Perceptions'n'Reflections

  If you have read the 3 preceding blogs, it should give you a sense of how hunger for power can destroy visionary ideas and ideals. Be it the British occupation of India (they posed as traders like their predecessor European counterparts)  or vilifying and  destroying an honest effort of absolutely great people to carve out a progressive township that would define the future of India or for that matter the collusion of businessmen and politicians to thwart the demands of the white collared labor force. If we run a time series on the general character of human beings over the last 10k years, we will see that it will not deviate much from the mean - we are lost in the interplay of pain and pleasure, hungry for a slice of the power pie. The greatness of people like Raja Joykrishna Mukherjee, Raja Peary Mohan Mukherjee, Rashbehari Mukherjee, Kumar Rajendranath Mukherjee or Raja Bhupendranath Mukherjee lie in the fact that they were not self serving. You will not find a single work of sign

  I do not believe in conjectures. Being an analyst and strategist buy profession I follow data- Deductive reasoning when it comes to history. Sometimes it might look boring, but it's the only way to gag the shape shifters and naysayers playing politics with our history distorting it to fit their narrative.  Bengalis, you have a lot to be proud of! While exploring spirituality, I pursue Inductive reasoning though United States of America is known as the country of the free and land of opportunities. It was built by aspiring migrants from across the world. Did you know Europe looked at Bengal with a similar lens? Find a nation where in 20 square mile radius you have 6 European settlements - Danish, British, Armenians, Portuguese, French & Germans? (See the map below) They all traveled from the West through the mighty Saraswati River (now almost dried up) onto the Ganges. They had the option to settle on the eastern banks of the Ganges i.e., Kolkata side. They didn't, they

  Uttarpara in the north had borders with Chakbali and in the south Ballygram (now known as Bally).  At one point there was a small pristine waterway called Mannar Jol running between Bhadrakali and Uttarpara and that merged with Saraswati River. In 1904 when GT Road was extended Mannar Jol was land filled. The entire area around Uttarpara  used to be known as Saptagram (7 villages) and used to be the biggest port in Bengal & one of the most modernized in India.    In 1843, when Howrah and Hoogly were separated and were each recognized as separate districts, Bally went under Howrah jurisdiction and Uttarpara under Hoogly. Once Uttarpara Municipal Corporation was set up in 1852, a request was made in 1856 with the British government to bring Bally under Hoogly. After much pursuit from Raja Joykrishna Mukherjee, Bally was brought under Uttarpara Municipality on 4th November 1865. Subsequently, Kutrong and Uttarpara Municipality were merged in 1964 and the jurisdiction of Uttarpar