The greatest triumph of civilisation is often seen as our mastery of heat. But our conquest of cold is an equally epic journey.

A famous judge once said, “where there is duty to speak silence is culpable...”
If we don’t say anything now, our own children will give pass to our ideas tomorrow and we will witness unfortunate days when they will be looking elsewhere in neighbourhood for inspiration…..
It’s a sad day when you see a man cradled by another man, grasping for his last breath and policemen trying to hold dying man’s head in position so it doesn’t fall on the ground. A friend of mine, still in a state of shock, wrote to me in my facebook profile: “I may not agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it, that is supposed to be Gandhiwadi, if I am not mistaken” I couldn’t agree more..Of course he was referring to the gruesome cold-blooded murder of Madan Tamang.

We need to realize that Gorkhaland can’t be achieved by overnight rush of emotion and the situation we have now is a perfect testimony of that. We performed ‘ghewa’ of people who were anything but dead, we danced, we cried, we went to picnic…reserved trucks, sumos, jongas and what not to register our ‘samarthan’ all for the sake of gorkhaland.....

One party disappoints us, we jump to another. Infact, we switch flags on our rooftop so we could live a peaceful life…but unknowingly we are being party to violence by disturbing the equilibrium of majority and minority.
On the one hand we allow a flag of the strongest political party to flutter near that black ‘syntax’ on our house to substantiate our submission; on the other we hold candles to show the solidarity to a dead person whose house doesn’t have the same flag as we do. I find it rather paradoxical, a situation akin to writing ‘welcome to gorkhaland’ at entry point in sukuna…followed by ‘we want gorkhland’ at teendharey and beyond…A political party, no matter what color of the flag it has, doesn’t bring peace for us….peace in darjeeling will only come with education and awareness...

Like soap bubbles
Given a chance we grow...to that vulnerable fullest
Fly a bit racing through the fuel…then vanish.
Pull out the camera, capture the moments and cherish them all before you perish…

Your economy is your economy
Our economy is our economy
Their economy is their economy
But
Anyone’s emission is everyone’s pollution!
Because the sky is one, Himalaya is one…planet earth is one!
Who is to blame? Where race of economy is on!

You can’t put feeble voices on the backburner; they do say something, don’t they? If democracy is only for those who can speak in front of TV like a voice machine, write thought provoking columns for influential newspapers and give insights and opinions that are audible and visible to the nation and only for guys with more MLAs and MPs to count on and not for minority, weak, poor, shy, stammer, introvert and nervous and ones who do not know if the “pandora’s box” they are talking about is a bad thing like flu or inflation or a good thing they are anxiously waiting for- then there is something wrong in it. If you are dumb, learn to be numb-is this the formulae we are deriving our nation from and pinning up aam admi’s hope of India shining to? Quite tragic it is even by Left’s standards.