on quake and new year resolution…

06Sep06

as the world weeps for the people struck by the calamity, i write the last blog of the year awe-stricken by nature and her power… and absolute vulnerability of beings in front of it… may the lost souls lie in rest and may the survivors’ pain be eased and may us help them as much circumstances allow…

i will offer three accounts in this post -

1> there lies the village named ’shurul’ few miles away from my town… on 26th morning the villagers were astonished to see the otherwise still water of the village lake to move from south-east to north-west forming small waves…

2> in bishnupur, a town in eastern part of my state (west bengal) a child went to the pond to pee on 26th morning… he was half in the water when a movement within the water pushed him hard and he fell into it… his head got knocked in some stone, he went unconscious and drowned…

3> a man was murdered around 22nd to 24th of december… his body was tied to something heavy and was thrown into a bog a mile away from my house… on 26th morning his body suddenly soared up and reached surface… all these are accounts of true incidents… please do not feel that i am spinning crazy stories to surprize you… i myself still cannot believe that waters of the world are so much connected that all these incidents are due to the that very unfortunate quake… these might well be co-incidences… but it makes you wonder, isn’t it???

as for new year resolutions, i desire myself to really study in this coming year… areas that i need to explore includes: austrian economics; linguistics and literary theories (especially structuralism and post-structuralism); anthropology, sociology, history and politics of evolution of social structure(s)… and to advance in the quest of giving myself an answer to the very crucial question of which is more fundamentally important – individual or the structure…

*this was posted in my earlier blog on 31st december 2004…


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