Jishnu and James.

Jishnu is a friend of mine from the happy days of Presidency. James is a Bangladeshi popular singer. After one year of IITK (MSc-Physics) Jishnu came to Calcutta on vacation singing Mirabai by James. Aparently, this song was all the rage amongst the IITK Bongs (a rather big population).. I recently found a video of Mirabai by James on youtube and it is here. Do check out. It would appear that the Bangladeshi entertainment industry has the right musicians .. but not people who can direct halfway decent music videos.

Photographs.

Recently had this chat with a friend who has been the extremely unwilling subject of my camera. So, I had sent her some of the pictures of her, and she said that they were not as awful as she thought they would be. A few points here: sure, I might be a total buffoon, but this is something that I think(well, hope) that I am learning, and hopefully am not a terribly lousy hand it. In fact, here a link to my flickr album You decide: http://www.flickr.com/photos/feelingdisconnected/

Right.. so why this terribly lack of confidence in me...? I am most distressed!

The day came and went....

with nary a whisper.. a whole day of work, and then some... there are things outside which are worth a lot.. at this moment, i don't know and i mostly don't care either ...

Rajinder Puri does it again: Iran, Pakistan and India: possible allies?

This is another guest post written by Rajinder Puri which appeared in today's Statesman, Calcutta edition. The article makes some interesting points in which things might flow, conceivably, if people in power make the right decisions.

A pipeline pipe dream?
The Domino Effect Theory In Peace

By Rajinder Puri

There is a domino effect theory in war. The collapse of one bastion can lead to the fall of others one by one. Can that theory work for peace? The developments related to South Asia and Iran could demonstrate this. In the pursuit of singular interest each nation might interact with others to help defuse fire after fire leading ultimately to world peace. To consider this mind-boggling imaginary scenario let’s begin at the beginning.
The press quoted Pakistan Foreign Minister Kasuri revealing that there existed a secret ‘K Plan’ regarding Kashmir which was known only to five individuals in Pakistan. Some observers zeroed in on President Musharraf’s proposal of joint control of Kashmir by India and Pakistan. But that was widely publicised and not secret. That proposal has not been shot down. It remains alive. This column has argued previously that the proposal can succeed only if preceded by agreement on a larger framework ~ of joint South Asian arrangement, including defence. Could Mr Kasuri’s ‘K Plan’ relate to some such idea?

