Tale 1 : Thank God, its Holiday Again :
While the train was passing through Orissa with its usual speed, I was in inertia of finishing “Two States” of Chetan Bhagat before I reach Raipur. The Author of the book was in inertia of narrating his story of marriage to the reader before it’s too late. Suddenly a co-passenger jumped down from the upper berth and in a very excited manner had given us the information of Mr. Jyoti Basu being expired just few minutes before. Since the guy informed us about this was a Bengali, I thought to show my deep condolence about the news, considering the fact that they are very much concern about these kind of news. So I said that the man was a legend in himself. He happens to be one of the greatest communist leaders of his time and that it is the biggest loss of the communist movement of India. That Bengali guy also had shown his concern by adjusting the pitch of his voice while talking to me. We exchanged our deep condolence for about 5 minutes. And that’s it. He picked his Mobile phone, called one of his friends living in Kolkatta and said in a very excited manner that this would be the happiest weekend his friend would be spending. After a weekend of Saturday and Sunday, the WB Govt. is going to announce two days of state holiday to pay the tribute to the lessened leader. So he is the luckiest enough to get a holiday of consecutive four days. Lucky he. And he giggled while talking to his friend on mobile.
And I thought he was also a bit vexed of the passing of the leader. I think, this is the way we new generation people are thinking for any politician being passed away. Is it because, we feel that these great people had hardly affected our life or our thought process. We perhaps deny the contributions made by these great people (if they really are) to our progress. If this thought process is of mass, we should have to see if we would like to live with this or would need to change the face of politics to create a liking into the young generation.
Tale 2 : Its All Bihari :
The train while running had changed its directions several times. The sun outside had rise up in the sky. Some scattered rays were getting inside the train through its think glass window. Though the intensity of the ray was not creating any warmth, it was feeling good to be bestowed by these rays in the shivering climate of January.
To pass the static time in the running train, every one was trying to make a facultative relationship with each other. While I was busy completing the book I was reading, this man in a peak of getting bored had initiated his talk with me. I closed the book and started giving him company in his talk. This man was belonging from some place in Chattisgadh.
The topic of discussion was Bihar and Bihari people. We talked about the developments happening in Bihar. While discussing Bihar, I found him not feeling comfortable with the topic. I wanted to know the reason, so I once had told him the kind of crime and criminals residing in Bihar. And here it is. I actually hit the Bulls’ Eye. He just started abusing Bihari people. Reason, he feels that basically Bihari people are responsible for all the kind of crime and mismanagement happening in the country. And why so, does he really have any bitter experience with any Bihari? No I don’t have but I have heard a lot about Bihari ditching his inmates or friends and making his livelihood.
And that if someone feels Naxalism is an issue in Chattisgadh, it is not. All these Naxalism has been initiated in Chattisgadh by Bihari People. Tell them to leave Chattisgadh and you will find there is absolutely no any problem in the state.
This guy was looking educated. In fact he was. As he said, he is a law graduate. He had read somewhere that Naxalism was started in 24-Pargana District which is situated in Bihar (!) though only locals of Chattisgadh and Orissa has been killed in insurgency operation and the Bihari Mastermind behind the Naxalism always escape with the help of the mole in the police department. Criminalization of politics has been started from Bihar and even his Chattisgadh is facing lot of problem of criminalization in the politics which has affected the growth of the state. It is the criminal nature of Bihari people that they are snatching job opportunity from rest of the country’s citizen. But his relative in Australia is in threat by the locals because he is having an edge over their local counterpart. Blah… Blah… Blah….
Enough. When I asked him from where he read all these, he said he is having a habit of reading since childhood and wherever he see any knowledgeable book, he buy it and read it from start to end. When I asked, what is the maximum amount he has spent over a single book, he replied he does not remember but it must be not less than Rs. 30. OK buddy, now I understand why and from where you have got such a huge knowledge and your thought process and your philosophy.
Few things I had extracted from talking with him.
1. It is not always our own experience which helps creating any philosophy but sometimes heard things also impact substantially over our thought process.
2. People often hardly try to find the facts behind the heard things and just believe this if it’s related to hide our own inability.
3. That good books which actually gives us knowledge are either quite expensive or is not in the language of the mass.
4. That people know exactly what they want to learn, but don’t actually know the source from where they can get to know this, be it books or people.
5. It is just our frustration lead by our inability to abuse things which we think would hide our own inability.
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