Michael Madhusudan Dutta , the most colourful character of 18th century.

At the very outset I should honestly admit that it would be my audacity to discuss the literary work of Michael Madhusudan Dutta. I shall try to discuss  Madhusudan Dutta as a person.

Personally I think he was born in Bengal much early. As  He was much advanced in comparison to our prevailing society. He was born in a conservative Hindu family of Jessore while he was attracted towards
Christian religion  and changed religion from Hinduism to Christian despite the severe objections by his parents.
He didn't listen to them and left the family and was deprived from the family property.

He was a brilliant person having sound knowledge about Hinduism despite the fact he left the same. He had been  to England to be a Barrister.After passing Bar at law he returned to the country but unfortunately he was not successful in Law practice.

He however , served in different places. He was  an extremely extravagant person and was in the habit of leading a luxurious life and as a result he had to face frequent hardships.

In family life unfortunately he did not enjoy happiness. As a result he married  twice. While he was in foreign country he was about to face starvation but Iswar Chandra Vidya Sagar  came forward to help him.

He was attacked with various illness and  ultimately expired only at the age of forty eight .

A talented person like him was rarely born in Bengal. He is our pride and fortunately His grave is situated in Kolkata where we may pay our Respect to him.

Whether astrology can be supported ?

There have been lot of debates in regard to acceptability or refusing the same.The matter has not yet been solved. Some questions automatically arise whether they can forecast the happenings  of future of anybody and also change the fate of any person . If it is so then it can be taken as granted how powerful they are! They can change the society and  fate of everybody. They can prescribe stones which they do and thus remove illnesses of everybody and can solve unemployment problems and every student will get success.

Even if it is so all doctors and few lakhs of persons who are associated with medical system will be unemployed. Few lakhs of private teachers along with coaching staffs will be unemployed. In reality is it possible? The astrologer argue when  a baby is born his or her fate immediately is determined in view of location of the planets. It may be argued at the same moment thousand of babies were born in a hospital in future all the babies should carry same fate .

I had an opportunity to see some astrologers suffered a lot in personal life and the same should have not happened in view of the fact the remedies were in their hands.

Lastly I will complete with an advice of Swamiji who advised in stead of going to Astrologer take rest and also take good food. I should categorically mention these arguments are not  of mine and the same were the outcome of debate. I will leave the subject to the Respected viewers for their kind consideration .

Some Passengers travel without tickets by local trains.

I had long experience to travel by local trains from both Howrah and Sealdaha stations .Unfortunately it came to my notice that a large section of passengers regularly travel without tickets and their strategies are to move in small groups and most of them keep some money with them and so as to utilise the same  for penalty if they were caught and their calculations are even they pay the same and for only one day the  rest days of the month they will travel without tickets. Thus they could save a substantial amount.

It would be evident from the above for these act of dishonesty the Indian Railways suffers huge revenue loss every year. It is also true a small group of passengers also travel without ticket but they are compelled to do as they are very poor.

It is my humble request to the Railway authorities to take up the matter very seriously and try to sort out the problem on war footing basis and thus save Railways from the said loss.

Our Bengali Theatre.

At the very outset I must honestly admit that I have no direct or indirect relation with our theatre .However ,I love the same and try to give a short outline of the same and at the same time I should  also honestly admit that I am not at all familiar with the contemporary  theatre.

I don't know whether in any country such huge number of talented actors were born. Girish Ghosh was the father of Bengali theatre and during his time a large number of actors and actresses appeared and contributed significantly for the stage like Dani babu, Amarendra Nath Datta, Ardhendu Sekhar Mustafi ,Noti Binodini etc.After the departure of  Girish Ghosh Sisir Kumar Bhadduri took leading part for the development of the stage at the sacrifice of his service as a college teacher and he is regarded as the father of modern theatre.

During his time a good number of actors joined the stage like Ahindra Chowdhury , Chabi Biswas, Nirmalendu Lahiri , Naresh Mitra , Kanu  Banerjee etc. This theatre is called professional theatre .In 1944 a drama had been staged written by Bijan Bhattacharya  named "NABANNA" based on famine in 1943 in Bengal and the same was staged under the banner of IPTA,the cultural front of CPI and the same was staged in many places and earned immense popularity .

A concept of new theatre came into being named group theatre and after independence a historic incident took place .Maharshi Manoranjan Bhattacharya along with Sambhu Mitra formed a group for Bengali theatre named BAHURUPI  in 1948 and they staged number of  classic theateres including Raktakarabi in 1954 which brought a revolution in Bengali theatre at that time.They also staged various dramas written by Rabindranath Tagore.At that time  many reputed actors joined stage like Utpal Datta ,Ganga pada Bose, Amar Ganguly  ,Kumar Roy ,Debotosh  Ghosh , Ajiesh Banerjee, Manoj Mitra ,Bibhash Chakraborty ,Rudra Prosad Sen Gupta. Though they belonged to different groups they were after good theatres. Out of the above names most of the actors are no more.