Lack of coordination

If this guess has substance, the proposed plan differs widely on one detail from what was envisioned in this column: the framework would at the outset include not members of the Saarc organisation, but only India, Pakistan and Iran. And the impulse to create this framework emanates not from wise and visionary statesmanship, but from pure self-interest of each of these three nations as they pursue profit. The catalyst of course is the Indo-Pakistan-Iranian gas pipeline deal.
Petroleum Minister Murli Deora jubilantly told the press that pricing details had been sorted out with Iran and the pipeline agreement would be signed by June. Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Tehran quickly scotched this statement and snubbed Deora by saying that nothing yet had been finalised. However the lack of coordination and the characteristic confusion within the Indian government is unlikely to imperil the deal. The stakes are simply too high.
India’s urgent need for energy needs no reiteration. But for Pakistan’s growing economy the need for natural gas is equally urgent. It is estimated that Pakistan with one of the world’s fastest growing populations will need to increase its use of gas dramatically within the next two decades. By next decade not only will India’s gas demand almost double but its declining reserves will compel heavy import of gas. Iran has the world’s second largest gas reserve. It neighbours both nations. A prime bargain seems tailor-made.
India has three options for importing gas from Iran: shipping it as Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) by tankers over sea; getting it through a deep sea pipeline; or transporting it over land. A land-based pipeline would be four times cheaper than any other option, even after including transit fee payments to Pakistan. It is an unbelievably sweet deal for all three ~ India, Pakistan and Iran. The project is estimated to cost around $4 billion. A third of the gas would be for Pakistan, the rest for India. But here is the complication which could bring into play the domino theory for peace: the pipeline will have to pass through 475 miles of Balochistan.
Indo-Pakistan tension over Kashmir and terrorism had prevented India from accepting the deal earlier because of dependence on Pakistan. Now, either because of economic compulsions or international pressure, India seems to have overcome its reluctance. But what about the Balochistan problem inside Pakistan? Balochistan is home for Al Qaeda leaders as well as for indigenous Baloch insurgents seeking some measure of self-rule. The two groups have conflicting interests. Before the pipeline can become viable Pakistan will have to expel Al Qaeda and redress Baloch grievances. President Musharraf has the power to grant Balochistan requisite autonomy. How will he deal with Al Qaeda? Is that why he is reported considering imposition of Emergency?
For Iran the pipeline is its lifeline. Not only does it need the broad South Asian market for its gas. Iran has already passed signals that it hopes India will play a mediatory role in defusing its nuclear dispute with the West. Equally, Iran’s relationship with Pakistan is strategically crucial. With American troops stationed in neighbouring Afghanistan and Iraq, Iran would like to defuse all tension with Pakistan, with which its past ties have been uneven. That is why Iran Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki repeatedly described the gas project as the “peace pipeline”. That is why the representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei met the Indian ambassador urging India to intervene on Iran’s behalf in its nuclear dispute with America. That is why Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz described the gas pipeline as “a win-win proposition for Iran, India, and Pakistan”.
But for this euphoria to translate to reality, the ‘domino effect theory for peace’ would have to bring peace to Balochistan and defeat to Al Qaeda. This is a tall order. And that is not all. For normalisation to endure, Iran’s nuclear crisis will have to be solved. For that, India could conceivably be a conduit for uranium, and guarantor of Iran’s peaceful nuclear programme. But Iran’s security concerns would also have to be met. A few months ago Iran specified that it would renounce nuclear weapons if India and Pakistan renounced them too. Does that not indicate the necessity of India, Pakistan and Iran arriving at some agreement involving mutual guarantees for nuclear security? Can India and Pakistan ever normalise between themselves without some such tangible agreement? The domino effect theory therefore must of necessity ensure solution of Iran’s nuclear dispute.

Iraq crisis

If Iran’s nuclear dispute with the west is resolved the decks would have been cleared for ending the Iraq crisis. Already the leaders of Iran and Saudi Arabia, the two most powerful influences respectively of Shias and Sunnis, are in touch at the highest level. Iraq’s Sunni insurgents have made overtures for talks. They seek a new constitution and a share of oil revenue. A federal Iraq seems feasible. That would allow America to withdraw troops which ought never to have invaded Iraq. This would be the last but one domino of discord. If it falls a final settlement of the Palestinian problem would become a distinct possibility. That would be the last domino on the way to achieving overall Middle East peace.
Does all this sound wildly fanciful? Probably it is. To imagine that a gas pipeline from Iran to India through Pakistan could have such far-reaching implications does sound crazy. But consider the potential, not the prospect. And if the potential for South Asian nations to exert such global influence while pursuing their own interests exists, surely our national leaders should close ranks?

(The author is a veteran journalist and cartoonist )

Linux

Just to make things even.. here is an IBM Linux ad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOlrKH3SmtI.. the kid is creepy!

and these Red hat ads are bloody cool! Also a wicked soundtrack...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwYt7hobYZg&NR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_VFKqw1q2Q&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rSLQAqV2Lw&mode=related&search=
and one of them features a quote from Gandhi which I have not heard before.. hmmmm..

Some ridiculous Mac commercial spoofs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MG_O3Y8JD4&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZh_rwrYgAY&NR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc4oP_ITqMc&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-L-0s-7-Z0&NR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFAJDbV9Vfs&mode=related&search=
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjpn3L3bSJQ&mode=related&search=

Snatch...

This week is going to be a lot of work and all that... something to ease the pain.... part of the soundtrack from Snatch at this link.

Overheard in Graduate School

Chairman of the Data Committee: Why, Mr. Anderson? Why do you do it? Why get up? Why keep doing those experiments? Do you believe you're collecting data for something? For more that your survival? Can you tell me what it is? Do you even know? Is it freedom? Or truth? Perhaps peace? Yes? No? Could it be for love? Illusions, Mr. Anderson. Vagaries of perception. The temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose. And all of them as artificial as the University itself, although only a human mind could invent something as insipid as a graduate programme. You must be able to see it, Mr. Anderson. You must know it by now. You can't graduate. It's pointless to keep analyzing data. Why, Mr. Anderson? Why? Why do you persist?
Graduate Student: Because I choose to.

