Sipra's Diary: POEM> >>Cherishing Winter in Covid-19(. Print)

        Print)   Cherishing Winter in Covid-19.      by  Sipra Roy

  Sitting in front of a fireplace,  how nice  to watch the flakes  of snow;

Sipping a cup of steamy coffee  or  lying slanting on a pillow

Under the cosy  quilt; watching  through the glass -window

The enthusiastic tourists skiing on the  white bed-sheet of snow 

Or  enjoying  the fun of  pandemic-pleasure: work-at-home  !

The haunting memory before covid- 19,  going to  office 

Taking hurdles of subway train , bicycle  or metro   bus!

To walk and confront the  chunk of snow  like obstacle race 

However cautious,  treacherous road becomes merciless 

Camouflaged  crystalized snow often play cruel game  to leg;

Forgetting the  physical  pain ,  quick survey whether any witness

Enjoying   free fun,  out of the crowd or  from  any shop through  the  show-case!

But now the prediction of weather-report of  flurries or snow storm

Keeps  the scenario  of busy days not  so volatile to swing  on the opposite pole !

Mass  psychology  is stable in 'apparent'   unpredicted    catastrophe ;

 In  the winter work- at home   is not bad at all , in  prolonged  pandemic!

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Sipra's Diary: (Title?...."GOOD EARTH "!). Print

         (PRINT)                                Good. Earth:   Sipra Roy

I need to mention a "title" for my  own  convenience of searching later on;  but I just stumbled over it  because I  know  the beginning  idea  only ;  Lots of  ideas are jammed in the traffic ; really not sure who will overtake whom .My typing speed is -001,  and  ideas move almost like the speed of  light  but  vanish  more quickly than that from the mind, from the brain .so...........

I read the novel "Good Earth" of Pearl Buck  at the age of early twenty, almost  in my previous birth from  now.It was mini novel. I was   impressed so vividly  by the  very first chapter of  description  of   preparing tea ,  that almost every morning, ( not only I remember), but  visualize :  how the tea-leaves unfurl in the boiling water of saucepan,    and spread  around  to  hide  /cover   water under the leaves ;the steam with aroma conveyed the message  of warm hospitality  to the other room where the old father-in-law with his friends were  chatting!

  This is what  literature means! Which has the intrinsic power to  flow with the blood of the reader to mesmerize the mind!... Since then perhaps I relish my regular  morning tea  from "GOOD  EARTH""

The plot of the novel was based on China ,in 1940's.

Then I finished the whole  series of Pearl Buck, available from a friend of my husband . I. neither knew the author's name before ,nor I used to read novel in English in India.

  Now, I browse the titles  and also read  the summary of few novels that I get to know in the internet .It is ridiculous to know some fictions awarded as "best-selling" are not even up to the literary standard. I am really curious to know the criteria  of choosing to be awarded!   In business books are of course commercial product ,  But there must be some specific "CRITERIA "  to distinguish    any  creative art  from other commercial   commodity product.  Has intellectualism  of judgement  been cremated or buried deep under the burial ground of commercial yard?

"Creative art" should never be democratized. Plato,Aristotle,Chaucer  Milton , Leonardo  daVinci or Darwin created  epochal,  landmark in human history : only One per two millennium .

 I watch PBS channel while  I take breakfast and I feel sad to notice its deterioration  of standard  in several field  compared  to. the past .

I started writing "Blog "  to practice   "typing." I haven't improved because I didn't practice sincerely ;I take long time to  write few lines.

My goal was to write something profound about cosmology from my Realization of mythology from the standpoint of scientific  view . Thank my 'procrastination' that  saved me  to  publish my research- product which is really profound !  I didn't know.   that "internet" is the open market for the marathon of  plagiarism .

I have valuable collections of datas from my Realization. ; but scattered and disorganized .Those were all in pen and paper . My old diaries and note books were  moved in the garage of Calcutta  when the car was sold before coming in US.   Last time,( 3 years ago) I fixed  a contractor  to repair the door of the garage and clean it. but not to damage  the carton-box containing  notebooks. Before coming back to US  I supervised the garage and paid the contractor . I enquired  the carton-box containing my diaries and notebook ( which  spilled -grey matter from Realization).The contractor scratched his head to remember and replied reluctantly "They were taken by the cleaning man collecting trash .

