Not Imagining India

In old times, an Indian was born and drudged for the British till he died or cleaned royal toilets, I guess, they didn't have toilets then, so, he probably dug a big hole for the queen to poke her ass out and shit in, and that Indian had to clean the hole.One day he got pissed, and flew a hand grenade up their ass and fought until India got Independence from the stranglehold of the British.

This week India celebrated 63 years of it's independence.Prime minister's speech, patriotic songs, flag hoisting, social gathering in remembrance of the hero's of freedom struggle.....every one is happy and they get on with their lives.what are we celebrating?... 63 years of hunger, poverty, corruption.No!..we are celebrating a 7 percent GDP growth, shopping malls, a stable government full of jingoistic policies.Yeah.whatever.

What has freedom given us?.. for one we don't have to lick British arses anymore,.. and we've got enough big fat Indian arses sitting on powerful chairs to choose from...What is freedom?..Freedom is having a choice, freedom to choose.Well, you give us freedom to choose, right to vote, and we choose someone like Mayawati or Mamta Banerjee.This, isn't a discussion of "all politician are bad, all police officers are corrupt." No! to discuss that, would be to make horrors an object of discussion, this is not even an appeal to our national bodies to act more responsibly.

someone said, build infrastructure, integrate India, invest in the dysfunctional education system, and health care to make India a better place to live.Yeah,They could do that..once they are done haggling over a proposed 300 percent salary hike for the MPs.Ha.I don't have an amazing amount to talk about it, except it's hysterical.A series of walk outs, I mean.. can't you behave like humans, oh, that's too much too ask, okay, try behaving like monkeys, that will be a step up.

What do I think about this?.. I don't think about this.I don't have an opinion,no, not at all, I am not going to give my point of view, either.All I have is a question."why is India's youth so angry?" why do you see emotions of agony, resentment, anguish, indignation.. Because normal people are not always servile. Because normal people ask questions, demand accountability, transparency.Because there is disparity in India between people who have access to the goodies, and people who don't.
Because they don't have opportunity, least of all jobs.It's terrible how India hasn't solved the problem of malnutrition, where as much poorer countries like Africa has.What happens if you don't provide them nutritious food is that, you are not only hindering the growth of their brains, you are reducing the capabilities of the entire generation...
so, what can be done about it?..I don't know.. I already mentioned, I am done talking..We just like to talk and complain, the media like to sit and talk, for talking is easy, cowardish, but easy.

Do you hate Alok Chakraborty

For some reason, Alok Chakraborty needs an introduction, thirty years in teaching business, name slathered across calcutta for his prowess in cost accounting.This is Alok Chakraborty, discoverer, interpreter, creator of playful and hyperbolic offerings in the classroom, bubblegum-whipped, peripatetic genius, ill-tempered, bad mannered lout, warm hearted, rolling costing puzzles in his head,inviolable, unassailable, corpulent, bald, thick, juicy, fiftyish and unafraid: ladies and gentlemen,I give you the one and only Alok Chakraborty.

If you didn't know him, and you met him for the first time.You'd think he's a former heavyweight boxer or retired alcoholic wrestler.You'd think of anything but a teacher.A clean shaven man, who packed with so much pedagogy dignity that he could have been born in any country on any of the five continents and he would still have become a cost accounting teacher.
His ability to carry himself with martial grace and his talent to instill fear in 21 year old adults is legendary.I don't know any other teacher who could crack the dirtiest of jokes in the class and get away with it.

He has all over the room, cameras, so powerful, that if he zoomed in, he could see how many hair you have on your bum.So unlike the nature of his peers, he would check the home work of each and every student, no matter how much time it takes.if you happen to forget to do his homework, you are in for an embarrassment of epic proportions,he'd make stand up.hold your ears, sometimes bring you to the podium, make you look in the camera, just so the whole class can see you in the giant screen and laugh at you.
Because of his brazen and brusque manner of dismissing your question, if you Had a question, you'd rarely ask and even if you manage to ask you'd rarely get what you were looking for.

Do I understand Alok Chakraborty. Yes. I do.Its not always easy, but I do.I can even relate to him. of course, we weren't supposed to need to. He was supposed to be above that.He was never supposed to be a likable man, and never pretended to be.

He transcends beer tests, barbecue tests, and the rest of the tests of whether he was 'likable' enough as a teacher.It doesn't matter whether i want to have beer with him or not,He is Alok Chakraborty.What he represents is much larger than an individual, even himself.It is not necessarily a good thing that I have come to understand him, but I do. His brand is discipline.He wants you to care to study.He cares for your exam, probably the only teacher who does.

Do I hate Alok Chakraborty? of, course I do.everyone does.If there are 1000 CA finals students that he teaches, I bet they all hate him.But if you ask me out of all the subjects, which one I have given the most attention to, I have to say its cost.I am forced to study cost,everyone is.It's a difficult subject in the context of CA final exams.I think I have had enough, before I start typing about CA final exams and fill another 2-3 pages I've got to click on publish.