Epar and Opar.

Epar Bangla refers to the Indian State of West Bengal, capital Calcutta (Kolkata), mostly populated by Ghoti's and apparently has been going to the dogs for ever.... (this is a delicate and subtle point.. everyone will tell you that West Bengal and its inhabitants have been going to the dogs for ever... the fact that we are not yet there leads one to either of two conclusions... 1. the dogs are really far away or 2. people who say such things are full of shite.).

Opar Bangla refers to Bangladesh, capital Dhaka, mostly populated by Bangals, tropical cyclones and amazing seafood. Now if West Bengal has been going to the dogs.... its spiritual brother, the independant country of Bangladesh cannot be very far behind... in fact, is probably leading the way. But again, as those people have managed to keep their country afloat for quite a while.. they obviously have a lot going for them.. apart from the fact they simply cannot decide upon what kind of government they want.

Now "epar" means 'this side' and "opar" means 'that side'. So, obviously, while Epar is home to me and Opar is the home of my ancestors (not kidding), the situation is probably just reversed for any regular Imran or Abdul sitting in Dhaka. The reason I suddenly got to writing is because I was on Orkut where someone was saying that the best Epar Bangla band is 'Fossils' while the best Opar Bangla band is 'Miles'. So, then think about this... we keep exchanging musicians and other artists all the time.. Bangladesh keeps a more or less continuous flood of refugees on the borders of West Bengal, so why not simply cut the border away and reunify? After all the whole separation of Bangla.. the whole Bangla was a uniquely British piece of work.. done by His Sonofabitch Excellency, Lord Curzon, the then Viceroy of British India waaaay back in 1905. Isn't it time to undo this rather hideous piece of work?

Doggerel/

So I am not a poet.
But does that really matter?
I have read through Voet and Voet.
That is a Biochem book,
And it has taught me so much, look!

Yes, so poetry does not agree with me,
sentimental love poems even less,
but to you, long suffering reader,
this little I will confess.

Writing shitty verse is actually fun,
Sometimes you get to use your favourite pun.
But where do I get my poetic licence?
Is there an exam I must write?
Is there a dragon I must fight?
Does it involve having to parallel park?
I must say, this makes very little sense,
But of course, its all for a lark.

More Harry Potter Titles.

Harry Potter and the Precipitated Protein.
Harry Potter and the Feminist.
Harry Potter and the Broken Record.
Harry Potter and the Tax Return.
Harry Potter and the Unearthly Glow early on Friday Afternoons of the Pornographic Parchments.

Because the Indian moviegoing audience is full of arseholes.

Hence, a great movie like Lakshya bombed at the box office. While shitty Shahrukh Khan movies with funky foreign locations and no storyline whatsoever make truckloads of money. That is the Indian movie audience for you. A few words about Lakshya. In 1999, Pakistan attacked India. The Indian and Pakistani armies are fighting a low intensity way all year round on the highest and most brutal battleground in the world: the mountains of Kashmir. During the winter months, both armies have traditionally moved back from their frontline positions on the Line of Control. This has long been a gentleman's agreement. In the winter of 1998, however, the Pakistani army took advantage of the Indian army's withdrawal and proceeded to equip and arm both regular infantrymen (of the Northern Light Infantry) and irregulars (mujahideen, fedayeen and other unsavoury sorts) who built bunkers and lived out the winter. Come spring, the shooting started. People have called this a colossal failure of the much vaunted Indian Intelligence agencies. That is a matter for debate. What happens to be recorded fact though, was that the Indian army came back with a vengeance. Although hobbled by the Prime Minister's decision to not cross the Line of Control (which would have made things much easier, the army could have simply looped across the Paki positions and shot their backsides out; instead of which, they were forced to literally fight their way up), the army kicked Paki and mujahideed arse quite thoroughly.

