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An ant tribe in India , in China : The weaver of the modern world just put their days out , days in for only food not any frill

The reminiscence is still so vivid in my memory till date. Twenty years back I came to then Calcutta (now Kolkata) to meet one of my in law. He got the job a for couple of years. A private company , most probably one out sourcing firm or a notch above that. The residence they took near the airport enough dingy alley to put in you a fix about the direction you must move forward. After trying my luck in the labyrinth of the lanes and bye lanes somehow I manage to check in one dorm in the second floor of a shabby building. The young gen are rushing out of the building in morning hours to graze on the job market , the stinky smell of the cowshed in the first floor on which the dorm is been hired to more than four boarders a room sometimes get so over rented that some of the beds need to get hired for two shifts in the day matching with time zone in the call centers where most of the guys are were working or searching jobs for. An impatient youth , the restless hearts are breathing too heavily in the chocking suboptimal environment of surrounding. Its those youth we speak of always to play our demographic advantages over others, the same card our politicians flaunt all the time to our ageing neighbor or older population of waste to show how advantageous we are take on the world near future. These are the same young guys who just rush out of these pigeon holes everyday to work in the kitchenette the back office of flat , crowded worlds bustling or bursting workshop of finance , economy or trading . they are the weaver bird of the whole wired network of supply chain of the every service goods and service companies in the greater world and lastly they are the great Indian youth force languishing in substandard ant holes to launch their careers in a big way.

The next scenery I will depict a suburb in Beijing, the folks staking their family’s last belonging to educate and qualify for big ticket job just landed in capital in aspiration of new life of comfort and decency. Right after landing they get themselves confined in a six bed dorm with untidy washrooms a common passage and the toilets sharing all the inhabitants of the building and lastly running after a job which either enslave them on lot of conditionality or just not allowed to them because of the connection “…” they say in Chinese . A frustrated , young educated workforce languishing in the locality always been addressed as ant tribes just to show their desperacy and number to search out the jobs migrating from villages a blot to the much touted double digit growth of a country basking on super economy power. Another group of restless hearts.

The comparison I have drawn just to turn our head from some excel spreadsheet to some real life fact , from unrelenting raining of statistics from the planning commission and ministry , the continuous analysis of mean , median mode of our demography of workforce to the actual status they are just been forced into. The way these young , upcoming new work force are being treated or should I say the standards they maximum can afford its no where compared to a few IITian or privilege college graduates being recruited from the campus and straight rehabilitate in the cozy campus of the corporate. These grim faced , low waged engineers much more outnumber the those few as well as they are the at bottom of the pyramid of every hierarchy of corporate pillar of the globalized world. They are the founding bricks of every business and they are the main code writers all those million of programme to integrate and run the world economy. Infact it’s a big paradox as well pretentious that the world still suffers from huge discrimination and ethnicity of the class, creed, caste , country(which school, what its pedigree etc) where the technocrats or the architects who are supposed to obliterate these difference are them selves inflicted with over dose of it.

The youth everywhere are same energetic , enthusiastic , enterprising and yes vulnerable to sheer exploitation also. The super clan of professionals just exploit them as ants. They come out of their dingy holes in Kolkata or Peking every morning to get to their job place and come back again in the evening or night on the little sustenance whatever they can afford to. They are as always the lowest paid, least privileged and labor class of the IT sector some got defined as code writer, some are designer and some may be system integrator, the job profile of all these abbreviation will certainly overwhelm the salary structure of these hapless humanoids or human robots living their life sans any complain, any issue.Like  those equally  disciplined(in movement and work)  and disenchanted (from any special aspiration)ants the daily journey of these youth just starts and ends for collection of food not any cultivation of frill or even any fringe incentive .

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Rise of Right is basically Rise of Wrong not Fall of Left in new world order…..

