tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71986004132025636422024-03-05T12:40:08.692+05:30QUIPAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06570885135943565027noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198600413202563642.post-92165714401643922732014-09-20T00:23:00.003+05:302014-09-20T00:39:49.376+05:30A school student writes about the JU protests #HokKolorob<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">There are posts floating on each and every social networking site, every </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">magazine, and every newspaper.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">And, I know this may feel like another post in the bunch of posts.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">But this fact, doesn’t make another post like mine, cliché.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The fact of a girl getting molested, and then protesting to get her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">justice, getting ruthlessly bashed by police wasn’t cliché.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">“</span><i><b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">Ya, I was hurt, I was badly hurt, but there are others who are more </span></b></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">injured</span></b></i><span style="font-family: arial;">”</span></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">-Jitsoma Banerjee, 1st year, Department of Comparative literature</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">This she said after suffering from pretty bad injuries. As she mentions, others were more badly hurt.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><b><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">“I was dragged out of Aurobindo Bhavan, while being kicked at my stomach </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">constantly. Then, I was dragged till in front of Aurobindo Bhavan, I tried </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">to snatch two of my friends from those hooligans, but I was kicked on my </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">RIB CAGE with heavy boots and then while I was down, they squashed my left </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">foot.”</span></span></i></b><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">-Tanumay Naskar, 3rd year, Department of English.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The above words come from people who were there, the night the VC of Jadavpur </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">University called up the police because, ‘He feared for his life’. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">35 students who were part of a protest outside the campus were arrested by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">the police. Their crime? They were demanding fresh investigation into the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">case where a female student was dragged into a boys’ hostel and molested. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Okay! Demanding in a democratic country, IS A CRIME! OKAY!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Heyya, police! You beat up the students, and let VC go, or in your words, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">we should say rescued. But can you stop the rage we had? Could you? </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">NO! You cannot! We will still continue protesting till you have our demands </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">fulfilled!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;"> </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The protesting students had nothing, absolutely nothing to do with student </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">politics. It was just an apolitical protest against the biased attitude of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">the investigation committee set up to probe into the matter, an </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">investigation about the molested girl's appeal. And our constitution gives </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">us this fundamental right to protest peacefully and keep our case infront </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">of the authorities.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">And beating the students up, is totally against simple human ethics and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">going against human rights and obviously the constitution.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">This is a students' revolution, which integrated every student community in </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">and outside Calcutta.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">On 18th of September, people in thousands joined the protest march from JU to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">let Kolkata know that the JU students are not alone! Not only JU students</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">were there, but students from 25+ different colleges in Calcutta, joined </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">in. Did I mention college students? My bad! There were school students </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">(like me) as well as employees of reputed organisations (like Anirban </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Saha). </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">As I reached the march, wherever I turned, I saw acquaintances .That was </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">the power of Jadavpur University.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;"> </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">But this was one incident which happened on the JU campus and periphery.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">I saw, another girl doing Kolorob in her way, when people said that all </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">such walks and protests are bullshit and police has done a great job by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">beating up the students.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Malini Chakrabarty had left early from the protest yesterday for she had an exam today. Being utterly drenched, an uncle asked if she was part of the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">rally. Then most of the people started talking about how wrong it was for the police to beat up the peaceful protesters of JU. Or not.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A middle aged woman smiled and said, <b>“</b></span><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>Tomar moto juboti'ii chai aaj, tomrai </b></span></i></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">thamate parbe ei onay. Amar chele 3rd year, Comparative Literature porche, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">goto tin din dhore bari fere ni, hate pa'e kalshiteh poreh geche. Erom Ain </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">thakle toh chintar bishoy”.</span></span></i></b><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">On contrary to this, another conversation started. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The uncle said, </span><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>“Erom toh hotei thaake, etoh nyakami korche, pujor ageh </b></span></i></span><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">kaaj nei, Na na erom hoy na. Ami ei college'e 1967'e porechi. Tokhon amra </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">erom drugs kortam na, porashona kortam. Tai amader sathe erom konodin </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">hoyni, College'e porte jai na, class bunk mareh, mawd-cigarette khai, ar </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">police tar biruddhe kitchu bolleh chitkar koreh matha byatha koreh dei, JU </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ucchoneh geche. Police'r lathi'r bari khei jodi ora thik hoy, tahole besh </span><br style="color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">hoyeche”</span></b></span></i><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;"> </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Then came reply of the Class 11, DPS Ruby Park girl, </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">“28th August'e history </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">dept.'r ekjon meye keh 7jon molest koreh, Authority ke bolar por kono steps </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">nei newa hoyni. TAI JONEEH, ora protibaad korchilo. PEACEFUL protest </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">korchilo.”</span></i></b></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She continues,</span><b><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> “Ora onnay'r biruddhe shantite protest korle oder mara uchit </span></i></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ar mohilader molest kora uchit? Aajke the issue is bigger than JU. It </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">concerns the entire student community. Basic Human rights. Mohilader safety </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">niye proshno utheche. Openly molest kora hoyeche”</span></span></i></b><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">The old man interrupted her saying, </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">“Ki molest-volest bolcho? Beshi jene </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">gecho? Tomrai toh beshi janbe, nongramir shesh nei tomader. Ektu strict </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">holei tomra beshi chechao.”