREQUISITES TO FOSTERED CREATIVITY.
IF WE WERE TO DEFINE CREATIVITY,MERE BOOKISH DOMAIN WOULD CORRUPT THE ESSENCE OF CREATION.THE WORLD ITSELF IS A RESOURCE TO INNOVATIVE CREATION WHERE PHYSICAL ACTIONS AND SPONTANEITY OF THOUGHTS ARE SELDOM LINKED TO THE RIVER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.”LET THE THOUGHT PROCESS FLOW LIKE A RIVER” INTO THE “RESOURCES OF THE EARTH”.PHYSICAL ACTIONS,MANIFESTATIONS,DISCIPLINE AND ONENESS WITH NATURE IS ESSENTIAL TO CREATIVE WORK.
LET US LOOK AT OUR OWN COMMON MAN----R K LAXMAN….”YOU SAID IT” DEFINITELY VENTS OUT THE FEELINGS OF THE DAILY INDIAN REACTION TO GOVERANCE.THEN”IS HE A HERO”…A UNSUNG HERO.”HOW HE IS AN ICON IN THE WORLD OF SATIRE AND CARICATURES?IS HE A POPULAR FIGURE IN THE SOCIETY?” NO.”WAS HE A FAMOUS CARTOON CHARACTER WHEN LAXMAN ADOPTED HIM?NO.THE SECRET LIES IN HIS ABILITY TO RELATE THE BASICS OF THE SOCIETY-THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE IN A LUCID HUMAN FORM TO LET THE DAILY READER RELATE TO.IN THIS PURSUIT HE CREATED ONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED CARTOON SERIES IN THE WORLD.
WHY DID PRINCESS DI COMPARE HER LIFE TO THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYSTEM?
HOW DO YOU MAKE A CONDOM SEXY?
WHY DID THE EMPEROR LOSE HIS CLOTHES IN THE PLAY TUGHLAQ?
CAN A TRAMP BE A PERFECT GENTLEMAN?
HOW DID A HOUSE AGENCY BECOME A CREATIVE HOTBED?
HOW CAN CORPORATES PUT BACK INTO SOCIETY A LITTLE OF WHAT THEY TAKE OUT FROM IT?
CAN YOU FIND THE COMMON THREAD IN IT?
YEA ITS OUR OWN AD GURU----ALYQUE PADAMSEE…WHO IS A LIVING LEGEND TAKING YOU BACK BEHIND THE CURTAINS OF THEATRE AND ADVERTISING.WITH PRODUCTIONS LIKE EVITA AND JESUS CHRIST THE MAN CREATED SOME OF THE WONDERS OF THE AD INDUSTRYFROM THE LIRIL GAL TO LALITAJI IN SURF….HIS PASSION FOR THINKING ON STAGE PRODUCED AN IRE IN “KAMASUTRA”…..TO HIS WHITENING STRIKES OF RIN…..WHICH TRESSPASSED INTO THE CHERRY CHARLIE ERA OF CHERRY BLOSSOM SHOE POLISH.HE IS A WONDER WHEN CREATIVITY THROUGH UNRELATED THINGS IS IN FOCUS…….HE PUT HIS THEATRICAL INSIGHTS,BEAUTIFICATION OF SEX,FAMILY VALUES,AND ART OF ZEN TO PRODUCE ONE OF THE WORLDS MOST CHALLENGED ADVERTISING CREATIONS.AGAIN COMES THE QUESTION OF RELATIVITY?THE ROOT OF ALL ACTIONS IS THINKING DIFFERENT……..NOT ONLY IN ACTIONS BUT IMAGINATION.THE MOST APT EXAMPLE WOULD BE THAT OF TURTLE”A LITTLE DEEPER”WHERE A MAN PLAYS A GUITER WHILE SMALL CHILDREN IS PORTRAYED LISTENING TO THE SONG.HOW DOES CREATIVITY REPRODUCE HERE?ITS A STRONG HUMAN MESSAGE TO SOCIETAL UPLIFTMENT.FROM THE HINDUSTAN THOMSON ASSOCIATES CLOSE UP AD TO REDIFFUSION DY &R COLGATE DENTAL CREAM AD TO ANUP CHITNIS AND RENSIL D SILVAS CHANNEL (V) OLD COUPLE THE LINKAGE OF UNRELATED THINGS TO CLOSE PROXIMITY WITH CHANGING FACETS OF NEWS HAS TIME AGAIN BEEN THE FOCUS.MC CANN ERIKSSON INDIAS AWARD WINNING AD ANDHRA PRADESH GOVT IS NOTEWORTHY OF BRINGING THE HUMAN FACTOR INTO PROMOTION OF REGION.OGILVY AND MATHERS CANCER PATIENTS AID ASSOCIATION(THE JOURNEY) IS ANOTHER NOTEWORTHY EXAMPLE OF RELATING DIFFERENT THINGS TO PRODUCE DIFFERENT EFFECTS.THE PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN SAW FAMILIAR PERSONALITIES HIGHLIGHTING THE CAUSE AS WAS THE POLIO ERADICATION AD WHICH USED THE IMAGINARY ,YET FAMILIAR CHARACTER OF BIG B TO BECOME A ROARING SUCCESS.