Ok, so that was about the Kargil war. The movie Lakshya is about a restless young college student with no goals, no ambitions, just an abiding distrust for whatever his father has planned for him who joins the Indian Military Academy for a lark, for no other reason than his friend was writing the exam and he decided to as well. In the first semester of training (which my friends who are in the services have told me is rather.. brutal), he cops out and deserts. He comes home to see that this is exactly what his father had expected him to do. This, and the fact that his hot girlfriend won't have anything to do with a loser lights some kind of spark in him and sends him back. He graduates and like a large number of his batchmates, is posted to a regiment in Kashmir. His regimental commander, Col. Sunil Damle is played to perfection by the great Amitabh Bachhan. It is while standing at the Line of Control and looking over to Pakistan occupied Kashmir is that he begins to understand what it means to be an Indian. And then, the war starts. The high point of this magnificent movie is the raid on Point 5179, an important artillery spotter peak by a small unit for our hero's battalion. THIS LINK has a video of the climb to Point 5179. Check it out. The dialogue at the end of this clip translates to :
Jawan: Sir?
Karan: Yes, Trilok Singh.
Jawan: I feel dizzy when I look down.
Karan: Well, Trilok Singh.. don't look down.
Jawan: Yes Sir.

David Duchovny...

No, it’s not obvious. Why did a talented actor like David Duchovny have to disappear into obscurity? Like everyone else, I used to be a diehard fan of the X-Files about a decade ago. In fact, for a while, my computer password was ‘truustno1’ or something similar. The movie was great. Duchovny made such a great character of being an inarticulate mumbler, that everyone expected great things for him on the big screen. In fact, so did everyone for his partner, played so well by Gillian Anderson. But these two people seem to have fallen prey to their own images as agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully. One might, I would say, have trouble imagining them as anything else. Which is, I suspect what happened. Of course, I may be wrong.. but then.. I am a fan, and fans are entitled to their interpretation of things. The one episode of X-Files that I had serious trouble with had Scully driving like the blazes from coast to coast because it was only by traveling parallel to the equator that she could prevent her passenger from dying most horribly. Yes, I disliked this episode because it defenestrates Special Relativity. That is too much to take.

Anways, I was watching ‘Playing God’ last night which has Duchovny as a surgeon who has a drug problem and loses his licence… and then by a series of strange events gets involved with the Mob. Nice movie, could have been handled better, but the failings were more of a directorial nature… the actors were perfectly competent. The soundtrack was quite interesting… but frequently missing when I thought it would be of some help. See it.

Totakaahinee

THIS LINK leads to a recitation of the poem Totaakahinee written by the great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. The poem is an allegorical description of the wretchedness in which 'education' finds itself. The bloke reciting is my friend Suman Chakraborty, a chemist, an actor and one extremely skilled at the peculiarly Bengali art of 'Aabritti'.

Singur and land grabbing by the State.

This is an extract from a Statesman article a few weeks ago on the ongoing crisis at Singur where the State Goverment of West Bengal seems to have allied itself with Tata Industries and is busy "appropriating" cultivable land from peasants to set up a small car factory.

Special Article

ON LAND-GRABBING

Dr Singh’s India, Buddhadeb’s Bengal, Modi’s Gujarat have notorious US, Soviet and Chinese examples to follow ~ distracting from the country’s real economic problems