The golden era of Bengali theatre possibly is not in existence.

Weak comedy in Bengali films .

Once we were very rich in our comedy acting and we were also proud of the actors. I don't know so many comedy actors appeared in the same language in any country. In our Bengali cinema these actors contributed significantly and enriched the same to a large extent.

Actors like Tulshi Chakraborty ,Nabadeep Halder , Haridhan Mukherjee  , Bhanu Banerjee , Jahar Roy , Shyam Laha , Anup kumar, Rabi Ghosh , Nripati Chatterjee  and Chinmoy Roy etc were outstanding comedians.

From the above names only Chinmoy Roy is alive. Our Bengali film possibly has made a record to make a film in the personal names of two Actors namely Bhanu  Goenda and Jahar Assistant .Once we were so rich in comedy acting today we are so poor.

Unfortunately we are unable to name single comedy actor .It is however ,my personal opinion and hope we shall overcome the crisis in this area very shortly.

Actual Feluda and present Feluda in cinema.

The characterisation of Feluda by Satyajit Roy is one of the historic creations and the same has been immensely popular among all age group both in literature and films.

So far I remember according to Satyajit Roy Feluda  was only twenty six or twenty seven years old while Soumitra Chatterjee started acting as Feluda though he was quite senior but on account of his handsome figure and very smartness he was quite acceptable for the character . So long he acted as Feluda he looked quite normal according to character. The problem started when Soumitra set  aside from this role and the same started by a senior artist  though he acted well he looked aged which perhaps is not according to the original age written by Satyajit Roy. However , this  is  purely my personal opinion as a non technical person.

We and our private hospitals.

I came to know from  a talk show in electronic media that seventy percent people are treated in Govt Hospitals and the rest thirty percent people are treated in private hospitals. Hence  the existence and necessity of the same can not  be denied in view of the fact a large number of people are treated there.

Now the question is who are they ?

Mainly rich  people , upper middle class and middle class people are being treated in private hospitals and sometimes a section of lower middle class people are compelled to go there due to nonavailability of  seats in  GOVT hospitals.

What  are the allegations against private hospitals ?

To ensure profit Maximisation they apply all malpractices like preparation of inflated bills indicating various medicines and tests which were actually not provided or partly provided. Maximum time their inhuman faces are noticed like without considering the financial status they prefer for abnormally high and unbelievable amount of bills and the same results in financial stake of the patient parties.

The most inhuman faces are noticed in case of death when the bodies are not released until the payments are cleared. This attitude proves their inhuman and cruel character.

Another serious charges against them without sufficient reason is that  many times they transfer the  patients to ICU and ventilation only to earn extra money . The last charge is the most dangerous  even after the death of a patient at ventilation they do not declare dead and continue the dead patient at the ventilation and thus prefers abnormally inflated bills and making huge profit by immoral act .

What are the remedies ? Some remedial measures are likely to  be taken shortly. Of course there are some exceptions .All private hospitals are not using such malpractices and let us hope for the best.

Our legal system and harassment.

Unfortunately even after seventy years of independence our legal system contributes the harassments to the maximum extent along with hide expenditure .Our system starts with lower court and ends at Supreme Court. In every phase those who attend for getting  justice they are the victims of endless harassments along with endless expenditure.

There is a proverb  that one generation files a suit and the next  generation will get. the verdict.

The main characteristics of our system that the parties will attend days after days with the hope of hearing their cases but all in vain and the same results in waste of time and money.

In support of the unusual delay the poor infrastructures are being made responsible.
It is very often said in support of the delay that there are shortage of spaces in the courts and vacancies of judges in every court. As a result, few lakhs of pending cases have been lying in Kolkata. High court and the same is alarming.

These arguments for the delay are being expressed for a long long time and the same may not work further. It is high time for taking measure so as to ensure to establish a correct system removing all delays and harassments.

Collection of books and subsequent burden for the same.

Many scholars and book lovers collect huge number of books of different subjects and the same turns into a huge number. They take care for the books. The same are like their children.

Sometimes they face problems in regard to space since enough spaces are needed for keeping such huge books and secondly there are chances of  missing. Many of us are having a tendency to take some books on loan basis but sometimes we forget to return the same. The third problem is very critical. It may  so happen that one or two members may sell some costly books secretly.

The problems start with after the death of the owners of the books. If the children are  reading books  there is no problem.  Otherwise attempts are being taken to donate the same.

