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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Tryst with October

Dispassionate Observer moves into the month of October. This month started with the festivities of Durga Puja. The four days of the Puja was time for unending fun with well wishers. Every nook and corner of Kolkata was illuminated in colours of joy and the wave of eager visitors in front of pandals was brilliant visual for the cameras to capture. Life without tension, life without fear of the uncertain, life with less hatred, life with less jealousy, life with more compassion and life devoid of hideous evil designs were the hallmarks of these days. One of the striking features of the Puja every year is the general spirit of true humanity which is displayed all around. Human values which have stooped so low these days finds a lot of oxygen during the days of the Puja. As I went pandal hopping through the length and breadth of Kolkata I could see fellow-feeling in ample display. Every quarrel which originated amidst crowd pressure in different pandals was resolved in a jiffy with others taking an active part in soothing the quarrelling groups.  I felt happy to see one of the visitors stopping to give a substantial amount of money to a beggar in a bid to light up his life. Smiling groups of teenage boys and girls sporting colourful dresses lend a special flavour to the occasion. Life here was not in plain black and white. There were different shades and each shade was interesting.

The preoccupation with Durga Puja delayed the issue of Dispassionate Observer for this month. Now it is back on track and raring to go. Apart from the Pujas significant developments have happened in the news and current affairs sector in India and the World.  The 2G Scam problem has become murkier with emerging lack of co-ordination between the Home Ministry and the Finance Ministry. More skeletons are yet to be revealed from the closet!  A corned Congress has provided the opportunity to Lal Krishna Advani to embark on a Jan Chetna Yatra. One wonders will this ploy work for a party which is itself knee-deep in corruption. In fact this is not about BJP alone, other opposition parties like the Left have to put their house in order to have a deep impact among the masses. Corruption in India at this moment is travelling freely Left, Right and Centre! When one party is raising voices against corruption of another party they are simply hiding their own misdeeds. In a bizarre incident, Prashant Bhusan, one of the leading faces of the Team Anna movement was beaten up by three youth in his Supreme Court office for his controversial remarks on Kashmir. Democracy in this country is fast loosing ground to lumpens! On the cultural field India lost one of its Gazal icons, Jagjit Singh. An illustrious musical career ended abruptly. The cricket lovers in the country have something to cheer on though as the ICC declared that the DRS (Decision Review System) will no longer be mandatory.

In Global news, condition in countries like Iraq and Libya continues to be tense with fresh cases of bombing being reported from Bagdad. Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko was taken to a detention center on the order of the Judge for violating court room proceedings. This has got ominous implications for world politics because she is Ukraine's leading opposition politician and a strong opponent of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovich. There is a growing world view that the recent revolutions in the Middle East have failed to usher in greater press freedom.

In this month of Dispassionate Observer there will be articles and commentaries which will range across different sectors. Hope you will like this issue also!! Enjoy reading the blog. You are the biggest inspiration for this initiative.


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