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British Indian Colony: History of Exploitation Atrocities and Cultural Annihilation

The great India. Ruled by the Pal, Sen, Muslim and British. A land of beauty, where thousands of cultures unite. Other than British all rulers had to merge with the Indian culture and be a part of them. On the other hand British landed here on the plea of doing business but shattered its social structure with continuous attacks on peasants, communal harmony and rules of the home business.
The East India Company originated on 31 December 1600 through royal charter with monopoly on all trade with the East Indies. The Company's ships first arrived at Surat in 1608. Sir Thomas Roe gained permission to establish a factory at Surat from Mughal Emperor, Jahangir, in 1615. Gradually the British set up numerous trading posts along the east and west coasts of India. As early as in 1669 Gerald Ungier, chief of Bombay factory had written to his directors: "The time now requires you to manage your general commerce with the sword in your hands". So from then, they were looking for establishing their root here in India even at the cost of bitter fights. With the continuation, in 1717, the Company achieved the most critical success when it received a Dastak or royal edict from the Mughal Emperor exempting the Company from the payment of custom duties in Bengal, Bihar and Orissa. Taking this advantage, company employees carried on personal business without paying duty to Nawab Siraj Ud Daulah. In this way the East India Company strengthened their root in the soil of India. This was one of their major successes. But conspiracy did not bring to a halt.
In 1752, Robert Orme, in a letter to Clive, noted that the company would have to remove Alivardi Khan in order to prosper. Instructions on October 13, 1756 from Fort St. George, Madras instructed Robert Clive, "to effect a junction with any powers in the province of Bengal that might be dissatisfied with the violence of the Nawab's government or that might have pretensions to the Nawabship". Accordingly, Clive deputized William Watts to negotiate with two potential contenders. One of them was Nabab's generals, Yar Latif Khan and other was his relative and Army Chief, Mir Jafar Ali Khan. On April 23, 1757 the Board of Directors of the Company approved Coup d'état as its policy in Bengal. British succeeded infiltrating the Nawab’s highest ranks, his own family, his Army Chief and his financers. ‘Nimak Haramer Deuri’ or the ‘Traitor’s Gate’ still stand today as witness to the secret meeting where Watts met Mir Jafar in disguise of a Borkha clad women in a Palanquin. Finally, on June 5, 1757 a written agreement was signed between the Company, represented by Clive, and Mir Jafar which ensured that Mir Jafar would be appointed Nawab of Bengal once Siraj Ud Daulah was deposed.
The Bengal Nawab became engaged in war of existence as Clive made some cunning steps. The war of Palashi against Clive was the war to save Indian glory and also to resist British aggressors. But Siraj lost. Treachery was the reason. Enemies were set among their own. At the beginning of the war Nawab forces conquered. But Clive was emboldened by reinforcement from Madras. Moreover, the Nawab was also preoccupied with the invasion from the west by Ahmed Shah Abdali of Afghanistan. More than anything else, chief Army officer of Nawab, Mir Jafar Ali Khan was a betrayer in spite of having advantage of more soldiers. Thus the British business company started a heinous way of betrayal and treachery. That laid its shadow through the whole period of Indian colony.

British colonies spread through the world by adopting three ways.
In Settlement colonies the colonizing country migrated to and eventually took complete control of every resource. Natives were annihilated through killing or by exposure to disease. Colonies of settlement were located in temperate zones, with climates similar to Europe’s. Examples of settlement colonies include English colonies in parts of the United States, Canada, and Australia.
Secondly, `Colonies of Exploitation’. Those were the tropical dependencies where British went primarily as planters, administrators, merchants, or military officers. Foreign colonizers established political control, if necessary using force against colonial resistance. But natives were not displaced or killed. Colonies of exploitation included Indonesia and Malaya in Southeast Asia, and Nigeria and Ghana in West Africa.
Third one is of contested type. A significant number of European settlers took up permanent residence. They tended to develop their own government parallel to the parent country and politically dominated native peoples. Examples of contested settlement colonies include Algeria and Southern Rhodesia, both in Africa.
There are several other types of colonialism and imperialism, including preexisting empires. Preexisting empires were or had been powerful states that possessed a large population, strong political structures, and a sophisticated economy. India under English rule is an example.
British started an unfair journey in India.

