26/11/08...........Where are the terrorists coming from..

Fall winter, November 2008, a time of celebration in different parts of India, a time when India is waiting for a more promising 2009, came the ultimate havock.

2008 has been a trouble some year not only for India but also for the world. with the sudden quadrupling of world oil prices, accompanied by the ultimate subprime crisis guaranteed that the world will be seeing events that no one would have ever imagined. And truly from the collapse of the great wallstreet with the wash out of Lehman Brothers to the bankruptcy of Ireland, investors all over the world were shattered. Even the dream growth run of the Asian Superpowers ( china and India) came to a hault with China's automobile sector and India's IT/ITES sector showing signs of stagnation and resistance.

All these are  macro economic issues which more or less are kinda inevitable with globalization, privatisation and liberalization being the center point of focus; but world is facing a different resistance altogether in the form of Global Terrorism and Mumbai 26/11 Attacks pushed terrorism to new heights. World was shattered to watch the audacity and the magnitude in which the attacks were conducted. 

Neo knows there is no point in discussing what happened during those dreadful, never ending, 72 hours but Neo surely feels that 26/11 attacks raised several questions and two most vallid questions are: Who is responsible for the attacks? and where are the terrorists coming from?

LeT is the name that every Indian will remember for ever!!!!!!!!! BUT Neo feels that there is more than what meets the eye. 

Neo feels very sad to say that " lack of a common political will" and a massive failure of several governing and guarding institutions resulted in this attack. Let us look at this attack in two phases, firstly,  from the execution point of view and secondly , what actually followed in the next 72 hours!!!

Look at the enormity and the audacity of the attack, an attack of such high magnitude is impossible without long term strategical planning backed by hard core training which must have been going for months, if not, years!!! now, coming to real facts, on 19th Nov , RAW submitted a special intelligence report quoting high alert and fearing that the terrorists can come from Sea!!!!! Several Foreign Intelligence Agencies have been said quoted that "The Taj" being one of the  most preferred targets by merceneries and that Long term strategical operations were being planned out against India!!!!! All these points indicates towards a shameful failure of several intelligence agencies across the country and also to the fact that how lightly stuffs like RAW reports are being taken in this country !!!!!!

Now, lets think for a while about what happened in the 72 hours of  extreme gun battle between the terrorists and the brave NSG commandos, The navy and offcourse the State Police Force to begin with. Neo may be very harsh but Neo feels like saying it was nothing but utter stupidity the way the entire operation has been conducted. Also Neo feels that Again the root causes are much much deeper ingrained, the lack of a police reform to start with, the debate between a 303 Rifle and an AK 47, the untimely delay in the transportation of the NSG commandos because a Minister's timely schedule cannot be compromised, all these issues are something to laugh about!!!! Also to laugh about were some of the political instances surrounding the Taj and the Nariman Point, where an honorary Minister ( front runner now for the Prime Minister's seat) delivered a high time communal speech just 100 yards outside the Taj Building  giving oaths of his soo called " foresightedness".

Neo Salutes those people who actually came out as the heroes and sacrificed their lives trying to save the disgraced faced of the system!!!!!

Lastly Neo took a lot of time to complete this article, the motto of which was to wait for the right time to express. 2nd phase of the General election is over and political parties are doing their best to grab whatever attention they can get  to cash in votes. Ideally, neo feels that India needs great thinkers and even better implementors. India needs thoughtful reforms covering  the three major arm of the constitution of India....The Executive, The Judiciary and The Legistative. After all, things should follow a process which should be transparent and visible. People, irrespective of whether politics being considered as a " SERVICE: needs to be Appraised transparently for their deeds. Only than can we see a true shining INDIA.

Early Influences......

" Whats wrong with felu da"? one day neo asked! how come one be so dominating when it comes to searching a clue"?; that tall man is just too perfect!! Early teens, Vacations, soothing afternoons neo used to exploit every moment reading Satyajit Ray's Works. Neo still remembers how he used to ape felu da and roam around the big villa searching arbitrary clues.

