Angela Markel Salute: For Rejecting The Dublin Protocol

One Facebook user wrote: "We will tell our children that Syrian migrants fled their country to come to Europe when Mecca and Muslim lands were closer to them"

Pussies & Pirandello: Charlie Hebdo Vs 6 PEN-Prostitutes

 Salman Rushdie12:07 AM - 27 Apr 2015            

.@JohnTheLeftist @NickCohen4 ''The award will be given. PEN is holding firm. Just 6 pussies. Six Authors in Search of a bit of Character.''

 

 January, 2015 while visiting Dhaka, my 11 year old son Mattis-Joti mailed From France:

''Hey Choy, how are you doing? Here in France it's quite sad : the 5 best caricaturist of France are dead. Me and Paty are going to a rally this afternoon...In college we did a minute of silence. College is going quite fine. Mattis''

Scottish Independence Vs J.K. Rowling

Braveheart, The Freedom Speech

 

It's been more than 600 years since Blind Harry wrote The Actes and Deidis of the Illustre and Vallyeant Campioun Schir William Wallace, more popularly known to the modern film goers as the Scottish freedom fighter William Wallace! Tie hugging, perfect suit wearing Scottish Independence leader Alex Salmond might as well be going baldy and on the side of being called 'beefy' compared to the flaming manes and athletic built of Mel Gibson playing Wallace, but in spirit he has no doubt ignited the spirit what Blind Harry would have preferred to see if he could get back his eye sight!

1971 Genocide Versus The Economist Goliath

Ravi Shankar, Concert For Bangladesh, Madison Square, 1971

*Justice Nizamul Haq was the presiding judge of the International Crime Tribunal(ICT) that was trying the war crime perpetrators of 1971 until recently in Bangladesh!Obtaining some hacked mails and Skype conversation of Justice Nizamul with a Brussels based international law expert,  British based magazine 'The Economist' shouted foul that he was unfair to the defendants!To preserve both his personal dignity  and seemingly not to get ICT into a long drawn debate Justice Nizamul resigned like the fallen CIA chief General Petraus!

*Ironically The Economist  affair was more of 'views' instead of  'news' and a persuasion to impose that 'view'!While imposing these views The Economist also overlooked the rights of the victims and their relatives to seek justice!While highlighting which media has said what about the ICT, this blog post would look into the contradictory mindset and double standard of the British press in general!

''Awed By A Knock On The Door''

''Isle Of The Dead''

It was one of those misty, windy, moonlit November night in the sea side small French town!We were invited to a piano recital by our 9 year old son Mattis-Joti's piano teacher's husband, the Armenian old is gold Gabrell at the Music Conservatory Mattis attends!

Gabrell was playing Rachmaninoff!Though Gabrell didn't play 'Isle Of  The Dead', on the way back walking,  my head was still filled with it!It must had to do with Gabrells playing intensely well one after another joyful Rachmaninoff coupled with the effect of last few months one after another outrageous news coming out of my home country Bangladesh: the burning of Buddhist temple; the burning of slums and more than 100 garments workers burnt to death in Dhaka!I was thinking what made Rachmaninoff to compose his 'Isle Of The Dead' symphonic poem!Did he at all go through the pain as the painter of the same title went through?

Victims Of Map: Palestinian Poems

Victims of a Map Published in 1984, is a bilingual (Arabic / English) anthology presenting three undeniably influential Arabic-language poets: Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish, Samih Al Qasim and Syrian Adonis.  At 165 pages  this is a slim volume, Editor and translator Abdullah al-Udhari offers an introduction to the book as well as a brief introduction to each poet.

If Only Monty Python Was Making, ''Life Of Muhammad''

Everybody knows that French cartoon magazine Charlie Hebdo has published caricature of  Prophet Muhammad this week and fearing backlash  French government has closed embassies around the world!What the heck that got to do with Monty Python?

Monty Python's ''Life of Brian'', a 1979 British comedy film tells the story of Brian Cohen, a young Jewish man.Brian grows frantic when he finds that some people have started to follow him around, with even the slightest unusual occurrence being hailed as a "miracle". One day after slipping away from the mob, Brian runs into Judith, and they spend the night together. In the morning, Brian opens the curtains to discover an enormous crowd of people outside his mother's house, all proclaiming him to be the Messiah. Brian's mother protests: "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy".

The Great Bangladeshi Flood And The Islamist, Marxist Bloodbath To Follow

The Bangali River  is one of the main rivers in the northern part of Bangladesh .Scientists are concerned about the current condition of the Bangali River, every year the river Jamuna is moving 80 m  closer to the Bangali as a result of erosion of its banks.A stretch of only 300 m  separates the two rivers, an alarming sign for the continued existence of the Bangali River.What's theses all got to do with either the Islamists or the Marxists?

Olympic Gold For GlaxoSmithKline

    Demonstrators protesting GlaxoSmithKline's policies regarding generic AIDS drugs in Bangkok, 2004

Here goes the 1st London Olympic gold for corruption to the British pharma GlaxoSmithCline which pleaded guilty to a massive health care fraud in US and agreed to pay a record $3 Billion fine.On 2nd July, 2012 US Justice Dept reported that the criminal charges against Glaxo that made it to pay in billions involved the distribution of  unlicensed drugs.The suggestion was that the company did it by bribing the doctors who again are among the highest earners.

Syrian April Fool Or The Godfather Effect:First Lady Playing The Outsider Kay Adams

 Above wife Kay Adams(Diane Keaton) with the would be Mafia Don Michael Corleone(Al Pacino)!Kay was an outsider to the Sicilian American clan!

Madonna responds to the 'Girl Gone Wild' age ban

Youtube has recently put an open public viewing ban on Madonna's video of the song 'Girl Gone Wild' and asked the singers team to edit certain parts before submitting it back for public viewing!It's reported that to ensure a lift on the ban, Madonna's team are currently working to edit out all shots of bare bottoms and a particular scene of simulated masturbation.

Interview Of Exiled Syrian Poet Adonis

''I'm One Hundred Percent on the Side of the Syrian Revolution''

The Syrian poet Adonis was recently accused by Syrian opposition circles of not distancing himself clearly enough from the Assad regime. Khaula Saleh talked to him on the subject

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

Bondage

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!