Now a brief narration of boundless British lootings and silent murders will be presented.
Since 1600, the British trading company used to buy delicate fineries from India and paid in gold and silver. The issue created vast uproar of protest among the British people, resenting the draining of the precious metals from England to India. In those days, Europe had nothing to export that had demand in India. But as soon as the company seized control of Bengal Taxation after Palashi war, Indian commodities were bought with the Indian currency. Besides while vying for all of India and even for war waged in foreign location, the British Indian army was financed by the Indian money. So exploitation and aggression got more acute.
Right after Plassey, the looting and exploitation by the company started unabated. As per agreement with Mir Jafar, Clive collected £ 2.5 million for the company and £ 234,000 for himself from the Nawab's treasury. In addition, Watts collected £ 114,000 for his efforts. The annual rent of £ 30,000 payable to the Nawab for use of the land around Fort William was also transferred to Clive for life. To put this wealth in context, an average British nobleman could live a life of luxury on an annual income of £ 800.
During Warren Hastings, the first Governor General of India, expansion of British rule was pursued vigorously. In 1784 Hastings was succeeded by Cornwallis, who initiated the Permanent Settlement. Whereby an agreement in perpetuity was reached with Zamindars or landlords for revenue collection. British started a kind of genocide with the law. Blueprints were made with the law to paralyze the peasants of India politically and economically. Peasants had to be more dependants. British initiated slavery. Peasants drowned under loan and were not able to collect courage to resist the British. A numerous number of peasants lost their lives, sons and even their wives’ respects due to atrocities of the Jamindars. This British imposed mute genocide made the Indian social structure collapse.
During Wellesley, total British territorial expansion was achieved. Major victories against Tipu Sultan of Mysore and the Marathas, and finally the subjugation and conquest of the Sikhs in a series of Anglo- Sikh Wars led to British occupation all over India. In some places, the British practiced indirect rule placing a Resident at the native ruler’s court. By Lord Dalhousie's notorious doctrine of lapse, native states became part of British India if there was no male heir at the death of the ruler. Often annexation was justified on misrule. Thus annexation and harsh revenue policies exhausted all the potentialities of Indian agriculture.
Thus exploitation and being indifferent to the distress of local people led to many terrible famines in India. Due to plundering of resources and sheer indifference to the dire straits of the victims, Indian people started suffering from full scale famines. The Great Bengal Famine of 1769-70, caused deaths to 10 million Indians in Bihar and Bengal. During 1782-84, 11 million died for famine in Madras, Mysore, Delhi and Punjub. During 1791-92, another 11 million died in Hyderabad, Southern Maratha country, Deccan, Gujarat, and Marwar. The Agra famine of 1837–38 caused 800,000 deaths. Orissa famine of 1866 killed 1 million. Rajputana famine of 1869 killed 1.5 million. The Great Famine of 1876–78 killed 5.25 million in British territories of Madras and Bombay alone. Bengal famine of 1943 killed 3 million in Bengal. All through the 190 years of British rule, economic exploitation continued, reflecting the fate of a Preexisting Colony of Exploitation. How should we label this? Isn’t this genocide? Of course it is. Indirect genocide; done by the British. What they wanted was to kill Indians on any ground.
Thus for almost 200 years, wealth from India was systematically transferred to Britain. British Banks used Indian capital to fund industry in the US, Germany and elsewhere in Europe. Industrial revolution and modern capitalism in the west were based on the colonization of India. It was the forced pauperization of vast Indian population that allowed nations like Britain and US to industrialize and "modernize". This capital was collected through various means including uneven trades, forced use of land and labor, great remittance of Indian income and excessive extraction from the common Indians.
British used arms with no considerations breaching all the boundaries of humanity. The western civilization raised on the base of the blood of Indian peasants.


Atrocities by the British against upsurges
Atrocities committed by the British started long before the 1757 Plassey conquest. With their usual cunning and calculative conspiracy, the British company successfully used the internal Indian conflicts to bring down many rulers. These were done coldly with unrestrained use of weapons and widespread atrocities. The started fortifying their trade posts with an imperial greed. The way the British supervised the cruelty done to Siraj and his family.
Rampant and coercive exploitation by the British incited many rebellions aimed to throw away the yolk of colonial subjugation. After Plassey and during the imperial expansion throughout India, the peasants in many areas flared many local peasant revolts and all of these uprising were quelled through extreme atrocities by the British. Especially after the Great Bengal Famine of 1770, both Hindu and Muslim peasants of north and central Bengal revolted against the British and their collective agents. Fakirs like Majnu Shah and Sanyasis like Bhabani Pathak led the uprising that lasted for three decades. It took the British at least a decade of burning villages and slaughtering Indians to quell the revolt. Wasn’t it genocide? British had no right here. They did not belong here. Even they could not be a part of the country like others. Instead they transferred properties of the country to theirs. Killed people. Obliterated vast areas.
Against their unruly, another peasant uprising in Rangpur district of north Bengal in 1783-4, the Chuar uprising in Bankura and Midnapur that lasted till 1799. These revolts killed many British and the reprisals from them were brutal. Warren Hastings failed to suppress the Chuar uprising and finally in 1799, Governor General Wellesly crushed the uprising through a pincer attack. Many of the rebels were hung from trees near Salboni in Midnapor, a place still known as the ‘heath of the hanging upland’ or ‘Fanshi Dangar Math’. The question is who killed whom coming from thousands miles apart? What right the British had to hang natives from trees? Wasn’t this genocide?
Among later peasant and working class revolts, more vital ones include Bheel uprising from 1817 to 1846 in Bundelhkand of Uttar Pradesh, Jat revolt of Rohtak and Hissar in Haryana, The Koli revolt of 1839 to 1845 all over Gujarat, aboriginal uprising during 1830 to1833 in Chotanagar among the Mundas. The most important revolt was by the major uprising by the Santals for attaining independence. These entire grassroots level survival struggle against the wanton exploitation by the British gained much ground and at those primary years of colonization they posed major threats to British presence and their mercantile exploitation that oppressed the grassroots poor. This threat of annihilation to budding British rule was smashed by insensitive and all-out atrocities and bloodshed resulting in defeat of the isolated but well-determined liberation struggles by the poorest of the poor under East India Company. Later on, the Muslim led Wahabi and Faraizi uprising, though inspired by Islamic principles, was in fact a direct struggle to uproot British rule from the subcontinent.







































