Hatpakha February 2013 by Sabyasachi Mondal

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Edition February , 2013

Birth : August , 2012 Edition : 3rd ( February , 2013 ) Editing & Design : Sabyasachi Mondal : Team : Sabyasachi Mondal , Prasun Biswas , Kandarpa Joarder , Anirban Karmakar , Arindam Ghosh & Iman Sen

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EDITORIAL Work

was hectic. I was perpetually psyched out. So I decided to take a

break in the office cafeteria itself. And then, suddenly, I felt like letting out the writer in me. But then came the tedious task of figuring out, what to write. Tedious it was indeed, but it took my mind for a walk down the memory lane. Memories, smeared with nostalgia. I recalled, it was exactly a year back that I gathered my guts to realize my dream with four to five friends of mine. Now, not many people have the courage to do so. Or maybe, not every dream isn't strong enough to be realized (Humour Meant :) ). Anyway, the dream was plain and simple. We have, in our country, many gifted writers, poets, columnists who write for themselves. Their work aren‟t published anywhere. As a matter of fact, they aren't considered writers at all. These diamonds visibly lose their shine and the world, at the same time; miss out a chance to explore the beauty they have to offer. The dream was to provide a platform for the budding talents to portray their creativity to the world. So much has changed since. The dream took its shape. The frustrations of being trapped in this mundane life gave birth to “HATPAKHA” in the web-sphere. “HATPAKHA” - The Online Magazine, breathed in life in the month of August, 2012. Since the release of the first edition, “HATPAKHA” has not been ephemeral. It was followed by its sequel and as of now, we're happy to release it's third edition. I was an ordinary socialite last February and that I am even now. But what has changed is the dream itself. The journey we've taken through thick and thin to make the dream tangible can only be felt. Words would obviously fall short. I take this opportunity to show my gratitude and respect to all the members of the team for believing in me and keeping their faith strong. We're still literally unOFFICE-ial, and our means are limited as well. Nevertheless, the team we have, spread across the nation gives us the spirit and motivation to make it through always. We're yet to be recognized by the media, by incumbent writers, columnists but we hope that someday, “HATPAKHA” creates its own place amongst its won kind. Our readers have always been affectionate towards us. We receive their gratitude, love, wishes everyday in our mailbox. And that is all we want to keep us strong, steady and motivated. We are publishing some poems, stories, articles in this edition, and we believe our readers would like and appreciate them. Be it appreciation, suggestion or criticism, we will always be waiting for your mail. So, Happy reading and keep mailing. Sabyasachi Mondal

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Search for Someone

Kandarpa Joarder

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Finding love in the modern age

Avirup Sen

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The Dark Industry

Samik Santra

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 wewea : I don‟t believe it

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Be My Valentine v2.0: Finding Love In The Modern Age Avirup Sen

“There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved” – Thomas Fuller, 17th century

“Yeah, I got a dressmakers mannequin, I stuffed it with an electric blanket so it would be warm and I built two radiocontrolled arms that would hug me and pat my back. Love in pure form.” -The Big Bang Theory, Modern Times

It’s February and the only thought running through everyone’s paranoid, caffeine filled mind is –“OMG! Valentine’s Day. This year, this is the year I go big and make it a memorable one.” Post the inception of the internet error, love has changed in leaps and bounds from the original version 1.0 (God seriously made some coding errors! Hope it got reflected in his appraisal) to a more tech-savvy, modernized version 2.0 that’s constantly being updated! Lovers are now divided into two modern kinds, the whiners (I can’t believe she left me even after I told her that the hot chic on Facebook who I have been stalking since months is just a friend) and the winners (Dude, remember that hot chic on Facebook who my friends have been stalking? We got drunk last night, had sloppy drunken sex and texted each other today. So totally in love! ) While companies laugh all the way to the bank selling “merchandise” (Hey look an old teddy bear. Recycle that shit, slap a I <3 You sticker on top and sell it for a 1000 bucks) and cards with thoughtful messages (You fill me up with so much warmth just like a six pack of beer on a cold winter evening), it is YOU who need to put the moves on the girl of your dreams. Sure anyone can tell you to buy nice gifts and put grand gestures to impress her, but today I am going to share five sure fire cheats (codes/hacks?) that can make you a true winner when it comes to finding love in the era of Valentine 2.0 .

