tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57503612024-10-11T16:21:43.818-07:00INTREPID WRITERA bold and incisive take on anything and everythingMrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.comBlogger387125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-62190061217881823562017-05-21T22:45:00.001-07:002017-05-22T01:16:01.609-07:00Where are you heading to, Soumitrababu?
If you still read a Bengali daily, you may have already seen a variation of this image on the first page: Soumitra Chatterjee, the veteran thespian taking Bangabibhusan (a silly award introduced by the Mamata Government) from the chief minister. Given the circumstances when most Bengali intellectuals and artists are gradually gravitating to the powers-that-be, it is apparently another Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-71464348500236135792017-01-31T06:18:00.003-08:002017-01-31T06:33:49.260-08:00The Real World is emerging now
It's a real relief that globalization is out, and while what replaces this is nothing better, we can now at least see the world in its true and actual form.
Just think how the world was transformed by globalization. The proponents of the late capitalism went all out to change the narrative of our life. You were not allowed to talk anything in negative terms. You had to pretend you were Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-29900828606754614952016-07-21T07:57:00.001-07:002016-07-21T07:57:41.902-07:00Martin Amis on Donald Tromp
As a lover of America (and as an admirer of the planet), I offer this advice: Don’t shrug. Don’t stand by and let President Trump be President Trump.
Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-45120411519300759662016-07-17T20:18:00.000-07:002016-07-17T20:18:42.122-07:00Russia abandoned socialism right under Lenin and Trotsky!
I would place the abandonment of socialism much earlier, under Lenin and Trotsky, at least if socialism is understood to mean at a minimum control by working people over production. The seeds of Stalinism were present in the early Bolshevik years, partly attributable to the exigencies of the civil war and foreign invasion, partly to Leninist ideology. Under Stalin it became a monstrosity.
- NoamMrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-52130607276029317042016-07-06T06:45:00.001-07:002016-07-06T06:45:19.129-07:00Made-of-Literature Writer
I'm made of literature and nothing else.
-Franz Kafka
Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-6282107734123930262016-06-04T04:33:00.000-07:002016-06-11T22:45:17.939-07:00Fear is my fuel: Steven Spielberg
Fear is my fuel. I get to the brink of not really knowing what to do and that’s when I get my best ideas. Confidence is my enemy and it always has been.
Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-61637477864816055612016-05-26T23:36:00.000-07:002016-05-26T23:36:35.184-07:00It's politics, stupid!
A part of it is fear, another part of it is ignorance, and another part of it is most people think they are powerless. They ask, “What can we do?” They don’t believe how much power they have. They have a lot. And between being selfish and having fear, most of the people give up. It doesn’t mean that they don’t have any interest in following politics.. They follow politics because they have to Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-1828332938684080242016-05-02T21:23:00.000-07:002016-05-02T21:23:20.959-07:00Is the game up for Mamata Banerjee and TMC?
The Assembly election this time gives me back a whole lot of fun and faith. Who had ever thought that the central forces and the state police would actively help conduct a free and fair election? But this has thrown Ms Mamata Banerjee in a fit of rage and has her threatening her own police.
One more phase remains to the election. It's to be held on the 5th. 25 seats. The election commission is Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-25350339385907818572016-03-03T21:18:00.000-08:002016-03-03T21:51:10.787-08:00A political star is born
“We don’t want freedom from India, my brothers, we want freedom in India.”
Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-41171251091426138772016-03-02T05:58:00.000-08:002016-03-02T05:58:43.808-08:00Recommended reading: I'm a freelance writer. I refuse to work for free
I'm a freelance writer. I refuse to work for free.
Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-16810038364312319292016-02-28T07:51:00.001-08:002016-02-28T07:52:13.952-08:00Salman Rushdie on Internet
"The Internet is not a place for information, but a place for trolling, paranoia and ranting. With the shrinking of the newspaper industry, correspondents are being replaced by more and more opinion columnists, substituting truth for truthiness."
--Salman Rushdie
Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-31907516824929304632016-02-18T07:35:00.001-08:002016-02-18T07:35:22.360-08:00Absolve Kanhaiya Kumar of charge of sedition or charge me with sedition, says Harsh Mander
"It either absolves Kanhaiya Kumar of all charges of sedition. Or, if it persists in its belief that he committed the crime of sedition, then it must charge me also with criminal sedition, and arrest me, and subject me to the same investigation to which Kanhaiya Kumar is being subjected. This is because I have, in writing, taken similar positions on the issues for which his conduct is Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-86565434261973651622016-02-01T07:30:00.002-08:002016-02-01T07:30:35.750-08:00Why don't people understand what's happening?
In a society of isolated people where each person is alone with his Fox News and iPhone people don’t understand what is happening. It is happening here in this fashion and it is happening in Europe in other ways, but I think these phenomena are very real.