I should move the box prior to give him key.I was shocked and dumb; It  flashed in me how Isaac Newton  lamented ,"O Pluto, if you know what have you done!"

Pluto was the name of Newton's pet; the poor animal turned over the candle-stand over the bundle of  his whole research papers to burn it into ashes, as it jumped to embrace  its  master out of  joy . 

 I lost my wish and good will on internet.  In the beginning  it was as thrilling as romantic love ;I believe "Google ' as super power ; I composed even some   music  of my own lyric about google .I didn't know long time that there are many competitive  browsers. 

    

     I have been a slow reader now. Lots of books are published every week ;a few are impressive . Themes   of  fictions or novels. are based on typical frame :victim of cancer, rape or holocaust ,drug, smuggling  murder. etc .

  I still love to read.  old  children's books : Cindrella, Little Red Riding hood, Alice in Wonderland , Robinson cruseo,  Mr Jekyll and Hyde,   Treasure Island,  Gulliver's Travels , Oliver Twist etc.  Every week   lots of books including children's. comic books are published but not as impressive as those  old one.  Children  are happy to know and spend time with aliens  or legos !  They  don't like  even to hear family stories from.  their grand -ma or seniors . 

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Sipra's Diary:(Reposted) "Dystopian Future". (Post-Covid 19)......lives matter

                     (  Print)                 Dystopian Future

After more than hundred days of Covid -19, I took an evening walk. Though I was able to take a far-sight view from the high-rise building but to use own  physical limbs on side-walk is different from visual sight. My daughter caught hold my hand in the zebra-crossing in such a way, as if am blind or sick. I felt odd and funny.But her  constant running commentary to caution me was little irritating! I decided to take walk by myself alone is better to keep her free from stress,

It strikes me to see the bright erected placards around the entire Lincoln Center with slogan,"Black lives matter"!I was reading each placard silently like 'mantra'. Suddenly it came to my mind ,'why only black lives!' 

All lives and any life is valuable related to the earth. I agree the inhuman police brutality of murdering a black man is a heinous crime in history;I have doubt about that police as not a normal person by observing the way the way he killed!  Some other stand-in polices (or persons) nearby who witnessed passively without restrictions should also be punished.

The African Americans highlighted the incident in such a degree that even the pandemic of covid-19  became less important issue for certain period of  time.They incited  all  records from the  past history of injustice committed to them to stir the violence

.Of course the motivated politicians await  for opportunity to exploit such situation.One particular incident is deployed and mirrored in multiplicity. They forget that the present is not less true or less important than the past.They have survived the turbulent past with courage and bravery to avail of this golden present ;they enjoy the equal rights and facilities in the land of whites  as much as the whites do.

The Black Americans enjoy the honorable seat and position in all portfolios of administrative, legal and judiciary as senator, as judge in Supreme Court and even as President of the country, the highest administrative post for two Terms   What more is expected?

Can it be possible if it were a land of white supremist? 

The word 'rights 'should always followed by 'duties 'hand in hand in democracy. To maintain the law, order and peace a loyal citizen should not foster the past ghost of apartheid (of color ) in mind, either individually or collectively. There are innumerable instances of brutal deaths in Africa year after year ,but hardly any rebellion voice from the African -American is raised to protest; even  most popular talk-show mogul also remained deaf and dumb.  

But here centering any instance, noises turn from mole to mountain easily for the advantage of elaborate freedom of speech! They are fortunate enough that because once their ancestors came as slaves by destiny, so they are. fortunate to be Americans now by law. It doesn't matter whatever their color  of skin says. The truth is that they all share equal rights with the free (white ) Americans whose parents were not brought as slaves.

It is an unwritten principle of politicians that "divide and Rule". This Principe is a tonic or ambrosia in Democratic states where several parties compete with one another and the campaign or game of leg-pulling stays  constant. They use the colour of skin, or other racial differences as triumph card for the battle of ballot box. A loyal citizen should not allow himself to be puppet of any party. America is a country of different races,  religion and lands. No system is flawless; all roses have thorns. Still compared to any other place in this  planet   the  'unity in diversity' still persists firmly in US.   

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