Tuesday 21st Oct

Hello n welcome to another blog by well the good ol Ronster....This is no story just my daily events n random thoughts. So don't expect much!!! To start off the proceedings i recently was thinkin where do i belong?? I am a bengali who was born n brought up at Assam. Ya Assam the land where terrorists dwell as much as the one-horned rhino or maybe more. And no we dont live in the jungle or wear leaves for clothes. I was raised in the city of Guwahati where u hardly see a tree now a days leave alone a jungle. So movin on the problem is that in my supposed motherland i am termed a "Bongal" or "Bangladeshi" even though my grandfather n even his grandfather was born on this land n we didnt cross the border after 1971 to enter the state but since fortunately or unfortunately my mother tongue is Bengali i will always be a "Bongal". Therefore the sense of belongin kept on recedin as i was growin up. 

                        West Bengal or rather Kolkata coz thats all i have seen of Bengal doesnt accept me much either. The fault maybe is mine or my parents or the atmosphere i grew up in, the fault ie i dont know much about Bengali culture. The Bengali that i speak is appalling, i take atleast 3-5 minutes to read even the signboards that are in Bengali n i know at the most 4 songs in Bengali. The pinnacle is reached when i go to buy a cigarette in Kolkata. The vendor's Bengali-accented Hindi is the perfect counter-measure to my Hindi-accented Bengali. I have even heard remarks such as "Maru" flyin around durin some of my ciggi expeditions. To enlighten the ones who dont know the term "Maru" is short for Marwari. They are greatly despised by the locals since they are believed to be takin over Bengal n also because they are super-rich. Here too the affiliation runs dry.

                I have resided in the city of Bangalore since the last 4 years n its been a delightful stay but as far as belongin goes it ends as soon as i am identified as a north indian whereas i am not even a north indian. In Bangalore whoever doesnt know Kannada is a north indian u maybe from the hills of Arunachal Pradesh or the deserts of Rajasthan but in Bangalore u are a north indian.

              So after much debate about belongin i have reached a statistical conclusion which can be explained in a pie chart. I feel most at home in Assam coz i was born there n where ppl dont like me for who i am which is better than Kolkata where ppl have to wonder where to place me...Bangalore is a great city to live in but the feelin of belongin never arises but who knows lets give it some more years!!!

RESULT

1. GUWAHATI-60%
2. KOLKATA-30%
3. BANGALORE-10%