Suddhasattwa Brahma --> Priyodorshi Banerjee I think we, the bengali middle class, have finally achieved the height of our cultural ascendancy. If you don't believe me listen, rather watch, to the song "Khokababu jay......". Finally a cultural revolution beyond Rabindranath and Jibanananda.....
hmm.. gombheer... koto bibhinno store amar mostishko je chhitke chhitke chotke gelo ta ei bhor ratre kawthay likhte bosha boroi chitto damadol'kor ek enterprise... tao onek gulo kotha shotti'i mone holo...
keno jani na video ta dekhe amar mone holo kothao ekta ascendancy bote... tobe horek proshno.. thik kishe ascendancy? kar ascendancy? keno ascendancy? ar ektu toliye dekhle boro "bhobo-unmaad'kor" kishob conclusion berochche.. ek post'e shesh hobe ki??
jodi amar monei holo ascendancy, tobe keno emon mone holo?? karon amader khub porichito Bollywood naach gaan gulo to prai hubuhu ei dhoroner ... of course aro komor jhakate hobe, maati-boma guloke agun boma banate hobe aro koto ki... kintu e to ekkebare ghore toiri marathi khabar.. bhalo lagbe na keno... tahole motamuti besh bhaloi amra onyer moto hoye uthte pari... khub shohoje tahole 'adapt' kore nite pari... erokom poromarthik ascendancy bhalo to lagbei.. bah!!
tobe etar credit kar??? oi bengali middle classer dike jehetu tui angul tulli, tai amay abaro bhabte boshte holo.. boro durbol oi 'class'tar proti.. of course ekta middle class production team full of bengalees oi tollygunje'er studio ar poilan'er mathe ghate otibo porishrom kore ei ascendancy ene diyechhe.. toh??? ei 'totum pro parte' ta to thik noy bondhu.. middle-class production team'er ei cultural ascendancy to somogro bengali middle class'er bhitor biliye dewa jabe na.. sheta onyay... je jeta koreni, shetar credit she pabe na.. hahaha
tobe khub swabhabik proshno.. jei koruk ojotha emon korbe keno... motivation chhara ki keu emni emni emon ascendancy pai?? na na keu ta pai na.. motivation ta kintu amar khub binoto mot'e 'cattle-class'er [kottor marxbadi'der boli, bhasha porimarjoniyo], thik oto ta middle class'er noy... jodi abar karur oi cattle class jukti ti'r proti birodh thake tobe marxbadi'der line dhore boli, desh'er reservation dorkar karon koto ekta bishal shotangsho (shottor'er opore) oi kono na kono bishesh class dhari, ebong sod orthe middle class noy.... kintu aha tarao to bajar.. kichhu bechar bajar, kichhu beche khawar bajar.. tai ei bajar tai shob byajar kore dilo re... khete shobai chai, bangali boro bhojon roshik, tai 2pice peye roshogolla-pantua boroi upadeyo... tai oi middle class chhora chhokra'r team ta emon ascendancy'r motivation pai... middle-class'er ar koto tuku obodaan....
punoshcho: ami apatoto kolkatay... bengalee der ei ascendancy sombondhe sompurno 'onwakibohal' chhilam.... ordho golardho duur theke ei revolution'er baani amar kaane pouchholo... prrithiba te je boroi chhoto jodi onno kothao shuto badha thake, eta bhebeo hothat mon'ta kemon udash ar bhalo ek sathe hoye gelo...
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Chithi Chapati
Saturday, March 20, 2010
On Unhappiness
It all started when Krishnendu and I sat down one night to discern what happiness is! Some very old questions that popped in our minds were – what is the ambit of ‘Happiness’; what is ‘Unhappiness’ then; what is the correlation between the two!! Whatever I say, whatever I theorize hereinafter, I must admit that the continued pervasion of life with ‘strife’, ‘conflict’, ‘misery’ and the like leads (rather misleads) to the conclusion that Happiness does not exist at all. However this theory is not a general one regarding happiness as such… this theory essentially explores ‘what if’ the a priori assumption of non-existence of Happiness is true. The purpose of this exercise in particular does not concern Happiness in fact but merely attempts to find a logical conclusion of death in a system in which Happiness simply does not exist & life is essentially a treatment in Unhappiness.
Like any other theory, this one also has a couple of assumptions – these are the ‘a priori’, which we assume as true. The veracity of these assumptions can and I promise shall be debated at some later time. (To give away the truth, I myself have serious questions as to their correctness, but nonetheless it doesn’t concern me here.)