By SUBROTO ROY

AT a business meet on 12 January 2005, Dr Manmohan Singh showered fulsome praise on Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee as “dynamic”, “the Nation’s Best Chief Minister”, whose “wit and wisdom”, “qualities of head and heart”, “courage of conviction and passionate commitment to the cause of the working people of India” he admired, saying “with Buddhadeb Babu at the helm of affairs it appears Bengal is once again forging ahead… If today there is a meeting of minds between Delhi and Kolkata, it is because the ideas that I and Buddhadebji represent have captured the minds of the people of India. This is the idea of growth with equity and social justice, the idea that economic liberalization and modernization have to be mindful of the needs of the poor and the marginalized.” With such support of a Congress Prime Minister (as well as proximity to Pranab Mukherjee), Mr Bhattacharjee could hardly have feared the local Congress and Trinamul would pose any threat in the 2006 Assembly Elections despite having more potential voters between them than the CPI-M.
Dr Singh returned to the “needs of the poor and the marginalized” at another business meet on 8 January 2007 promising to “unveil a new Rehabilitation Policy in three months to increase the pace of industrialisation” which would be “more progressive, humane and conducive to the long-term welfare of all stakeholders”, while his businessman host pointedly stated about Singur “land for industry must be made available to move the Indian manufacturing sector ahead”. The “meeting of minds between Delhi and Kolkata” seems to be that agriculture allegedly has become a relatively backward slow-growing sector deserving to yield in the purported larger national interest to industry and services: what the PM means by “long-term welfare of all stakeholders” is the same as the new CPI-M party-line that the sons of farmers should not remain farmers (but become automobile technicians or IT workers or restaurant waiters instead).
It is a political viewpoint coinciding with interests of organised capital and industrial labour in India today, as represented by business lobbies like CII, FICCI and Assocham on one hand, and unions like CITU and INTUC on the other. Business Standard succinctly (and ominously) advocated this point of view in its lead editorial of 9 January as follows: “it has to be recognised that the world over capitalism has progressed only with the landed becoming landless and getting absorbed in the industrial/service sector labour force ~ indeed it is obvious that if people don’t get off the land, their incomes will rise only slowly”.
Land is the first and ultimate means of production, and the attack of the powerful on land-holdings or land-rights of the unorganised or powerless has been a worldwide phenomenon ~ across both capitalism and communism.
In the mid-19th Century, white North America decimated hundreds of thousands of natives in the most gargantuan land-grab of history. Defeated Chief Red Cloud of the Sioux spoke in 1868 for the Apache, Navajo, Comanche, Cheyenne, Iroquois and hundreds of other tribes: “They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept any except one: they promised to take our land, and they took it.”
Half a century later, while the collapse of grain prices contributed to the Great Depression and pauperisation of thousands of small farmers in capitalist America in the same lands that had been taken from the native tribes, Stalin’s Russia embarked on the most infamous state-sponsored land-grab in modern history: “The mass collectivisation of Soviet agriculture (was) probably the most warlike operation ever conducted by a state against its own citizens…. Hundreds of thousands and finally millions of peasants…were deported… desperate revolts in the villages were bloodily suppressed by the army and police, and the country sank into chaos, starvation and misery… The object of destroying the peasants’ independence…was to create a population of slaves, the benefit of whose labour would accrue to industry. The immediate effect was to reduce Soviet agriculture to a state of decline from which it has not yet recovered… The destruction of the Soviet peasantry, who formed three quarters of the population, was not only an economic but a moral disaster for the entire country. Tens of millions were driven into semi-servitude, and millions more were employed as executants…” (Kolakowski, Main Currents of Marxism).
Why did Stalin destroy the peasants? Lenin’s wishful “alliance between the proletariat and the peasantry” in reality could lead only to the peasants being pauperised into proletarians. At least five million peasants died and (Stalin told Churchill at Yalta) another ten million in the resultant famine of 1932-1933. “Certainly it involved a struggle ~ but chiefly one between urban Communists and villagers… it enabled the regime to obtain much of the capital desired for industrialization from the defeated village… it was the decisive step in the building of Soviet totalitarianism, for it imposed on the majority of the people a subjection which only force could maintain” (Treadgold, 20th Century Russia).
Mr Bhattacharjee’s CPI-M is fond of extolling Chinese communism, and the current New Delhi establishment have made Beijing and Shanghai holiday destinations of choice. Dr Singh’s Government has been eager to create hundreds of “Special Economic Zones” run by organised capital and unionised labour, and economically privileged by the State. In fact, the Singur and Nandigram experiences of police sealing off villages where protests occur are modelled on creation of “Special Economic Zones” in China in recent years. For example, Chinese police on 6 December 2005 cracked down on farmers and fishermen in the seaside village of Dongzhou, 125 miles North East of Hong Kong. Thousands of Dongzhou villagers clashed with troops and armed police protesting confiscation of their lands and corruption among officials. The police immediately sealed off the village and arrested protesters. China’s Public Security Ministry admitted the number of riots over land had risen sharply, reaching more than seventy thousand across China in 2004; police usually suppressed peasant riots without resort to firing but in Dongzhou, police firing killed 20 protesters. Such is the reality of the “emergence” of China, a totalitarian police-state since the Communist takeover in 1949, from its period of mad tyranny until Mao’s death in 1976, followed by its ideological confusion ever since.
Modern India’s political economy today remains in the tight grip of metropolitan “Big Business” and “Big Labour”. Ordinary anonymous individual citizens ~ whether housewife, consumer, student, peasant, non-union worker or small businessman ~ have no real voice or representation in Indian politics. We have no normal conservative, liberal or social democratic party in this country, as found in West European democracies where the era of land-grabbing has long-ceased. If our polity had been normal, it would have known that economic development does not require business or government to pauperise the peasantry but instead to define and secure individual property rights and the Rule of Law, and establish proper conditions for the market economy. The Congress and BJP in Delhi and CPI-M in Kolkata would not have been able to distract attention from their macroeconomic misdeeds over the decades ~ indicated, for example, by increasing interest-expenditure paid annually on Government debt as a fraction of tax revenues (see Table).
This macroeconomic rot originated with the Indira Gandhi-PN Haksar capriciousness and mismanagement, which coincided with the start of Dr Singh’s career as India’s best known economic bureaucrat.