One salient point in British ascendancy in India was their cunning strategy to use the feuds among local rulers to pit one of them against the other by taking side with those inclined to them. Even in deposing Siraj they manipulated the local conflicts. Later on conflicts between various Indian rulers was also successfully utilized by the British in spreading their domination all over India. This basic strategy of ‘Divide and Rule’ was persistent all through the British domination and lingered into the ending decades of the British rule inciting communal conflicts. They intentionally backed the two-nation theory to make sure that the British India gets divided into warring states and becomes weak in pursuing a real secular and united development approach facilitating neo-colonialism.

Exploitation






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India provided capital to the nascent industrial revolution in England by providing cheap raw materials, capital and a large captive market for British industry. In certain areas, farmers were forced to switch from subsistence farming to commercial crops such as opium, indigo, jute, tea and coffee. This resulted in famines and uprisings on a large scale. In all these plundering exploits, the British company successfully used the local people to extract revenue from their own fellow citizens at the grassroots level. Weapons was used indiscriminately and often at inhuman scale to clear the way to exploitation and destitution.



Later on, as soon as the company secured Diwani or Tax collection rights for Bengal, Bihar and Orissa, they fueled their exploitation of India by Indian resources. Excessive and atrocious taxing policy loosened widespread devastation in the agrarian sector with a height of inhumanity that killed millions of toiling Indians through frequent famines and perpetual pauperization.



Atrocities




Drawing inspiration from these localized revolts, the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857 was fought by Hindu and Muslim sepoys together to oust the British, an incident cited by many historians as the ‘First Struggle of Independence’ in India. The exterminating violence resorted by the British in all revolts proved them to be a bloodthirsty rulers prepared to perpetrate any level of inhuman atrocities, violence and conspiracy to safeguard their colonial possession.

During the Sepoy Mutiny, rebel sepoys were blown by cannon fires and in Delhi, the Mughal princes were massacred en masse. Force was also used in compelling the local farmers to cultivate cash crops. Under the crown as well, atrocities were perpetrated to quell the armed revolts in various Indian sections. The cruel Jallianwalla Bagh massacre due to protests against the Rowlatt Act in 1919 is another example of such atrocities. In the two World Wars, the British entangled India and used Indian soldiers and money to fight the wars opposing Indian popular descent. During the nationalistic movements, police atrocities and hateful conspiracy by the British caused deaths to hundreds of patriotic Indians. The British are even indirectly responsible for the communal genocide during partition of India, as they are the one who deliberately incited communal hatred and pressed for the partition of India. Communal division of Punjab and Bengal and the Kashmir issue still remain as a problem today.

Atrocities by the British went unabated even after the Sepoy revolt as retribution to stop such occurrence in future. But little was the success of such moves. Driven by the paramount urge to extract as much of Indian resources for repatriating to England, their level of exploitation never was downsized and as local Indians got exposed to western education and comparatively human citizen rights prevailing in native lands of the colonial power, a steady sense of independence from the yolk of Foreign subjugation started taking organized forms leading India into nationalistic freedom movement. Starting from the armed resistance to oust British from India up to lawful movement for peaceful settlement of the colonial question, the British, though subdued enough not to be as brutal as before, left no stone unturned to quell such movement by armed might in addition to treachery, conspiracy and hateful collaboration of local cronies.

