Like the Flowing River: Sanjay Mitra Information Architect Kolkata sharing the moments ...

After a long murky silence I intend to resume my blog again, but this is not in the line of User Experience or Information Architecture as expected rather this time this river has taken a turn backwards to flow over of a particular event that took place at this day September 18, 1985. The night at the bank of ‘Saryu River’ witnessed a funeral, on Guptar Ghat ,  in Faizabad UP supposedly of an unanimous national hero`s . He was cremated wrapping up in tricolor flag national flag, accompanying by 13 people. Where as his last rite should have fetched more than 13 laks people. Yes , I am referring to the death of Gumnami Baba alias the Great Subhash Bose as told by media. I am not sure about the truth but if it is as it is being claimed then it is shocking. Shocking truth as published in many journals many a time - buried under unfathomable treachery and unjust.  It is said that at the time of independence as per there was a secret deal in -Transfer of Power , Volume VI ,...

There was a pink and golden billow of frothy clouds above the sky waiting to disappear under the shadow of Darkness. A crash of sorrow broke down in thunder over her head. Lights were humming out into the dark and her lips parted like a dead woman as though there were struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. They made no sound. Yet there was sound, sound of pain, sound - whingeing threads of breadths. Neera began to cry, tears coursed down her cheeks, her mind would never romp again, why, there is still one more line to be written … Sunil Gangopadhyay , Nil Lohit (blue Blood) , is too far away from us , leaving well over 200 books. Such a prolific writer, whose works delighted the Bengali readers over the decades, Nikilesh , Neera remains in Bengali hearts not just as characters but they took further steps to embark upon into the world of reality and transcends past to the realm of imagination. But it was not Neera and not Nikilesh which took my breath away in the...

-         “What a life! You must agree Kaka, a very few are offered so much in their journey, did you   enjoy it?” asked Hrishida   -        “Well I had to bear the painful association of loneliness only to reconcile a newly reunited       family to accompanying the dreadful ailment that covered in these last days. “Kaka returned.        The morning was extremely wet on earth, they were all sitting up together Hrishida, Pancham Kishore and Kaka leaving the strain below and the moisture vestiges in the million hearts outside. These three Pals sitting together one last time to chat with Hrishida. -           “Huum , You had a political stint too Kaka, how was that safar if I may ask ? You were the one last seen with Rajiv Gandhi I suppose.  Hrishida proclaimed.” -           “Yes –Kaka Repli...

Robin Gibb, aged 62, a member of ‘Bee Gees’, popular Band of seventies passed away yesterday. The band recorded classics like 'Stayin Alive','Jive Talkin' and 'Night Fever' that can still get crowds onto a dance floor. The album's 'Saturday Night Fever'   remains instantly recognizable more than 40 years after its release. Against the popular thought that they resembles Beatles, Gibb scored some successful solos, notably ‘Saved by the Bell’ , ‘How Can You Mend a Broken Heart’ . We are saddened by the terrible shock of losing this monumental musical figure, how can we mend a broken heart?