How apt. Even Freud observed it “ Wherever I go, I see Poet has been before “ .

What we call civilization, is perhaps, an endless ‘entering’ into a structure which keeps on collapsing its entry doors from behind. A desire to return to ‘past’ is therefore, illusory, but keeping in view that ‘capitalism’, in the garb of ‘modernity’ has also given us cramps, cancers and wars. So a NEW thing must be there to be discovered from the rubbles of pain scattered here and there within the ongoing gloss of festivities. But this gloss is a vast surface and it has its own dynamics which constitutes the ‘blood and fire’ of the very ‘divorced labourer from means of production’. The wage-labourer as erstwhile producer , now en-masse too, has a heart, a mind and desire, which Marx is believed to have jotted down in his other diaries. The latest ‘on Marx’ discusses it under the category of ‘miseries’. “that it depended on their own good will to go on working under the old conditions that no longer existed” Marx was so right to recognize their…

Bus ki dushwar hai har kaam ka aasan hona, aadmi ko bi moyasar nahai insaan hona. Ghalib has so incredibly weaved this thought in his above verse and other verses as well. He has painted the human being in dark, merging absolutely the black cat in the black. But that is meaning only; the way the couplet rises like a wave from the sea of depression, projects a light-within upon the fallen humanity. It sensitizes. It talks about the death and other in a single breath. It hints the unfortunate absence of a perfect human being. So, It tells us to be simple, and at the same time it deconstructs any desire to impose any ( andaze-bhayan) aesthetics upon us. And yet… numerous other paradoxes.

Coming back to Land accusation in Singur…( like many others ) I have long ago ceased to be an active member of that straight jacketed Left, but that hammer and sickle is still in my heart. ( see image in my blog ). The agenda is the NEW. It can be New Left, I believe, but that must engage as Felix Guattari puts it in his new aesthetic paradigm: the mental, the environmental, and the social as the three essential angles of a triangle.

So any law which aims at disturbing ‘the environmental’ is undesired. Marx was right, Left is just not-right.
What can be the NEW vision ? if there is one, how to see it functional ?

To read u again: “the self-fulfilling logic of capital and modernity is such that Marxists can only act in this way; every other way is reactionary and against the logic of History.”

I am just wondering… grasping the couplet of Ghalib again and again…
( not only because, day-before yesterday was 210 birth anniversary of Ghalib )