As awareness and fighting spirit of the Indian mass escalated, the British realized the ineffectiveness and risk of all out suppression of the Indian demand for their legitimate rights. Nevertheless, they utilized every opportunity to split the solidarity of Indians to weaken their demand. Engineering communal divide between Hindu and Muslim communities was one such manipulation that has enduringly negative impact on the oppressed Indian mass and caused indescribable communal conflict and colossus bloodshed both before and after the partition of India. Not much earlier than 1919, the Jalinwalabagh massacre represents such an atrocity on unarmed public to quell the newly emerged nationalistic movement for self rule that was ultimately demanding ousting of the British rule.




Cultural Annihilation
The British looked down at the Indian people. Ironically, Indian civilization was far superior to the colonizing England. It only lacked the modern weaponry. From the very beginning, the British negated Indian culture. They introduced alien education to cut off the Indians from their traditional heritage and cultural pride. Zamindar and rich middle class went to England to be educated in ‘civilized’ values by a country which gained economic power through enslaving others and through insensate violence against colonized people.

For running the Indian Empire, owing to limited number of Britons, the service of Indian people was imperative. So, a class of clerically competent Indian people was educated in British system to create a specific class in India who, according to Macaulay, would be individuals ‘Indian in Body but British in Mind’. As many of the Indians, especially the Hindu community was admiring and supporting the British, they vigorously set themselves to learning the clerical version of British Education with a distinctive plot– serving as English speaking loyal subjects as well as to glorify the superficial English education as the pinnacle of wisdom. This alienated them from the persistent plights from British exploitation and made them an accomplice in annihilating the heritage of Indian culture and education that used to be far more superior then the British. At one point these middle class Indians were ashamed of their Indian ancestry and most of these so called English educated people turned into die hard supporters of British colonialism. As leading Indians started abhorring everything Indian, excessively obsessed to destroy the centuries old and racially harmonious Indian wisdom, they failed to appreciate both Indian and British education from the right perspective. In all forms of arts and literature practiced among these privileged collaborators of British exploitation, the indigenous culture appeared obsolete and crude.

Through superior technology, huge resources plundered from the colonies and their supreme status as colonizers, they were able to impose their culture on the subjugated populace, a phenomenon that Rudyard Kipling ironically described as ‘white men’s burden’ to emancipate barbarian colonized people, whereas most had a superior culture.
Thus the older and intrinsically richer Indian civilization was pushed to the backstage. What ensued was an almost irreversible decay in the sense of self-identification for the Indian Mass. The greatest blow to the Indian culture was the inciting of communal tension by the British which disrupted the century-old coexistence of various religions. The ‘divide and rule’ policy of the British had led to the demise of communal and racial harmony and assimilatory culture that once earned respect world over. Totally disoriented by the British plots, the Indians became foreigner in their own land and acted as puppets of the British in all the ill designs against the local people, economy and culture.

From the Plessey until the Partition, the British conquest and empire building followed a dark path of vile conspiracy, wanton bribing, breach of faith, sheer atrocity and indiscriminate exploitation to destroy the economy, culture and the very fabric of the superior Indian civilization. People of the subcontinent are still reeling from the blow. Many of our current dire straits are a direct predicament of denuding the Indians from their ancient and profoundly richer culture having a lot to offer to the British colonizers.
The deep rooted exploitation, indiscriminate atrocities and deliberate cultural annihilation perpetrated by the British in India has irrevocable ramification for the later history of this subcontinent. People of this one time British colony still suffer from the pervasive decay and lingering divide created and nurtured by the British colonizers. By all standards, the British owe to the colonized Indians and their present generation a profound, true and far reaching ‘Apology’ for their vile maneuvers in the colonial days. This type of ‘historical’ or ‘official’ apology is not a new phenomenon and it has many noticeable precedents. Universal human justice demands that this issue of outrageous siphoning of Indian resources and the permanent harm inflicted by the British rule on the Indian people should be brought into account.

Recent years have seen a wave of official apologies for wrongs committed in the distant past. Most recently in 2008, Italy apologized to Libya for colonial misdeeds and the Canadian and American government apologized to the Red Indians as did Australia to its aboriginal people. Former Japanese Prime Mi Junichiro Koizumi expressed “deep remorse” for Japanese World War II era conduct in China and Korea. Following the presidential victory of George W. Bush in November 2004, a website ‘sorryeverybody.com’ suddenly appeared permitting Americans “to offer apologies to the rest of the world.” Other instances include Tony Blair’s 1997 regrets for British inaction during the Irish Potato Famine in the mid-nineteenth century; Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen’s apology for the forced relocation of Inuit people in 1953; President Bill Clinton’s apology for failure to act during the 1994 genocide in Rwanda; France’s acknowledgement of the massacre of Algerians at Sétif in May 1945; a Canadian government apology in 2001 for military executions during the First World War; a German government apology for the colonial-era massacre of ethnic Herero people of Namibia by German soldiers; and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s apology for his part in the incitement that led to assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. The most famous apologizer of recent times was the late Pope John Paul II, whose apologies reached far back in history, and included contrition about the Religious Wars, the Inquisition, Jews, women, Blacks, schisms, Martin Luther, and the Church’s denunciation of Galileo.