</span></i></b></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She said, </span><b><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">'OPENLY CRIME KORA HOLO AR APNI BOLCHEN STRICTNESS?'</span></i></b></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">He said, </span><b><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“Don't give me 'bullshit'!”</span></i></b></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><br style="color: #222222;" /></span></i></b><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She: </span><b><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;">“Grina ashe apnar moto manusher opor. Chi.” </span></i></b></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">And she got down.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">She heard claps.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;"> </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">This was needed. A head-on faceoff with reality. Malini gave that old man </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">one.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;"> </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Malini was a Class 11 student, I am a Class 12 student.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">I fought with my mom to be a part of this.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: arial;">She said:</span><b><i><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"> “Ei shob kore ki hobe? Porashona e mon de! Samne tor boards”</span></i></b></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">I replied: </span><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">“Sorry maa! Porashona kore kichu hobe na! Aage human rights, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">tarpor shob kichu!”</span></i></b></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">And, I left to be a part of be a part of the mass movement. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">And I feel proud that I was one to be a part of the protest.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">I would be part of a college, next year, in less than 10 months, and I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">don’t want such things in Calcutta. I want a better society! It doesn’t matter, I am not a college student. </span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">I AM, AND WILL BE PART OF THIS PROTEST.</span></b><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial;">Tomorrow(20th), again, I will be part of the protest march. Meet you people there.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Jito tui thik achis? Kothay legeche? Tor kichu chai?"<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Sahana kothay? Oke phone e pachchi na! Bhishon tension hochche!"<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Sounak da ke niye gelo re. Amar samne diye niye gelo, kichu korte parlam na."<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"I am okay. Chap khas na. Just internal injuries and multiple fractures."<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"Tumi ki ekhono campus e? Oder ke chereche?"<br /> </span></span><br />
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above snatches of conversation are a few examples of the level of panic
that went through the minds of all of us the morning of 17th September,
after the horrifying events of what happened the previous night.</span></span></span><br />
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all know the horrors that the students who were there went through. For
the students who weren't able to stay the night, it was equally
horrifying, the trauma equally affecting them.<br />The hurried phone
calls, the helpless feeling of seeing your loved ones being beaten
senseless, the severe tension of not being able to contact them and then
breaking down in relief when they finally reply, the unbelievable
feeling of helpless rage- all part and parcel of our lives now.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">No
one should ever have to go through all that- not the physical trauma,
nor the mental trauma. Yet, we are living in such a world that requires
state forces to curb down a few tired non-violent college students,
their only demand that the Vice Chancellor talk to them.<br /> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Society may
progress, but it is true that history keeps repeating itself. Hence, the
stories of students being beaten down when they rise for justice are
many down the ages. It is also true however that the students have never bowed down, never given up the struggle.<br />The
very existence of India's independence is due to to all the students
rising up together. Just as the students never bowed down then, we won't
now. You can enter the very university that is our home, you can use
force and beat us bloody, you can try to take us away, but you won't be
able to separate the entire student community, because its not just
Jadavpur University students, its the entire of Calcutta. <br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I write
this as a fellow student of Jadavpur who
has experienced her friends go through things unspeakable, who cannot
unsee what she saw, where people she loves and cares for went through
hell in a place that she loves with her being, her college, her
university.<br /> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">No matter what the press says, what certain political
party says- we all know what happened. And we will not bow down. Not
this time. The fight has begun. And it will continue.<br /> </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Park street seemed a long way off. Somehow we crossed ourselves in fear and said we're safe at home. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">But this is home now. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jadavpur is our home. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Where do we run from here?</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">What began as a peaceful apolitical protest for justice turned into a nightmare as Jadavpur University witnessed atrocity that it has never seen before. Under the garb of darkness,"unidentified" policeman walked over student protestors and beat them mercilessly. Male police manhandled female students, groping for them in the dark as the lights were conveniently turned off in Aurobindo Bhaban. Police and party affiliated goons stopped at nothing as they trampled over students, tearing their clothes, beating them even after they were senseless. The VC remained in his office,till police escorted him out, after which he claimed that apparently he was almost "murdered". The violently attacked students were arrested at random and brought under custody,where they remained without medical attention all night. The arrested were released today afternoon and many of them had to be rushed to KPC.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Condemning the VC and police action a rally was organised at 4 pm today from Jadavpur to Golpark. It saw an extraordinary turnout of over 800 people as students, professors, artists and the public came out in support of JU and it's singular fight for justice. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The march gained momentum as it walked out of the university gates. Not just students of JU, but it had the attendance of students from Presidency and Ashutosh colleges as well, as the outrage hit the crowds over such barbaric action. Placards and Posters in hand, people walked as one. Their voices were for justice only, as unrelenting as ever. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">All classes will be boycotted henceforth, till the VC resigns from his post. In light of such events, JU has not backed down and people from other colleges have come forward to lead the movement further. Fear is a potent device, we came to know last night. But we also realised there comes a point when we outlive the fear. "Don't scare them so much, they forget to get scared." That's when the fight begins. And it has begun now.</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06570885135943565027noreply@blogger.com0Jadavpur University, 188, Raja Subodh Chandra Mullick Road, Jadavpur University Campus Area, Jadavpur, Kolkata, West Bengal 700032, India22.4996815 88.37139760000002322.4923465 88.361312600000019 22.507016500000002 88.381482600000027tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7198600413202563642.post-16356320163839263082014-09-14T20:00:00.000+05:302014-09-14T20:42:49.247+05:30Agomoni<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The sudden change of the smell of air, the
sudden hustle-bustle, and above all, the sudden restlessness symbolize only one
thing. Yes! The ‘Pujo’ isn’t far away. A
few more days, and the longest waiting of the year comes to an end. Sunshines,
pandal hopping, getting tired, getting awestruck, all comes our way very soon. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">‘Pujo’ isn’t just about worshipping the
goddess; It has many layers to it. The sudden excitement, the surge of
emotions, all add to its fervor and splendor.