Neo remembers Charles Dickens being someone whom he really admired when he was a kid. Dickens was not only the most influential novelist of the victorian Era but was also someone who lived in his characters. Dickensian characters—especially their typically whimsical names—are among the most memorable in English literature. The likes of Ebenezer Scrooge, Fagin, Mrs. Gamp, Charles Darnay, Oliver Twist, Micawber, Abel Magwitch, Samuel Pickwick, Miss Havisham, Wackford Squeers, and many others are so well known and can be believed to be living a life outside the novels that their stories have been continued by other authors.

If you are bengali teen u must have admired Satyajit Ray in some way or the other. He is a versatile genius when it comes to creativity and imagination and he redefined bengali literature by his very simple and lucid way of writing. He gave us many memorable characters but Neo enjoys Professor shankhu the most, the 1st BengaLI schi-fi attempted for sure. Felu da, though has been largely influenced by Sherlock Holmes is another legendary creation by Ray.

As Neo said earlier Paintings are in his blood. He has a long list of painters whom he admires. Out of them two painters are just beyond expression. The first one has to be Leonardo Da Vinci, he was an Italian polymath, being a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. From verocchio's Workshop paintings in 1466-1476 to the famous Mona Lisa or " La Gioconda" the laughing one. The Mona Lisa painting is famous, in particular, for the elusive smile on the woman's face, its mysterious quality brought about perhaps by the fact that the artist has subtly shadowed the corners of the mouth and eyes so that the exact nature of the smile cannot be determined. The shadowy quality for which the work is renowned came to be called "sfumato" or Leonardo's smoke. Neo always enjoyed the color mixing and the use of shades in Leonardo's Painting's, simply legendary.

The second and particularly the one whom Neo tried to ape was the famous 'Pablo Piccasso'. Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was an Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. As one of the most recognized figures in 20th-century art, he is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and his depiction of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. he was the Expressionists of his time and he propouned the concepts of figure painting like any other painter. However his works were equally controversial due to nude depiction of woman in most of his figure sketches. Picasso still remains on of the most influential painters in Neo's life and his works so far.

There are many other names which always perplexes Neo's mind, but one common thing Neo observed in all these Legendary people is their power of expressing and way of expressing visions , imaginations, creative stincts and the positive vibes that is reflected in their works which cannot be explained in terms but can only be Felt and observed and followed.........

Early Years Of Neo.......

"Nostalgia, sheer nostalgia", thats the right expression which comes in Neo's mind when he thinks of his past.

From the very early days, Neo has been groomed in a natural subtle environment where there was ample room for creativity and dreaming. "there should not be any compromise when one dreams", golden words from Grandma. Neo spend most part of his childhood sitting in her lap hearing stories of truimph, stories of failure and above all tales of one chashing his/her dreams and fulfilling it. Soo there were angles, phantoms,dreamlands,ghosts ruining neos little mind. Granny made one thing pretty sure that Neo should live his dreams, so there was no shortage of short stories, Novels around little Neo. She used to read them taking Neo in her lap and Neo used to travel in the land of dreams. So on one side there was an honest Rama, who's charisma, who's patience,who's cause to kill the evil was something Neo always appreciated; On the Other hand, there was an evil Ravana, whom Neo feared like hell due to all wrong reasons.

Everytime Neo dreamed something, he used to draw it in what ever and where ever possible. Little Neo loved expressing his dreams and drawing used to be his medium of expressing. Slowly Neo started enjoying sketching and in due course of his life sketching has been quite an influence.

Childhood memories are something Neo sits and cherishes everyday. In every lonely corner of Neo's heart are those people and memories who left an indellible mark in the sweet and sour journey of Neo. Neo still believes in the "little neo", who always forced Neo to dream and dream endlessly. As adults we all know how hard it is to chase ones dreams, but there should be someone or something that pushes one to go for his/her dreams, fortunately Neo has the " Little Neo" inside his heart who has no limits when it comes to chasing his dreams.

Neo Begins his Journey

Midnight 12.30 am;

somewhere in India.............

Last 50 minutes: i was thinking why to start a blog?

40 mins Earlier: i decided why not? lets do it.

30 mins earlier: uhhu!!!!! biggest hurdle!!!!!!! Nickname???

20 mins Back: confused; damn confused!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10 mins Back: hmmm!!!!!!something which means A BEGINING or NEW!!!!!!!!!!

2 mins back: Yuppee!!!!!Can be NEO.

Journey of NEO begins..........................................................