1. Drop The Overly Nice Guy Act. Like Seriously! In case you were still under the delusion that the nice guy always walked out with the girl as the end credits rolled, be aware that v2.0 has fixed that bug (Karan Johar keeps rejecting the updates, some compatibility issue). Today’s winner is not the overly nice guy who is every girl’s prince charming and fills their hearts with eternal dying love (Seriously, the only one even attempting that shit is the sparkly vampire from Twilight and he is a 1000 year old pedo stalking a emotionless high school teen). To make sure that you create an impression, make the right moves at the right time, even it if makes you look like a douchebag from time to time.

Modern love is all about theatrics! Ranbir Kapoor can get to sleep with anyone having a vagina simply because he knows how to turn on the charm and influence the ladies (of course, being a super-fuckingrich and famous celeb helps) but the example is applicable even to people around you. Remember the girl you had a crush on in high school? How you helped her with her notes and books and everything but were too shy to express your feelings? Good. Now do you remember how she dated the asshole with the bike who did stuff for her and made sure she KNEW it that he did them? That is the difference between being a mute idiot and a flashy show off! If you haven’t been reading, the later gets the girl. 2. Play To Her Weaknesses, Not Your Strengths! So you have decided to stop being a nice guy and show yourself off as an attractive prospect to her. You are good at college level shayari according to your friends so that makes you no less than William fucking Shakespeare! Also, you can write some lyrics or two that features two opening lines about love, togetherness and moonlight before getting into explicit details about making out and sexual positions. Those are your strengths and you should play to them, right? WRONG! V2.0 demands you to make the moves based on things that she would love to see in a guy. If she goes weak in the knees for bikes, learn everything about every bike ever made and approach her like a pro. If she’s into fashion, tell her how you critique of Ed Hardy but love the way Italian fashion is shaping up. When she talks about being awkward with gadgets, take out

that flashy iPhone and show her the ropes. If she is into boats, become a goddamn boat historian for fuck’s sake! 3. Stay Classy, Act Cheesy! Finding love in v2.0 requires you to be a bit more familiar with the user interface than the last one. The new age girl requires you to be the perfect balance between classy and cheesy, one who can do a commentary on the 5 th symphony by day and dance to Gangam style on the pier with her during the party at night! “But how on earth do I balance between being a sophisticated snob and a drunken jackass?” you ask. The solution you see is in the timing, context and scenario where you choose to ask. If it is in front of her parents or a social context, be the man she wants others to be jealous of, classy, refined and polished. When with her, let your inner wild beast come out into the open and frolic around hunting prey! If a social gathering calls for a black tie event, make sure you supplement it with shaving cream moustaches on Skype chats and the impromptu renditions of horribly sang love songs of the 80s. It might not make you look much, but the cheesiness is what makes her fall for your efforts in the long run! 4. Take Advantage Of Tech Connect! This one is a bit of a no brainer really! V2.0 is built on a platform that is connected across various forms of social network. Whether you are looking to stumble upon (read: stalk) your ex, or just form an association with the cute girl who considers you to be a psychopathic creep, technology is your friend. You can *poke* her through Facebook, *snap* her through Snap chat, *ping* her through WhatsApp, *bump* her on Twitter and make her get *beeps* on Google Talk. Hear that world? That is the sound of technology having a collective orgasm to make your relation work! You’ve used your dad’s money to flaunt it, now use it! Make pseudointellectual jokes and puns on Twitter to make her follow you. Provide deep, mystifying status on Facebook to keep her guessing about your personality. Get her number and WhatsApp her telling sad stories of how your party plans got cancelled because you saved a kitten from a burning house. Cloud her tech sphere with your presence until she starts to consider you as the greatest thing to have been invented for womankind since the vibrator and boy bands.

5. This Valentine Season-Make Sure You Go Premium! I did mention in the beginning that my advice would be different than the usual spend big marketing subliminal messages given by companies, but stay with me here! My point here is that girls love to find value in the most meaningless of stuff, be it coal compressed for thousands of years, love stories that seem to be written by a 5th standard student with Idiot’s syndrome and gestures that make her feel like Paris Hilton without the sex videos. Here’s your chance.

