We want to fly, to scale those heights, to excel in whatever we do, to do something for our parents, country and society. We know we will be able to face tomorrow with faith and hope, if we tackle today with enthusiasm, interest and enjoyment. We know we're the master of our own destiny. We are the CHANGE, we are L.O.C.
Monday, January 19, 2009
2 months and 19 days......
It’s a mental stimulation, an impulse of nothingness, the feeling of negligence and the consistent bore-ness that stings my veins and estranges me from my ‘WORDS’…..and I sprang into my unsolicited back-door deep inside me, and I defined a nuisance of the very WORDS that somewhat defines me as well…the WORDS being………..“LOC”.
Well, it’s not a literary advisory, or my usual..opinion intervention…I would rather call it a penitent statement of the intensity of those ‘sly’ words used and felt somehow, which otherwise stands just an adjective….’NONSENSE’.
Anyway, the literature will be back to place within weeks and I propose a cohesive response and contribution, a ‘HEIL TOGETHER’.
[For those who understood nothing of the above said, catch up my last blog and read the above again….or there’s another option…skip it and get going!!!]
Monday, January 12, 2009
kUMAR's Calendar
Click on the link below and please enter your birthday for me. I am creating a birthday list of all my friends and family.
http://www.birthdayalarm.com/bd2/84183825a556776815b1449104187c807889572d1386
Many Thanks,
kUMAR
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Clash between students & Registrar NERIST.REVIEW 2008
Why SUN had called this strike ??
This strike was called for the non fulfillment of 27 demands submitted to the director in-charge of Nerist, M. Hussain, repeatedly over the past month. The “immediate removal” of the registrar topped the list of demands.
Why registrar ??
Institute registrar Ashok Singh because he was illegally appointed to this post, some of the allegation are
1. He expires the age criteria while joining the institute as registrar.
2. The committee constitute for the selection of registrar by institute has rejected his application, but the Director of NERIST, Kalyan Kumar then constitute a single man committee and appoint him.
3. He had admitted his own son in NERIST in MBA programs without prior documents/qualifications.
4. Launching frequent FIR against students.
5. Rs 60,000(appro) fraud case still pending in ISM, Dhanbad
6. Beating a local paper seller boy in his house.
7. And many more..
Then we had a series of meeting with authorities of NERIST on these topic and we finally submitted an ultimatum for his removal.
On 25th September 2008, after the expiry of this ultimatum we the Students Union of NERIST decided to call an indefinite strike. We closed the main gate , stopped the movements of pedestrians , stopped the working of offices including bank , post office. All the students were supplied with banners and play cards and asked to standing near directors’ office shouting slogans. The strike was also supported by NERIST Arunachal Employee Welfare Association (NAEWA), NERIST Technical Staff Association (NTSA). Their members are also stands near Directors’ Office shouting slogan.
Then the EAC, Papum pare District came talk to us. He said that he came here to check the situation and ask us to maintain law and order.
After sometime we were called for meeting in Directors’ Conference Hall by Dean(Student Affairs) where we got a shocking news that the present acting Director Mr. Hussain has resigned and a good news that a team has been send to Itanagar to meet Chairman Board of NERIST (BOM) to find an solution to this problem. The day then just went on attending press conferences and all that .
At around 4pm we got letter from authority stating that Mr. Joram Begi (Director of Higher and Technical Education, Government of Arunachal Pradesh) is appointed as new acting director of NERIST by Chairman BOM and he is coming tonight to sworn in as Director.
At 5pm on repeated requests from all corners of NERIST , we finally decided to open the main gate. At night we got a letter from new Director of NERIST Mr. Joram Begi, calling all SUN Executive members for meeting tomorrow at 10 am.
Then come 26th September 2008, the day of biggest clash. In the morning at 5 am we again locked the main gate. Again students were supplied with banners and play cards and asked to standing near directors’ office shouting slogans. But this time the population was thin, most of the students left home last night in the fear of violence. The local newspapers were full of NERIST strikes and national news person started heading toward NERIST. The atmosphere is very tense . The clock turns to 10am and we headed towards conference hall.
The Director welcome all of us and got our introduction, then the president and GS of SUN described whole scene and ask him for early fulfillment of these demands. The director asked us to call off the strike and go back to classes and he promised us to solve the problem as soon as possible. But SUN had already decided to go for infinite strike till the fulfillments of its demands. The Director then went a series of meeting with the authorities and other groups regarding these matter.
