I wish the person had left me a way to contact him directly. Since he has not, this is the only way I can reach out to him. It is, without a doubt, the greatest comment on my blog till date. I am writing this post with the sheer ambition of immortalising this comment. The comment will live as long as my blog will.
This is the post our hero (Ayan) had commented on. For those of you who cannot read Bengali, it was a not-too-kind obituary on the recently deceased Suchitra Sen. I had mentioned that she could not act to save her life, but had excellent a business-sense that most Bengalis lack, which was the reason behind her success.
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Ayan took me somewhat seriously, and took the pain of going through the Myself (About Me) page in my blog. This is what he had to write as a comment on the Suchitra Sen blog post (scroll down for an English translation):
Translation:
Very well-written. I visited to the "Myself" page on your blog to find out who you are. I got to know that you want to become someone like Chetan Bhagat; Durjoy Datta; Amish Tripathi; Ravinder Singh etc etc. There was more, though. For examples:
1. You want to be remembered as: an epitome of narcissism.
2. Your strength: an extensive knowledge of Uruguayan theology at the turn of the 19th century.
3. Your weakness: sense of humour.
4. Your main reason to crave for global atheism: pork biriyani.
5. You want to be reborn as: Rahul Gandhi.
6. Your favourite movie: Gunda.
Your "myself" is full of contradictions! What good will "Uruguayan theology" be to the public? You claim you're an atheist, and yet you want to be reincarnated as "Rahul Gandhi". This means that Rahul Gandhi is God for you, whose father had got involved in the Bofors scandal, whose family makes a living out of squashing the entire nation. Given that you're a fan of such a man, what would you understand of Mrs Suchitra Sen? Do you understand what a rascal means? Only Indian vodka goes inside your obese system, and it's only public "donation" that you live on. You're obtaining donations from NRIs by virtue of your pseudo-intellectual activities. You're a completely filthy antisocial, bohemian biped! Now go from "Nandan" to the zoo! Do you even know what "Narcissism" means? "Narcissism" is "An exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself" -- in other words, who doesn't understand a thing beyond himself. I'm wondering how can a believer of "narcissism" discuss a public figure. There has to be some personal profit of yours involved in this!
There is an empty cage, "just for you". The donations will now straight go to the Government.
1. You want to be remembered as: an epitome of narcissism.
2. Your strength: an extensive knowledge of Uruguayan theology at the turn of the 19th century.
3. Your weakness: sense of humour.
4. Your main reason to crave for global atheism: pork biriyani.
5. You want to be reborn as: Rahul Gandhi.
6. Your favourite movie: Gunda.
Your "myself" is full of contradictions! What good will "Uruguayan theology" be to the public? You claim you're an atheist, and yet you want to be reincarnated as "Rahul Gandhi". This means that Rahul Gandhi is God for you, whose father had got involved in the Bofors scandal, whose family makes a living out of squashing the entire nation. Given that you're a fan of such a man, what would you understand of Mrs Suchitra Sen? Do you understand what a rascal means? Only Indian vodka goes inside your obese system, and it's only public "donation" that you live on. You're obtaining donations from NRIs by virtue of your pseudo-intellectual activities. You're a completely filthy antisocial, bohemian biped! Now go from "Nandan" to the zoo! Do you even know what "Narcissism" means? "Narcissism" is "An exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself" -- in other words, who doesn't understand a thing beyond himself. I'm wondering how can a believer of "narcissism" discuss a public figure. There has to be some personal profit of yours involved in this!
There is an empty cage, "just for you". The donations will now straight go to the Government.