You don’t have to force choke the life out of your cards to add value to your Valentine’s date. Make sure that whatever you are choosing on your limited budget adds value in her mind. If it’s a restaurant, take her someplace isolated and pretend it’s a swanky, exclusive joint. For a movie date, skip the boob ogling of actresses for once and take her for some artsy flick that has value to her. For the die-hard romantics/cheapskates planning a home based date, order something else than the greasy meat delight pizza so you can slobber over it like a pig! In short, whatever you do to keep your wallet on life support, make it seem like it has premium value. That’s it from me folks. Hopefully you will all gain insight from this article, stepping into Valentines full of confidence and waking up drunk next morning with a fat chic lying naked and spread eagle on your bed. I suggest getting drunk even more at that point! Here’s hoping a girl reads this and wants to make my Valentine special. On second thought, I’ll just stick to a mix of potato chips, playing FIFA, Reedit and YouPorn, thank you very much!

search for someone special kandarpa joardar

When i close my eyes Someone comes there. Someone who is very special Someone who can change my life.

I don't know why, but there is Still hope for someone. Someone who is very special So still i'm in search for someone special.

Someone , somewhere is still waiting for me. Sometime i think i can meet with her I don't know why but i need that special touch. What is just made for me.

Every moment i think about her Every night i dream about her there is a belief Someone , somewhere is still waiting for me.

. . . my endless desires . . .

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The Dark Industry: A view of ‘Red Light Areas’ in Indian perspective Samik Santra

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has positioned differently over the time and across the cultures, the predominant view that it constitutes a social problem. Prostitution might be illegal in India, but the business of life goes on. Calling it illegal is a superfluous formality and denouncing it as an immoral blotch on society. Recognizing it as a profession will at least reduce the real illegalities that come with it, like child prostitution, drug abuse, and crime. Prostitution has been become a tangled issue for the feminist, sociologist and economist of India and the rest of the world. Feminists say it a nasty violence on the part of the women; sociologists say it a curse on the part of the society; economists say it a crime based on the market but we, the management-crates consider it as one of the oldest and enduring business of the world. Prostitution can be defined as the exchange of sexual favours between the partners within a relationship for money, is just one of the various ways of expressing and carrying out human sexuality. In India, according to an official estimate there are around 3.1 million prostitutes operating in 400 ‘red-light areas’. The biggest organized sex trade is in the big metros of Mumbai and Kolkata and in the states of West Bengal and Karnataka. The conditions in which prostitution is carried on is shocking .The sex workers are forced to service 10-15 clients per day who may coerce them to indulge in unnatural or perverse sexual acts and may even subject them to sexual violence. The brothels are overcrowded, and the inmates survive in inhuman conditions .In addition they are deprived of basic health care facilities, although they fall in a high risk category as far as sexually transmitted diseases (STD) are concerned. Notorious red light districts of India include GB Road in Delhi, Sonagachi in Kolkata, Kamathipura in Mumbai, Budhwar Peth in Pune and Reshampura in Gwalior. Most of the girls are brought from Nepal and Bangladesh. 160,000 Nepalese women are held in India's brothels. Approximately 50,000, or half of the women in prostitution in Bombay, are trafficked from Nepal. (Robert I. Freidman, “India’s Shame: Sexual Slavery and Political Corruption Are Leading to An AIDS Catastrophe,” The Nation, 8 April 1996). In Bombay, one brothel has only Nepalese women who are demanded by the clients because of their golden skin and docile personalities. About 5,000-7,000 Nepalese girls are trafficked to India every day. About 45,000 Nepalese girls are in the brothels of Bombay and 40,000 in Calcutta. (Women’s groups in Nepal, ‘Trafficking in Women and Children: The Cases of Bangladesh, pp.8 & 9, UBINIG, 1995).

