Is this the 'End of Wait' for a New Dawn in Bengal

i belong to a generation, which started with walkman but moved on to discman, and then i-pods.

i belong to a generation, which might not remember when exactly Charles Babbage invented the concept of analytical engine, but have known the transition from P1 to P5 and duo-core chipsets with the updated versions of 'Need for Speed's.

i belong to a generation, which spent its early days listening to our moms' humming a Rabindrasangeet or a Najrulgiti at its earthy best but didn't quite hesitate to greet Dire Straits or Metallica at the teenage.

i belong to a generation, which grew up with an undeniable question in our minds that why do our state politicos need to be clad in abnormally white dhuti-panjabi, while the lesser mortals calling the state home, have long back done away with them, except for a few traditional festivities.

i belong to a generation, which was perennially inculcated with the idea of growing up to be an engineer or a doctor, and hence, fruitfully utilizing the major chunk of our middle-class parents' hard-earned money spent on education and cautiously, consciously laying the gold-plated foundation stones of our careers, starting from the first standard to ably stand on our own feet someday.

i belong to a generation, which was never encouraged to take up politics as a profession, even taking up humanities was humiliating, thus making a poet - a cleric and a painter - a lawyer -- and still, some had the courage to revolt within their personal little boundaries

i belong to a generation, which grew up with the idea that nothing remains for us in our own state as we grow up and by any means, quite necessarily, we'll have to crack one of the nation-wide entrance tests to complete studies in some other province and then to earn a job in some other.

But despite all these grumbles in mind and fumbles in heart, i belong to a generation, which earnestly wished, someday a tempest will come and sweep away all the presiding stagnation, rusty values and graveyard fundamentals in our own lands... we sincerely believed, someday our state will tear the shackles binding it for almost three decades and greet a new rising sun... we eagerly desired, someday our state will stand up again with newer horizons to discover, newer scopes to decipher, newer challenges to dismantle, newer opportunities to prove our worth...

Many promises have sunk, many possibilities have died.

But now it looks like the time has come. We've waited. And, we'll wait a few more.

Still, i belong to the generation, which wants to come home... who want to stay close to their mothers and stay as a part of a large family called home... who want to stay closer to the roots in their own lands... who want to work amongst own people, cry with them -- rejoice with them -- live lives with them...

Death of a Ten-year-old Chapter

The epitome of terror, the man who once newly defined terrorism in the wake of a new millennium, apparently is resting beneath the sea. Osama bin Laden is dead and "quickly buried at sea". Perhaps, the man who was the primal reason behind the untimely loss of nearly three thousands lives has reserved a berth of immortality with his conduits and cannot certainly die. History will perhaps remember him, as it does the Attila, or Hitler. But, dilly dallying on a few perspectives, a few questions creep up on an inquisitive human's mind. Is Osama literally dead ?The fugitive, who "achieved near-mythic status for his ability to elude capture under three U.S. presidents" was brought down by a US Navy’s SEAL Team as they carried out a helicopter assault on the fortified compound in Pakistan, cautiously built to protect him. Reports suggesting that Osama was shot in the head, hence killed instantly. Despite the fact that how big the news is to the Americas and to the world, why was the despised buried 'quickly' and why the infamous was not photographed enough to bear testimony to his demise. Apparently, the United States decided to dispose off the body in the sea to prevent the grave site becoming a shrine. Muslim scholars, however, are saying that the sea-burial has breached sharia law and a few of them have also warned that it might provoke calls for revenge attacks against U.S. targets. The only photograph of dead Osama, which has been released by British news websites is a fake. The image purporting to show Osama's corpse is a composite of two separate images. Plus, the gory image doesn't show any indications of a heat-shot.
According to U.S. security officials, "it was a kill operation", then why some of the raiders are saying - had a white-flag been waived, Osama would have captured alive. Quite obviously, to be sentenced to death only at a later date.
When it comes to make it certain that the long awaited homicide of Osama, was true to the utmost degree of perfection and only Osama Bin Laden had been killed and not a look-alike or someone else, apparently, a woman - reported to be one of Osama's wife is said to have identified the corpse. Now question arises, who would be foolish enough not to identify a body claiming to be her husband's if chance creeps such that it's the only way to save her man. An already dead man cannot be killed again, right? Wouldn't she try to ensure that her man, whoever or whatever he might be, is never chased again for life?
Is it just a diplomatic move from the U.S. government? Is it just to uplift the sentiments in favor of Obama administration amidst the economic woes? The dollar and stocks did rise, while oil and gold fell, taking into consideration that Osama's death reduced global security risks. Even if we take it for granted that Osama is actually dead. His 'brain' is supposedly not. Ayman al-Zawahri lives, and is likely to succeed Osama and hold the sails for al Quaeda's somewhat tormented ship.The Egyptian-born surgeon, who earlier stated Barack Obama was no different from his predecessor George W. Bush, has already been saying, "I want to direct the attention of our Muslim brothers in Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, and the rest of the Muslim countries, that if the Americans and the NATO forces enter Libya then their neighbours in Egypt and Tunisia and Algeria and the rest of the Muslim countries should rise up and fight both the mercenaries of Gaddafi and the rest of NATO."He feels confronting the enemies of Islam and waging a jihad against them require a Muslim authority, established on Muslim territory that raises the banner of jihad and rallies Muslims around it, which he wrote in a 2001 essay, Knights Under The Prophet's Banner."The way in which he was killed, by a military commando, shows this will have important consequences for the future," said Roland Jacquard, head of the International Terrorism Observatory in Paris. "It will be a call for Jihad, he will remain a very real-life martyr for the rest of the organisation," Jacquard told RTL radio. Islamic militants, who prayed the news of Osama's death to be false, vowed revenge in comments on online forums. "Oh God, please make this news not true... God curse you Obama," said one message on an Arabic language forum. "Oh Americans... it is still legal for us to cut your necks." A jihadist internet community read revenge would be taken for the death of "the Sheikh of Islam."As Obama and his nation rejoices the triumph and as the Islamist extremists count on their nerves, Time will wait to see what it means the killing of a man who killed many. Does the blood rushing in the human veins across the world sheds or continues to run, does the soil gets to turn red or stay embracing the green, does the sky romances only clouds or the villainous smoke takes over ? Along with Osama and all the devil's advocates, let terror and cries rest in peace, even if beneath the sea of solitudes.