If you have a tendency to satisfy your appetite with the best rich calorie supplements, talk and think about a glorious past than to make anything for the present and if you are an indomitable sleeper, welcome to the rich bangali clan of endless bangaliyana and unique measureless dialogues and food. A life membership will seal your fate from achieving even an inch more and sleep peacefully no matter what happens to your locality until the fire warms your house.
And if by chance it misses out, you can like choose to constrict your nerves a little and play a Byomkesh or a Feluda… Oops! Act playing a Byomkesh or a Feluda as the Satyajits and the Sirshendus does not exist anymore! Ask them, question them, try to stir them out of the comforts and into the “kormojogyo” that their Nobel litterateur had mentioned in so many ways, with half opened eyes they will answer you of the greats like Swami Vivekananda or Netaji or in fact the Aryan Clan of whom they are descendants, and will reason you that only one day they will surely succeed.
Medical science has stated thoroughly that over eating of maachh bhaat( fish and rice) followed by afternoon naps, evening Tea with “tele bhaja” (oily fries of Brinjals and Onions or Gourd dipped in besan, dripping oil and obesity), adda and a whole lot of rosogollas are not mere threats to your physical potentiality but it has been successfully proved over the years that this routine often fetches your voluntary intellectual retirement. Exceptions are a handful of names ranging from Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Vidyasagar, Rabindranath Thakur to the present day Amartya Sens and Md. Younis and only a few others.
I pray to the critical intellect of the bangali babus to shower on me drops of their Sea of Kindness and excuse me, tolerate me even, as they are the best known in the world of tolerance for such blasphemous comments on the Traditional and heritage culture of the Chaai er dokaan adda ( chats in a tea stall) clan! The Bengali culture has created the Significance of the word “No”. Ask them anything, and the answer that you hear more often is NO. Have you for an instance walked the streets for an environment awareness camp? Kamal babu would instantly knit his eyebrows shrug his soldiers, may or may not pat his potbelly but definitely say No. If asked, Why? They would follow up with a stern statement and tell us what they think about our trespassing into their languidity.
Another important and cult characteristic of the bangalis is this “cholchhe toh” Attitude( what is going on is OK.) Be it their daily refusals by Taxi, poor conditions of the government Health Institutions or Our Rights that are tampered with every day, every hour and every second, The Glorious History of these Bangalis with Netaji and Chittaranjan Bose will fail to stir any momentum to this Peaceful Slumber.
On the other hand, there evolved from this Not so stiff vertebrate Bangalis, a new generation of species called the Bongs. Not only are they well equipped, updated and professionally built, but they do not quite look at time carelessly munching on this Muri-tele bhaja or spendingleisure amidst the smoke and smell of a chaai er dokaan adda. It is often remarked of them, that sandwiches and salamis somehow serves less languidity than the Bengali cuisine.
These new age Bengalis, well, could throw a dice as well as click on the mouse. Well equipped with the culture and tradition of work, they listen to rabindra sangeet but at the same type conduct board meetings of Multinational corporates, they are as well versed in Sarat Chandra as they are with the latest Information Technology of the age. They could give a go to both a college canteen debate over decline of Communism, as well as a gali Cricket match with head-n-heels excitement! Well..erm..they’re often blamed of bad manners. During every critical situation when parents are about to burst off, they got this kinda bad habbit of stating- “take a chill pill”! Panicking? Over re-acting? Neh, not so cool!
The new age bongs remember the past and yes, they are cooler as they could acclimatize with the present even more.