Along with these, there are refusals to apologize for historic wrongs. Thus, despite requests, Soviet and later Russian leaders have never apologized for the massacre of thousands of Polish officers in the forest of Katyn in 1940; the Israelis refused the invitation of Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Riad in 1968 to apologize for their “aggression” the year before; Australian Prime Minister John Howard would not apologize for the European settlers’ treatment of the aboriginal population in that country; and President George Bush, Sr., declined to apologize for the Americans’ use of the atomic bomb against Japan in 1945.
Despite such cases, the wave has continuing force. Apologies are scarcely ever rejected for being irrelevant or misplaced, but rather for being insufficient, inadequate, or insincere. So the British also owe us a sincere and significant apology, at the soonest possible time. We should demand all possible reparations to address this history of Himalayan plunder and inhuman atrocities inflicted for centuries upon this subcontinent, effect of which still remain as the principle obstruction in the development of this region.
On 30 August 2008, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi apologized to Libya for damage inflicted by Italy during the colonial era and signed a 5-billion-dollar investment deal by way of compensation. Similarly, universal justice demands that Britain should also make a compensating apology for the harm inflicted on British India. A compensation of 5 million pound for each of the 190 colonizing years would be the minimum for making a plausible apology.

Magic of media

Media has developed the `make belief’ theory to a new style of art. Audio visual effect has thousand times more potentiality than a Goebles (press secretary of Hitler). With its magical touch we learn what we should like or how we should think. Now wait a minute! You can say. There are lots of programs, lot of views, why don’t you choose your own! Well I cant choose because when choices are given so purposively that you must choose between black and white and would never know whether there are other colors like `red’ exist or not. Take the US election for example. Who do you favor among the candidates? Obama or McCain? But we are never informed about the number of candidates in this election. We will never know there are even communist and socialist candidates also campaigning in favor of their own ideologies. Though there came names like Giluani, it is for fun, like a comic relief in a serious movie. Again objection may be raised- people are behind them, so media is just following the people there. First, people are fed up with them. The current crisis appeared under the blunt rule of Bush, but the cause emerged under the sophisticated rule of Clinton. He managed the law to come into force so that the investment bank could also deal loans. US state have to give a lot of thought to assure its people to come to the booth on the election day. One fourth of the people are yet to be registered to vote. Top Hollywood stars participated in a campaign to inspire people to register. Such fallacy of so called biggest democratic state! Their people are not convinced to participate in the voting process. But what the media bringing out? The mass participation, thrilling debates, amount of fund, glamour of Hillary and all those eye diverting stuff. The truth is even people of United States of America cant earn the faith of its very people.

Tracing History: clue is currency

If you are interested in history you are a passionate forager. Like a detective you reveal a time unknown using a mere clue. A clue that was omitted by others picked up by you and lead all to a startling invention. With many other things, ancient currency is a very important clue to history. Currency is a mean for exchange, its weight and purity is predetermined. It bears the seal of a independent state to declare it’s own authenticity. It’s also important to realize the scenario of the social structure, religious beliefs and the aesthetics of the applicable time. Working on the history of the Bengal mainly faces the lack of information. We could not go beyond the Gupta regime (320-550). Because pre-Gupta period left a little information to proceed with. So the historian were desperately looking for some clues. The last thirty years’ anthropological survey contributed a lot to draw the attention to that silhouette area of Bengal history. Scores of terracotta seals, sculptures and currencies have been found by this time. A little note can be added here. Ancient Bengal was divided into four major parts. Those are- Pundrabardhan, Raro, Bongo and Somoto-Horikel. Pundrabardhan was mainly the northern part of the Bengal. Raro consisted of West Bengal, Purulia, Birvum, Hugli and Hawra of today. Bongo region was with Dhaka, Bikrompur and Faridpur. And Chittagong, Comilla and Noakhali of today were under Somotot-Horikel. When different kinds of currency were discovered, Historians first tried to identify which time and which regime those belonged to. Currency is deeply connected with the trade activities. As we found so much currencies of the period from 400BC to 300AC, makes a sense that trade was a developing sector at that time. A lot of punch marked currencies have been found from Mohasthangor of Bogra, Dinajpur and a place near Dhaka. These currencies are 3.337 gm in weight. The measurement was done with the Karjapon standard. That standard spread throught the India during the Mourja regime, that was pre-Gupta period. Currencies were mainly of silver. Besides there were copper and a mixing of tungsten, in a little quantity. There were around 172 types of designs. Some currencies were only marked with numbers but some were cast. Though Bangla was never ruled by the Kushan Empire, here Kushan currencies were also found. Maybe it is a sign of far trade started then. Kushan Emperor Konishko’s gold currencies were not rare even in our Bogra. But silver currencies were much greater in number than gold. Those had been using for transaction mainly in the ancient Raro region. Sure those were imported but had an important roll here. As a consequence, many local silver currency of this region were designed according to those of Kushans’. Those were named as Kushan-Bongo currency but had some distinctive features of their own. Then the anthropologists gave their attention to match the similarities between currencies of several regions of India. And then they suggested that from 100BC, there were a strong trade bond between the Bengal, Northern Orissa and southern Bihar. There were also some currencies where only different kinds of writings are encrypted. The alphabets used in those writings were of Khorosti and Khorosti-Brahmi. And those had been used by the inhabitants of North-western India. So we could assume that merchants of those regions came here for trade. The Mourja Empire spread its regime consequently at that time and left significant effect on this Bengal. Before the Mourja there was no city in the Bengal. So those currency indicate the beginning of a town-based society. Development of agriculture, economy, trade and crafts took place at that time. That is a little specimen for the youngsters about time digging. It is not less interesting than doing detective jobs revealing an unknown, non-reachable twilight time deducting the not-so-significant type incidences. Why not you think of some other clue that has not been taken into account yet?

