Sabya's Niche

So the long-awaited Durga Puja 2010 is over. Today is Bijoya Dashami and it's time for mother Durga to return to her heavenly abode. This year the police and various public service people did an excellent job. In spite of the occasional showers and tremendous crowd, public utilities like the police, metro rail, bus and various other services worked full blast, sacrificing their own festive pleasures for us. Hats off to them for that. We did a lot of 'Pandal'-hopping and saw quite a few - those at Mudiali, Shib Mandir and Sebak Sangha in the south, College Square in central Kolkata, Chaltabagan, and our neighbourhood Mitali, Sapnar Bagan and 'Baro Park', to name some. Most of the themes and decor were splendid and it is rather a pity that so much of art, in some places full-fledged architectural marvels in their own right, goes to waste after the occasion. Anyway, that's life and we go on as usual.

Hi people, how's life? I'm back after a long time. Inertia is the only excuse I can give, or laziness as you may put it, for not blogging for so long. Nothing's changed much in the meantime. The cardinal themes of life are still the same, only minor alterations and adjustments here and there. Found a great quote: Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most. —Unknown Author Liked it a lot and wanted to share with you folks. In my life, time-management and discipline are now two major factors and without the two I'd not be able to manage anything. Gymming 6 days a week for 2 hours daily and then Court + Chamber + a li'l bit of personal life.. this is the agenda on board. So you can very well understand the pressure on time. As such, the quote on Discipline appealed and so I share it with you all. Bye for now.. will come back later.

Court has reopened after the long Puja vacation, and will remain closed tomorrow for 'Jagaddhatri Puja', another one of the numerous festivals we have... so I've finished my work and am gazing into an Arizona sunset on my desktop, delving into a musical reverie via my headphones. Right now into semi-classical Sufi, my mind wonders into the nooks and corners of various constructs of itself, now finding a sparkling brook and again savouring the serenity of a Himalayan peak. All the time I'm seeping in the Spring-like freshness in the air which marks the very first signature of a Kolkata winter. It is wonderful - this life I have. I couldn't want more. That's all for the time being... coz I've "miles to go before I sleep".

Subho Nabo Barsho... Happy Bengali New Year to all my readers!

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The Summer heat's simply s-w-e-l-t-e-r-i-n-g and it's Election time again. The General Elections of the Indian democracy are on the anvil and political propaganda is at its zenith. Apart from being the time when Indian adults get a false ego that it's actually they who're bringing a new government to power, this is also an hour of tension at what the terrorists might do to disrupt the franchise. It's floating in the air that in the forthcoming elections the electorate will have an option for casting a ballot in favour of 'I won't vote' instead of any of the candidates, if the voters feel that none of the latter are worthy of their vote. If introduced, it would go down in history as a major landmark. Not only would it reduce false votes of absentees, it would also give the people a right to spit on the circus of politicians which they often have to bear hands down. The polity is not so ignorant as the election candidates deem, and that is all the more...

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