The Muhammad Book: The Rushdie Discourse In The Guise Of Lifestyle Literature

I was following Popes visit in UK and eventually came up with, 'Pope, Pokemon and porn don't drop from the sky'! While revolving around the Papal visit  bumped on  lifestyle guru Deepak Chopras interview in Newyork Times on his last book 'Muhammad', a few thoughts got added to my brain storming!

Life imitate art and art imitate life, that was the saying!Rushdie didn't bother about the wise cracks and chalenged the notion of unquestioned venerability of the devine!In his core message Salman Rushdie forever changed the routemap of literature and established itself larger than art or life!A Voltaire of our time, Rushdie showed the monumental weight of questioning through literature and subsequently found the world devided on it at the expense of his own life!

Dresscodes: Pope, Pokemon and Porn Don't Drop From The Sky

If one ever bother to look at the uniforms of a waiter or a waitress they would find it's designed to make the service more visible and to make the server invisible!Dresscodes are there to reduce the personality of an individual and to assign a predestined class under one or other particular indoctrination or in Marxism a preconcieved classnessness!!Still in a lot of Chineese campus'  students of both sex seat next to each other in Turkish toilets!!Dresscodes in temples, mosques, churches, clubs, offices, schools, military; you name it!

Numbers And Neurology Of Intimacy

Why I am so much bothered about the statistical data of my online activities?Apart from being a communication tool these activities surely changing or already changed our perception on things!
When fb or Myspace change their format quite a substantial number among us react such a way that can be explained only in terms of sense of belongingness!Loyalty cards for those who crossed the 1,000 member bar like the supermarket chains?Easy rate loans for who reached 5,000?An instant and continuous  mash of 'Crime and punishment'? 

Religious Feelings Or Religion Versus Feelings

Ku Klux Klan Rally 1923

“Religion is an insult to human dignity. With or without it you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.”

Steven Weinberg, Conference on Cosmic Design, April 1999

Feeling is simply "to feel". The word was first used in the English language to describe the physical sensation of touch through either experience or perception. The word is also used to describe experiences, other than the physical sensation of touch, such as "a feeling of warmth".

The First International: Remembering Bakunin

Whenever I remember Bakunin, the thought pattern revolve simaltaneously around Proudhon and Courbets nudes and bathers!Courbets canvass' are statements reflecting the toiling mass that Bakunin wanted to be empowerd.Seeing a Courbet nude Prodhon exclaimed: oh, you and your bourgeois fat women!If Prodhon was going nearer to the canvass he could have seen that the models feet were dirty!Like all other models of Courbet she was also a prostitute!

Glitter And Greed: Naomi Campbell And Her Bloodied Bed Time Stories

In The Sierra Leone Civil war militias were notorious for chopping off hands and legs.Even children were not spared.The war was instigated and funded with the blood diamonds that were dug out in Sierra Leon and authenticated in Liberia.

On July 1, 2010, Super model Naomi Campbell was summoned by the war crimes trial against ex-Liberian president Charles Taylor at the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam near The Hague to give evidence on receiving a "blood diamond". Not appearing at the trial as summoned is punishable by up to 7 years in prison. Despite initially refusing to attend, Campbell was eventually subpoenad and appeared as scheduled as a witness for the prosecution on August 5, 2010.

It's ironical that Cambell  who has just been forced to testify against indicted African warlord Charles Taylor  once went out with Leonardo De Caprio who played the rough South African smuggler in the the film  Blood Diamond!In the United Nations terminology these diamonds are coined as Conflict Diamonds.

Bondage, Philosophy And Touch

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Red lentil Day

As a regular Bengali kid I grew up with dal and vat!Dal is red lentil soup and vat is rice.Didn't have any problem with my dal, vat supply all these years when I was living in London.Every super market, every corner shop would have red lentil!And it was quite cheap in UK!Well at least I didn't need to sell my organs for that!

Ain Sakhiri Lovers: Parent Of Modern Pornography : a couple, a penis, breasts, or a vagina depending on the direction it is viewed

Ain Sakhri lovers

The Ain Sakhri lovers figurine is a sculpture found in one of the Ain Sakhri caves near Bethlehem.The sculpture is considered to be 11,000 years old and it to be the oldest known representation of two people engaged in sexual intercourse.

Bangladesh Jail Killings And The BBC Major

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Tajuddin, One Of The Victim Of The Jail Killings Of 1975

15th Aug 1975,  Bangladesh founding father Bongobondhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was murdered brutaly along with 15 members of his family in a  coup d'detat.Mujibs one time associate Khondoker Mostak took over as president with the coup leaders blessing.

After the killing of Mujib, the coup plotters wanted to ged rid of possible rivals of Mostak.They  singled out four leaders of the ousted Mujibs party: Syed Nazrul Islam, Tajuddin Ahmed, Captain (Retd) Mansoor Ali and AHM Quamruzzaman.

Peyote: Tensegrity And The 3 Witches

The rituals revolving around the psychoactive cactus plant Pyote as much as the cult and controversies sorounding Peruvian-American writer Carlos Castaneda always intrigued me.After reading his books on shamanism, I got interested about the poisonous flower Dhootoora that's been known to the Bengalis for thousand years.I wrote a long verse in Bengali, named DhooturaFM, depicting the fall from grace of the native Bengali goddess, Dhutura!!

Lamia: An Eastern Queen Branded As A Child Eating Demon!

Horace, in Ars Poetica (l.340) imagines the impossibility of retrieving the living children Lamia has eaten:
Neu pranse Lamiae vivum puerum extrabat alvo.

Alexander Pope translates the line:
"Shall Lamia in our sight her sons devour,
and give them back alive the self-same hour?"

Lamia By Herbert James

In ancient Greek mythology, Lamia (Greek: Λάμια) was a beautiful queen of Libya who became a child-eating daemon. While the word lamia literally means large shark in Greek, Aristophanes claimed her name derived from the Greek word for gullet (λαιμός; laimos), referring to her habit of devouring children.

The Camus Collage

Suddenly a while back I got hooked with portraits of  Albert Camus and started making collage around them.

Albert Camus, 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960, was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel L'Étranger or 'The Outsider".

The Bamian Buddhas And Bengal Sufi Heritage

One Of The Bamian Buddha 1976

Never the name of a place intrigued me more than the name, 'Balkh'!My grandfathers name was Jamir Shah whose shrine is in the Comilla district of Bangladesh. The first Shah to arrive in Bengal from Afghanistans Balkh region in the 10th century was Sultan Shah Balkhi who was also known as Mahishawar or The Fish Rider!Sultan took up the life of a Dervish and embraced the Sufy path.

To Love Is To Be A Bank Robber

My all time favourite couple are Bonnie and Clyde!The abslolute lovers and ultimate bank robbing couple!Look at their incredibly beautiful names: Clyde Chestnut Barrow, Bonnnie Elizabeth Parker!I would die for that Chestnut bit!Down to earth commoners with the extra large full fisty esthetical blows!When they died together in police machine gun fire at the height of pre second world war depression, Clyde The Romeo was 25, Bonnie The Juliet was 23!You can imagine who could have savings in a period of depression!

Art And Revolution

Sleep By Courbet

Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet (10 June 1819–31 December 1877) was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. The Realist movement bridged the Romantic movement characterized by the paintings of Théodore Géricault and Eugène Delacroix with the Barbizon School and the Impressionists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social commentary in his work.