The Assumptions
1. Happiness does not exist
2. Unhappiness permeates Human Life
The Definition of Variables
I. ‘L’ is the variable for individual human life which can exist in either of two states – when one is alive & when one is dead. Therefore,
a. L = 1, shall imply that an individual is alive
b. L = 0, shall imply that an individual is dead
II. ‘U’ is the variable for individual human unhappiness which also can exist in either of two states.
a. U = 1, shall imply the existence of unhappiness
b. U = 0, shall imply the cessation of unhappiness
III. Both ‘L’ and ‘U’ denote the state of the variables and not their quantity.
What might bother someone is the practical reconciliation of emotions usually experienced and termed as ‘Happiness’ within such a framework. It is to be noted that happiness is only relative unhappiness. To explain, suppose ‘A’ is possessed with 2units of ‘U’ while B has 3units of ‘U’. This would effectively imply that A is happier than B because A has lesser quantity of unhappiness than B. Hence Happiness is only relative Unhappiness!
The Principle
The value of ‘U’ shall be ‘1’ ONLY IF the value of ‘L’ is ‘1’
The Explanation and Implications
The principle is significant as it stands. There is certainly the possibility of drawing corollaries from the same – however it is important to avoid a few logical errors while deriving one.
The Principle DOES NOT imply that U=0 when L=0. Had it been so, it would imply that with the cessation of human life effective happiness increases, since U is reduced to non-existence.
However, due to ‘ONLY IF’ operator in the Principle, ‘U’ shall come into existence only when L=1. Hence any study of ‘U’ shall be subject to the fact that ‘L’ remains as ‘1’. Therefore if L=0, then ‘U’ does not come into play at all.
To further explain, when ΣL=0, there shall be no perception of ‘U’ or ΣU at all (where Σ represents the function for the entire humankind). In such a situation there shall be no concept of either ‘Happiness’ or ‘Unhappiness’.
Hence, it CANNOT be claimed that death breeds happiness! That is, cessation of human life shall in no circumstance lead to decrease of relative unhappiness!
Friday, March 19, 2010
A Saturday
And suddenly I hav a lazy Saturday to lay back, roll-up and light up!!! The vague haze of past time makes me think of time as such... how life goes in circular orbits... how every one of us are placed on one of them... and so many orbits intersect.... and they keep meeting in rounds... at times the orbits have bigger radii and so even after revolutions their paths shall nevr meet... but only those at tandem shal keep meeting.. no matter hw long a revolution takes..
A revolution.. isnt life one? in all the senses of the word.. be it causing one or fighting one or even paving the path for one.. the stirrup in this huge endeavour are those threads of connection to the yester-time.. Isnt it all about completing the circle?? Isnt it abt returning to the comfort of the dreams of that past memory..??
Its so abt being as close to one as one had been yesterday to have movie suggestions, no matter what!!
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Bon'er Pakhi ... The Freebird
“Not that anything of moment happened that morning. It was simply a non momentous day in a momentous time. A day to sit and wait for the seconds, hours and minutes to tick.” [1]. Nothing happened either that morning or the night prior, or even during the week that ensued.
The micro and the macro analysis are ever so different be that of what it is. Yes, the broader picture of me remaining as morbid as I usually am, never changed. Something sublime just stirred deep within somewhere at too micro a plane but somehow managing forever to remain innocuous to one and all.. to everyone, somehow defying the much hyped – Butterfly Effect!!
Someone just got liberated! Nahh! That didn’t sound huge. But for heaven’s sake I am screaming out loud that someone just got LIBERATED! Liberation at the level of an individual, a liberation from the estrangement that we choose to perpetuate with each breath of ours, demolishing the alienation that causes me to hold on to my ego and not reach out even when I know I should, breaking free from all that pushes an individual to choose oblivion. Someone just got liberated!
A friend just died… not literally may be… but definitely he died. Death to me today represents a barrier between me and my realizations. And perhaps also a barrier between the ‘ought’ and the ‘is’! Death physically represents a distance, a distance that is an incentive itself – ballyhooing all that is lost and all the ‘to be achieved’ and ‘to be realized’ organized on the other side. He just crossed that line; I am left behind. That he has reached the other side is death, a death in the civil society that I live in. He left his alienation behind. He made even the ennui of time seem momentous!
Liberty no longer remains as a definable word to me. It no longer implies to me the freedom from external control – it rather is now, the independence from my own confinements created by the alienation that pervades my existence; it is the shearing of that very same estrangement that demarcates the line between me and death, between me and my friend. Goodbye Tanay!
