My CITY OF JOY:

This city , to which I belong is a paradox to the hilt .A city of contrasts and contradictions .I need'nt say since it is very obvious that it has its fair share of conflicts too .It has this unbelieveable capacity to assault all your senses- the mass of people , the poverty , the noise , the traffic , the nauseating car horns , the obnoxious fumes of smoke , the feeling of rot and decay , the cooking on the streets, remnants of paan marks on walls, the overpowering smells that choke your lungs , the banners and slogans , the chain of typewriters on the streets, the cow on road , the dilapidated public transport system - But then it has the capacity to surprise you with wonderful moments of culture , humanity , humour and unanticipated spirit.

This latter part of Calcutta is what i treasure and its this that keeps me going .My love and respect for this global village seems to increase each day that i wake up .

I could not have belonged to any other city as well as i belong to my city of birth-My city of Joy.

WISDOM TOOTH-MANDIBULAR 3RD MOLAR & The theory of Evolution:

The month of January'09 was a troublesome month in terms of health issues , with most part of it keeping me reeling in pain due to something or the other -eye infection,arm injury and the worst of them -The " Wisdom Tooth ".I came to know about this only after some days when someone casually told me it could be your " wisdom tooth " .Till then i had thought it was some common ulcer which would be gone in a day or 2 .Now this wisdom tooth on my upper set of teeth is located at a position where it cant be located easily ( with no teeth posterior to it ) .They say it comes when you have acquired some kind of wisdom & the person is considered to have a better judgement than that of a child.I did acquire a lot of it in '08 or rather '08 forced me to know about a lot of things .Whether i would go for its extraction or not would depend on the amount of disturbance it gives me in the days to come , but one thing thing which struck me while i was going through information on it was its link with the Theory of Evolution .

Wisdom teeth are vestigial third molars. In earlier times, when tooth loss in early adulthood was common, an additional molar had the potential to fill in a gap left by the loss of another tooth. It has also been postulated that the skulls of human ancestors had larger jaws with more teeth, which were possibly used to help chew down foliage to compensate for a lack of ability to efficiently digest the cellulose that makes up a plant cell wall. As human diet changed, a smaller jaw was selected by evolution, yet the third molars, or "wisdom teeth", still commonly develop in human mouths.

Would that mean that since in the days to come the Jawlines would keep on shrinking the Wisdom Tooth would get less and less space to grow , eventually leading to a no-wisdom tooth jawline .Wish i was born a 1000 years later ! It does pain !

AGENDA : Ban on 3 wheelers running on Kerosene in Kolkata..

AUTO-BIOGRAPHY : Zameen se ASTHMA tak ,

Ghoshbabu : Arre baba , 2-stroke Auto maane , jeytate bosha matroi,je kono manusher du du baar stroke hoye jete paare !!!
" Hey man , a 2 stroke auto is that vehicle wherein any human can have 2 strokes at a time !

Ghoshbabu : Etto pollution ! Shei jonyoi to sarkar bolche , Hari bole dau tule
" So much of pollution ! That is why the government says say jesus and pull them off the roads "

Bodobabu : Tule dewaar ki darkaar , auto-te othaar aage pocket-e ekta Sorbitrate rekhe dilei holo ...!!!
" Whats the need to ban them , just before climbing onto it keep a Sorbitrate in your pocket "

From Chandni to Parkcircus , from Jadavpur to Garia , from Behala to Taratala, Autos are everywhere , they are and they would be !!

The Autohwallah is a tough man .So flouting the court ban is 2nd nature .And they would still carry on carrying 6-7 passengers on their matchbox -on - wheels.

They have to say in unison :

" Aree sahib , jaayo giye sarkar ke bolo , Aaamder gaari choto kintu dil ta na , bujhle ! "
(" Oh sir , go , go and tell the government , we have small vehicles but our hearts are not small , understood !)