Every alternate person in the world is so upset about Brexit or Trump’s victory misses much harsher truth  and that it is  the same west which reinforced Moore’s law , reinvigorated the free market or took lead to save the mother earth by reversing the climate catastrophe voted for these new power of right(Therese May) or right plus plus(Trump) who swore to  defy and denounce everything the west achieved over the decades or century. This shows that the west got bamboozled with the smoke and mirror of the globalization they created and catered so long without really meaning it .Or else they never wanted to create it in this manner which like Frankenstein ‘s monster simply set to rule or rout them  one day. This time they are also missing another truth which will put them in further regression adding to the recession they already are facing. The new world order is undeniable and axis of coordinating it just got redefined . Gone are those days when the military , money or the muscle (veto in UN , Security council, WB, IMF etc) which ruled the roost. Now it is individual  ie the human brain,  intelligence ( read business intelligence) that excavate and exploit anything and everything out of big data and lastly idea (the crowd sourcing , opensourcing ) flowing seamlessly from the most backward nation to solve or shoot trouble of developed nation which will just redefining the globalization. Clearly rising with their rightist lineage however protectionist this new power may be about their trade or market, however xenophobic they become  with the fear of job loss or competency laggardness , however insanity they show with their sudden dragging the feet on climate control , the world already got metamorphosed with new age thinking which can hardly be reversed and rather reinvigorated by new order . With this sudden retreat or reversion on their thought process the only redemption left for them is loosing their leadership they evolved , earned and enjoyed over the years now by fast becoming mere followers of the new age thinkers (may be now from the east and far east) . The job market and so the economy , trade everything in shifted supply chain or scattered innovation and crowdsourced invention these days keep moving to comparatively advantageous nation irrespective of legacy or old linage of  wealth or well being. The money , material or manpower will populate as well as progress the nation which will shelter them not shove them out or shut the door for them out of induced fear and phobia.

Wish the west better understand it faster or it will be too late for them to come out with another brand like iphone or facebook , google or to dare to design algorithm to connect and convene with other planet much beyond our world. In fact rise of right will simply spell doom for the west shoving them in the wrong and self defeating spiral faster than they thought.

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বাবুদের মাস মাইনে – পার্থ মিশ্র

জীর্ণ শরীরে মোড়কের পর মোড়ক,
নিত্য নতূন এক প্রস্ত পোষাকে ভারী হতে থাকে তার আপাত পিঙ্গল তনু ,
সহস্র জ্ঞানের উন্মেষ নাকি মুক্তির চাপে তার প্রান আজ কেবলই ওষ্ঠাগত।
ক্রমাগত টানাপোড়েন , হয়তো বা বিপরীত দুই মেরূর বলবান তার্কিকের
মাঝে সে এক শীর্ণকায় অভিরূপ।
এক জীবন্মৃত কায়া, আতীত আর বর্তমানের মাঝখানে আটকে পড়া নাকি এক হারিয়ে যাওয়া ভবিষ্যৎ ?
যে আঁতুড় ঘরে তার জন্ম হয়েছিলো কোন এক বিস্মৃত দিনাঙ্কে,
কোন এক নোতুন ভাবনার আভাষে,
আজ তার আর কেউ খোঁজ রাখে না।
সেখানে এখন ক্ষমতা আর দম্ভের আলিন্দে ঘোরাফেরা করা ঊ তনের শব্দ এবং ব্যখ্যার সুউচ্চ ইমারত।
অকারন বাক্য বিন্যাস আর প্রশ্নোত্তরের ক্রমাগত পাশা খেলা , বন্ধক রেখে সময়কে , সিদ্ধান্তকে।
গন্তব্যটা হারিয়ে গেছে বহুকাল , এখন সেখানে শুধুই ঘূর্ণাবর্ত জটিল আর ফেনিল বহু চর্চিত জ্ঞান রাশিতে।
চক্রাকারে ঘুরতে থাকা কতগুলো নিয়ম নিগড় বাঁচিয়ে রাখে এক পথচলা , ক্লান্তিহীন , ক্লেশহীন আর দিশাহীন।
আর তার সাথে বাঁচিয়ে রাখে বাবুদের মাস মাইনের জীবিকাগুলো।
বেঁচে থাকো হে অফিশ ফাইল আর বাঁচিয়ে রাখ আমাদের।
আমরা তোমার শতায়ু কামনা করি।

পার্থ মিশ্র

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ঊষ্ণায়ন(global warming) -১ পার্থ মিশ্র