Beatrix Potter:
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

HERE THE CREATIVITY IS A LEARNING PROCESS WHERE HE HIMSELKF IS THE CREATOR AND PUPIL,LEARNING FROM THE ENVIRONMENT,SOCIETY,EVERYDAY HAPPENINGS WHICH TAKE THE FORM OF FEELINGS AND ULTIMATELY VENT TO CREATION.
HAVING SAID THAT,A SECOND THOUGHT IS PROVOKED WHERE THE NATURAL TENDENCIES ARE SUPPRESSED AND INNOVATIVE DIMENSIONS OF THOUGHTS AND IDEAS ARE PRESENTED IN A COURAGEOUS FORMAT.FOR EXAMPLE,POETS USE WORDS TO EXPRESS THEIR THOUGHTS .ARTISTS USE COLORS TO PRODUCE SHADES OF SUPERFICIAL IMAGE.
V. S. Naipaul-----
I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.






SEXUALITY IN VARIOUS DOMAINS.........

SEXUALITY IN VARIOUS DOMAINS----METROSEXUAL---A STUDY

“METRO” A CULMINATION OF CROSS POLINATED CULTURES WHERE EVERYDAY HUSTLE AND BUSTLE SHIFTS A PERSON FROM HIS OR HERS BASIC HUMAN FEATURES TO A PROFESSIONAL MACHINE VERY SIMILAR TO ORTHODOX JAPANESE “ROBOTIC” CREATION.THE ADVERSE EFFECTS ARE SELDOM A BOON AND ARE THE ROOT CAUSES OF MOST CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES.THOUGH PROFESSIONAL OUTLOOK IS A NECESSITY FOR SURVIVAL IN A HUGELY COMPETITIVE MARKET BUT CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY SHOULDN’T BE LIMITED TO ONLY CORPORATE GROWTH BUT ALSO BE MANIFESTED IN HUMAN CAPITAL GROWTH.IN THE USA STRONG HUMAN RESOURCE POLICIES AND GUBERNATORIAL DECISIONS HAVE BEEN A BOON AND TIME IMMORABLE HAS PUSHED ITS GROWTH TO A SKYS LIMIT.EVEN JAPANS RAPID ECONOMIC GROWTH DURING THE LAST DECADE HAS BROUGHT HER IN THE WORLDS GREATEST INDUSTRIAL COUNTIRES.”JAPAN” IF TAKEN AS A ROLE MODEL WE FIND SUCH A SMALL NATION CREATING A STIR AND MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN HUMAN LIVES THROUGH PROPER ECONOMIC PLANNING, INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS,EDUCATION AND TRAINING.AS EMPHASIZED BY THE NOTED KENICHI OHMAE IN HIS BOOK “BORDERLESSWORLD” NOT ONLY CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY SHOULD TOUCH THE GROWTH OF HUMAN ECONOMICS BUT PROPER AWARENESS SHOULD BRING ABOUT TOTAL UPLIFTMENT OF HUMAN LIVES.SPEAKING ABOUT SEXUAL ORIENTATION METROSEXUALITY IS A BORDERLESS DOMAIN WHERE MANY FACETS OF SEXUALITY IS DEALT WITH.IN A COUNTRY LIKE INDIA SEXUALITY IS A SUPPRESSED NOTION WHERE CONSERVATIVE BEND OF MIND HAS DEMORALISED THE VERY ART OF LOVE MAKING.WRITERS SUCH AS SOBHA DE AND KHUSHWANT SINGH HAS TIME AGAIN STRESSED ON THE NEED OF PROPER SCIETIFIC BASED EDUCATION ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION WHERE “MURRAY RADIO” MAY BE A BOON SOMETIMES IN THE ERADICATION OF SEXUAL ABUSES AND SEXUAL HARRASSMENT.SUCH AN SACRED MAKING OF LOVE HAS BEEN PORTRAYED BY SALMAN RUSHDIE WHO CONCEPTUALIZES LOVE MAKING THROUGH NATURAL INFLICTIONS OF WRITING.WHEN I AM SPEAKING OF SEXUALITY I SPEAK OF A COMPLETE FREEDOM OF THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS….LET AN INDIVIDUAL CHOOSE HIS OWN RIGHTS.WHEN WE CAN SPEAK OF BY THE PEOPLE,OF THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE WHY NOT THE SAME CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS IN SEXUAL DOMAINS?WHY IS