Why is SO RED the GULMOHAR Flower!
Indian Holocaust My Father`s Life and Time- One Hundred Ninety SEVEN
Palash Biswas
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Common name: Flame Tree, Royal Poinciana • Hindi: Gulmohar गुलमोहर • Bengali: Krishnachura • Kannada: Kempu torai
Botanical name: Delonix regia Family: Caesalpiniaceae (Gulmohar family)
Discovered in the early 19th century in its native Madagascar by botanist Wensel Bojer, Gulmohar is a flamboyant tree in flower - some say the world's most colorful tree. For several weeks in spring and summer it is covered with exuberant clusters of flame-red flowers, 4-5 in across. Even up close the individual flowers are striking: they have four spoon shaped spreading scarlet or orange-red petals about 3 in long, and one upright slightly larger petal (the standard) which is marked with yellow and white. The delicate, fern-like leaves are composed of small individual leaflets, which fold up at the onset of dusk. Gulmohar gets 30-40 ft tall, but its elegant wide-spreading umbrella-like canopy can be wider than its height. Gumohar is naturalized in India and is widely cultivated as a street tree.
This Morning I was Awoke by a PHONE Call from New Delhi. Some KAVIRAJ was in the Residence of MR. Parimal Biswas who called me last Night while he stumbled on some of my articles. Next Morning, he hosted some of his acquaintances amongst which KAVIRAJ, I got the title only and dared not to ask a REPEAT of his Name avoiding his shock that I forgot my Class Mate in Dineshpur High school! Kaviraj belonged to Lakkhipur and he informed me and IGNITED me the MEMORIES down the GULMOHAR Lane! In Nineties I wrote a Short story on the untimely death of my Six Year Nephew, BIPLAB in 1990. He was the first Child in our family in Basantipur representing Next Generation, One year elder to TUSU and TUTUL. Padmlochan, the Poor Father and Namita the Mother could not collect them for years. For me the Shock was so intense that I would often forgetthatthe boy was dead and Call Him by name anytime, any Hour. Some one my father, Mother or Jethamosahi would then remind methat BIPLAB was NO MORE! The story was Titled as GULMOHAR KAA Rang LAAL KEUN?
Every year from April to June The gulmohar tree is in full bloom. In Dinesh Pur, there is a small ground before the Hospital which is SURROUNDED by Gulmohar Trees and we used the Ground as our Open Air Class Rooms during our Stirke in Dineshpur High school right in 1970. Where from I could see the Blue sky and my Classmate ARPANA, the RASOGULLA dressing her HAIR in the Sweet Sunshine sitting on the roof of the building opposite to her HOME and missing the Class which IRRITATED me most as I had been their Leader and was Responsible that no one shoul miss studies during OUR Fight to get Question papers In Bengali Script for Bengali language. I would express my Anger next day and Arpana would be rather very annoyed. Then, GURUDASI would intervene!
THOSE GIRLS WERE SIMPLY VERY homely!Most of the girls in sixties and seventies would get Married in Childhood. Pundra Kstriyas were very reluctant to allow their girls to join any Class Room.
In Shaktifarm only, in 1972 I met the Girls from paundra Kshtriyas from Ratan farm Number one in the School. Sundar Pur was the most educated village in Dineshpur areas but no Girl from sundarpur was allowed to join the school. The People, Namoshudras from Barishal Districts resettled in Haridaspur, Netaji Nagar, Vijoynagar, Chandipur and Shibpur also did not allow their girls to get education in those days.
Gurudasi was married off just after she passed Class Eight Board Exams to a School teacher , ironically. Arpana`s family was not resettled and they have no land. They got shelter in our village Basantipur and lived with Bidhuda`s family. We were INFANTS then.Later they shifted in Dineshpur Bazar and her parents stated a SWEET House famous for Rasogulla. We named the GIRL Rasogulla as she was SWEET and Beautiful. We used to read in the same Class and were Rivals as She got Better Marks in Bengali than me and it also ANNOYED as I had been the First Boy in the School in every sense!
REBA, Mamata and Ranjeeta and ANNAPURNA were in class Nine with Jyotsna in Class Nine. Jyotsna was most beautiful and got married in 1977 while I completed my Graduation and she passed intermediate. I never considered her as her brother tried to Propose her as my Bride first. My parents rejected simply because they knew my plans in Higher Studies.The Poor Girl was married off to a Refugee colony in a AGRARIAN Family and I never saw her again! Ranjeeta was very innocent and I felt very soft for her as She resembled ditto to my cousin Beena. She was a very good SINGER and for thatshe could not pass her High school and was MARRIED to a YOUNGMAN from Bengal who tortured the Very Good Girl and it pained me.