Then around 4 pm the Director call Registrar Mr. Ashok Singh to his office for enquire, He came in his official vehicle. As soon as he come down from his vehicle and moved toward Directors office, the SUN member ceased his official vehicle. After the meeting got over he walk toward his home without looking on his vehicle. At that time SUN president also follows him.
At around 6pm we got a call from president SUN from NERIST health unit. When we reached there we saw that he was lying on bed, when we enquired he said while following him he reached his house , he was called by registrar to his home and they had a long argument regarding some files and after some time he and his sons started beating him by iron rods, later he was admitted to this medical and an FIR was filed against Registrar.
At that time almost all the NAPSA students reaches the hospital and all become angry over Registrar for this incident, we then decided for immediate arrest of registrar, then we called all the students from hostels to Registrar house. Within no time all students march towards Registrar house, it was a huge crowd. Some police personal were already presents there, the students then started pelting stones in Registrar house, demanding his immediate arrest. The police then ask us not pelt stones and they promises to do their course of actions, the students then give 5 minutes ultimatum to police to arrest him.
After the expiry of this 5 min, the students again started pelting stones in Registrar house and some students tried to enter the Registrar house, finally some of the students were successful to enter the house, these students started destroying whatever they see in front of them. But the situation become critical when the Registrar and his two sons came out with sharp knife (‘dao’). When the students saw them they flew from there . But unluckily one student (Tai Dora)was trapped by them, he got multiple injuries, one more student (Taso Nobin) was also got injuries in his neck. Then the whole scenario got changes. The trio locked themselves in one of the interior bedroom of their house. A huge police personal (15 buses full of police) were arrived at the scenario, then comes the DC and SP of Papum Pare District followed by Director of NERIST and lots of leaders of Students bodies. Now the situation is somehow can be called as under control. Both the injured students were sent to RKM Hospital.
The DC, SP, Director, SUN, and Dean (SA) had a meeting in which the whole scenario was highlighted and finally after 3 hours at 1130pm it was decided that the Registrar and his two sons will be arrested and a criminal case will be launched against him.
Finally at 1230 am the trio got arrested and sent to Naharlagun police.
On 1st October 2008 , The services of Ashok Singh has been terminated.
Begi informed us that since the authorities are dissatisfied with the performances of Singh during his extended probation period and in view of his arrest and registration of two cases, his service has been terminated. Begi also informed that the police recovered two ‘Daos’ from Singh’s quarter after the arrest of Singh and his two sons.
After his termination we the SUN had call off the strikes…
Satyam's $1-billion fraud shakes India.REVIEW 2008

It's a classic rags to riches to rags story.
The son of farmers leaves his village behind, moves up from textile mills to real estate to IT outsourcing for multinational firms. He emerges as one of India's wealthiest and most famous entrepreneurs -- until he reveals that his empire was floating on an accounting lie and it all comes crashing down.
What has people really scratching their heads is the way the 54-year-old Raju, co-founder of Satyam Computer Services Ltd., chose to signal the game was up: with what some have dubbed a "come-and-get-me" letter released Wednesday that detailed how he'd perpetrated the fraud.
In his mea culpa, Raju lays out how small amounts of fake profits and cash accounts built up over several years until the gap between real and imaginary assets eventually approached $1 billion.
Some observers are skeptical. "It's impossible to believe he acted alone," said Surjit Bhalla, managing director of Oxus Fund Management in New Delhi. The government appears to agree.
Late Friday, it stripped Satyam's directors of their power, ordered them replaced by independent board members and arrested Raju and his brother on charges of conspiracy, forgery, fraud and criminal breach of trust, according to local media reports. The arrests ended two days of speculation that he had fled to Texas; Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates; or some other distant hideaway.
Questions have also been raised about how top global accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCooper signed off on Satyam's books for eight years and how regulators in India, Europe and the United States apparently failed to pick up any whiff of problems. The accounting firm has denied any wrongdoing and pledged to cooperate with authorities.
Satyam, based in Hyderabad, provided back-office operations for hundreds of corporations, including billing and system integration and technology support. The company grew from its original 20 employees to 53,000 people in 66 countries. Raju picked up 185 Fortune 500 clients -- General Electric, Nestle and Microsoft among them -- becoming an example of India's high-tech ambitions while drawing the ire of U.S. and European labor groups fearful of job losses.
