A nation within City Of Joy

I became agog when I found many unknown things regarding the history of Kolkata.I was never aware of the fact, that many Armenian people used to live here.Though I didn't have any information on this country until I met Ani.She is my friend,who is from Armenia.Our friendship helps me a lot to understand the cultures  of their country.I knew that many people came to Kolkata from various countries.Chinese,Dutch,Jewish etc but when I found that many Armenian people also came to our   city for various reasons then obviously I became interested but when I found that most of the portions of Park Street was made by the Armenian people then It drew my all the attention.
Armenia is a country in Asia which has a very long history and rich culture.Turkey,Azarbaijan,Iran, these are the neighbouring countries of Armenia.They have very rich culture and heritage.The connection between them and us started from the time when Alxendar The Great came to India.Many Armenians joined the forces which was lead by Alexendar.
The first ever Armenian who came to India was Thomas Cana.He was a merchant.He had reached the Malabar Coast in 780 AD by overland route,long before Vasco Da Gama visited India.For the location of Armenia it was been a constant battleground.Between 16th and 19th century Armenia was caught in a conflict with Ottoman turkis and the Persiansand thereafter when Soviet Union was formed in Russia Armenia became part of that Union in 1922.
So for all these reasons the many Armenian people moved out from their own country and they followed the same route by which many Persians came to India,eventually they settled in Agra,Delhi,Surat and Lahore(Then it was in India) as they all received a warm welcome from Akbar(Mughal Emporer).Many believes that one of Akbar's queens was an Armenian.Due to the good relation between the Mughal and Armenian people East India Company tried to make their relationships good with them who were living in Indian soil.More more Armenians came to India as the situation back home got worse for them.As I mentioned earlier they spread themselves almost all over the India except Kolkata,until the mughal empire started collapsing and it made them to settle other parts of India like Kolkata and Bombay.It can not be said that when they came to Kolkata or settled here,but from many documents it can be said that they came here 60 years before the British. The oldest Christian grave in Kolkata, marked 1630 CE – Rezabeebeh, ‘wife of the late Charitable Sookias’ – is of an Armenian.
During the first world war again many people came from Armenia to settle in Kolkata,that was the last time for them to move out from their own country and settle in the City Of Joy.Because of the Armenian Genocide many people died.It was the ottoman goverment's systematic killing of hunderds of thousands Armenian.Many fled the region and about 2000 found refuge in India.When British left in 1947 then the amount of Armenian people was around 2000 to 3000 only in Kolkata.
So they started living here.They made a church named 'Armenian Church of the Holy Nazareth' in 1724.It's the mother of all church among Indian -Armenian people.

                                                           Clock tower of the Church
All the Armenian people here were mixed up with the Indian-Bengali culture.Moreover the whole Park Street which is famous for it's pub and night club culture was made by Armenian people.The famous Stephen Court was built by Arathoon Stephen,who has also built Grand Hotel in Kolkata and Mount Everest Hotel in Darjeeling.Many hotels like Astor, Carlton, Kenilworth, Astoria, Lytton and Russel were also started by Armenians.Bengalis and Armenians have common dishes like potoler dorma. Both seemed to have a similar fetish for spice.
Now the those glorious moments are just memory.Hardly 150 Armenians now live here.There are plenty reasons for this .According to many people ,actually they thought there would be no future for them here so they started leaving this country and those who couldn't started living here.There are many advantages for them like if some Armenian decides to live and study here then he or she can do that in free of cost.Even after retirement you will get free accommodation and medical care.
There is a college for Armenian people ,which is Armenian College and Philanthropic Academy.It was built in 1821,a school for young Armenian language,history and music.According to the Armenian General Benevolent Union news magazine, the number of students dropped from 206 in 1961 to just six in 1998.At the moment, there are only two Indian-Armenian students in the school. The other 58 are from Armenia, Iran and Iraq. But the school has improved, tremendously.The college is very famous for rugby.
Armenian wedding is a rare occasion,the last one happened some years ago which was covered by two media channels and a documentary film maker. Christmas is celebrated on January 6 and in the summer, there's Vardavar,it's like holi but it's played with water instead of any color.

