Sipra,s Diary: JAN 2, 2020,Back To New York

                                                   
                                                    Back to New York from Calcutta


It was Jan2nd Our flight touched the land of JFK, NewYork at dawn-,5:30 .After the security check

and  luggage-collection we took Uber at 6:A.M .....Outside was still dark .....

Each and every dawn and  evening  are always special  and auspicious to me; So,on the way to my

apartment the calm and quite morning  with the touch of the soft mild glow of the sun revealing the

sleeping city carefully  just like a doting mother to her beloved baby,  offered a visual buffet to me !

 This revealing of day from the dark appeals to me as the very  First  Dawn of the  Planet Earth with


 her magnificent beauty of Nature as well as man-made  sky scraper, high-rise half dark buildings

 with blinking windows, opening her  dreamy eyes to drink her own beauty and flushing red  in

romance like a new bride, as the rising sun, her first love openly embracing and kissing her ....
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The cab was running parallel by the river Hudson; People of the city are still in slumber; Even the

 river Hudson was lying still under the quilt of fog .

I reached my apartment with the feeling of a wandering bird coming back with empty stomach in its

own nest. "

"Empty " stomach --- because I don't get any psychological nutrition of my expectation while

staying in India for last couple of years. I  made plan  to do something before going but most of them

remained unfulfilled. I wished to visit some  close aged relatives  staying scattered in the metro

city I was born and accomplished higher studies but I could not go alone..The city with new costume

is difficult for me to go here and there: Old roads with new names and new fly-overs hiding the

known roads banished me in confusion To my delight ,I saw some buses ,protecting their identity

still  run with  old numbers to old destination. Whether shabby-looking shops or buses with old 

 names, became animate to me: very much  vibrant ; they glanced at me ,  "hmm You !you look

somewhat familiar, are you-"?


  I remember-   T-2  International Airport in Mumbai is  really huge and a baroque piece of art and

grandiose. The executive lounge is more luxurious than the Persian Palace ..........Let  the caption

"India  is rising" float or swing and let me basking on that picture. It is true,the economic condition of

people as a whole has suddenly improved. We have to seek now poor people to donate our old

clothes or left over food.  Even up to 2007 this airport looked like a den :dirty, smelly and reigned by

mosquitoes.I could not sit in the lounge: I left as soon as my son with newly wedded wife entered the

for check -in- luggage  section..

..Our flight was at  12:45 AM from T-2 terminus. So after couple of

hours watching on the map root of our flight I fell asleep  almost twelve hours.


We reached  at 5;30  in JFK airport of New York ;I felt not only sad but shame for  the  unadorned           
basic  look of  the  New York airport which is  globally supposed to be the best.    JFK airport,

the most glorified  global place looked so ordinary compared to yesterday's T-2 airport of

Mumbai! As if, I landed from the  bright heaven to the  muddy earth . All around the crowd of

passengers were mostly Asians and miscellaneous . Had  this  dream -land of the  world  really

  turned into a  common place open for anyone to enter in?


I remembered the story of "Happy Prince " [[of Oscar Wilde]]  who was bereft of all royal grandeur

 with the help of a little swallow who took shelter under the feet of prince's' statue, gave away all his

jewels from his body, one by one, even the gem from his eyes, to remove  tear and poverty of all the  needy    people of his city.

What was the ultimate result?

 When  the city aldermen saw   the bare and ugly  iron statue of the Prince ,they ordered  the statue 

 to be   thrown  away from the lofty pedestal to replace by another new piece of art which would

glorify the city.

    Is it desirable  that the  fate of New York city -cum-United States of America to become   like

that of the fabled story of the HAPPY PRINCE ? I remembered couple of years ago President Trump

once lamented about the NY JFK airport that it seemed, as if, he landed in some third world country

compared to Beirut or Beijing airport. Trump as president might be novice ,and aberrant in speech

or  behavior; but as an  American, no doubt,   he loves the country deeply .  Otherwise , he

would not have felt that type of  pinch.  Only unflinching love can stir up  similar

feeling from the heart;though this type of love is considered as  narrow and selfish  from idealistic

point of view.