But unfortunately many organisations express their unwillingness to accept the same. Recently I have noticed a letter of a son of a famous departed poet stating his disappointments that no organisation is willing to take of huge collection of ten thousand books and he was also worried about his  age.

How to solve the problems?

I think the owners of the books should make arrangements during their lifetime.

Pure drinking water .

We the citizens of the country are very unfortunately deprived of pure drinking water even after the seventy years of independence.

The same is our basic need.   In this context the conditions of the villagers are the worst. In most of the villages the unfortunate villagers use the water of ponds as drinking water where the water is used to clean the utensils ,  wash the clothes and the villagers also take their bath .

From the above it can be appreciated the extent of impurity and due to the same the villagers are being attacked with various diseases like different types of stomach problems ,  jaundice and skin diseases etc .

The villagers are indeed ill fated. The position of township may be slightly better . Even then they also suffer from various ailments. It has been noticed that the most of the people are very conscious about drinking water. Many people use boiled water and some people use purchased  water.

The most significant development now a days is that  in most of the marriage Parties and other occasions bottle water is used.

How the problem is to be solved ? It is great question and It is to be ensured that everyone should get pure drinking water.

To implement the above programme huge money along with the sufficient manpower are essential for the  best interest of the people . It is humble prayer to do the needful.

Kolkata book fair and its importance.

Kolkata book fair possibly started in 1975.Initially It   was started at Maidan and continued there for many years. It can not be denied that the book fare brought a revolution among the Readers ,  publishers and  writers. The fair continued about a fortnight and the gathering of book lovers took a shape of festival. A large number of publishers including big middle and  small opened their stalls with their books. It can be easily understood that in such big book fare huge number of books on different subjects were accumulated under one roof. Here one  purchaser may get his  books according to his choice from any shop.

Such fairs are very useful for all publishers irrespective of any size. All related industries are benefitted like paper printing etc.

For few years the same are held at Bypass. Apart from book stalls plenty of different food stalls and tea stalls are opened.

Hence all sides wait eagerly for the yearly festival. Besides Decorators and Electricians also take a vital role.

This fair is a blessing for the book lovers and the prosperity of the same is expected from year to year.

Change of climate in Bengal.

There are six seasons .One season consists of two months like  summer, Monsoon ,Autumn, pre-winter , winter,Spring and in reality there are three  seasons namely Summer monsoon and winter. The summer and monsoon have been prolonged unusually and the span of winter has been reduced considerably and the same continue maximum for a period of fifteen days and that too not at a  stretch in piecemeal.

The people of Calcutta suffer a lot due to change of climate. The prolong summer and monsoon have caused severe lot of suffering . The nature can't be changed. The change of climate have taken place due to global warming.

We have nothing to do anything right now . The remedies depend upon the leaders of the different countries.

The reduction of importance of the local markets in the city.

There are good number of big middle and small markets in the city. I think apart from big markets the middle and small markets situated in different localities of the city have been facing a serious crisis due to introduction a parallel marketing in vans . All vegetables and fruits are available sufficiently in the vans.

The purchaser instead of going to the markets can easily purchase from the van owners conveniently and the same save time.

Besides the vans may reach at the door of the purchasers .As a result the purchasers enjoy immense advantage from going to the market and purchase the essential goods from different sellers while from one van the requisite items can be purchased and the purchasers can choose more comfortably .

Now a days even fish sellers visit the customers doors.

No doubt this system has brought a revolution for those who are very busy and who are sick and those families consist of very small members.

But at the same time the sellers of the markets are suffering from low sales and the same result in under profit. The solution of the said problem seems to be impossible.

My tribute to Banasree Sengupta.

I have been extremely shocked to  know about the demise of Banasree sengupta. She was a very popular singer and basically she was  a singer of Bengali Adhunik music . She made a significant contribution for the Adhunik music. She had sung a good number of Rabindra Sangeet . Her one song earned immense popularity namely Aj bikaler dake.

I pay my heartfelt tribute to her sacred memory

Old book market at college street.

Once one of the main attractions of college street was shops for old books. I feel the importance of college street for old books is equally important like university of Kolkata and Kolkata Medical college.

While I used to go regularly at college street for attending classes at the university I used to the visit shops of old books very frequently. I felt the shops were like gold mines. I was surprised to see the huge stock of rare books on different subjects.

The feature of the said market is that some books which are out of market and out of print the same may be available. The another feature is the books are fairly cheap. The book lovers and those who are engaged in higher studies to them the old books market like paradise.

It is my ignorance that I do not know the present status of the said market. I found many scholar persons were searching for books and personality I have purchased many books at that time. I pray  for the glory of the said market like before.