                                 The Sunday service at St Gregory's Chapel at Park Circus

Singer Shayne Hyrapiet and his daughter Skyla, one of the few Indian Armenian families left in Kolkata. In the backdrop is Park Street's Stephen Court built by an Armenian in the 1920s

I'm dedicating this writing to the people of Armenia who are living in Kolkata,not only in Kolkata,in the whole world, that don't lose hopes and specially you all are the sole reason that we have our real Kolkata , without you all we couldn't have that glamour of Park Street,we couldn't have the cross culture foundation,we couldn't have oldest churches.So thanks to you,to all of you.

And I couldn't write this without my Armenian friend Ani Avagian,so again thanks to you.
Sources-Hindustan Times,Wikipedia,Times Of India

Path to heaven

It all becomes dizzy.I can't see the road,suddenly I heard a voice"This is the path to heaven".So I'm standing on the "Path to heaven",but even I can't see where the road ends.I had dreamed about this,even sometimes I thought how it would be like to walk on this road??I met with another person ,he asked me whether I am on right path or wrong?I ignored him.How is it possible ? I don't believe in heaven or hell,these are more like a shit places to me.So how did I end up on the"Path to heaven"?without having any believes on this concept?I suddenly realize that when you do not believe in something then it will start to live within you.As I hate these things most ,I became obsessed with these.I started to think why certain people thinks that they will go to heaven after death?From where this kind of thinking has been originated?Suddenly something kicked me out in my head and I can see that I'm standing in front of my own house.
This is my heaven.
This is the "Path to heaven"

'Bow Barracks' the place where we can find happiness only happiness

'Bow Barracks forever' ,this was the film which made me aware that there is a place in Kolkata,where Christmas is being celebrated with heart.Bow Baracks is the place where British army used to live during world war I but after the independence they leaved that place ,they gave their barracks to the Anglo-Indian people.So it has a huge historical importance for me.I had a huge interest to visit there but I was not getting the scope.Souma​ told me that we should make a plan for 24th December to visit Park Street and suddenly I thought this could be the chance for me.Bow Barracks and Christmas, it's like the exact time to see this place ,to see it's beauty and unity.So I made the plan.We went there ,here we means Souma,Riddhiman​,Mayukh​,Soumit​ and obviously me.We had to face a little hurdle to find this place.Whatever what we saw was completely amazing,we could see the pre-festive happiness on their faces.Many people are not aware of this Bow-Festival,actually they organize this with their own money,that's why it has that feeling which is so raw and real.I saw that a couple was sitting on a slab which was just beside the road somehow I managed to see the loneliness on their eyes so I told Souma to capture them and we made it possible by taking the permission from them.Suddenly they smiled when they saw themselves on the screen of the camera.
We visited Park-Street after that.Visiting Park-Street in Christmas is incomplete without visiting the famous Oly-Pub..We met two foreigners in Park Street,they were from Georgia,actually they thought that we were not able to take a selfie.. and we took a group picture there with one of them.Me and Souma was thinking about that we could meet some real angels in churches,at last we met an angel but she was out of our reach :D.So lastly we thanked Jesus to give us the chance to see an angel..