                             Did any president of US ever had such feeling or comment before? ....Might be

with Lincoln or Hamilton, or.......................
                                                                              Sipra  Roy                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              ********************************

Poem: "LET IT BE"( TO JOHN LENON )

         


                                                           LET IT BE : Sipra Roy



                  It is easy to say or  sing,

                 'Let it be ,  let it be,'

                 But hard to accept or abide by,

                 While mind is crazy,

                 To own the desired part of the universe;

                  When heart howls:

                 'Let me possess what I wish'

                  How can I sing along, 'let it be'?

                  When mind desires more and more

 

                  Keeping throat thirsty as before,

                  How to say 'let it be ,let it be '

                 I think, when life was in topsy-turvy

                 Only then it was composed by John Lenon 

                 To mitigate  self -consolation .

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Did you sing?//or Yell from the labyrinth//

Tearing heart's string?  

When last hope goes of /

/IN the blackhole of devastation

Let it be stands for 

Nothing but Surrender //
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Shoes: ...............New-Age-Crown !I

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Sometimes Ad-world behaves so funnily They are crazy to exhibit their excellence, their novelty in creativity! The above image of the woman is an advertisement for the shoe and not of any gym.

Purpose of the shoe is to protect feet while walking on-road and also sometimes for the elegancy,  whereas crown on the head is a ''symbol of pride and majesty''.
                                                                        Though shoes of some branded company are as expensive as the crown, but shoes are shoes, simply footwear.  In the nineties, the "Reebok "was considered something as the owner's pride and neighbour's envy" in India.  My son and my husband both had that  But I was not aware of how prestigious they were. 
About 30/35 years back I read an article of some Harvard-researcher that in coming future the pattern of our social system will be like"" inverted pyramid" that is upside down as contrary to the then present time hierarchical society. With the stepping of new millennium everything, in every system is changing at a faster pace.I notice this advertisement of the shoe just opposite to the silvery globe of Columbus  Circle.  To me, it seems ridiculous. I hid my face to release a cryptic chuckle.
I remembered the"article I read long ago"  ïnverted pyramid ".
Is this Ad a  literally ' vivid sample'  or debut of 'metaphorical symbol'?Head is rested on the footpath with legs in ornated shoes stretched up to the sky (  on the huge showcase glass of the shop.)!

Sipra's Diary : MONOLOGUE: " Life know not ......

                                                      ..........MONOLOGUE...........

"Life know not what thou art!"
"Why are we always so apart from each other?
Head and heart never aligned; Always in a tug-of-war;
When you are ready to take me where once I desired,
My mind, by the time, shifted elsewhere!

Some morning I woke up joyfully, with a light heart. I plan to do this and that. It seems something will happen, But very often the day ends in the halfway with dampened mood. I ask myself what was my expectation? What did I fail to achieve? Apparently, the value of success or failure of my own has declined. But actually, it is not true. I feel it when I am affected by small success or failure.
                                              Life! know not what thou art!

Poem for POETS'GATHERING AUTUMN NOV 4,2019

             POEM :AUTUMN  ( 2019 )




At last, disapproving global warming,

Autumn has knocked on the door,

Though little late, but no way to escape

From the grip of Nature's routine.

The wind whispers the message

With chilli touch to the  palpitating  plants

That it is time for losing all her offsprings;

The leaves: who are  turning yellowish

And  are trembling in fear to bid 'goodbye'

 To family  friends and siblings;

The mother plant console them not to become upset

She will bring   them back  to her lap  soon

With new life and added vigour of the spring

Welcomed by twittering birds and fragrant flowers!
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Sipra's Diary :Enigma of the Financial world.