The neighbor you never knew about becomes your constant companion,
credits to the Para pujo. The bus rides you were always terrified of, becomes
your first choice, credits to the Pandal pujo. The Pujo is about dynamicity, passion, the
hardwork everyone puts in to make the days a success. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As the craftsmens’ hands work their way
magically to make every grain of sand a part of the Goddess, the emotions come up, the energy spent
becomes the energy of the Goddess, and this imparts an amazing aura that calls
the general ‘Bangali’ to join their hands and put forth all their devotion. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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equality as well. It is one of those very few occasions when everyone comes down
to the same level, and prays to the mighty power with equal devotion. It is one
of those very few occasions when all fragmentations are forgotten and unity
rules the hearts and minds.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The power of ‘Pujo’ lies in the fact that it
leaves a lingering effect. It isn’t temporary, it’s infinitely enormous. The
tears that drop down seem to sublime with the waters that happily take in the
decorated idol. There is somewhere the midas touch that seems to cheer up the
surrounding. All the melancholy loses itself in the only joyous departure in
existence.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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This Radley character was indeed a curious one.</div>
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They said he stayed locked up in his little room all the time.</div>
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Said he'd been that way for twenty-five years,</div>
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Said he stayed that way because he wanted to.</div>
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I was young. And baffled, yes.</div>
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Why would someone do something like this?</div>
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Stay locked up and miserable for so long,</div>
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Not wanting to come outside and see the world.</div>
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Not wanting to play, like other kids, like myself.</div>
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He said nothing.</div>
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When I grew a little older, I scoffed at him for being the way he was.</div>
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Called him names.</div>
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Made ridiculous self-assumed conclusions about the cause of his condition.</div>
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His smile aggravated me.</div>
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Cast him to some remote and apparently inaccessible corner of my conscience.</div>
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Last night, I turned as old as Boo Radley was when I first met him.</div>
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I haven't seen much of the world.</div>
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No, I'm not the old hermit I am supposed to be.</div>
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After my last cup of coffee, I locked myself up and threw the key away.</div>
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Locked myself up in my little room,</div>
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"I...can't really understand Judith Butler.<br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I once tried to reference Foucault at a party to make myself sound smart and my friend politely corrected me and said it's pronounced "Fou-KOH". </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">The only reason I've ever tried reading either of them is because my friends went to college and they left their books at my house.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">As a teenager I sensed that sexuality was a spectrum I didn't have all the words for it</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">In my twenties I sensed that maybe I was a whore for being attracted to so many points on the spectrum </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">For years I operated under three beliefs gifted to me by lovers -</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">One, I don't get to be gay.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Two, there is no such thing as bisexual. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Three, I am the straightest woman on the planet. Apparently.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">But, that might be true. I've never actually listened to an entire Tegan and Sara song. I've only seen one season of "The L Word".</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">The only thing they teach you less about than sex in school is this thing called "allyship" </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I first learned the word "binding" from a workshop on gender where Rachel talked about the difficulty of binding double D breasts.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Rachel later transitioned to Ray and dated my sister</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">In the initial stages my sister and I stumbled all over the pronouns and terms </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">We weren't sure if Ray was a transsexual girl or a transgender boy until my friend DC sat us down in an ice cream shop in Seattle and said, "It's time for Trans 101."</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">That class cost me four dollars and fifty cents and a half hour of my friend's patience.