করোনাভাইরাস সংক্রমণের বাজারে জাপানীদের অভিনব কায়দা, মন্দ নয়:

https://twitter.com/i/status/1233552729387261953

দ্রি: " মেনুটা কিন্তু ভালো বোঝা যাচ্ছে না। কাঁসার থালায় পঞ্চব্যাঞ্জনের একটা গন্ধ পাওয়া যাচ্ছে। কিন্তু অমিত শার থালায় ভাত নেই কেন?"

মেনু চাই? এই যে:

https://sambadenglish.com/maccha-besara-baigana-bhaja-on-platter-for-amit-shah-mamata-and-nitish/

পুলিশ হাতে না থাকা কেজরির পক্ষে শাপে বর হয়েছে এটা খুব সত্যি কথা।

https://www.anandabazar.com/editorial/delhi-model-of-development-by-arvind-kejriwal-is-exceptional-1.1115850?ref=home-editorial-widget-stry-right-vertical-4

গতকাল নিউ ইয়র্কার কাগজে রঘু কার্নাদের ইন্টারভিউ থেকে কয়েকটা অংশ।  রঘু কার্নাদের জবানিতে তুলে দিলাম 

[ মোদী সরকারের অবস্থা ]: 

"The Modi government has had its share of setbacks in the last six years ... But they have dominated in their narrative that India had opted out of the Gandhian or Nehruvian era and into a new Hindu-nationalist period, and that Hindu nationalists had the mandate to begin rewriting what India is.

And that had not been substantially challenged until a few months ago, with this protest movement. ... it represents a much broader emotion, and a much more affirmative emotion, about a unified country, as well as an affirmation for India’s constitution as it is right now. That kind of challenge is one that the Modi government has never faced—nor has it faced as many people in the streets as we have seen in the last weeks. It is probably the largest popular civic movement in at least thirty years in this country."

 [ দিল্লির মুসলিম মহল্লার মানুষদের ভাবনা ও অনুভূতি নিয়ে বলতে গিয়ে ]

"How would you describe the feelings of Muslim communities in Delhi right now?

Those areas of Delhi have seen a lot of riots and pogroms in the past. They are especially vulnerable, and especially economically marginalized. There is an area in northeast Delhi that is called Nasbandi Colony, which means “vasectomy colony,” because the people who were resettled there from slums in the center of Delhi were resettled only in exchange for being sterilized. That’s the level of how marginalized that area is."

[ ?? ভ্যাসেকটমি কলোনি ? ! ]

"There were these other slum dwellers standing nearby who were Hindus, and they had not been attacked. They said the mob had told them, “As long as you say ‘Jai Shri Ram’ you’ll be fine, or you’ll be saved.” But this slum dweller was talking to me, and he said, “The thing is that they set the Muslims’ homes on fire, and then they left. But now this fire is burning in the middle of our community, and it’s going to burn, spread, and catch, and it could burn down the houses of non-Muslims, like us, as well.” And then he said, “And, the thing is, we don’t even have a water supply out here to put out the fire.”

[ ঘর পুড়লে   শুধু  মুসলমানের ঘর পুড়বে  না, হিন্দু রাও যে বাঁচবে না  এই হিসেবটা মাথায় হয় ছিল না, নয় গরিবের ঘর পুড়বে , তাতে কার কি এসে গেলো এমন একটা ভাব! ]

And I thought that was very poignant, because it underscored just how much damage it does to these communities to allow this kind of violence to take place. We’re looking at an enormous scale of damage, and these are people for whom even a wooden cart being set on fire can mean a family is reduced from poverty into penury."

[ ট্রাম্প থাকাকালীন পুলিশ কে অন্য জায়গায় রেখে গুন্ডা লেলিয়ে দিতে সুবিধে হবে এই জন্য এই সময়টা বাছা হয়েছে? ]

"One policeman told me something interesting, which was that that day might have been chosen because so much of the Delhi police force was drawn off into the security arrangements for Donald Trump, and, therefore, in these areas, the police were going to be understaffed, which would allow these mobs a freer hand. That may have been a factor, but that certainly doesn’t explain the extent to which the police seemed to be standing by. One thing the police were never going to say is what orders they received, and from whom. But, by that time, I was personally watching a group of young men shouting Hindu religious slogans and trashing vehicles while police stood by. For what I witnessed, it was clear that a lot of the violence was not going to be suppressed."

[ এবং যে প্রশ্ন টা  সতত উঠে আসে রায়টের দিনগুলোতে, সহজ প্রশ্ন ও উত্তর যে অজানা তাও  তো নয় ]

"Communal riots have been the permanent black eye on the face of Indian democracy, and it is only because we reduce them immediately to whether more Hindus were killed or more Muslims were killed, and which community was the guilty party, that the real question that never gets enough attention is why authorities fail to act in the moment to stop those riots. And that was exactly the salient question yesterday."