London London Burning Right!

This is a terrible news that teenagers are on the rampage in London.Thousands of Police are posted to control them. They are behaving like hooligans.They demanded jobs and other amenities. Their demands may have justifications but this is not the way that grievance can be redressed. Whom these young people are really targetting is not very clear. The government may be but this has affected general life of the people in Britain. Life is becoming very much insecure and unsafe. In this land of Shakespeare, such uncivilised things can happen , it is really painful even to think. Children are nowadays very much unruly.'Spare the rod , spare a child'- this adage is now very true . Our children are getting uncontrollable. Even for a Cadbury chocolate bar , a child can kill his or her mom. Obedience is gradually disappearing. The more disobedient and unruly the childrn become, the smarter they are in the eyes of the parents. But this kind of pampering will have its consequences. Things are going beyond control. There should be some restraint to be imposed on the children. In a recent Bengali film, Icche the story is told. The mother wanted to make her son one of the best. May be true, that the mother is too much interfering and imposing. But the brilliant son is just spoilt. He protests against his mother's restraints very rudely. He could be an engineer or a doctor or a professor of Oxford as the mother dreamt. But he just spoilt himself. He turned to a mediocore. He got a very petty job. All these he did , only to pressurise and humiliate the mother. He did not sit for exams and he did not study seriously. Whom will he blame later life? He wanted to be a man of flesh and blood, and not to become a robot. But one child can be a man after being fully accomplished. Freedom does never mean anarchy. A child should be kept under control till he gets a strong footing in the real world. Unless a child is not given proper education, there is a possibility of his getting lost.Then this kind of situation prevails. Hooliganism cannot be the answer. First , seek your answer in your own accomplishments. It is not wise to waste time in the golden youth and then turn a hooligan to pressurise parents and the government that there is no job . Jobs may be waiting for them if they are ready to join the jobs. But where is the readiness in the youth? They waste time in nonsense and one is friendship.In the name of friendship , teenagers spoil their life. Love and marriage are natural things and they should occur only when the time is ripe .

Price Hike of Petrol and Gas

Why is the Central Government allowing this price hike in Petrol and Diesel ? Even kerosene or Cooking Gas is not spared from the price hike. This will accelerate the pace of price rise all over the country. The railway, Bus or Airways fare will be automatically increased.
Common people will be affected worstly. But the most painful thing is that prices do not come down when the international market reduces the oil price. Once it is hiked, the oil price goes on rising. This affects the economic stability worstly...

Mediocrity prevails in colleges under WBSU

Colleges of WBSU like Dum Dum Motijheel College, Motijheel Rabindra Mahavidyalaya, Sarojini Naidu college, Sarada Ramkrishna Mission College, East Calcutta Girls college and Bidhannagar Govt College - in fact colleges which are in the vicinity of the Kolkata city itself will face more problems as students are trying first for admission in the colleges under Calcutta University. This is expected as the new university WBSU is yet to gain its credibility.The mistakes and errors committed by the university in the Website should be removed. More efficiency should be shown in tackling the administration. Rural and semi urban colleges under the WBSU will not face such problems because students of those localities will take more interest in studying in local colleges. Colleges of Kolkata are suffering after being taken by WBSU.At times these colleges were crowded by better students. Now only the mediocre and the less meritorious students are coming for admission.

Satyjit Ray's documentary 'Rabindranath Tagore'

Satyajit's Ray's documentary is more than a film. In his Rabindranath Tagore he has captured not only the life of the poet, but the rhythm of the time in which Tagore lived.He has delineated so vividly the intellectual milieu in which he was born and brought up. Tagore grew up rather than being brought up. His spirituality, his poetical approach to life and his world vision are all developed slowly. His grandfather , his father and his brothers have all inspired him. In him the ideas of the Tagore family are all assimilated. Ray has beautifully captured the slow process of development. The Film is almost a bildungsroman in audio-visual form...

Lucy Gray : A Critical Note

Lucy Gray is not one of wordsworth's Lucy poems which were written under the inspiration of Rousseau's Emile. It is rather a traditional form of ballad in which the poet narrates a tragic story of a lonely girl of the moor. She was sent by her father to go on a look out for her mother who went to town. The girl on her way was lost in the snow storm on the moor. The story of Lucy Gray was based on a real incident narrated by Wordsworth. The death of the girl really happened at Halifax.This is not a typical Wordsworthian poem in which Nature is depicted as a source of joy. Here nature is terrible in the form of snowstorm which causes death to an innocent village girl. In the Lucy poems Lucy who was brought up by Nature also died . But her death is not so tragic as that Lucy Gray's. But in Lucy poems Wordsworth feels that Lucy after her death on the heath is not lost. The poet speaks of his own personal belief " O, the difference to me!".Lucy in the poem 'The Education of Nature' after her premature death remains alive in the elements of the heath. Here also the poet more in the spirit of a ballad writing refers to the popular belief that she is alive and is heard singing a solitary song.
Dr Ratan Bhattacharjee (RBSir)