       The financial world is a giant gambling place almost like a casino in Las Vegas. But far more complicated to apprehend, far more fatal. Because it is planned and operated not by any lifeless mechanical machine but by the Frankenstein's brain -in -human and affected the lives of all people in the country; no matter whether people are willing to join or not,, they become 'part 'of the gambling game and not as mere 'viewers' but receivers or victims. With the advent of globalization, the after-effect is not limited to one country but affects globally. As it has been a cliche that if the butterfly flutters its wings in one corner of the sky, it may cause a tornado to other parts of the world.
In Casino game, there is an option for the people to choose whether they wish to take risk of playing or sit to enjoy as viewers ..

Financial World strides with pride differently; it is not based on any strict Principles of ethics or scientific method. Perhaps no scientific formula works! The target of the Financial world is only to create wealth. It is not based on the formula of 2 +2 =4. When  2+ ever-oscillating behavioural psychology of customers are added to the power of 2, then the outcome might be 40  or only 0 instead of a' definite 'result of 4. There is no way than to watch patiently for the future.  

That is why this zone is very volatile, and uncertain.' Boom and Bust' is their banner; Resembles true character and fate of bubble! This is the tragic paradox where we have to live and survive. 

In 1950s Carlos Ponzi, an Italian swindler became a billionaire  by following a theory like "Rob Peter, pay Paul ".It became popular as' Ponzi-scheme', not only in the western world but in other parts also proliferated. Multiple bonds of similar type were sold. 

In India, there were Peerless company, "Sonchoyita", "Sarada'. 'Techno-India'"  Money-Matter, Rose valley and many others, It benefitted the middle-class and low middle class as well as the founders who became a millionaire  in a short period.  But "Sonchoyita' "Sarada "no more exist. They melt down suddenly with scandal. Some of the founder father ended life with suicide. Those who were efficient they escaped by changing their skin or colour by swiping money to another field Best way for these swindlers to escape is to align with some non-profit organization, a hospital for destitute, Old Home etc. Peerless is still reigning with prestige by investing in hotel hospital real estate and another philanthropic field.

It  is really confusing to me to understand  the relationship between 'corruption' and the booming economy of a country.................

"India is rising,"China is rising"!All the so-called rising countries are known as "BRIC" notoriously dishonest and full of criminal activities.
In my limited experience, I noticed that since 2005 the people we knew as 'poor' suddenly climbed a higher economic ladder. Many house-maids in our neighbourhood borrowed money from householder they worked,  for making houses on the land got from the government in the outskirt of the megacity.........

Is the mathematical formula of uprising economy is based on 
corruption?

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Sipra's Diary : Mission.com and View of I Q

                                                                   IQ


It is good to know from Mission.com  that even big companies like Google, Apple and others are looking for new trend other than the traditional ways of grade and branded University for recruitment in their companies. Welcome to their new venture .Many times ordinary people do extraordinary job in solving problem if they are given chance.Of course, IQ covers one's 'presence of mind', but 'presence of mind' is something more: it is 'apprehension' coupled with the powerful ability of solution which needs individual's passion, and IMAGINATION.But mostly the talents of these people remain  under the shadow of big bosses or lost as unrecognized.
The grade and branded university should never be undervalued to keep up the standard ; but  if others with  creative minds are selected to be interviewed  parallel with them,then brilliance of the brilliants will shine more .Like the story of racing competition between rabbit and tortoise, brilliant will not be too confident  about themselves to win and rest under a tree like the over -confident  rabbit. Instead they will always be on alacrity to save their ego of superiority, which is beneficial to the companies they give service.
Another scientific fact about IQ is that its span is from 9months to 9 years of age.  There is an adage that if you don't learn at 9 years then you won't in even at 90. (In Bengali,"Jaha noi noye,taha noi nobboye").
So IQ doesn't develop after the 9 years of age  but  other mental faculties like thinking ,feeling, and willing go on change  forever: they may  either develop or deteriorate.  So people of average IQ but mentally enriched have  high potentiality to exhibit  miraculous excellence in their designated sphere.