Though there's little evidence that the fraud leaked over to Indian banks or hurt Satyam's customers, shareholders have watched the value of their investment all but disappear. And one Indian job website reported receiving 15,000 resumes from Satyam workers this week.
"Raju has cheated me and millions of shareholders," said Rajesh Shrivastava, 43, a businessman who owns 5,000 shares. "I still fail to believe that I have almost lost everything. The god of IT has failed me."
Those who have spent time with Raju describe him as a modest, thoughtful, seemingly honest man.
"All of us who know him are quite shocked," said Kiran Mazumdar Shaw, managing director of Bangalore-based Biocon, a biotech company. "I always thought I was such a good judge of character. Obviously I'm not."
In retrospect, Raju's story is rich with such ironies.
"Satyam" means "truth" in Sanskrit. And Raju's shelves groaned under the weight of honorary doctorate degrees and good-governance and creative entrepreneur awards.
But not everyone was impressed with the chief executive who loved science fiction, spicy Andhra Pradesh food and hiring people who could speak his native Telugu language.
"If you walk around Dalal Street, our equivalent of Wall Street, there's surprise but not shock," said Ramesh Damani, a member of the Bombay Stock Exchange.
"There was always a sense there was creative bookkeeping, although not necessarily fraud."
Traders speak of a smell test that left Satyam trading at lower price-to-earnings multiples, a measure of earnings potential, than other Indian IT giants in its class such as Infosys Technologies Ltd. The company seemed willing to give away far too much to reach a deal with brand-name global companies, said a lawyer involved in several deals with Raju.
"Other firms had a clear bottom line," he said. "Satyam was willing to do deals at all costs."
But Raju, who got a business degree at Ohio University and was one of the first to see the business potential in the Y2K scare, still has some supporters.
Residents of the village of Bhimavaram, where he grew up and created jobs, have rallied behind him. And some have applauded the way he left the stage. "To me Raju was a hero, and will always be a hero," said Sharad Kumar, 38, a businessman. "You tell me: How many people dare to come out in open and confess to such a thing? . . . What Satyam did was basically to make middle-class Indians dare to dream."
Analysts said the rising tide of hot money going into emerging markets in recent years and India's tech boom made it possible to keep the scam going for years.
"It was the best game in town," said Raamdeo Agrawal, managing director of Mumbai-based Motilal Oswal Securities. "The whole world loves you and you get hooked on it."
But in recent months, as the global economy soured and credit dried up, the walls started to close in. In desperation, Raju tried to engineer a "purchase" of two family firms last month, a deal that allegedly would have allowed him to post money transfers that didn't take place.But shareholders grew suspicious given the $1.6-billion price tag and Satyam's sudden desire to move into the completely unrelated infrastructure businesses.
A further blow came when the World Bank dropped its business with Satyam, citing "improper benefits" given to bank officials. And in what may have been the last straw, DSP Merrill Lynch was called in to broker a sale, only to resign as the company's advisor Tuesday. Raju released his letter the following morning.
"That may've been the trigger," said Manoj Vohra, director of India research with the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Analysts said that in the short term, this bombshell could dent the reputation of "India Inc." But barring another scandal, it would probably be recognized for what it is -- a case of irregularities by one company.
"I hope this is a wake-up call for everyone the world over," said Shaw, the biotech executive. "We've seen an economy of greed, fueled by scams and loose regulations leading to this recession. Good governance has never been held at a [proper] premium."
Friday, January 9, 2009
FORMULA 1: Review 2008

Formula One should be looking forward eagerly to the year ahead after a thrilling 2008 season with new winners and 23-year-old Lewis Hamilton becoming the youngest world champion on the last lap of the last race.
Instead, with the global economic crisis squeezing sponsors and manufacturers alike, the playground of billionaires and big business has had to tighten its belt and prepare for a more frugal future.
Big-spending Honda and tiny Super Aguri will not be at the starting line in Australia in March, with the championship set to shrink to 18 cars if no buyer for Honda emerges in the next few weeks.
The next year will be far from easy but the cost-cutting measures, including cheaper engines and a ban on testing, should bring the sport back from the brink of disaster.
"I think this is probably the first step towards Formula One saving itself," said International Automobile Federation president Max Mosley after the wide-ranging package was rolled out last week.
That it should be Mosley leading the push illustrates how much the climate has changed in Formula One over the course of the year.