--Noam Chomsky
Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-74546631722540744972016-01-28T06:35:00.000-08:002016-01-28T06:36:25.411-08:00Markandey Katju bids goodbye to Facebook
"I am a man of 70 and have very few years more to live.
I tried to pass on all my knowledge I acquired in my life to you, so that you may benefit. This knowledge I acquired from my gurus, before whom I stood with folded hands for decades before they gave me that knowledge. But what did I get in return? I got mostly abuses from most of you, because most of you are stupid and arrogant, and have Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-53793021562531500652016-01-16T06:06:00.000-08:002016-01-16T06:07:25.922-08:00History's quantum effect on people
"I’m interested in how history has this spooky quantum effect on people. How history, even when we run from it, even when we disavow it, even when we forget it, is like some very strange dark-eyed dog. It always finds its way back to us. Not to say that this is the way the world works, but it’s what brings me to the page."
Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-44070844462332474052016-01-14T07:48:00.000-08:002016-01-14T07:49:20.642-08:00Nayantara Sahgal lambasts the fundamentalists at Hyderabad Literary Festival
"One way of raising our voices against this threat is by holding festivals of literature like this one, where writers and readers and critics can get together to discuss and debate, and agree or disagree. This way, we give public notice of the fact that writers will go on writing the stories they want to write, publishers will go on publishing them, readers will read what they wish to read, and Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-6880244348441788352015-12-07T06:31:00.000-08:002015-12-07T06:31:05.624-08:00Recommended Reading: The Secret to My Productivity, or:Thughts about Luxuray and Privilege
A great deal of my work life has been unstructured and undisciplined (though not without vision and purpose). It’s just that I’ve been able to spend nearly 20 years focusing on my work to the exclusion of nearly all else. How many other people have that luxury?
Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-21148611800628435112015-12-01T08:00:00.000-08:002015-12-01T08:59:34.684-08:00Release Palestinian Poet #Ashraf Fayadh!
Soudi Court sentences Asraf Fayadh to death for his poems
Read Asraf's poems here, and see for yourself if he deserves this punishment for what he has written. and please sign the petition if you think it's a gross injustice to a poet who believes in artists' freedom.
Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-68643023626039346742015-11-06T05:24:00.000-08:002015-11-06T05:26:42.045-08:00Chorus of voices rises against "Intolerance"
"Today, we live in a country in which, when the thugs and apparatchiks of the New Order talk of “illegal slaughter”, they mean the imaginary cow that was killed — not the real man who was murdered. When they talk of taking “evidence for forensic examination” from the scene of the crime, they mean the food in the fridge, not the body of the lynched man. We say we have “progressed”, but when Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-37667437459094275762015-11-05T04:02:00.001-08:002015-11-05T04:02:18.120-08:00Is social media real?
"Social media isn't real. It's a system based on social approval, likes, validation in views, success in followers."
--Essena O'Neil
Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-62336190787122112902015-11-02T05:11:00.000-08:002015-11-02T05:12:43.232-08:00Gung-ho Chetan Bhagat
"Ever since writers began returning their Sahitya Akademi awards in protest against the Narendra Modi government for promoting ‘an atmosphere of hatred’, Bhagat has, at times deploying reasonable wit, scoffed at them for being melodramatic, and inconsequential to most Indians. In the process he has expressed the view of the Modi government. But, if Modi indeed is dismissive of the protest of Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-14041479710191493172015-10-25T07:22:00.000-07:002015-10-25T07:22:13.565-07:00Jeff Bezos becomes America's third richest person
Bezos’s fortune has jumped 86 percent in 2015 as investors have cheered profits at Amazon and growth in its cloud segment. The $24.6 billion year-to-date increase is the most of anyone on the index and almost equal to the combined gains of Facebook Inc.’s Mark Zuckerberg and Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Amazon shares surged above $600 in after-hours Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-87361421265977741652015-10-15T06:25:00.000-07:002015-10-15T06:26:51.486-07:00Interested in Svetlana Alexievich, the new Nobel Laureate?
Read excerpts from Svetlana Alexievich's Voices from Chernobyl.
Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-80037392257029326852015-10-10T10:02:00.000-07:002015-10-10T10:37:35.091-07:00From Svetlana Alexievich's first interview after the Nobel Prize
..everything happens so fast and intensively in the modern world that neither one person nor the whole culture are able to conceive it. It is just too fast, unfortunately. There is no time to sit and think it over, as did Tolstoy, whose ideas matured over decades. Every person, me too, can only try to grasp a small piece of reality, conjecture only. Sometimes I leave only 10 lines out of 100 Mrinal Bosehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17704247892187297196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5750361.post-12223120222969971132015-10-09T08:19:00.003-07:002015-10-09T08:20:42.989-07:00Does this year's Nobel Prize in literature send a message to Kremlin?
CL: What sort of message does her victory send to the Kremlin, or to Minsk?
KG: It says, you may have tanks and airplanes, but we give out the Nobel Prize!
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