ঊষ্ণায়ন(global warming) -১ পার্থ মিশ্র

উন্নতি , সভ্যতা , অগ্রগতি  এইশব্দগুলোর আজ খুব বাড় বাড়ন্ত ।

 ভোরের কুয়াশা ফালাফালা করে চিরে ফেলে নতুন সূর্য  সেই সাত সকালেই ,

শত আলোকবষ দূর থেকেও তার  সোজাপথে  আর কোন বাধা রাখেনি ছিন্ন বিচ্ছিন্ন ওযোন স্তর ।

উন্নতির উত্তাপে আজ পৃথিবীর মানুষ সেঁকে নিচ্ছে শরীর দিনভর রাতভর…

শিশির ভেজা ভোর আর বৃষ্টি ভেজা রাত গুলো আর অকারনে কবিকে উত্তক্ত করেনা ,

ফেলে আসা ছায়াপথ , পুরান কথা , লেপ মুড়ি দিয়ে ঠাকুমার গায়ের ওম শুধু স্মৃতি হয়ে  বেঁচে থাক অতীতের কথা কাহিনীতে।

ধরাশায়ী মহীরূহগুলো তার শেষ গল্প টুকু নিয়ে ট্রাকবাহী হয়ে চলেছে কাঠকলে  ।

সামনে শুধুই মসৃ্ন পথ,প্রশস্ত , নাব্য আর প্রখর অগ্রগতি সটান ………।।

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ঊষ্ণায়ন -২ পার্থ মিশ্র

ঊষ্ণায়ন -২

 

ধীরে ধীরে কোথায় হারিয়ে যাচ্ছে সেই সব ভালোলাগা চিত্রকল্পগুলো ,

ধোঁয়াটে রক্তিম হয়ে গেছে বনলতা সেনের সেই পাখীর নীড়ের মতো দুই চোখ ।

নক্ষত্রের আকাশ আমি আর দেখিনা সেখানে কেবলই বিষাক্ত কার্বন ,

অমৃতের পুত্র আমরা প্রকৃতিকে দিয়ে গেলাম হাতে ধরে সেঁকো বিষ ।

নিজেরই প্রজন্মের ফুসফুসে ভরে দিলাম আমাদের কীর্তিকলাপের সর্বনাশা কার্বন কণা ।

দরজায় কড়া নাড়লে দেখি ডাক হরকরা বয়ে আনে ক্ষয়ের আর বিনাশ কালের নিত্য নতুন খবর ,

এখানে খরা , ওখানে ঝঞ্ঝা, মহামারী এক প্রদেশ থেকে আরেক প্রদেশে , এক মহাদেশ থেকে আরেক মহাদেশে ।

উত্তপ্ত পৃথিবীতে আজ দেখি মারণ কীটের মহাভোজ ।

কান পাতলেই শুনি ভেঙ্গে চলেছে দ্রুতলয়ে মেরু প্রদেশের হিমশৈল  ।

আর মৃত হেলবাট মাছেদের সারি সারি শব ডাঙ্গার উপর ,

তাদের শেষ আস্তানাটুকুও গতকাল শুষে নিয়েছে গ্যাস কোটরে আটকে পড়া তপ্ত সূর্যের টুকরোগুলো ,

আজ আর সেখানে বৃদ্ধরা তাদের পুরাণ গাথা শোনায়না

গল্প-গাথা  হারিয়ে গেছে প্রকৃতির ভয়ঙ্কর বেখেয়ালে ।

প্রবীণ কৃষক বুঝি আবহ ভাষা ভুলে গেছে বহুকাল ।

প্রকৃতির কোল ঘেঁষে থাকা মানুষগুলো তাই আজ খুবই ভীত ও উদ্ভ্রান্ত ।

কবির কলম থেমে গেছে বহুকাল , ধানসিঁড়ি নদী আজ এক মজা শুকনো নালা , নাকি তাও নয় !

আর আমরা সেই শ্রেণীবদ্ধ জল্লাদের , এক জীবন্ত বিজ্ঞাপন ।

অকুতোভয় সভ্যতার চীর অভিলাষী এসব দেখেও দেখিনা ।

জনপদ উজাড় করতে আমরা তাই রেখে গেলাম সহস্র অর্বুদ কার্বন-পদ চিহ্ন আর অর্জিত তীব্র ধিক্কার,

আমাদেরই সন্তানের জন্যে এক ধোঁয়াটে ভবিষ্যৎ ।

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অপরাহ্ন-২ – পার্থ মিশ্র

অপরাহ্ন-২

শীতের শহর এলোকেশী

ইচ্ছে করে বসতে পাশে,

শীতের শহর গুডের পিঠে

ইচ্ছে করে আঁচ পোয়াতে ।

 

