Ritendra's Blog

I have never seen the Judiciary being humbled by the Legislative in this republic of ours. The impeachment of  Mr Sen (well Justice he was or rather wants to be once more) is an eyeopener to the proletariat that although some of my lawyer friends might call them Lord or Highness they are nothing more than 'humans' with all the vagaries that comes with it, performing a role. I am sure a humiliated man must be mouthing the choicest of bengali invectives sitting at ones home in salt lake...  And on a personal note i did feel good..... ya i do have a sadistic bend of character n do feel good when the strong and mighty are humbled.

books lying around.............

Jiabi wrapped an old newspaper on her hand, tied it with a rope and was picking the broken pieces of shattered glasses lying all over the tiny Chinese restaurant floor, her grandmother owned. While her other hand stretched and adjusted her skirt to its full length. She had grown too much over the last few years to fit in that old and pale dress. This restaurant being one among the few serving ‘ethnic’ Chinese food to Kolkatans  was always chock a block with customers at this morning hour. But today it remained empty. Jiabi’s grandmother, without putting on the silken red dress, which Jiabi hoped to inherit when she would be a big girl, the only sign of prosperity that they could hold on after migrating here and which covered her crumbled skin and portrayed her ‘ethnic’ Chinese origins when she sat on the cash counter on usual business days, was weeping intermittently and between her sobbing and the gush of despair that she exhaled she kept on saying “how strange is human nature! H...