From: dchatterjee@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
Subject: Bengali culture for net.bhadraloks
Date: 28 Dec 92 22:58:13 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

In article <SHUBU.92Dec28105145@green.cs.wisc.edu>, 
>shubu@cs.wisc.edu (Shubhendu S. Mukherjee) writes:
>...... (deleted)...... 
>DC> Wow ! Look who's talkin' now ! E.M.S Namboodripad at Vijaywada Congress ???
> 
> DC> Politically correct ? What's that, " Comrade Mukherjee " ????????
> 
> (Being politically correct is to call the homeless "residentially 
>  handicapped" :-))

  I see ! So that's what has been the revisionists standpoint, is it ? FYI,
  comrade what would be the "politically correct term" for the Bosnian strife ?
  And what did the Books say about Somalia ???? I heard that BONGO-UDDHAR
  SAMITI (alias alt.culture.bengali) will be controlled by political perverts -
  thanks to a bunch of red-morons I know.
> 
> However, you will never change, Mr. Chatterjee!   I am afraid that this 
> type of posting might dominate alt.culture.bengal once it's created. 
>

  Actually the type of fear ("TYPE: RED !!!!!") has now infected many of the
  post-1977 youths - depressingly expressive of a malady - known as HOLLOWNESS
  INCARNATE. Perhaps you are a victim comrade ! Did you go to a Doctor ??? Or
  maybe a shrink ???? 

  If (we) People of the Brain choose to dominate alt.culture.bengali, then
  Rabindranath Tagore will have to descend from his balaka to protect his
  "great-great-grandchildren" (ideological 8-)). Now, that is a hyperbole ;-).
  For ye who believe ! Fear not ! Behold the Bongo-Uddhar Samiti will have
  more to do ! As you know, today's Bengali means some red-jackal reading some
  goddamn morning toilet-paper (alias GANASHAKTI). Yuck !!! Sucks !!! 

  BTW, forgetting the appropriate diatribe (as above), what are you going to
  achieve by subscribing to the alt.culture.bengali ??? What do you hope to
  contribute ? Why such an elitist attitude like (p)Marxists that - I am holier
  than thou ? By judging what you write, please think on the following:
 
  (1) What is Bengali literature ? 

  (2) How is Rahul Sankirtyan different from Saratchandra or Satinath Bhaduri ?

  (3) In what class can you place Bhibhutibhusan Bandhopadhyay ?

  (4) How did Victoria Okampo influence Tagore ?

  (5) What is the place of magical realism in Bengali literature ???

  (6) Talking about culture, what exactly is Bengali culture ? Is it the 
      " babu " culture or is it a sum-total of everything ? Rather how do
      you define culture ? If Tagore was a Bengali, the why did he use the
      piano to compose tunes to his songs ? (He used the traditional Bengali
      instruments as a later addition.)

  (7) Is Debabrata Biswas a classical Rabindrasangeet singer ?

  (8) How about movies ? Did you read Satyajit's: Our Films, Their Films ???
      Who influenced Ray to make movies in Bengali, and, in what year ?????

  (9) What about contemporary Bengali literature ? Is it "apasanskriti" or
      Ganasanskriti ?????? Why and why not ????

  (10) Did you read the translated/ edited version of Jaydev's "Geetgovinda" ?
       (I read the edited one, and, found it according to Ganashakti's
        cultural-barometer - quite putrid. Should it be banned ???)

  (11) In which dynasty did the teracotta culture (did you go to Bhirbhum and
       Bankura) come to Bengal (Rahrbhum) ??? (tarashankar !!!)

  (12) Why do you / or do you not think Bengali femails (8-)) are sexy ????

  (13) What is the main contribution of Jibonananda to Bengali poetry ???

  (14) Who is the only poet after Jibonananda, to write in no-rhyme style
       and win accolades ????? (He was also a marxist. No, not Sukanta !!!)

  (15) The CPI(M) party just managed to spend quite a lot of money in the
       recent "Vidyasagar" divas !!!!! (It is Vidyasagar whom they ascribed
       in 1969, along with the Naxalites, as spy of the British Imperialism.
       What do you think of that ???)

  Plus on and on and on ...........

    In this age of communication, we may profit by coming out in the open and
    not entering into seclusion. Thus, I suggest you to re-think about taking
    a plunge into the bandwagon of alt.culture.bengali. (Just read Tagore's
    Religion of Man, and, you might feel rising above the clarion calls of one
    peevish, prattlesome, sectarian Bijoy Sagar. I guess he hails from Assam.)

 
> Bijoy, you should propose a moderator for alt.culture.bengal.  
> 
  This is really cowardice, comrade !!!! Why should you (Bir Bangali) be
  afraid and need a moderator ?????

> 
> Luck!
> -Shubu
> --

    In passing:

    " .... Make me love you...
           Kiss and Hug you,
           Touch me !! Touch me !!
           All night long ....    "


        - deb chatterjee
       (a good samaritan)

   P.S: Don't be influenced by others.
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