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">The first time I heard the term "cisgender" was when my friend Sam S and his boyfriend escorted me and my girlfriend to the most famous lesbian bar in San Francisco and then said "Wow they don't usually allow cisdudes to hang out in there that long."</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I was nervous to ask what that meant but when Sam told me that he identified with the gender assigned to him at birth I felt a wave of relief wash over me in the acknowledgment of my own privilege. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Twelve dollars in whiskey sodas and a loving bearded smirk which led me to learn the term "passing privilege".</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">When I was dating the girl I worked with at the state capital and I was afraid to tell my coworkers about her, afraid to kiss her with her short hair and her fancy suit and my friend Denise Jolly sat me down and said "Lauren. It is not fair for you to let her take all the shit. Getting to conveniently be straight doesn't help anyone." </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Three dollars in cheesy grits and my friend unapologetically telling me about myself. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Everything I know about being a good queer I learned from poets. Poets are cheaper than college but not everyone gets to travel the country and get schooled by a poet. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">We do not all have access to the most helpful words</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">I was afraid to write this because I didn't want to fuck it up </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Writing poems about things you don't really know a lot about can be very problematic</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">But not writing poems about things you're afraid to fuck up can also be very problematic</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">The world is problematic - please, fuck it up.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This is for the first time I heard the word "heteronormative" and felt like I was handed a corkscrew after years of opening the bottle with my teeth.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This is for the dyke who works for the gas company who never even heard of Ani Defranco.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This is for not identifying as bisexual but paying respect to everyone who fought to keep the B in LGBT.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This is for the Q. For the Q, for the I, for the A, what's that spell?</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Someday I hope we string so many letters together we form a glorious word that takes all of our mouths to pronounce.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This is for my mom who can never get my love's pronouns right, who doesn't get the "gender stuff" but who bought me all the Rita Mae Brown books so that I can be a "good lesbian".</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This is for my friend who told me that day that I needed to read "Stone Butch Blues" before they would have another conversation with me.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This is for learning to carry the word "Femme" and then dropping the whole tray on the hard tile.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This is for trying on new words, dusty attic words, sleek spoon words, fuck-up-everybody's-shit-and-look-good-doing-it words.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This is for every straight girl who still has to get drunk to kiss other girls, I get it</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Oppression is a loud room - sometimes we can't hear our own pulse.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This is for every straight person here who still thinks they are completely and totally straight.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This is for my ten-year-old daughter who stood up to the other kids when they called her friend "gay", she said, "Mom, they said it like it was a bad thing."</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This is for my best friend in high school, Luther B, who was so convinced he was going to hell that he fashioned his life into a loaded pistol</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Luther, if you are still alive - please come find me, I wish I had all the smart words back then.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This is for my _______ who learned everything from zines and free books at the info shop. </span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">For the suburban queers who only have Tumblr to not feel alone in the world.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This is for every Beth-Anne who sneaks each Wednesday into the bookstore the next town to read everything on the two foot LGBT section before going to her Bible study.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This is for the folks who can't read, but still subvert the dominant paradigm on the daily.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This is for all of you for creating a safe space for me to fuck it up.</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">This is for the queer theorists - thank you."</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it's actually happening. The latest installment of
the most trending yet successful smartphone- The 2nd Generation Moto G a.k.a
Moto G(2014) is here to provide it's competitors some sleepless nights. The
basic idea behind the Moto G line-up is to provide consumers with quality
smartphones that goes easy on the wallet without compromising on user
experience. It's quite an disappointment that often budget android smartphones
are stuck running older outdated software or consists of hardware which are long
gone owing to the previous generation flagships, power-hungry fits the term
precisely . The Moto G, however, is a breathe of fresh air in this regard.