In March, the Briton's own future at the helm of the governing body was at stake after a British Sunday newspaper splashed details of his involvement in a sado-masochistic sex session with prostitutes.
Mosley fiercely resisted calls for his resignation in a saga that hung over the championship until the credit crunch started to bite and the realisation dawned that Formula One's free-spending, Champagne days were over.
The 2008 championship marked a series of firsts and lasts, with fresh faces entering the winners' circle and, in Hamilton, the first black champion and a role model to a whole new constituency.
Singapore, now established as the sport's jewel in the East, hosted the first night race to huge acclaim after fans had stifled a yawn at Valencia's less stellar debut in the European summer.
The Briton, his country's first champion since 1996, promises to be hungrier than ever after securing a championship that could easily have slipped through his fingers for the second year in a row.
Hamilton won fewer races than his main Ferrari rival Felipe Massa, the Brazilian who had one hand on the crown until the final seconds at Interlagos.
Formula One measures success and failure in milli-seconds and Hamilton rammed home that point by keeping everyone on tenterhooks almost to the end before sweeping past Timo Glock's struggling Toyota for the fifth place he needed.
After 18 grands prix and more than a thousand laps on five continents, the McLaren driver won by a single point.
Massa, noble in defeat, grew in stature and will be a real contender again next year. So too, Ferrari hope, will 2007 champion Kimi Raikkonen.
While the Finn had a disappointing year, despite Ferrari retaining their constructors' title, a younger generation came to the fore.
The most surprising member was Germany's Sebastian Vettel, triumphant in Toro Rosso's home Italian Grand Prix to become Formula One's youngest race winner at the age of 21 before leaving for Red Bull.
Poland's Robert Kubica laid down a marker for next year, seizing his and the BMW-Sauber team's first victory in Canada. A model of consistency after his big smash in Montreal in 2007, the Pole turned what could have been a two-horse race into a three-way battle for far longer than anyone could have expected.
Finland's Heikki Kovalainen crashed heavily in Spain but added his name to the list of winners in Hungary by emerging from Hamilton's shadow to take a lucky victory for McLaren after Massa was robbed by a blown engine in the closing laps.
Double world champion Fernando Alonso pulled off the comeback of the year with two wins in a row for resurgent Renault, a team most had counted out at the start of the season.
While the Mosley sex scandal took over from 2007's spy saga as the main talking point in the paddock, there was also the usual supply of controversy on the track along with some unforgettable action.
Hamilton found himself on the losing side in an appeal court hearing in September after being demoted from first to third in a Belgian Grand Prix thriller.
The Briton, who suffered racial abuse in Spain before the season started, was derided as a 'crash dummy' for accelerating straight into the back of Raikkonen's stationary Ferrari at a red light in the Montreal pit lane in June.
Massa also made hard work of his campaign, spinning repeatedly in the rain at Silverstone and suffering a botched Singapore stop in which his Ferrari trailed a fuel hose down the pitlane.
Canada and France, both axed for next year, followed Indianapolis off the grand prix calendar while Britain's David Coulthard, winner of 13 races for McLaren and Williams, called it a day at 37.
Brazilian Rubens Barrichello, who ended the season with a record 270 race starts, is likely to follow him out after Honda's demise.
Thursday, January 8, 2009
Hello locians!
The loc site has changed so drastically..well its a wonderful transition..loc has gone a long way with odds and evens..i talked to my father about it..he encouragd it to his heart content and he cherished his college memories where they used to have similar kind of thing..he suggsted to include others like our juniors..and also to invite the teachers(minus displeasure of the members)..
hope we'l stay in touch after this session..we really cannot predict whats there in the next..still we can make promise to ourselves to stay connected..a very good luck to rohit,arijit and allokojjal..
c u guys on sunday..till then au revoir!
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Welcome 2009: An year of purposeful resolutions aimed at life ahead !!
The meeting started with new year resolutions,
and we got the assistance from the heat everyone of us are feeling to excel in life, to make our living
worth.
Some old fun filled candies were promised to be presented in new wrappings and a new way of discussion was evolved due to the lack of time that we are going to face in near future. Same old sounds dominated the show, same old custums were followed, and my personal feelings, we are stuck somewhere between our own belief system and the actual theatre called LIFE.
Anyways there always a party/picnic involved to light up the apparantly gloomy looking situation, and i pray, we all make most of our remaining stay at NERIST making the year more "purposeful" as wished to the whole NERIST community on behalf of L.O.C.
