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Monday 7 February 2022

বিদ্যেসাগর মশাইঃ মূর্তি ভাঙা-গড়ার খেলা

 

বিদ্যেসাগর মশাইঃ মূর্তি ভাঙা-গড়ার খেলা ইউটিউব চ্যানেলে এখানে দেখুন

বিদ্যেসাগর মশাইঃ মূর্তি ভাঙা-গড়ার খেলা এখানে দেখুন



The talk (in Bangla) is on the ideology of Iswarchandra Vidyasagar and his social milieu from the perspectives of Philosophy and Marxist Feminism.


Panelists: Saswati Dattaroy, Goutam Majhi, Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay

 

ভাবাদিঘি ও ঠুর্গাঃ "উন্নয়ন" বনাম নিসর্গ

 

ভাবাদিঘি ঠুর্গাঃ "উন্নয়ন" বনাম নিসর্গ ইউটিউব চ্যানেলে এখানে দেখুন

ভাবাদিঘি  ঠুর্গাঃ "উন্নয়নবনাম নিসর্গ এখানে দেখুন

দেবপ্রসাদ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়


There are three talks in this video:

1. In the 2017, when Bhaba Dighi (A fish farm at Goghat, Hooghly district of West Bengal India) was to be forcibly acquired by the government for installing railway track, many environmental activists protested. The (s)talker also participated in this environmental movement and had sent a brief video message (in Bangla) through the social media.

2. Again in 2018, State Government of West Bengal, had decided to build a Pumped Storage Hydroelectric Project at Thurga, (Purulia District, West Bengal, India) with a peculiar idea: water is to be pumped from a lower elevation to a higher elevation through thermal power and then it will be converted to Hydroelectric energy. The idea was taken from the previous ruling party's Hydro Project at Ajodhya Hills (Purulia District, West Bengal, India). Environmentalist again protested against such atrocities against nature. The (s)talker also protested against the violence against the biodiversity of that locality.

3. The (s)talker lastly ridiculed these type of so-called "developmental" projects in a sarcastic way, when he was standing in front of Abbey Falls, Kodagu, in the Western Ghats of Karnataka, India, in 2018.

 

Tuesday 25 January 2022

ঘাটশ্রাদ্ধঃ সমকালে সামচাচার দেশ আর হিন্দুরাষ্ট্রে (?) বর্ণহিংসে

 

ঘাটশ্রাদ্ধঃ সমকালে সামচাচার দেশ আর হিন্দুরাষ্ট্রে (?) বর্ণহিংসে

ঘাটশ্রাদ্ধঃ সমকালে সামচাচার দেশ আর হিন্দুরাষ্ট্রে (?) বর্ণহিংসে

ইউটিউব চ্যানেলে এখানে দেখুন



সাম্প্রতিক কালে ঘটে যাওয়া এমন অনেক ঘটনা আমাদের মানবগোত্রে থিতু হওয়ার প্রয়াসে বাধা সৃষ্টি করছে। বিশ্বজুড়ে উগ্র-ডানপন্থী ফ্যাসিবাদী রাজনীতির উন্মেষ আমাদের অনেকগুলো প্রশ্নের সম্মুখীন করে দিচ্ছে। এই গত দশকে ঘটে গেছে একের পর এক মব লিঞ্চিং, খুন, রাষ্ট্রীয় হত্যা। কাদের? কিছু নিরীহ দলিত, মুসলমান এবং কৃষ্ণাঙ্গ মানুষের! কারা করেছে এসব কান্ড? অতি অবশ্যই রাষ্ট্র-পোষিত কিছু গোষ্ঠী। আমেরিকার ক্ষেত্রে জর্জ ফ্লয়েডকে নৃশংসভাবে হত্যা করেছে সাদা-চামড়ার পুলিশ, এদিকে আমাদের ভারতে বজরং দল, আর-এস-এস-এর মতোন প্রতিষ্ঠান তুলেছে "এক ধর্ম, এক ভাষা, এক বর্ণ"-এর ডাক!

এইরকম কঠিন সময়ে দাঁড়িয়ে বক্তব্য রাখছেন দেবপ্রসাদ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়, উজ্জ্বল দাস এবং অনামিকা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়। সঞ্চালনায় রয়েছেন গৌতম মাজি। শুনলে হয়তো আমরা নিজেদের মনটাকে সঠিকভাবে পরিচালিত করতে শিখব। আনতে পারবো চিন্তাধারার পরিবর্তন, যা আজ বড়ো বেশী মাত্রায় প্রয়োজন। হোক তবে হিঁদু রাষ্ট্র ও প্রাক্তন ট্রাম্প-শাসিত ভূমির "ঘাটশ্রাদ্ধ"!