Using the mind blowing combination of top notch specifications and a soothing
user experience , Moto G has been stealing hearts from it's first launch in the
early 2013s'. And needless to say, Moto G(2014) stands tall with no exception.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Compared to the old Moto G, the new Moto G (2014) <b>has
a bigger screen size</b>. The older one had 4.5 inch whereas the latest one is
of <b>5-inch HD display</b> [720×1280 (294 ppi i.e pixels per inch)]
. The screen resolution, however, has remained the same -at 720p. It uses <b>Qualcomm
Snapdragon 400 S-o-C 1.2 GHz quadcore processor</b> and runs on the latest <b>Android
KitKat OS</b>. Both the ending terminals of the smartphone provides <b>stereo
equipped speakers.</b>The inbuilt memory was a big downer in the old Moto G as
it was fixed either with 8GB or 16 GB space but the new one comes with <b>16GB
inbuilt storage capacity with the option of expanding it up to 32 GB using
external SD cards</b>.Overall the <b>build quality has been improved</b>,
it added <b>two front mounted speakers</b>, <b>Gorilla Glass</b> covering
the touch screen and <b>made the device water repelling</b>.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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other side of things, Motorola continues to stick with their version of the <b>pure
Android experience</b>, adding only <b>small tweaks</b> here and
there to <b>enhance the over all user interface</b>. Motorola too
guarantees that the Moto G will receive at least one <b>software update to
Android L</b>, launching sometime this fall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The new Moto G is priced at a quite tempting Rs
<b>12,999</b> whereas the old Moto G 16 GB was priced at Rs 13,999.The new Moto G is
made available through FlipKart and the e-retailer has also launched few
promotional schemes to entice the consumers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Motorola, besides the Moto G, has improvised the
Moto X as well. The new Moto X has 2.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 quadcore
processor, runs on Android KitKat, 2G RAM and 16GB inbuilt memory. It has a 13
megapixel rear camera with auto-focus and dual LED flash. The new Moto X also
sports a 2 MP front camera. It also has NFC capabilities. In the new Moto X,
the company has added many a new software and improved the older ones as
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you’re looking for an exceptional smartphone at an exceptional price, the new
Moto G(2014) might just be for you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The world now knew she was a victim. The world now knew she didn't have a perfect hymen, body or soul.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">The Redmi 1S is better than Motorola Moto G when it comes to hardware specifications. The camera resolution is higher and the processor, more powerful. All this at a price less </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">than half of Moto G's 8GB version makes the phone a game changer.<br /><br />Interestingly, we also expect it to make an impact on the sales of Asus ZenFone 4 which comes with decent specifications and costs the same. Indian handset vendors will also feel the heat and need to come up with better devices to keep up.</span><br />
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<br />Xiaomi Redmi 1S looks like a compact version of the Mi 3 albeit with corners that are a little more rounded and red coloured navigation keys on the front (true to the 'Redmi' monicker). The front panel also features a 4.7-inch display and a 1.6MP front-facing camera.<br /><br />The phone has a removable back cover that wraps around the edges. The black coloured cover has a matte finish and doesn't look frail. There were no creaks and wobbles and the cover fits snugly with the phone. The rear features an 8MP camera lens, LED flash and a speaker outlet in addition to some Mi branding. Removing the back cover reveals the 2,000mAh battery, two slots for regular sim cards (Xiaomi will offer an adapter) and a microSD card slot.<br /><br />The power and volume rocker keys are conveniently located at the right edge, while the micro-USB port is at the bottom edge. The 3.5mm headset jack sits at the top. The keys offer good tactile feedback.<br /></span><br />
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<br />The phone sports a 4.7-inch 720p IPS display that has Asahi Dragontrail glass protection and three red coloured capacitive touch buttons right below it.<br /><br />The display is certainly the best we've seen at this price. Colours look vivid and brightness levels were optimum. Sunlight legibility also appeared to be good but we'll need to use the phone a little longer to confirm this. Viewing angles were also good.<br /><br />Thanks to the higher resolution, images and text appeared to be crisp and sharp. We also found the capacitive buttons and the touch screen to be extremely responsive.<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;">
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<br />Redmi 1S runs MiUi, an operating system based on Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. MiUi offers themes, built-in apps and widgets, and advanced settings options enhancing the plain vanilla Android experience. The build is slightly different from the one on Mi 3 but the experience is very similar.<br /><br />The basic MiUi theme looks good with its colourful icon set, beautiful wallpapers and tweaked settings menus. Unlike stock Android, the phone doesn't include a separate app launcher. App icons and widgets are spread across the home screens. The unified home screen-app launcher style may come across as user-friendly to people who've not used an Android phone before. But it may take some time to get used to if your last phone was an Android smartphone.<br /><br />The software experience was smooth<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;">
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<br />Xiaomi Redmi 1S is powered by a 1.6GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 quad-core processor with 1GB RAM. It comes with 8GB internal storage and a microSD card slot that supports storage cards of up to 64GB. Connectivity features of the device are 2G, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and microUSB 2.0. It packs a 2,000mAh battery, and offers dual sim functionality and Dirac technology for sound enhancement.<br /><br /><ul style="text-align: left;">
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<br />Xiaomi Redmi 1S sports a 8MP rear camera accompanied by an LED flash. According to Xiaomi, the Mi 3's 5-piece lens has an ƒ/2.2 aperture to capture more light, and 28mm wide-angle lens to cover more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> At IFA 2014 in Berlin, HTC has announced the latest
addition to its mid-range Desire family, the Desire 820. Following on from the
Desire 816, launched earlier in the year, the 820 maintains the same 5.5-inch
display size and 720p resolution, while cranking the processor up to a Qualcomm
Snapdragon 615 — an octa-core chip with cores at 1.5GHz and 1.0GHz. On top of
that there's 2GB of RAM and 16GB of storage, both increased from the Desire
816.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Other notables include a 13-megapixel rear camera with
f/2.2 lens, a whopping 8-megapixel front-facing camera and 2,600mAh battery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Out of the box, the Desire 820 runs Android 4.4 KitKat,
though HTC tells us the phone will be updated to Android L to take full
advantage of the Snapdragon 615's 64-bit capabilities. All of that's encased in
in a "unibody" chassis with HTC's trademark front-facing speakers,
with a variety of glossy and matte color versions available.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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encircled with the accent color — that gives the phone a slight camera bump.