আমার শরীর বেজায় ভেজা

আগুন তারে জ্জ্বালতে নারে,

তোমার তাপে ইচ্ছেতো তাই

শুধুই আমার মন সেঁকে নিই ।

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অপরাহ্ন-১ – পার্থ মিশ্র

অনেক দিন পরে তার মুখোমুখি হলাম,

মোটা জুলপি,চোখ আগের থেকে অনেক বেশী উজ্জল

কপালে বলিরেখা স্পষ্ট ,চামড়া ঈষৎ শিথিল ,

যতটুকু জানি , ও তো নিয়মিত যোগাভ্যাস করতো।

 

অনেক দিন পরে তার সাথে কথা হল,

ও এখন বেশী নৈশব্দঃতেই উত্তর দেয়

সকালের শীতার্ত বুনোপথ ,শেষ বিকেলের একাকী বক আল পথ ঘিরে ঠায় দাঁড়িয়ে,

সবে সাঞ্ঝবাতি জ্বালানো ঝোপ জোনাকির পাশ কাটিয়ে হিমেল অন্ধকারের উকি ঝুকি, এ সব কিছুই তার চোখের গভীরে আঁকা ছিল।

ফেলে আসা গল্প গাথা, প্রেম , অপ্রেম সব কিছুই ঘুরপাক খাচ্ছিল ওর অব্যাক্ত চাহনিতে।

তার সেই সমাহিত শান্ত ঠোঁট দুটোতে শেষ বন্যতার কোন ছাপ খুজে পেলামনা।

 

অনেক দিন পরে আমরা দুজনে কিছুটা হেঁটে নিলাম।

চেনা অচেনা অনেক গন্ধ রঙ তাকে ছুয়ে যাচ্ছিলো , কেউ বা আলতো করে চুম্বন,

আবার কেউবা একটু এগিয়ে এসে, একটু সঙ্গে হেঁটে নিল , তার গায়ের সেই দুর্বার ওম পেতে,

প্রতিটি বাঁকই তাকে পেতে সোহাগ ভরে হাত বাড়িয়ে ছিল,

পায়ের নিচে ঝরা পাতাগুলো শব্দ করে নিজেদের টুকরো করছিল, ভাঙছিল , ছড়িয়ে যাচ্ছিলো প্রচণ্ড উদ্বেলিত , শিহরিত এক অভাবিত ভালবাসায়।

আর ও এক নির্মোক , নির্লিপ্ত চলমান স্মৃতি, চারিদিকে রকমারি রঙের আগুনকে উস্কে দিয়ে যাচ্ছিলো।

ওর এই নরম উষ্ণতা আমাদের ছাড়িয়ে শেষ বিকেলের আকাশে গোধূলির রঙ নিচ্ছিল।

 

আজ আমারও ওর সাথে আলাদা কোন কথা ছিলনা ,

ছিল শুধু আরও কিছু পথ নিঃশব্দ হেটে যাওয়া ,

যতক্ষন না সন্ধে নামে।

 

 

 

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you are defined by your leisure you engage ( beyond only enjoying) with , not by the labour you employ into…..

the show is yet to start , why not learn some stick tricks: leisure at it’s best…. through the lens of madhukari

You are not known by your labour which is the other name of the job (with it’s profile whatever) you are supposed to do or you are being paid for in your working place as there are very few scope of improvising the presumed profile although you can reengineer the process to certain extent and that also with approval of hierarchy which normally do not encourage in radicalisation apart from some incremental change .

Instead of your labor , it is the intermittent leisure, which defines you, denotes your exclusivity.

In your leisure, you got full authority to improvise, innovate and invent the way, the work , your life the narratives of them thus everything you do while using it(leisure). You can use it intelligently; you can use it insipidly also. You can simply spend it with deeper engagement in your thinking process to explore anything and everything in life, in the world or you can just splurge it putting your whole thinking in down time whether it is in your own terrace or in your favorite tourist spot. Actually any leisure is not to rest rather to reinvent and reenergize yourself for not only preparing for the best in everywhere but for the next which will be your new destination ,still unchartered still unexplored. No boundary, no confinement , no presumption. In your territory of leisure you are the sole hero and you can use every bit of it in your own term not any organizational tenets.