 

See Also:

My Open Letter to You on Your 'Sacred Thread Ceremony VIEW HERE 

“তোমাদের পৈতেতে আমার খোলা চিঠি” এখানে দেখুন

CASTING THE CASTE: THE HINDUTVAVADINS' HOMO HIERARCHICUS VIEW HERE 

Saturday 22 January 2022

আবাদ করলে ফলতো সোনা...

 

আবাদ করলে ফলতো সোনা...

আবাদ করলে ফলতো সোনা… 

ইউটিউব চ্যানেলে এখানে দেখুন


Abstract

In this webinar, the heinous consequences Green Revolution (that uses the Second World war's poisonous wastes as pesticides and chemical fertilizers with non-indigenous seeds) have been shown by the panelists (Aparajita Sengupta, Debal Majumdar, Tipu Mondal, Ankan Joardar, Nitai Mal, Goutam Majhi and Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay). They also envisaged the "alternative" (?) method of "traditional" farming (parampara cas) by theoretically and practically shunning off the costly buzz word "organic farming" that subscribes Green Capitalism. The panelists were suggesting an ecotopia-- they are advocating for partyless, moneyless, self-reliant, local resource based, dialogue-based participatory and green democracy in the context of facing the consequences of anthropogenic glocal (global+local) heating.

See also: POLYCULTURE: DEFEATING THE MODERN LAB STATE VIEW HERE

Friday 17 July 2020

Appealing for legalizing Active Euthanasia or mercy killing or Physician Assisted suicide in India

To
The President,
Republic of India,
Rashtrapati Bhavan,
New Delhi- 110004
 Sub: Appealing for legalizing Active Euthanasia or mercy killing or  Physician Assisted suicide in India
 Respected Sir,
“If thou cannot save me, why unfurl such deafening arrangements then?”
Rabindranth Thakur

