Writing after a long hiatus of nearly 4 months...
My only excuse was sheer mental fatigue!!
Trying to divide time, working on, several projects at one go...
Desperately need a vacation to regroup... no one is listening...
Have been living out of a suitcase for the past week!!!
Came to Asansol for an event…
Event over… but still stuck in this godforsaken place…
Woke up early in the morning today… to catch the 7am Volvo service to Kolkata… only to be informed that due to a stupid phenomenon called “Bangla Bandh”, the bus will not ply… there were blockades at various places on the main arterial road and buses were being burnt!!!
I mean, why burn buses? How will that solve the problem of ever-rising prices of vegetables, I wonder?
A work day… the first day of the week…a month-end, goes waste…
30th of a month is a payday for most people…
There was a group of Japanese, who had boarded the bus, they had a flight to catch from Kolkata airport…!!! What must these poor guys be thinking?
I felt ashamed to be a denizen of this state…!!!
In the current scenario… the Indian industrialists, themselves, won’t venture into any investments in this state… so we can forget about foreign investments!!!
A bunch of jokers, who fancy themselves as politicians don’t bother to think along these lines… & the future of our country, depends on them…!!!
The egocentric morons, who do the frontline execution of the vandalism, fail to realize that they are mere pawns in the whole scheme of things… and will be sacrificed in the chequered board of dirty politics… once their need is over!!
And this phenomenon will never stop till the nexus between the police & politicians is axed…
Bandh has become, so much a part & parcel of our lives in Kolkata, that we often fail to react to it…
Today, however as I sit all alone in our office bunglow in Asansol…with a plate of cold… badly made chowmein… I can feel the level of frustration rising in me…. AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHH!!
I am missing home… especially my beloved Bala… who waits for me every day at the door, with a wet nose… grinning face… wagging tail… and love in his warm brown eyes…
BFF and Amsterdam
5 years ago