Merry Christmas 

The man who sold the world

I was first introduced with this particular name 'Kurt Donald Cobain' by 'Rupam Islam' in one of his books.Actually I didn't have any information about this man till that time,but eventually I came across with one of his songs named 'where did you sleep last night'.This was a folk song actually which tells about a incident about a man who finds that his wife has been cheating on him . He goes out into the cold night and killed in an accident.I think Kurt did an exact rendition for this song,the emotion,the angst everything was perfect in Kurt's raw and edgy voice.This was one of the reasons which hooked me so much.Afterwards I was introduced with "Smells like teen spirit" and this song completely blew me away,from every aspect.I find bliss in this song,whenever I start to listen to this.The energy was so raw that made me to find more about Kurt Cobain and his band 'Nirvana'
                                                          So I'm not going to write another biography on 'Kurt Cobain' because those who are aware of his music,should know something about his life and all.Here I'm going to discuss why we need that inspiration from Kurt Cobain and how he affects us or rather how he inspires us in our own life.
Sometimes we need someone like Kurt Cobain who can help us to think who we really are.He was not only a musician,he was much more.He chose music only to escape from several things,even that helped him to create something which are applicable in our time also.We think our life is a beautiful example of our human race but that's not true it's the most unpredictable,uncertain,unrealistic example of our human race for that sometimes we think that death is far better than living in a hell.Seriously life is a hell,you can't deny this.I always think that we are not the normal people,the normal are those who doesn't has a so called 'normal mind' and we normal people call them 'abnormal' or 'mentally retarded'.They don't have to think about life actually they give a shit that's why I think they are living a simple and normal life without the hassle of everyday's fake drama.Everyone is faking,what we are seeing is just the upper portion of everyone so we can't see the real human emotion and there is no other way than believing them.Somehow I feel everyone is wearing a mask so that makes, what we are seeing is not real.Do you know what's better for our society?We should not emerged ourselves in the limitless sea of emotion,yes emotion is needed but not for this fucking society ,actually the sad part is we can't neglect this as we all have a mind to think,which can order us to do something , this is how we help our feelings to grow further.Kurt has no feelings at all for this jealous world,he used to think that our life fucks us all,that's why we don't die like a virgin.He was pissed off about everything.The most depressed part is that in his childhood he was so charming,he had no reason to feel depressed but somehow after a certain time he could not get the chance to feel the love from her mother.His parents thought that it would better to be separated so they divorced.Kurt was ashamed of this,he was not ready for this divorce,he always wanted a normal family so he began searching for the love which he couldn't get from his mother as he started to live with his father. Kurt's father married a woman in spite of promising that he would not marry again,this hurts Kurt even more.Kurt became more lonely,he couldn't share his feelings with anyone.Everyone seemed to be very busy with themselves even Kurt's father also.This negligence is the reason behind Kurt's rebellious attitude.He was so thin and even he had a friend who was a gay,only for these two reason people teased Kurt.They teased Kurt with the fact that,'a friend of a gay is also a gay',fucking assholes, so I guess I was right by tagging normal people as 'mentally retarded'. Kurt became more lonely.From his childhood he had a immense interest in music.He got a guitar as a present from his uncle.He started singing and writing songs.He was a genius actually,ha had a interest in drawing and much more.
He was from Seattle ,the place of underground band movement.In his teen-age ,he started taking drugs,marijuana.You all are thinking that I'm going to tell about that how Nirvana was formed,then that will become another boring way for presenting this writing."Nirvana" this name came from Buddhism,it means 'freedom from pain, suffering and the external world'.
His stage act was destructive,I think when Kurt used to play guitar on stage ,he could see his enemy ,he could see the negligence from her mother in his guitar,so that's why he used to break his guitar while performing.Actually when a songwriter,writes some stuffs somehow he manages to freeze that particular moment,now when he performs it then he goes back to his past and becomes free from all his present world,exactly this thing happened with Kurt ,every time when he started to sing a song on a stage.He used to loose all his present control.He could see his troubled childhood,probably he could visit it.
Many people suffers from many problem as I have mentioned earlier that we are living in a hell but they can still find the solution for their problem.It was astonishing to see the comments in the video of "Nirvana" in you tube,where many people thanked Kurt Cobain for saving their lives.Kurt Cobain saved,inspired many depressed,frustrated people.This is why 'the actual inventor of grunge movement' is a legend.Someone who can inspire people ,who can save people from the last stage of 'self destruction',is a God,definitely he is a God.
That's why I think the body which became still because of the effect of shotgun,surely had the marks of two nails ,on his two palms.

God and Religion

মানুষ সবসময় আইডিয়ালিসম এর খোঁজ করে ,আদেও আইডিয়ালিসম বলে কিছু হয় না। ধর্ম তৈরি হয়েছিল মানুষের সভ্যতাকে আরও এগিয়ে নিয়ে যাওয়ার জন্য,মানুষে মানুষে বিভেদ তৈরির জন্য নয়।
God ,this name has a value only when we need something for our own purpose ,so it's definitely clear that this term was created only to fulfill our dream in a way which can satisfy our minds for a short period of time.Sometimes when we loose something,when we feel depressed ( & there are more when(s)), then we need someone who can heal those things, like any inspirational characters.At ancient times people used to worship every natural things like Sun,fire etc,they thought that these things are the reasons behind their creation, by the way they used to worship fire because they feared it.Then a time came when we learned that we can think,we can feel,we can react for something good or bad,we can fall in love.This can be called as "Emotion" now some people thought we might need someone who can control those emotions ,someone who has no connection with reality,some imaginary persons,someone who looks exactly like us,someone who has never ever existed  on earth,actually it creates another term religion ,which was started with the birth of Jesus Christ,Gautam Buddha and Hazrat Muhammad.
Actually the root of every religions lie on the fact that how we can make our life beautiful,how we can make our life meaningful.The fact is that we should not use the term religion as because when we are using it we are creating a purpose ,a purpose which will divide our society more.Actually religions are just a set of beliefs and beautiful advises for whole mankind.When Jesus Christ gave us some of his beautiful advises and thoughts then obviously he didn't say you have make it a 'religion' in future, yes he has followers even every inspirational people has many followers with so many different philosophical views but none of them are making another religion with those thoughts,it was made only to make a business.Those followers of Jesus Christ thought it would be great if we can make more followers and that's how it was started.Jesus,Buddha would have never created their new thoughts if they could see the future.
Now if someone believes on God then I should say God is one,that is the whole mankind.God lives among us try to find out that.