25 Celebrity answer to `what world do we live in?'

'We live in a dark world that give us the feeling of being in the light.'
It may be the first line of a boaring philosophical essay or a very personal monologue. Why should it not be a sentence of dialogues between you and me? Okay, you dont know me, even if you did, we dont usually talk in that fashion unless we become intellectual big shots. Unfortunately we are not that sort. But the line is so much vivid to dig down its inner meaning. So i decided to go to some different persons renowned, tell them the line and hear their responses. My imagination took me from one end to the other of the globe. As my blog mate I can share the responses with you those i experienced through the journey.

Barak Obama: No no no... I live in a white world that gives me the feeling of being black...

Osama Bin Laden: I live in a Obama world that gives me the feeling of being in Bush world.

Dick Chenny: I live in a Neuclear world that gives me the feeling of being in peace.

Kevin Rudd: I live in my world that gives me the feeling of being in Howard's.

Brad Pitt: I live in a Jolie world that gives me the feeling of being kept.

Nichol Kidman: I live in a fountain world that gives me the feeling of being Australian.

Diego Maradona: I live in a marijuana world that gives me the feeling of being God.

Pamela Anderson: I live in a naked world that gives me the feeling of being dressed.

Stephen Hawkings: I live in a normal world that gives me the feeling of big bang.

Quentin Taranatio: I live in a bloddy world that gives me the feeling of being bloody.

Martin Scorses: I live in a violent world that gives me the feeling of being a film director.

Netaniahu: I live in a Hamams world that gives me the feeling of being Jew.

Hu Jintao: I live in a fragile world that gives me the feeling of being Chinese.

Yukio Hatoyama: I live in a Chinese world that gives me the feelings of being Japanese.

Richie Bono: I live in a U2 world that gives me the feeling of being with you.

Fidel Castro: I live in a imperialist world that gives me the feeling of being a communist.

Leonardo De Caprio: I live in a Titanic world that gives me the feeling of being in Deep Blue Sea.

Kate Winslet: I stay in a bathtub with a book and that reminds me of being in the Titanic.

Gordon Brown: I live in a corrupted world that gives me the feelings of being in Britain.

An Anti globalization activist: We live in a green world that gives us the feeling of being in piss.

Ricky Ponting: I live in a Steve Waugha's world, that gives me the feelings of being Australian captain.

Rupert Mardoc: I live in a star world that gives me the feelings of being stuck with the remote control.

Akon: Yeah yeah.. I kinda livin in a world man, yeah yeah.. can be dark, alright..

Madona: We live in a material world that gives us the feelings of being material.

A drunk: What!... world? ...?...

Attack on Indians continuing in Australia

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Another mass killing in Afghanistan

2 for US in Afghanistan

Seven verses for Afghanistan

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"By means of this sacrifice, I call …"

-Texts from Avesta.

The first monotheistic religion that had laid its influences later on all powerful religions like Christian, Judaism and Islam, had that call to its believers. Zoroastrianism follows Avesta and Zoroastrianism originated in Afghanistan. Maybe the legend has returned to its land in a new context and dimension.