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Failing to find your next icon? Do not peep inside the boardroom , you find him or her in the corner room instead…

pruning coal to its most beautiful shape: sometimes action happens beyond the boardroom

It always amazes me when we see in companies, especially in PSUs contractual people delivers best not the permanent employees. Thanks insecurity, thanks demand constraints in job market (even in skilled one because of the absence of right alignment ) the contract workers or outsourced service personnel always deliver the best possible goods or services. Especially in sectors which work in monopolistic environment has always susceptibility to complacency syndrome and a laze faire atitude in each and everything whether in planning or execution simply eats into its energy or excitement. The most unfortunate thing is that instead of the fact so prevailing that the difference of commitment, creativity between the both (own and outsourced) sometimes so blatantly exhibited whether you are enjoying the best blend of coffee in cafeteria or the full flowering in the garden we just don’t even give a cursory look to these guys in desk, dining room or on how they are performing in their job. It is simply at the six sigma level at some places. In one of such places where corporate training being imparted for quarter century , we have observed while the quality of the knowledge and training gets stagnant if not staggered for long (as expressed by the stakeholders) the service quality just gets evolved to huge extent . Service of food, gardening, copy printing, course material collating or compiling (not the content which got decorated hugely) such other everything outsourced got improved a lot. And any glitches there also(in contracted works) just can be rooted to the inordinate delay or indecisiveness of the company (stuffed with slow coaches anyway) just too evasive in everything they do. It is the very lively case study of explaining that the good work must be credited to the engagement and excitement of the contract labours and the discredit certainly be attributed to the laggard leadership.

While joining any new office, every aspirant have so many things in the mind, what is expected, what is committed, how the people will be and ultimately how the job profiles must be. While consciously we keep on seeking answers for each of these question, subconsciously we just keep scouring for our next icon, the role model, the mentor or Guru who will certainly tute us, train us or tag us with their philosophy. It is not necessary these all process have been instituonalised (although great companies embed the exercise in their system itself), sometimes passively the new incumbent find out its role model over the time, over the year or over the tenure. The search is always there inside you and so also the setback when you do not find anybody as such big personality in your eyes. In Public sector specially where the dragging on the same lines are the norm while crossing or breaking it always faces stiff resistance if not complete rejection, failure to find your future personified in some body or person of your aspiration is simply very disappointing. You may try to console yourself with the appreciation of the better of the lot if not bad of the so many worse choices but they cannot be the best matching with the ideals and norms you set for you especially at the beginning of the career. The most tragic part of it while searching your hero, your disappointment (of not of finding anybody such) will dampen your urge to find anybody and gradually denigrate you to be a seasoned pessimist, cynics if not a pseudo performer anyway. In fact in a company enjoying protection ,preserve, privilege by the Govt whether by default or by design of some hidden agendas (a sustaining cash cow, a money minting monopoly etc.), you will always find the mediocrity rules the roast as this type of company needs the smartest compliance master marshalling the best tricks to manage, manipulate everything to retrofit with the demand regulated and restricted.

Now you just extend your boundary of exploration and expedition. The board room may have despaired you, disappointed you but surely the corner room will not. The reception desk will not. The huge sprawling lawn spreading riots of colour and spawning feast & fusion of vusual pleasure with its leaves ,flowers , trunks so meticulous in organisation will not. Just step outside your office corridor or campus gate you will find a big litany of the people , personality in the different domains life beyond any corporate or company culture normally being roped in to design every case study or derive new management theories…………………. to be contd..

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You must credit yourself to be happy enough…

For your happiness to whom you should be thankful to the person, place or the persepective which tender your happiness or yourself who wanted to be happy by whatever been bestowed? The question just gets more philosophical rather than personal more you go deeper of your realisation. As we understand and surely appreciate the fact that happiness gets multiplied once you be able to show your gratitude to the source(which again may be person, process , place or simply a new perspective) , the first initiation or the stimulant is your own approach to each and everything you face whether its eventful or so called nondescript ones. If you are prepared or potent enough to be happy without getting trapped with expectation or aspiration of any kind (which just brews the next cause of frustration as both follows no limit or constraints) , then no force in the world however demonic or devilish it may be just can make you unhappy. You can always  take the world in your own stride. Yes chance is there that the provocation, misinterpretation and ultimately force-feeding you with lots of negativity at least or uttering fatalist philosophy at best to accommodate them(all those so called misfortune or failure) as your predestined and predefined fate accompli , but again you and nobody else should be credited with how  the last time you took it so spirited and sportingly and just impressed upon the event rather than getting suppressed by it. Thus you can exploit every happening with or around you however unwarranted or undesired for you to your advantage to enjoy the takeaway to help you and other to be happy enough. My be this way you can be a direct contributor to the gross national happiness of our nation the most modern measure of development of any country.

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