Around the front, HTC's shipping its highest-resolution "selfie"
camera — an 8-megapixel unit that ties into new software features in Sense. The
816 can swap and merge faces in photos, with results ranging from amusing to
terrifying.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The HTC Desire 820 will ship globally beginning in late
September. It's a solid improvement on the 816, boasting faster performance,
improved camera capabilities and easier one-hand use, however it remains to be
seen whether it'll be able to repeat the 816's success in Asia on a wider
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Size</b> 157.7 x 78.74 x 7.74 mm <b>WEIGHT:</b> 155 grams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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supports microSDTM memory card for up to 128GB additional storage (card not
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Sensors:</b> Ambient Light Sensor, Proximity Sensor,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bluetooth® 4.0 with aptXTM enabled<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">DLNA® for wirelessly streaming media from the phone to a
compatible TV or computer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1080p video recording<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Front camera: 8MP, BSI sensor, 1080p video recording<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Multimedia Audio supported formats:</b> Playback: .aac, .amr,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Video supported formats: Playback: .3gp, .3g2, .mp4, .wmv
(Windows Media Video 9), .avi (MP4 ASP and MP3) Recording: .mp4<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Location:</b> Internal GPS antenna + GLONASS, Digital Compass<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The two fragrances, perfused into each other, so, did their bodies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I smile, trying to stop my tears.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As the nurse drags away, five year old AIDS ridden Kamal, I realise how 5-year old dreams hurt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I wish I could flash a brilliant smile and say, "Well
that sure did make me stronger" to every heart break that I have
encountered. I wish I could gulp down the hitch and speak the truth, however
harsh. I wish I could speak without being tongue tied, scream all the things
that I am afraid to say. I wish I could bare my heart just as easily as I guard
it. I wish I could not fall out of love just as easily I fall in love. I wish I
could say with conviction that nothing fazes me. I wish I could say that sleep came
easy to me instead of at 3:00 am and then too spend the night tossing and
turning plagued by memories. I wish I didn’t search for validation or a home
from someone. I wish I didn’t need music so loud that I can’t hear myself
think. I wish I could have a seamless train of thought in my mind and not a
raging hurricane. I wish most of the lessons I learned came from books and not
from people. I wish I didn’t waste so many years trying to get accepted or
unnecessary rebelling. I wish I could die only once. I wish I could challenge
life to beat me and run against time. I wish I could but I can't. I am bursting
at the seams. Decomposing and disintegrating like a perishable being. I am,
unbelievably, a human. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A human who can climb, run, fly, dive, grope, slip, stumble,
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Date: 30 August – 31 August 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The idea is to lay stress on the usage of social media in learning, collaborating and personal branding for photographers. With the advent of social media, this part of the world is exposed to a range of good work and stands inspired today, with very little proper guidance in channelized way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They aim to bring reputed photographers, young photographers, bloggers, digital marketers and social media experts on one platform to exchange views and perhaps brainstorm the way forward.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They will lay stress on three aspects:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Learning</span>: To connect to eminent photographers who are visible online and finds time to reply to doubts, shares vision of spreading education through social media.<br /><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Collaborating</span>: To connect young photographers to bloggers and social media pundits and explain basics of Intellectual property rights, how photographers can benefit from bloggers and blogging and vice versa and how in all the endeavour, promote Brand Bengal. Kolkata Bloggers will be showcasing a few bloggers from the region.<br /><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Personal Branding</span>: In today’s competitive world, this is the most required when we want to make an entity of ourselves. Social media provides an excellent platform for doing so. This session’s aim is to connect photographers to eminent digital marketers who are experienced and renowned all over the nation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Jomiye Adda #1 & 2</span>:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jomiye Adda aims to bring the experienced photographs to the younger ones to share their experiences of photographying over the years. They shall showcase a few of their photographs and invite questions from the audience. We shall also discuss a few contemporary problems we face while photographing, processing and publishing and how we can mitigate that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On 30th August they shall have with them Mr. Hari Menon, Mr. Apratim Saha, Mr. Soumya Shankar Ghosal and Mrs. Lopamudra Talukdar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Hari Menon</span> is an extremely popular name in the contemporary photography world. Hailing from Kerala, he does travel photography, editorials, advertisements, fashion shoots. He uses the digital medium to connect to people, plan and further his career. The number of people subscribing to his page right now is 688821.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Apratim Saha</span> has his own pharmaceutical company. But that does not stop him from teaching in a photography school in Siliguri. He has had numberless publications in magazines, newspapers both online and offline. He is a National Geographic Stock Photographer and a member of Getty images.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Soumya Shankar Ghosal</span> is a street photographer almost every young photographer aspire to meet and interact with. In the last couple of years he has had publications in National Geographic Traveller India, NationalGeographic.com to Better Photography, The Times of India. He got mentioned in CGAP World Bank Photo Contest in 2013 and has won several awards from Nikon, Fuji films, Olympus. He is a management consultant with MSME, MBA Finance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Lopamudra Talukdar,</span> has some excellent collection of Travel Photographs of Middle East, Africa and Europe. More than 250 of her photographs were exhibited in more than 34 countries, 65 salons. One of the warmest persons, she readily helps any young photographer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On 31st of August, they shall have with them Srivatsan Sankaran, Debarshi Duttagupta, Sayantan Mitra and Neelutpal Das.