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The presidential election has not officially produced any result yet. But every stones are being turned to establish a pre decided set up. It is assumed that Karzai is not the only choice now. He would be tagged with Abdullah in the form of a coalition to keep the US control more tightly. 50% is the threshold to legitimate the election. Militants did the best to keep the casting vote below that point and the administration along with the media keeps trying to project a successful election ever took place in Afghan history. But all the claims become mess with everyday bomb blasting.

Bombs are blasting everyday in Afghanistan on NATO forces. ‘Guardianing’ the democracy seems to be in danger there. Air strikes, shooting the mass or interrogating in prisons- nothing can keep the bombs away from the most equipped and modern forces of the time.

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Afghan Election Commission still has more than 2,000 claims of fraud to investigate. Some of them are serious enough to postpone the election. Bags of ballot papers have been presented to the commission those proved that real winning of a candidate had been hijacked by the Karzai supporters. Foreign observers in Southern part declared that there were only 5 to 10 percent casting of votes but the Government claims 40 percent. Former planning minister Ramazan Bashardost said: “This is not an election. This is a comedy.”

Claims of Iran’s election forgery were recent headlines in the media. US reaction to that news was very much sharp and harsh; they could not tolerate such humiliation of democracy! But for Afghanistan, the humiliation is a great step! Mr. Obama said, this was an important step forward in the Afghan people’s effort to take control of their future.

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Long beard, a piece of cloth tied on the head, short pajamas and guns in hands- that’s a typical Afghan face that has been in our mind for decades after decades. Mainstream media gives us the impression that there are bunch of barbaric fundamentalist hooligans had been ruling; at last the NATO force managed to rescue the poor inhabitants of the country.

A few remembers the glorious history of Afghans. Their land sheltered human kind of species even fifty thousand years ago. Later it was a place where great languages and thoughts emerged and gave the world directions. The well known ancient Indian civilization can no way deny that, the land was a gateway to new era. It was like bonding the east and the west. In the brutal ages of UK imperialist aggressions around the globe the people of Afghanistan stood bravely for independence. And we also like to remember that the present militant armed forces were brainchild of US strategy deriving from socialist mania. And the Soviet must take responsibilities for the mess it caused. Even their political philosophy cannot validate the atrocities they made in the land on the plea to resist imperialist forces. Anyway Afghans were always like stakes of pawns to global politics. The saga seems has not come to end yet.

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Taliban did not face any criticism by US or Western big forces when they gave the world an experience of one of the most horrifying holocaust in 1996; not even their ‘middle age rules’ were condemned. It took the ‘Twin Tower’ fall to be alarmed. US took NATO in their armpits and air strikes just devastated the country to the earth in 2001. From then on NATO forces are there to keep the ‘peace’ they injected. In 2002, this Hamid Karzai was selected as interim president and then full president in 2004 to rule the land for NATO. The election of 2004 was also a show of forgery where 15 among 23 of the candidates boycotted the ballot. Multiple voting, taking control of the election centers were common scenario of the election. Journalist Christian Parenti claimed that many people in Afghanistan were in possession of three or four photographic ID cards. He himself, not an Afghan citizen, could have easily voted. "One of the parties gave me two valid voting cards," he said "that I could add my photograph to and I could have voted if I wanted to."

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Tens of thousands of US and NATO troops are in Afghanistan. And Obama administration is particularly more interested in war of Afghanistan then in Iraq as they declared openly after US election. And it was surprising that, unrest conditions grew in and along the border of Pakistan right after that expression of interest! The why not predict the recent anomaly as a part of US global plan targeting the South East Asia, one of the most geo-strategically vital region?

Troops are there for near about half a decade but still there are bombs, there are killings. Nature of the resistance is another question but the reality is ‘Peace Keeping Mission’ is keeping the peace out of the mission.

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Ahura Mazda, the holy creator in the Avesta called for sacrifice to fight the injustice. Many a time passed after that. Rivers had changed courses, winds had brought heat. But the land has the time hear the call now from 4000 years back. Lets take Ahura Mazda as a symbol for Afghan freedom.

The Poor man and a country

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After dieing of his father, a poor man came to know that he inherits a good number of gold. In a death bed statement the father told him, he has hidden the gold somewhere under the house but could not manage to tell the location. The man became very happy and started to have sweet dreams of future. He began to search all through his home compound and found a clear mark of hiding something underneath beside the mango tree. of But then he remembered, `Oh no! I have no shovel to dig!’

Okay, no problem. He went for hiring a man with a shovel to help him out. There were some men with shovels in the market. They seem very much united. Four of men with shovels had talk with him.

`Yes, I can do that alright. I will dig the place for you. But what’s my profit?’

`I will pay you an hourly rate.’

‘That’s very fine. But… I have another proposal. Whatever found in digging, you must give me 80 percent. And… if your tree is cut while I am digging you can never complain. Is that alright?’