I got to undo many things before i could move ahead in life, and take a note it includes an apology to the wisdom lady, Miss Poly Karmakar.
Whatever is being written here are the personal views of the author him/her self and are subjected to agreement or disagreement.
And a request to all members, Please write for this Blog Space, Share your views !!
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
New year wishes !!
Rightly said that time and tide waits for none and if their is a God it is time.
This should be a good opportunity for us at L.O.C. to express our experiences of 2008 and talk about resolutions in 2009.
Talking about mine, the year 2008 had been one of the kind which my emotional part would like to forget. But like many previous years, it also proved to be a wonderful learning experience, only at much higher amplitude. Not many things are crossing my mind but i would like to mention some moments which altered the usual course of my lifestyle,
:hectic 52 and 61 semesters reminded of early NERIST days,
:much dreaded electromagnetic theory paper proved to be a cake walk, with new records set on part of scores like 99.5 by Bed in mid sem.
:mass confusion among the two batches 2k2 and 2k3 relating to organizing the technical event SHRISTI 08 led to voting in SUN and controversy ending in a big flop decision but a decent SHRISTI.
:an exciting exit of block A in semis round of NERIST cricket tournament, and cricket proving its worth in the closest and arguably most exciting ever match in NERIST history, the champianship decider going to the bowl out and Block H held their nerves over an equally skilled Block F to take the crown.
:a sad year on account of the losses that it incurred, my sincere
Saturday, December 20, 2008
time is moving so fast......just one semester left and so many things to do!!!!!!!!
by the way,how you people are doin'??and saurav when are you returning yaar??come back we got to play cricket........
and those at home must be enjoying this time........best wishes for you all and youtr families...
see you soon @NERIST...
CHEERS
Friday, December 19, 2008
Reporting Live from trip to agartala
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
First anniversary of "Tour de South"
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
DIARY PAGE(2).......stumbled
'LOC' for 'lack of concern'.....u'll get the ultimate page on my orkut community....
c u there, bye guys.
Friday, December 5, 2008
STRUGGLE
We have hard work to do, and loads to lift.
Shun not the struggle, 'ts God's gift.
If in the fulfilling of the law,
I am broken, bruised and bent,
I must know, it is best so,
And be content and be content.
If i cry out for fellowship
A comrade's voice, a comrade's grip,
A hand to hold me when i slip,
An ear to heed my groan !
Renew that hour's dark ecstasy,
When all Thy waves went over me,
And thou and I, with none to see,
Were joined in fight alone.
If i demand a sheltered space
Set for me in the battle-place,
Where I at times could turn my face
A screened and welcome guest;
Decree my soul should henceforth cease
From its wild hankering after peace,
And rest in that which gives release
From the desires of rest.
Whatever is being written here are the personal views of the author him/her self and are subjected to agreement or disagreement.
And a request to all members, Please write for this Blog Space, Share your views !!
Thursday, November 20, 2008
I am what I am !!
I believe in face to face conversations rather than over the phone or worse still thru e-mails.

I believe there's more to this world than the earthly pursuit of happiness or money.
I believe to attain humility is the highest stage of hypocracy.
I believe pride is essential to life.
I believe there's no heaven or hell except the one we're in and know all too well. That true love is an illusion.
That religion is the root of all evil today.
That if you're not willing to die for something, your life is not worth living.
That chaos and creation take place simultaneously in every backyard. That this space is the only outlet for the pent up frustration in wannabies such as you and I.
That knowledge is endless but wisdom is greater.
That contemporary pop is fit only for lesser developed humans.
That politics is the only honest profession cuz no one fucks around claiming to be a saint.
That sooner or later everyone burns out, but what matters is the flame that once was. Here's to that flame.
I am what I am !!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
DiaRY(2) continues...
"is that a shooting star?", somebody unremarkable guessed..
well, late this night I am upstairs, upstairs on the block roof, siting silently, alone, gazing the star-studded beauty, reinventing luminosity every second...some dark corner unobserved to...it looks like every detail is a creation in itself..has its own significance. Lips murmuring, fingers pointing, back lounging still..i found myself calculating unmindfully, feeling silly yet doing something irrelevant to me, to anyone, discovering the orions and nevula of early winter fall...booming with preen and success of the same. I felt a chill running through my spine...even though I am well-rigged, garnished by my fur-necked 'ruggers' woolen jacket, promising me to sit laxed, undeviant ...but the wind is soaring high, it is real cold..i stood up.