I, the undersigned, probably the citizen of India (“probably”, as the Indian citizen is yet to be proved by the tiresome processes of NPR-NRC-CAA), solemnly declare that I am an atheist or otherwise agnostic, inhabitant of no-nation (cf. Rabindranth Thakur) and an earthian. I am appealing for legalizing Active Euthanasia or Mercy Killing or Physician Assisted suicide as my life has become too burdensome in the Indian republic for the reasons depicted below.
The following statistics (if statistical data are to be believed! According my personal experience, Sahibs blame this country for poor data quality) of India (Population: 135.26 Crores and still counting, July, 2020) speaks for itself about the condition of the country. It has worsened during the catastrophic situation due to COVID-19 outbreak:
  1. Hunger Index: rank 102 out of 117 qualifying countries (2019)
  2. Unemployment rate: 8.74% of the population (2020)
  3. GDP growth rate: 1.9% post-lockdown (2020), following global recession
  4. According to The Economist (2016), India occupied the ninth position in global Crony-Capitalist Index, having crony sector wealth that accounts for 3.4% of the total GDP.
  5. Happiness Index: Rank 140 out of 156 countries (2019)
  6. Corruption Index: Rank 80 out of 180 countries (2020)
  7. Informal sector workers: 93% of the total workforce (2019). Disinvestment is the major reason behind it. Supposed citizens of India used to elect their government to switch over from public sector to private sector. What a paradox!
  8. Availability of Hospital beds: 0.055 per 1,000 population (2020)
  9. Defense Budget: The union government justifiably allocated Rs 3.37 lakh crore as the defense budget for the financial year 2020-21. (compared to 7, it is observed that the death industry is proliferated by the government itself)
  10. Malnourished population: 195.9 million malnourished people (2015-17); one-third of the world’s malnourished children belong to India.
  11. Carbon Footprints: Emission of 2,299 million tonnes of Carbon Dioxide (2018). No visible step is observed to save the planet from the consequences of anthropogenic global heating by the Indian Government. Even there is no anticipatory policy regarding the rehabilitation of climate refugees. Instead, the government is justifiably busy with ostentatious display of statues, temples, anti-green bullet trains etc. along with planned deforestation for mining and other developmental projects.
  12. Poverty index: rank 49. Two-thirds of people in India live in poverty: 68.8% of the Indian population lives on less than $2 a day. Over 30% even have less than $1.25 per day. More than 36 crore Indians still cannot afford three square meals a day. India had 73 million people living in extreme poverty which makes up 5.5% of its total population. India’s top 1% owns half of national wealth.
  13. External Debt is nearly about Rupees 86 trillion (as on 02/05/2020)! However, Indian Government has written off the astronomical figure of money, 68,607 crores owed by the super-rich people at the time of international crisis. The middle-class depositors of the Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited, Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank etc., are undergoing insolvency. It’s a different type of “capital” punishment for them.
  14. Suicide rate: About 800,000 people die by suicide worldwide every year, of these 1, 35, 000 (17.8%) are from India. India now accounts for over a third of the world’s annual female suicides and nearly a fourth of male suicides.
  15. India is also a victim of Lawrence Summers’ (chief economist of the World Bank 1991-93) memo “Let Them Eat Pollution”. Majority of Indians have lost their herd immunity for consuming spurious products of so-called Green Revolution (empirical data not available).
  16. An average human being needs 15 litres of water per day to meet the basic needs and easement, which roughly amounts to more than 50 litres per family. In the rural areas, more than 50% women walk up to minimum 5km on a daily basis for necessary consumption. On an average, they have to undertake 2-3 trips to and fro with earthen pots on their heads (15-20 litres capacity each). Carrying such heavy loads of water on their heads leads to chronic biological complications. Unsafe water also leads to an annual surge in infant mortality. Children of nearly 100 million households in India are left to survive without water. Due to the non-availability of safe drinking water, 2 lakh Indians have to die every year and 600 million of the Indian population encounter extreme water crisis. Kindly note that, I do not have any access to water at my home.
Therefore, I do not have any will to live or extend my life-span in such an unhappy land. Apart from such intolerable pains caused by such macro-reasons, there are other particular individual reasons for my appeal:
1. I am an atheist, or otherwise agnostic, therefore, I am not fit for the ruling party’s ideology, which unofficially propagates mono-religious Indian state. Moreover, as a Homo sapiens sapiens, I am against all sorts of discrimination based on caste and creed. Therefore, I must be killed without pain. Kindly note that Narendra Dabholkar, M. M. Kalburgi, Govind Pansare, Gauri Lankesh et al. were mercilessly killed for raising dissenters’ voice. All of them were Homo sacers as it was defined in the ancient Roman Law.
2. As I said earlier, following Rabindranath Thakur, that I am an inhabitant of no-nation and am confident enough to erase (at least mentally) the arbitrariness of imagined geographies based on some modular forms, viz. race, religion, language etc. Therefore, I am an “anti-national” and atheist inhabitant/occupant of this land. Thus, I am opposing the pathological nationalism contrary to the ruling party’s ideology. Therefore, I must be killed with honour and without further pain.
3. Despite serving a Central Government-funded autonomous academic institute for almost 28 years, I could not satisfy the demands of that institute. So, I did not get my due promotions. Therefore, I must further be punished for spoiling an esteemed academic institute’s reputation and corporate agenda.        (My partial CV is available here: https://spbu.academia.edu/DEBAPRASADBANDYOPADHYAY)
4. I lost a huge amount of money for attending a prestigious non-residential fellowship at the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Ministry of HRD, Mysore, in 2003, as that was considered as residential fellowship according to the whims of the then director. This was also a “capital” punishment for me.
5. My hard-earned arbitrary money-signifier deposited in an AAA-rating company is stuck in a shadow-bank (approved by the RBI) due to insolvency and lengthy bureaucratic procedure. It is alleged that the ruling party along with the underworld have taken donations from this shadow bank. It is unbearable pain for me and my family. Therefore, I must legally be killed without pain so that my family can get their insurance dues without any legal obstructions.
6. Despite being a tax-payer, I do not get any easement (for example, water, electricity etc. [I could not satisfy the itching palms of the municipal personnel]) from the welfare state. I have to arrange it on my own. I have adopted rooftop rainwater harvesting system.
7. As I am taking the electric connection from a private company, so also I have to take help from private hospitals for healthcare. The police did not provide me and my family security, though informed earlier through G.D., by anticipating the likely consequences, when I was attacked by a gang of goons on the 10th of February, 2019. Therefore, I am feeling insecure in this state.
8. I must confess that I am also a misogynist, a patriarch and an adulterous man (as justifiably alleged by the others along with my family-members) as I am physically torturing my family for imposing or indoctrinating  my own anti-social ideology; Thus the phallus of Oedipus or Yayati (metaphor for fascism) is embedded within my heart. And I support such neurotic attitude. Therefore I must be punished for such crime. I do not have any right to live.
I think, following Arthur Schopenhauer, that death is the purpose of life (i.e., being-towards-death). Denial of being-towards-death entails will to life, i.e., will to power (it is manufactured by the other. Despite the fact of state-sponsored death industry i.e., manufacturing arms and ammunitions, the welfare state can do no wrong. On the contrary, the statutory warning in the tobacco packets: “Cigarette Smoking is injurious to health”, is made mandatory by the welfare state-itself—state is taking care of our health. What a paradox! That “will to live” further entails will to suffer. Who does welcome sufferings? Therefore, self-annihilation or buying death (in the context of capitalist society) is epistemologically acceptable. To summarize: “will to live” entails will to suffer.
In this way, by voluntarily desiring death penalty (India is among the 55 countries, out of 195 countries of the world that still retains the capital punishment) as my legal human right, I am also legitimizing the sovereign state as an omniscient object of my neurotic desire. Moreover, as a consumer of death, I wish to by death-commodity as I know that euthanasia will be under the circuit of exchange value in the context of crony capitalism.
Keeping in mind the above scenario, this appeal is made to the Government of India for legalizing Active Euthanasia or Mercy Killing or Physician Assisted suicide.