THERE SO MUCH THROAT SLASHING IN SEXUALITY?JUST TO ENHANCE ABUSES?OR IS IT THE FEAR FACTOR OF GETTING SLASHED OUT OF THE SOCIETY?BUSH’S WHITE HOUSE MAY BE AT WAR WITH IRAQ WHICH IS CONTROVERSIAL BUT ITS SEXUAL POLICIES IN ITS CONTEXT ARE SOMETIMES PRAISEWORTHY.IN COUNTRIES SUCH AS NETHERLANDS WHERE ACCEPTANCE OF HOMOSEXUALITY IS STILL IN A NASCENT PHASE HOMOSEXUALITY IN AN ECLIPSED PHASE MAY ALSO CREATE A RUCKUS AND PRODUCE NEGATIVE GROWTH RATE IN THE ABOLISHMENT OF SEXUAL CRIME.IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES BIBLICAL “SIN” MAY BE A THEORITICAL ASPECT BUT ITS PROPER AWARENESS MAY EVEN BRING SMILE IN THE FACE OF JESUS CHRIST.TAKING FOR EXAMPLE THE STRONG KORAN LAWS ,WHERE MALE DOMINATION HAS CREATED ANOTHER WAR IN AFGHANISTHAN IN THE FORM OF BURKAH….ONE MUST MOVE BEYOND KORAN TO ESTABLISH LEGITIMATE COPULATIONS AND SEXUAL FREEDOM.IN A DEVELOPING NATION LIKE INDIA WHERE CONSERVATIVE UPRISING MAY HAVE INSTILLED VALUES OF LIFE ,SEXUAL AWARENESS IS STILL IN NASCENT STAGE.PARENTS ARE THE TORCH BEARERS OF AWARENESS AND GUBERNATORIAL POLICIES SHOULD BE MORE FOCUSSED ON PROPER TRAINING OF THE SAME FROM THE GRASSROOT LEVEL.IN CORPORATE HIARARCHY WE ENCOUNTER MANY SO CALLED ABONORMALITIES OF SOCIETY AND OFTEN WE SHED OUR TEARS FOR THE VICTIMS OF SEXUAL CRIMES PARTICULARLY IN BPO SECTORS WHERE WOMEN IN PARTICULAR ARE THE SOFT TARGETS.IN USA STRONG HR POLICIES HAVE REDUCED THE LABOUR PRESSURES SO WHY CANT WE?HERE MONEY SPEAKS AND UNDERAGE VICTIMS FIND THEIR WAY.WHEN CITIZEN SHOULD BE A PUPIL,HE OR SHE IS MOTIVATED BY SOFT MONEY AND THEY FALL TO CRIME.SUCH PRACTICES ARE THE DARK FACES OF A NATION WHERE EDUCATION SHOULD BE A PRIME CHALLENGE.SEXUAL BARRIERS NOT ONLY ABUSES THE SPIRIT OF A NATION BUT IT PARALYSES ITS CULTURAL HERITAGE ,CITING AN EXAMPLE IS THE RECENT RAPE CASES OF FOREIGN TOURISTS IN AND AROUND THE COUNTRY WHERE “SCARLETT KEELING” AND MANY MINOR RAPE CASES HAS EXPOSED THE COUNTRYS LOOPHOLES IN DEALING WITH SEXUAL CRIMES.EVEN “RAKHSHAK IS A BHAKSHAK” WHERE POLICE OFFICIALS HAVE TIME AGAIN BEEN AQUITTED OF SEXUAL CRIMES.WE BOLDLY DISCOURAGE HOMOSEXUALITY BUT FACT IS THAT STILL AN ADOLESCENT AND EVEN SO CALLED CORPORATE GIANTS FALL PREY TO SUCH NOTION.IN A RECENT MOVIE “LIFE IN A METRO” SEXUAL ORIENTATION HAS BEEN PORTRAYED IN A REAL LIFE SCENARIO WHERE CRIME AND SEXUAL FRUSTRATIONS HAVE GIVEN A SORRY STATE OF WELCOME TO CRIME.EXTRAMARITAL AFFAIRS,GAYISM,POLYGAMISM,LESBIANISM AND HALLOWEEN ACTIVITIES ARE ONLY THE FROOTS OF NEGATIVE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.”LET PEOPLE CHOOSE” SHOULD BE THE NOTION AND NOT “DUMP SEXUAL FRUSTRATIONS OF YOURS ON PEOPLE”.”THE TALWAR CASE” IS A SORRY PICTURE OF A SO CALLED NATION WHERE “KAMASUTRA” WAS BORN ---THAT TOO HAS PORTRAYED THE FRUSTRATION OF A KING IN DELIVERING HIS SEXUAL PREFERENCES.
THOUGH SEXUAL DOMAIN IS AN UNEXPLORED DOMAIN AND IS A MYSTERY,ONLY FREEDOM OF THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS CAN LIBERATE CRIME AND DUMP ABUSES.LET AUTHORITIES FRAME LAWS “FOR THE PEOPLE” “FOR THE BETTERMENT OF LIVES”,NOT THROUGH RESTRICTIONS BUT THROUGH SO CALLED “GANDHIGIRI”.