"damn! what the f*** man..this bloddy loadsheading in NERIST is on its peak nowadays", his voice broke the silence embracing me, shattered my perpetuated nature fondness..i prepared to leave...i looked around and then.....
lights off, the atmosphere appear hazy, the creamy touch of the wind, the gloomyness of the way-off straight laden soiled blockway, every blurred detalis, reminded me, reconstructing the same left-over dream, filling the same notions, springing the unfulfilled vision.....I REMEMBERED MY DREAM!!
....year 2030.....miss Catherine Green....and my name....some....Douglas?
the words ring deep down my conscience...accepting the conceived contradictions, but a still majority kneeling it to absurdness and irrationality.
“Dreams are the answers to questions that we haven't yet figured out how to ask.”
“Dream what you want to dream; go where you want to go; be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want to do.”
in terms of psychology,"dreams are the conscious reality of the unconcious mind."
i sat down again perplexed, eyes fixed, heart temptating, mind swaying apart running through severe skepticism...i sat for full 10 minutes...emotionally drawn, speechless...
"so, dat's what i want from life?"
"so, i am mentally dawned to lose my nationality, my culture, my religion(though i am agnostic), my pride, my essence...my NAME in need, in future...dat's what i will do?"
"does being an Indian mean nothing to me even after my brought-up here since birth?"
"what if..."
"and......."
...oh, there are so many of them.....
.....i looked for answers,defending myself over myself..the questions keep springing up.
q1:why should I not feel like an Indian even though am one of them??
----sounds really simple, simpler the reasons..
why should anyone want to be in India? already 102 crore plus, difficult to get noticed, swinging jobs, witty, dirty politics, delayed, uncustomised law and order, populous poverty, unsystemised megacities and as if its not already too much, now the added curse: a hub of global terrorism...
q2:excuse me,every coin has two faces...you are missing the good phases..remember, India is secular, democratic and sovereign, it is not an ally,its independent and follows global norms, treaties of mutual benefit and cooperation...what do you say to that?
----regarding your 'unity in diversity'agenda...i'll start with the north-east only.In Assam,ULFA and NDFB of boro tribes, Manipur's Peoples Liberation Army, UNLF & PREPAK, Nagaland has NSCN-IM and NSCN-K. National Liberation Front of Tripura, All Tripura Tiger Force insurging Tripura, Meghalaya's ANVC, HNLC & Mizoram has Hmar People's Convention-Democracy,HPC(D) and BNLF. They want a country of their own,,,the arunachalis considering themselves as the left-over china, nagas commemorate their seperate independence day, meghalaya following the wastern culture to the limit possible, south India considering themselves way off, aloof from the rest. MNS, Bajrang Dal, RSS..dividing the nation on bases new found...and you talk about treaties?...the entire nation bisected for a single nuclear deal!!
...***...end of part 3/4...***...
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
mY diaRy pAge(2)...
(oh! forgot to mention you....I changed my name...am not Debabrata anymore.....but kept my initials DD...I mean, I adopted Christianity.)
"thank you...Miss. Green..I must say you are looking great(laughs) and a very good afternoon to all the viewers out here..it has been a pleasure to be a part of the "PEOPLE"...yeah,i worked really hard, put on innovation, surveyed what best suites our customers since back in 2015 when I arrived US from India and joined my first firm as a marketing executive at a Wal-Mart subsidiary store..it just carried on from there....it's simply.a dream come true"
"OK,you are probably the next style-icon, the passion driving Americans crazy...so tell us about your choices"
"starting with literature....i read a lot of Mario Puzo..specially "godfather"...i fell in love with it and in classics,i think mark twain did a great job. i like Spielberg movies and 'battleship Potemkin' is really a masterpiece, i think."
"tell us more about your wardrobe collections"
"its listless,come on"
"our viewers are your fan,for them....if you can....just line up a few...i think you can do that...i am a personal fan of your work,i admit to that"
"thank you for that....ok......then,let me tell you some chords that always strike hard on me, my favorite wardrobe is a 'Armani versace', 'Christine Dior' or a 'Louis Vuitton'. a 'versace' tuxedo is an all time favorite...'new york' pants, shoes from 'lee cooper',London, sunglasses from 'Chanel' are a few of my chosen ones......you know, it's hard to be a style icon"
"let's come to the lighter part of you, you work throughout the year...where do you like to spend your holidays anyway?"