Mamata was daredevil as her father Harendar nath Roy was known to swm in different stream always.Her brothers Himanshu ans Sudhangshu da were my friends. She possessed Unquestionable leadership qualities and led the GIC during our CHIPKO Movement. After marriage she is active and political as we expected. Arpana lost for ever and Annapuran married to our friend BIREN Kirtunia, the most INNOCENT girl of the LOT, REBA Roy was also Married to HARIPADA Biswas, a Science techer then and now, the Principal of GIC, Dineshpur. AMAZINGLY this girlREBA renamed as REKHA transformed herself into a most effective Woman Leader in Uttarakhand besides those involved in Chipko and Uttrakhand Movements! Kamala Pant, Uma Bhatta, Nandini Joshi,Basanti Bisht, Indira Hridyesh and so many Women leaders in Uttarkahand made HISTORY and it was quite amusing that our little innocent sister was amongst the selected lot.
She as an Independent candidate challenged the Congress Cnadidate in Direct election of Chairman RUDRAPUR Municipality and was defeated by a few votes as the Bengali Women working as domestic Help dared not to vote her.She was in the Women`s commision in Uttrakhand. She was the leader of women`s congress. She was well known in Political circles and motivated the Empowerment f ourWomen Folkwho led the People`s Movement in 2001 to defend the Citizenship of the Bengalies in Uttarakhand .
Her father DEVENDRA Nath Roy was the leader of her Area in AMRIT NAGAR. Our families were in friendship. Her father was with my father but her MAMA, maternal Uncle joined us in our resistance. I Visited sher house so often as I used the House of her In Laws in ANADA KHEDA Number TWO as her father In Law Nirod babu was one of the best frineds of my father. Harpadada and his elder Brother were the First Graduates who NEVER left FARMING despite being in service and My father would never lose a word in Praise fro these two gentlemen.
REBA is no more and she died in 2008,on 13th August. No One informed me. I got the news from the Smarika, Soveneur published on the occasion of Golden Jubilee of Durga Puja in Dineshpur. Sabita returned HOME with a copy as my Brother Padmolocahan, himself a writer and Poet as well as social ACTIVIST was in Bijnore to join the family in Mourning.
I also got some unknown facts about my father Pulin Babu from this Booklet which Focused on Pulin Babu somuch so thatI felt UNEASY and just called SUBIR Goswami why they NEGLECTED others Radhakanta Babu, Haripada Biswas, Kumud Ranjan Sarkar,Suren Srakar, Sukhlal Mandal, Dayal Roy, Haren roy, Harendra Nath Sarkar, Meghnad Mandal, DR Nikhil Roy, Ajoy Goswami, Adhar Baidya, Somnath Da, Rohitashwa Mallick, First advocate Sukumar Mandal, First Journalist Gopal Biswas,Prafullo Mistry, Birinchi Pada Mandal and so many of them. At the same time , I appreciated the articles based on Dineshpur and Terai and the language and the Presentation, VERY Good for Beginning! thanks RUPESH ,the editor,Subir, JN Sarkar Puja Committee Chairperson and others involved.
JM Sachadev wrote in his article that right in 1955, Pulin Babu was on Hunger strike demanding Rehabilitation for the Partition Victims the Scheduled caste Refugee from East Bengal dumped in Gim Corbet fame Jungles. Consequently, Refugees were allotted Eight Acre land per family constituting Twenty Nine Land settlement Committees. I knew about the 1956 movement. But his correction seemed correct as I knew my Village Basanti Pur, Udai Nagar and Panchananpur were formed after 1956 movement as they worshipped Goddess Durga separately. But Sonu account suggests that Seven Villages in all were formed after the 1956 movement.
Sonu has traced the History of Udvastu Committee which was first formed in 1952. Sonu also mentioned that Pulin Babu also interacted with the First President of India DR. Rajendra Prasad followed by DR. Radha krishnana, Pdt. Gobind Balabh Pant and DR SAMPURNANAND. I did not know as I was not born at the time or I was rather INFANT to know as DOCUMENTATION is NEVER done by our people!
I have to be UPDATED with all activities of the Maoists, Corporate Imperialism and Ruling Hegemony guided by LPG Mafia and Galaxy Post Modern Tri Iblis Zionist Manusmriti Apartheid Order just becuse we are NOT Maoists!But Maoism is a PHENOMENON which has involved the Nature associated Aboriginal and Indigenous Communities worldwide in RESISTANCE leaing to Unprecedented Violence and Repression with Zero Intolerance!
In the Himalayan Zone,in Uttarakhand, in Kashmir, In the Entire NorthEast, In Nepal and Bhutan and in Gurkhaland and even in TIBET, our People BLEED stranded in Cross fire. They bleed in South East Asia, South Asia, Middle East, All over EUROPE, in Latin America and Africa, In Australia and Neuziland and even in AMERICA! The Ruling Class has GLOBALISED its MASS Destruction System and Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide Culture but Resistance is always LOCALISED and Branded as Terrorism or Extremism or Insurgency.
The Peasnt uprising since East India Rule have always been painted as Communal Flare up defining in terms of Santhal, Munda, Bheel Insureections, Sanyasi Vidroh and so on. Even the Sepoy Revolt in 1857 is focused with Archlights most RELIGIOUS diluting social and economic Context and Isolating communities. No one would say that Spatcus was our Original Ancestor who first tried to break the BONDAGE of Enslavement. No one would accept that Stalin was Untouchable. No One would Claim that Nelson Mandela or Martin Luther King hared our Blood. But Everyone would adopt Mahatma Gandhi!