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Srivatsan Sankaran</span> is a software professional working with the Tatas. That does not stop him traveling the different destinations in India and bringing back to his followers – excellent photographs. His has had been awarded multiple times, his images bought by Getty images and all of these at the age of 24. For us organisors, he stands today as an inspiration to many younger photographers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Debarshi Duttagupta</span> shall be exhibiting his photographs of clouds. He is also into landscapes and people. He is the only Indian to have won the Nikon Grand Prix so far, in 2010-2011. He had exhibitions like in Nikon Salon, Japan (2011), Osaka Salon Japan (2011), Getty Images Gallery London (2011) to name a few.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Sayantan Mitra</span> is a reputed Food Photographer and one of the leads in the magazine Hyangla. He also does fashion photography. He explains every concept with minute details and is an excellent teacher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Neelutpal Das</span> shall be speaking about advertisements. He does editorials and fashion photography as well. From 2003, he has completed more than 500 commissioned assignments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Special talks</span>: We shall have a basic photography talk by Apratim Saha and a street photography talk by Soumya Shankar Ghosal.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To collaborate, they shall be having the Kolkata Blogger’s Meet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In Kolkata Bloggers Meet, they shall exhibit photographs by Mr. Sudip Roy. The speakers and moderators include Mr. Rangan Datta, Mr. Sourav Ghosh, Mr. Anirban Saha and moderators of Kolkata Bloggers (<a href="http://www.kolkatabloggers.com/" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.kolkatabloggers.com</a>)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Mr. Rangan Datta</span> is a travel writer turned blogger. Popularly known as the “Human Google of Kolkata”, he is an authority on Kolkata History. He blogs at<a href="http://rangandatta.wordpress.com/" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://rangandatta.wordpress.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Mr. Sourav Ghosh</span> is an entrepreneur. He blogs about spreading positivity, being happy and awareness of social media and its tools. He blogs at <a href="http://www.souravghosh.com/" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.souravghosh.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Mr. Anirban Saha</span> is a photo blogger. He photographs Kolkata and different folk cultures in Bengal. He blogs at <a href="http://www.anirbansaha.com/" style="color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.anirbansaha.com/</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Mr. Sudip Roy</span> has a collection of photographs of Kolkata Buildings. He shall be showcasing them to the audience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A few bloggers who blogs about Kolkata and about Photography will be exhibited.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The discussion shall cover these points:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. How to use a photograph in a blog</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. How to ask for license and intellectual property rights.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. How bloggers can use photographs of Kolkata based amateur photographers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. How amateur photographers can benefit from being published on personal blogs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5. How they can submit photographs to Wikipedia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6. How they can use photographs and blogs to promote the culture of the state.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the last session of the event, they shall be having, Mr. Suprit Patra, Mr. Saptarshi Roy Choudhury and Mr. Aji Issac Mathew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Mr. Suprit Patra</span> is the cofounder of Gleecus. He had been the lead strategist of a national agency to being brand manager of a mobile development company. He uses his expertise to create compelling brand experiences for his clients. He shall be speaking on how brands use photographs and imagery to promote themselves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Mr. Saptarshi RoyChoudhury</span> is the Vice President of Purple Talk. He has experience of over 12 years in the industry and has served various global brands. In this event, he shall be speaking on how photographers can use the social media for their personal branding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: 700;">Mr. Aji Issac Mathew</span> is the cofounder of Techshu. It is one of the leading digital marketers and brand makers based in Kolkata. With over 15 years of experience in digital marketing, Aji shall be speaking about “Advanced digital marketing mix” for photographer’s personal branding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">August 17, 2014 : We witnessed something fresh and raw. A much needed event/get together/jam. Whatever you may call it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You may also call it. Popper's Picnic.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">No bucks involved, no profiting, just fun, music and dance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">With some of the finest street dancers from the city
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<span style="font-size: large;">Indeed the Kolkata Popping scene, rather the whole street
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was just a picnic!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We’ve all read short books which seem to go on forever, but Shanghai is different in the sense that it’s a long (very long) book, that’s so quick paced and nail-biting that you finish the 783 pages before realizing that you’ve read them. A constitutional compilation of three books by the renowned David Rotenberg, the book focuses upon and discusses the events which define modern China, the main backdrop being the ‘city at the bend of the river’ Shanghai. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">783 pages of pure thrill define the development of the ‘age of seventy pagodas’ through a maze of love, betrayal, deception and excellent pre-planning. The author has been considerate enough to intermingle real incidents along with the unreal ones, and he has been beautifully waving the readers throughout the length of the book, slowly changing the character in lead. Complete with even the miniscule details, the book also has true verbals of mandarin, shanghainese, Cantonese and a lot of other Chinese languages. For the lovers of thrillers, this book is a must read!</span><br />
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We are from different worlds, in a different place.</div>
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Yet, it's surreal how we merge in a way.</div>
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In this grey fairytale of mine, I am your queen.</div>
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Together, we rule, much to our suitors' chagrin.</div>
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You are my dark armour-clad knight, on a mystical white horse,</div>
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And I would be the damsel in distress, s'il te plait.</div>
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The moonlight frames your silhouette in monochrome,</div>