‘No its not alright. How can you expect that?’ The poor man exclaimed.

‘Its up to you. You don’t have the shovel, don’t know how to dig. What the big deal with sharing! If you don’t share, you can’t dig those alone. Whatever there is will remain there forever. Think it seriously.’

The poor man became very depressing. What should he do now!

Dear Reader lets have a break in our story now.

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Bangladesh, in different definition, is defined differently; Developing, Moderate Muslim, Least Developed, Poor… etc. But what all will agree that it is not that rich in natural energy resources. Oil or gas reserves are not sufficient enough to be calm for next 50 years. Already it is facing 250 million cubic feet in shortage of gas everyday. The government forecasts the nation's current gas reserves will run out by 2014-2015 at the present rate of consumption. Bangladesh is believed to have 15 trillion cubic feet natural gas reserves. Compare it to US proven reserve of 211.09 trillion cubic feet. So it is pretty much important for Bangladesh to ensure the best use of it. Natural gas in Bangladesh was discovered in the country in 1955 and production started in 1960. From 1961-1970, the country's total gas consumption was only 67 billion cubic feet (Bcf), which rose to 279 Bcf the following decade from 1971-80, 1.06 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) during 1981-90 and thereafter 2.49 Tcf during 1991-2000. Consumption skyrocketed but the production potentiality did not.

Bangladeshi state owned corporation PetroBangla have enough wisdom and capacity to trace out where the gas can be found. But she must dig it out before using. Only problem there is, she has no modern equipments or enough finance to invest. She has to go looking for companies those can do that for her.

Bangladesh has been divided into 23 blocks for gas exploration in 2001 and, among them, the 8 richest blocks were allotted to the International Companies. They invested 52 per cent of the country's total foreign direct investment in the energy sector, and there has been a Production sharing contract (PSC) with the Companies. And that PSC was designed, keeping people in the dark, in favor of the Companies to make the best profit possible ever. Guess how was the sharing! It is 80-20; 80 for the Companies. Production costs has been demonstrated very high without any satisfactory logic. Companies could not be brought under book for sever accidents caused by them due to the PSC.

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And now the Bay of Bengal has been awarded to multinational companies and PSCs are on the process to sign following the previous model. Ireland-based company Tullow Bangladesh and US oil company Conoco Phillips South Asia New Ventures Ltd has been allowed to explore gas from beneath the sea. Tullow and Conoco has got four and five years respectively to explore and eight years both for production. Petrobangla will negotiate with the two companies for signing separate PSCs. The model PSC suggests following Bangladesh Arbitration Act 2001 for solving disputes between the PSC signatories, instead of going to an international court.

That unbelievable step by the Bangladesh government has not gone unchallenged. People of Bangladesh got severely beaten by police while protesting that move.

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Meeting the demand of newer energy source is always a challenge for a state. Common people will keep using electricity, gas and other daily necessaries without giving a second of thinking where those come from. But the state that has scarcity of natural resources will have to think a thousand ways and finding the suitable one to proceed. Its not surprising to know that the global politics is now governed by energy sources. Every country ties or has bones of contentions with others for a reason rooted to oil or gas. Middle East is an example to the world. A naturally resourceful country always be a victim and get involved in some kind of trouble. And then comes the big brothers in action; some to grasp, some to rescue. In the consequence, the country suddenly finds out, it has lost its full control over its oil or gas.

But what about countries with little resources? The war between the powers to `oil hunt’ leads to a eternal journey. Resourceful countries could be rich and hard to bend but poor country, even it has a little energy, can be treated softer as a target. So country like Bangladesh cannot hide her tiny resources for herself. Whether the resources are located, under the earth or sea, it must be digging out and be used for global business.

What’s the problem with digging gas or oil out! Letting those lie under ground does not benefit a country or its people- so the government of Bangladesh says.

Dear reader, here is the relevance of our main story of the poor man.

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The poor man said, ‘Okay. It seems I can’t afford to hire you. I can look more and wait couple of months, no harm. In the mean time I can go to market, try to buy a shovel or learn how to dig. And then I can bargain with others so that 90 percent of my resource can be kept to mine. Bye Bye.’

Those four men were very much surprised to hear that. They thought the poor man will never dare to do something on his own.

The story has a happy ending here but the Bangladesh story don’t.

Web page design samples 01

This is a web site designed by me. The site means to collect and sale posters published from Bangladesh. A company name `Waterflower' financed the site.

Web url: www.posterbagla.com
Financing Comapany: Waterflower
Address: 50, purana paltan, Dhaka 1000
Contact: +8801711345188

Sample Designs 01

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This is a drawing made for a animation project