Calcutta is one of the important transit points for the traffickers for Bombay and to Pakistan. 99% women are trafficked out of Bangladesh through land routes along the border areas of Bangladesh and India, such as Jessore, Satkhira, and Rajshahi. (Trafficking in Women and Children: The Cases of Bangladesh, pp.18 & 19, UBINIG, 1995) Of the 5,000-7,000 Nepalese girls trafficked into India yearly, the average age over the past decade has fallen from 14-16 years old to 10-14 years old. (CATW - Asia Pacific, Trafficking in Women and Prostitution in the Asia Pacific). The brothels of India hold between 100,000 and 160,000 Nepalese women and girls, 35 percent were taken on the false pretext of marriage or a good job. (Radhika Coomaraswamy, UN Special Report on Violence Against Women, Gustavo Capdevila, IPS, 2 April 1997).Young girls are trafficked from Nepal to brothels in Mumbai and Kolkata at an average age of twelve. They are trapped into the vicious cycle of prostitution, debt and slavery. By the time they are in their mid-twenties, they are at the dead end. Every hour, four women and girls in India enter prostitution, three of them against their will. The main causes to enter into the dark industry are as follows: i) Economic causes include economic distress and poverty. ii) Psychological causes include desire for physical pleasure, greed, and dejection. iii) Early marriage and desertion. iv) Prior incest and rape. v) Bad Company, vi) Family prostitution. vii) Lack of recreational facilities, ignorance, and acceptance of prostitution. viii) Ill-treatment by parents. The benefit of legalizing prostitution in India will be that at least we will have a track record of Sex workers. Legalizing prostitution will see these women, who live life on the edge everywhere, gaining access to medical facilities, which can control the spread of AIDS. There is a very strong need to treat the sex industry as any other industry and empower it with legal safeguards. The practical implications of the profession being legal would bring nothing but benefits for sex workers and society as a whole. Keeping prostitution illegal also contributes to crime because many criminals view prostitutes and their customers as attractive targets for robbery, fraud, rape, or other criminal acts. The criminals realize that such people are unlikely to report the crimes to police, because the victims would have to admit they were involved in the illegal activity of prostitution

when the attacks took place, now if it is legal then they will easily go and report this to police. Legalization of prostitution and the sex industry will stop sex trafficking. Legalization of prostitution will control the sex industry. Legalization of prostitution will decrease clandestine, hidden, illegal and street prostitution. Legalization of prostitution will protect the women in prostitution as they will have rights. Recognizing prostitution as an economic activity, thus enabling women in India to obtain working permits as "sex workers". No governments, no matter how hard they have tried, have been successful in abolishing prostitution. Prostitution is a reality and the chances of eliminating it are practically nil. By legalizing prostitution, we also legalize the fight against Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) and the AIDS epidemic. Just like laws have managed to do with untouchability, legalizing prostitution will give dignity to sex-workers and save them from living as second grade citizens. A separate hub can be created for it and health of sex workers can be monitored. Legalization will deter police from extorting money from the helpless sex workers who are forced to give a part of their income to the policemen to let them live in peace. Legalization of the profession will at least give a human face to the profession, where prostitutes are, otherwise, are treated as outcastes. Norms should be laid out for registration in terms of space, hygiene and medical facilities available. There should be periodical medical check-ups, and it must be made mandatory for every individual in the profession to possess a proper health certificate. Brothels should also be taxed like any other business house, and a certain amount should be earmarked by the government for providing medical facilities to sex workers. Their families and especially their children should be taken care of. A rehabilitation programme for sex workers wanting to opt out should also be worked out. Sex workers should be made to work only in the allotted areas or zones. Brothels must be situated away from residential areas and educational institutions. In India women are forced into prostitution due to poverty and illiteracy. So women in this profession become carriers of AIDS and other deadly diseases. To combat with this situation, womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s organizations can be brought in to work at the grass-root level and to form a link between the sex workers and the government. As it is said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Every coin has two sides.â&#x20AC;? Legalization too has some shortcomings: Legalizing prostitution would benefit the facilitators and the pimps, not their victims. In India, where women are coerced into the trade and kept in it almost like bonded labour, such a move will not benefit them. Commercial sexual exploitation is a form of slavery and slavery cannot be legalized. India should not compare itself with other Western countries, where prostitution enjoys legal status because our societal customs are most unlike those in the West. Since abortion is illegal in India, there is no question of legalizing prostitution. So giving this business a legal status only means society is giving 24

approval to the flesh trade. Some critics say, prostitution wrecks personality and affects marriage relationships. Prostitution affects family life, communicates diseases and thus brings social disorganization. Poverty is the single biggest factor in turning women towards prostitution. This is so because there is an economic value attached to female sexuality. In our opinion, the issue of prostitution needs urgent attention and there can be no further delay in this regard. Sex workers are humans and they deserve an equal status in the society. Trafficking in human beings, especially children, is a form of modern day slavery and requires a holistic, multi-sectoral approach to address the complex dimension of the problem. It is a problem that violates the rights and dignity of the victims and therefore requires essentially a child rights perspective while working on its eradication. Laws should not be such as to just remove the prostitutes but also to change the mentality of people who are interested in paid sex by punishing them in such a manner that people of same mentality will dare to indulge themselves in similar activities.

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2. The word “ Electricity “ comes from Greek electron , meaning amber . The Greeks noticed that when a piece of amber is rubbed with wool, it attracts light objects. This is static electricity.

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