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Shaping a gilded perfect profile of a sculpture, that is mine to own. </div>
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The world swoons and gapes, as we stand</div>
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As one, in each other's gaze,</div>
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Under the grey sky, in a world filled with hate.</div>
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We will brew a love, together, which will be more potent.</div>
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Together, we will build our fort, embellished with endearments,</div>
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and dance to the rhythm of our love, till the music wanes.</div>
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Let's fill every chalice in our land with the essence of our love,</div>
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And let it cleanse their dark souls, with the purity of our hearts.</div>
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For, in our world, we will let no dusk,</div>
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no darkness to adorn the Sun.</div>
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Together, with our strength, the broken we will mend.</div>
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Together, with our strength, we will achieve what no one else can.</div>
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But when the essence runs out, and our hearts spill tar,</div>
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when our strength ebbs out, and chalices run blank.</div>
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We will lay our sunken hearts and fractured souls,</div>
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at the feet of Satan, claiming our burning hole.</div>
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For once, for the last time, we will bask in our flickering amber,</div>
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seeking and offering solace in each other's arms.</div>
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The clear azure sky illuminates the path,</div>
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while the primroses lead the world.</div>
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We are buried together, amidst the heart of our sons.</div>
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A white light in this dark grey world,</div>
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is what we have achieved with our eternal love.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"And who art thou", the proud mice king said, "That I must bow so low? Only a king of different code, that is all I know." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"And mine are as sharp and long as yours, they can make you red from gold", and so the mice-king spoke.</span><br />
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always are. But each time she failed to understand them, fool that she was.
When people told her she was building castles in the air she replied that she
would fly up to them. When they said that Sahana, that was her name, would
leave her just like others did---that was what calculations said and was
inevitable, she jeered at them. It was their turn now. About ten days have
passed since then. She often sees Sahana on the streets now, with Partho. And
each time those words come rushing back to her. When Sahana smiles at her, she
tries to look through it and find her Sahana,the Sahana that she had known for
all these years. But each time she fails abysmally. That day is clear in front
of her eyes as if it has just happened. It was the last day of spring when she
had gone and hugged her from the back in that bench in the park. People watched
with curious eyes, they always did, but they hardly cared. It was the first
time that Sahana moved away instead of hugging her back. It was then she felt
the signs of impending doom. It had hardly taken seconds for her world to fall
apart. It was funny cause that was the world which she, sorry, they had
lovingly built over the years and now it lay shattered. Though she doesn't
clearly remember each word Sahana spoke but she remembers she ended with this-
"we will definitely keep meeting like friends do and moreover, you see,
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very well knew it was just an excuse and that too, a silly one. There were
times when Sahana had held her hand in public despite her reluctance. Each time
she brought about the topic of society, Sahana had laughed the whole thing off.
At first she felt surrea,l then a little vexed. But gradually the anger
diminished as truth dawned upn her. The competition was tough, she realized.
Partho had prestige, a secured future and perhaps a bit of love too for her.
And all she had was only love and lots of love. No, she thought,Sahana deserves
the very best in life. But even then, every dusk she treads to the park bench
and sits there expecting that someday Sahana will hug her from the back just
like she had done a long time ago because the fact that Sahana is gone is
something she cannot come to terms with and the fact she will never return is
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">They looked at each other </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">trying to recall their love story </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">that abruptly ended twenty </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">nine years ago. And while they </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">did so, he carefully studied the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">wrinkles beside her eyes and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">she noticed his greyish salt </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">pepper hair.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">They had been separated by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">the war that had broken out.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The war lasted fifteen years.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Lives changed. Time ticked.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">"So, you didn't find someone </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">else?" She asked.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">He said, "Dated a few but </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">settled with none."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Then he asked, "And you? I </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">heard quite a few stories about </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">you. You beautiful women </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">always get attention of men."</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">She took her hand out of her </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">coat pocket, lifted up her palm </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">and replied, "You recognise this </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">ring? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">I've had just one story for </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">a year less than three </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">decades... that is married to </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">you!"</span></span><br />
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