"well, well, well....my favorite city would be London, fleet street and i have my personal holiday consultant 'Conde Nast' which is a french-based company"
"we heard a lot about you being choosy in your dinner table...can you let me know your personal favorite list just?"
"ok....if you go to my shelf, you will find all the essence of Chinese, Italian top classes...i like lasagna, basically its Italian flavored essentially with the essence of acorn and almonds"
"it's my favorite too..ok,Mr. Douglas, tell us something about Indian....you are of Indian origin, i heard about"
"well,India is great....India.......India is a great country...well,don't stress it now, i am an American now and that's what really matters"
.....suddenly, it turned black...
i had nothing to say.
the mesmerizing flavor of the serene air gone, the atmosphere turning gloomy, i could feel my cheeks getting warmer...Miss Green evanesced somewhere amid all this...i opened my eyes.
"gosh, it was a dream?"
the splintering sunlight plunged into my face, the winter wind gentle on my hair...aligning it sideways...forcing me to close the shutter...wake up, sit still, yawning, hibernate for a while.
my sis marched over to my pillow side, handled me the bedroom tea, dressing the coir and blankets back to place.
"bro, you woke up so early...it's not even six...anyway, good morning bro"
"good morning, its sunny already dear."
....**** part 2/4 ends****....
DIARY PAGE(2)...
31 Oct' 08
Friday
10.45 pm
Sometimes, its better to think less.
Sometimes,its better to make yourself on the safe side, be on the optimist part of "you"....the part of you everybody knows about, talk about.
Sometimes, i should not care about these things.
Maybe something about the sometimes is "sometimes somewhere true".......but what about when that something comes over to you, again and again, questions about "you"...questions WHO I AM and WHAT I SHOULD DO...QUESTIONS ABOUT MY WHOLE EXISTENCE...MY ENTIRE PRESENCE..my purpose of THIS LIFE!!
year 2030
Dec 24
7.30 in the evening.
Christmas eve.
Time Warner studios.New York,USA.
The film rolls and "action".
I sat cross-legged, plunging backward down the laxed upholstered couch, cigars lined up along the fathomed,much adorned cigar-box cedar especially 4 me. I could see the focused young white fellow man-handling the six Sony cinematography cameras lined up inclined side-by side for a better view, the lightening instrumentals, the soothing aroma, sizzling freshener, bulged up luminosity...and....the much fancied Miss Catherine Green was by my side, gazing at me. I must say she was looking amazing, glamorous. but after all, I was the star of the night.
Two pieces of "PEOPLE" lay by my side, cornering the see-through glass piece, also comprising of lavender vase, blue Chinese terracotta vessel adding to the beauty of the show...
I have been chosen the "fashion icon of the 'Christmas issue' edition" of the 'PEOPLE' magazine...the 'Washington post' addressing me as the 'person of the year'. I was famous.
The set, the stage was simply perfect.
"OK,Mr.Denise Douglas,you had a long journey to get to here,tell us more about it."
(oh! forgot to mention you....i changed my name...am not Debabrata anymore.....but kept my initials DD...I mean, I adopted Christianity.)
....end of part 1/4...
’maybe someday’?
If you had to look back on your life what would you remember?
The promotion?
The performance bonus?
The plaque in the conference room?
It doesn’t take supreme intelligence to know what really matters.
And yet, you do little besides look in the distance and sigh.
Wouldn’t it be tragic to realize too late that you didn’t see the trap, that you didn’t recognize the two words that are the biggest curse of humanity…’maybe someday’?
Sunday, November 2, 2008
“One touch, one glance, can change a whole life.”
“He looked just like an ordinary man, with nothing remarkable about Him. He used the simplest language, and I thought, ‘Can this man be a great teacher?’ I crept near him and asked him the questions which I had been asking others all my life. ‘Do you believe in God, Sir?’ ‘Yes’. ‘How can you?’ ‘Because I see Him just as I see you here, only in a much more intense sense.’ That impressed me at once. For the first time I found a person who dared to say that he saw God, that religion was a reality, to be felt, to be sensed in an infinitely more intense way than we can sense the world. I began to go to that man, day after day, and I actually saw that religion could be given. One touch, one glance, can change a whole life.”
-Swami Vivekananda about his guru, Sri Ramakrishna Paramhansa
Thursday, October 30, 2008
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