Telengana Uprising was lso declared as the War Against the State. NAXALBARI was subjected to REPRESSION before Indian Military intervened in Bangladesh Liberation War.
The Sate showed its MUSCLES in Dhimri Block, between GULARBHOJ and Lalkuan Jungles in Nainital Terai with all MILITARY and Police Power available agaist the Peasant Uprising led by my Father Pulin Babu in 1958. He and his Comrades were TRIED for their waging WAR aginst the State for almost a DECADE!
Now our Black Untouchable People, Two Million Tribals in Lalgarh, Three Million SC Bengali Refugees in DANDAKARANY, THOUSANDS of Tamil Refugess resettled in Dandakaranya,Millions in Jharkhand and Eastern Uttar Pradesh are STRANDED in STAND Off Infinite, Operations to Flush out the Maosists from Maoist Frontiers so highlighted by Media! And Arundhati ray rightly defines THOSE Inflicted areas as MOW Zones!
The Co-ordination Committee of the Revolutionary Communists of Britain calls for the immediate release of Kobad Ghandy,Ravi Sharma, Anuradha, Sri Chhatradhar Mahato,Raja Sarkhel and Prasun Chatterjee and all Maoist and other political prisoners in India.
Operation Green Hunt is an attack on the poor and indigenous peoples of India to pave the way for the continouous displacement of millions of people to serve the comprador capitalists and their international backers from Britain and USA.
The United Nations has just condemned India for it's food policy whereby 30 million additional people have been made hungery since 1990's as a result of government policies and 46% of children are undernourished.
These are the realities of India's neo liberal policies exposed by the Indian Maoists.
We the Co-ordination Committeee of the Revolutionary Communists of Britain express our solidarity with Indian comrades in their battle for social justice and will do our best to let the whole world know the barbarities of the current ruling elite perpetrated against Indian peoples.
We will expose the false propaganda of neo-liberal India's so-called economic success, which is nothing but prosperity for the few and poverty for the many.
Statement issued 1st November - London 2009
CO-ORDINATION COMMITTEE OF REVOLUTIONARY COMMUNISTS OF BRITAIN (c/o BM Box 2978, London WC1N 3XX)
The Co-ordination Committee of the Revolutionary Communists of Britain call for the immediate release of our Italian comrades Alessandro Della Malva, Elisabetta Cipolli and Alessandro Orfano. We express our solidarity with these comrades.
These three brave anti-fascists are paying for their militancy and commitment for defending the anti-fascist values ratified by the Italian Constitution and conquered with the victory of the Resistance, and against the rehabilitation of fascism and fascists.
The Co-ordination Committee of the Revolutionary Communists of Britain expresses its solidarity with these comrades.
The CARC party and the Solidarietà Proletaria are leading in this struggle in Italy. We express our support to your struggle
Statement issued by
The Co-ordination Committee of the Revolutionary Communists of Britain
c/o BM Box 2978, London WC1N 3XX)
28th October 2009
http://www.revleft.com/vb/events-quicken-conflict-t121184/index2.html
I've been posting news updates, pictures and video footage of the demonstrations in the thread that link goes to, I urge everyone to read it and appreciate the significance of what's happening.
The second day of protests has finished, the Maoists and their many supporters gheraoed local government offices across the country. All day, local govt administration work across the country was shut down. I've found video footage of the protests, so I urge you all to watch that. Plus a fair few new pictures. The protests look pretty chillax, lots of singing and dancing.
A very fucking significant event has taken place, which I'm sure more reports about are going to be written. In the Dhankuta Municipality, the Maoists have seized state power! MyRepublica reports that they "captured the keys of the office, evicted the government officials from the office and announced the formation of the [parallel govt] at municipal offices". The significance of this is just out of this world. Day two of the protests, and the Maoists have already mobilised tens of thousands of people and seized state power in at least one area! I'm posting the news reports I found about this, so read them carefully and appreciate how important this is.
Plus there's some new reports about how the govt's inability to pass the budget (due to Maoist CA members obstructing the parliament) is leading to a state financial crisis in Nepal. The govt is bankrupt. It will soon have no money for everything from prisons to hospitals, police to the upkeep of the PLA cantonments.
It's all very exciting and the brave people of Nepal need our solidarity and support. The reactionary army is still there and could still easily be called out. India will be keeping a close eye on the situation. The Nepali reactionaries could easily try and pull a Chile, or an Indonesia, on the Maoists and their supporters amongst the revolutionary workers and peasants of Nepal. It's up to us to do everything we can to oppose this, and keep informed about the situation (while also informing others!).
There are links to everything I mentioned plus more besides in the thread. I'd also urge people to visit www.mikeely.wordpress.com, where the events are also being covered in detail.
Lal salaam!
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Alastair Reith.
