Thoughts

A Visit to a Village in West Bengal (in the Mid  2000) It is the middle of the first month in the year 1407 and I find myself at a murky road that leads to Manoharpur . I have been there before but that was quite sometime ago and under a different condition and so it looks as if the visit to the Manoharpur is like a virgin visit.  We are visiting Namita's parents; though Namita had stayed and grown in Manoharpur; that was sometime ago and even to her things are new. We observe that there are a lot of men folk at the entrance road leading to Manoharpur in their white turned brown dothi and upper garment. I tell myself "people down here don't believe in keeping their clothes neat do they?" and look at my own upper garment with pride. If any of the guys sitting there saw me smile I am sure they would not have had a clue as to why I was smiling and four days from then I myself would not have smiled at this observation for I was to become a little wiser in that...

Any resemblance to true life character is purely incidental (Made sense when I wrote this in the late 90's) Guruji tried hard to salvage Mr. Hari-Das, but to no avail -- everyone said that he had Permanently head Damaged himself and was beyond repair. But to everyone's surprise Hari-Das was awarded a place in-midst of the distinguished few, who had Ph.D. and was granted permission to Permanently head Damage others, but at a different place, because they said they did not like people damaging others head in a place where they themselves had damaged theirs! Having damaged Hari-Das and having nothing else to do the Guruji was in search of another Hari-Das, this time the search was a little more difficult (actually the search was becoming difficult day by day) because there was a strong lobby in the world machine called the IT industry which was snatching away all HD's as soon as they were ready and in market. One fine morning to the utter surprise of guruji there...