Yours most obedient servant,
DEBAPRASAD BANDYOPADHYAY  

COPY TO:
  1. The Honourable Prime Minister, Government of India
  2. The Honourable Chief Justice, Supreme Court of India

APPENDIX
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT RETENTIONIST COUNTRIES:
Out of 195 countries in the world, 140 countries have abolished capital punishment. 
Countries that carried out executions between 2013 and 2017:
Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belarus, Botswana, Chad, China, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Nigeria, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Palestinian Territories, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Taiwan, Thailand (2018), United Arab Emirates, USA, Vietnam and Yemen. (Due to ongoing conflicts in Libya and Syria, Amnesty International is not able to confirm that judicial executions were carried out in these countries).
The 21 countries that did not carry out an execution in those years despite not having abolished the death penalty:
Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Comoros, Cuba, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guyana, Jamaica, Lebanon, Lesotho, Qatar, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda and Zimbabwe.


EUTHANASIA STATUS
  1. As of March 2018, Active voluntary euthanasia is legal in the Netherlands, Belgium, Colombia, Luxembourg, and Canada.
  2. Physician Assisted suicide is legal in Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, the Australian state of Victoria and in the U.S. states of Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Hawaii, Vermont, Montana, Maine, New Jersey, California, and in the District of Columbia.
  3. Passive Euthanasia: India, South Korea, Majority of states/countries in North America, Australia and Europe.
  4. Either Illegal or “unknown” status in rest of the countries.

Tuesday 7 July 2020

BORDERS, IDENTITY, LIES AND MY DOCILE BODY

BORDERS, IDENTITY, LIES AND MY DOCILE BODY




A video collage on the draconian CAA-NRC-NPR from an internationalist's perspective...
The video has been made keeping in mind the ideals of "borderless humanitarianism" and "religion of man" ("manuser dharma") in harmony with society and nature, following Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and other such notable thinkers.







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Sunday 26 April 2020

THE EKALAVYA RELATION: MODERNIST LOCALS' ANTI-MODERNIST RESPONSE(S)







View it @ https://www.academia.edu/42855586/THE_EKALAVYA_RELATION_MODERNIST_LOCALS_ANTI-MODERNIST_RESPONSE_S_


For Bangla Version, view it @ “তর্জমার তর্জনী বা একলব্যের বুড়ো আঙ্গুল [The Ekalavya Relation: Modernist Locals’ Anti-Modernist Response(s)]”

https://www.academia.edu/413781/_%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%80_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%AC_%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%BC%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%99_%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B2_The_Ekalavya_Relation_Modernist_Locals_Anti-Modernist_Response_s_

&

তর্জমার তর্জনী বা একলব্যের বুড়ো আঙ্গুল (The Governance of Translation and Ekalavya's Thumb)

https://www.academia.edu/411316/%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%A4%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%9C%E0%A6%A8%E0%A7%80_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%8F%E0%A6%95%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%AC_%E0%A6%AF%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%B0_%E0%A6%AC%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A1_%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%99_%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%B2_The_Governance_of_Translation_and_Ekalavyas_Thumb_



For viewing it as PPT, please visit:

1. Impossibility Of Translation: A Case Study 


2. The Ekalavya Relation: Translation, Colonialism and "Other"




Saturday 25 April 2020

LINGUISTICS AS "I" UNDERSTAND(S) IT

হত্যা না আত্মহত্যা? (Annihilation or Suicide?)


হত্যা না আত্মহত্যা? (Annihilation or Suicide?)

Video 







Debaprasad Bandyopadhyay was proposing a hypothesis: suicide is not a disease but it is imposed by the ruthless "other". He also subscribed the concept of euthanasia. When state-terrorism as well as counter-terrorism are proliferating and human relationship has been commoditized, where would a falling being take its refuge?


view it @ https://www.academia.edu/42847636/%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%A4_%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%A8%E0%A6%BE_%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%A4_%E0%A6%AE%E0%A6%B9%E0%A6%A4_%E0%A6%AF%E0%A6%BE_Annihilation_or_Suicide_

Or

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnIfUBNXtX8&feature=emb_logo


On the same topic, one may browse following texts by the same author:
 (হাইপারলিঙ্কড--মাউস ক্লিক করলে বা আঙুল ছোঁয়ালে খুলে যাবে) 

“আ মরণ! মরণ রে...” [On Euthanasia]

আমি কেন আত্মহত্যা করবো না? বলতে পারেন?