The author is Contributing Editor, The Statesman.

I am relieved.

Because as it turned out, this experimental data I was analyzing had been giving me nightmares this last week. I was rather apprehensive that the data was ratty. Turns out that the issue was human error. The human in question being, of course, yours truly. Yes, I was quite spectacularly stupid. But that is easier to correct than ratty data.

Calculations

I am notoriously lazy. So lazy, in fact that I had not computed my share of the expenses of a couple of roadtrips .. a semester ago! Anyway, I finally got that out of the way yesterday and it that has been a good thing. One might think that I have overdosed on Procastin X.

And while on the theme of Harry Potter

I would like to recommend a particular work of fanfiction to you. In case, you are a complete neophyte and have no idea what fanfiction is... here is a definition from Wikipedia:
Fan fiction (also commonly spelled as fanfiction and frequently abbreviated to fanfic or occasionally just fic) is a broadly-defined term for fiction about characters or settings written by fans of the original work, rather than by the original creators. Fan fiction usually describes works which are uncommissioned by the owner of the work, and usually (but not always) works which are not professionally published. Fan fiction is defined against original fiction, which exists with its own discrete universe, and against canon works within the universe. Most fan fiction writers assume that their readers have knowledge of the canon universe in which their works are based .

So I am taking the liberty to divide fanfic into certain categories... this is my definition and my interpretation.. you are free to agree, but of course, you are wrong, and I am right (on this blog at the very least.):

1. Plot extension: same characters, same story, extending the tale. Very much seen in ongoing works.. where it assumes a speculative air about what the next genuine volume will contain... such as in the HP series.
2. Alternate Universe: quite obvious. Same characters, but plot development follows quite different lines. Subcategories may include crossover genres where two major works of fiction may be combined.. in some hilarious cases, HP and LOTR.
3. Prequel: sometimes written so as to be self consistent with the bona fide literature, while talking about events leading up to the actual story. May sometimes consist of the histories of specific people who may/may not be central to the bona fide story.

The story that I am about to recommend is by the Wolfie Twins, and is called the Call of the Wild. It is available here. Do read it. It is somewhat long, but the writing is quite good and is rather erudite. There is much to discover and very little that is trivial. It is a must read for lycanophiles. Does that pique your interest? It should. Remus Lupin fans, attention! Read!

Ok, so this particular work deals with Lupin and what made him the man, or rather werewolf he is.

Alternate Harry Potter titles

Alternate Titles:

Harry Potter and the Pasta Disaster
Harry Potter and the Unmentionable Itch
Harry Potter and the Eating Disorder
Harry Potter and the PTA
Harry Potter and the Broken DVD
Harry Potter and the Friday Night Incident
Harry Potter and the Killers of Kathmandu
Harry Potter and the Jailbirds
Harry Potter and the Graduate Student
...
the list will continue... contributions are also welcome...

Pratul and Baborer Prarthona.

I was in Chicago last week and Sutirtha-da got me to listen to 'Baborer Prarthona' sung by Pratul Mukhopadhyay (of 'Aami Banglaye Gaan Gai' fame). This song is available here. Listen to it. A few minutes on the net also got me this poetry page. Check out.