Conspiracy theory and how it affects our lives

I was introduced with this particular thing in a very strange manner ,strange in the sense that I was actually searching about something else then suddenly I came across this matter and obviously it blew me away.I found that across the globe there are many people who deals with this conspiracy theories.They have some weird thoughts about everything but we don't know that whether these thoughts are really true or not but a immense interest grew in my thought process for this conspiracy theory so I started searching various things related with this topic and what I found? Here it goes
First of all I should give a short introduction about this matter what is conspiracy theory?It's a hypothesis against govt. or govt. funded organization even against any person or a community,the hypothesis mainly tells about the fact that those organization is doing something secret planning without giving any kinds of hints or signs and which is illegal or can be harmful for the humanity.
I'm giving now some of the conspiracy theories which already happened or is happening.
1. 9/11 was Planned by the US Government
    It was one of the most controversial conspiracy theories in recent times.Many people thinks that George.W.Bush was fully aware of the attack but he didn't do anything to stop those terrorists why? because at that time America was planning to increase their power in the middle east ,now he knew that the whole world would protest against them so that's why he allowed it to get the sympathy of the whole world and to create the distraction.There are other reasons also which gave America more power.
2.Assassination of John.F.Kennedy
The assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 p.m. CST (18:30 UTC).There are lot of conspiracy theories were generated on the above mentioned topic. Most current theories say that there is a criminal conspiracy involving parties as varied as the CIA, the Mafia, sitting Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Cuban President Fidel Castro, the KGB, or some combination of those entities. Some conspiracy theories claim that the United States government covered up crucial information after the various consequences of the assassination.
3.Global Warming is a Fraud
This is something which is again very interesting.It tells that actually this global warming is not happening right now and it never happened,it was invented to stop the world wide violence and to create a brotherhood.Though it was not only the cause .This hoax was actually created to exercise political influence,to create a single world govt. which can control the people in the name of the global warming.
4.Apollo moon landing hoax
It tells that the whole Apollo moon landing operation was faked by NASA.The astronauts did not land on the moon ,the land of the moon was actually created by the NASA.Some people (experts in photography) even examined the pictures and said that there could be chance that these pictures are taken in a way which led us to believe that those astronauts actually landed on the moon.NASA completely disagreed with those facts.
5.Jesus Christ was a human being
Now this is the most interesting amongst the others.It states that Jesus christ was actually a human being but people made him demigod.Jesus Christ was just a man with some extraordinary kind of the thoughts which can inspire the people.Even there was a claim Jesus Christ married a woman named Mary Magdalene and they had a daughter named Saint Sarah.The whole christian community suppressed this whole thing.This is principally because they fear the power of the sacred feminine, which they have demonized as Satanic.The secret society named Priority Of Sion was ordered to protect this secret at that time.
Again there are lots of conspiracy theories including the death of Netaji,the death of Princess Diana and many more now if I have started this then this writing would never be stopped.This will live with us till the last day of human civilization,it is happening only because we can not trust other people in this 21st century.Everything is happening for someone's own benefit.
It's affecting our life greatly in a indirect way.In this century the world economic condition mainly depends upon the economic condition of America moreover the whole world is indirectly dependent on the America and we don't even know what they are doing with their money and all the intelligence agencies.Many people are saying that the terrorists groups are created indirectly by the American govt. and even they are not trying to destroy those terrorist organizations because by creating chaos in the middle east they can hold the control over those countries as those countries are enriched by Natural gases,which is the backbone of today's economy.