why couldn't i?

a few days ago i accompanied Pralay to the Medical College & Hospital,Calcutta for a dressing job on a minor under-lip injury.this was not the first time i went to this historical place but still the squalor this time mildly provoked me to write down something on its hopeless state of affairs.
the general stink,filth and scum apart,there was something else that gave rise to this feeling:there was a man who had come there with his mother and wife who was crying.when we enquired,he said he was beaten up by his son badly with a cricket bat.why?because he asked him to do something and he wasn't feeling like obeying his dad's orders then,so when the man insisted he gave a straight answer.the man was in his forties,perhaps and so,his son must be on the threshold of his adulthood.
Pralay's initial reaction was of rage while i thought that if there had been an argumentative/discoursive/dealing sort of relationship between father-son would this kinda thing ever happen?the Gandhi's lesson in our 12th class English text flashed through my mind.Gandhi once felt angry and was impulsively ready to beat a boy on his Farm.he knew the boy was also capable of retaliating but it was obvious he wouldn't do so.what followed next was really heart-rending to read for me as a child who knew that parents' beating in indian homes was part-and-parcel of every child's memories,and that most of us cherished it.still reading the last lines of the lesson was so phenomenal:

"One of them was wild, unruly, given to lying, and quarrelsome. On one occasion he broke out most violently. I was exasperated. I never punished my boys, but this time I was very angry. I tried to reason with him. But he was adamant and even tried to overreach me. At last I picked up a ruler lying at hand and delivered a blow on his arm. I trembled as I struck him. I dare say he noticed it. This was an entirely novel experience for them all. The boy cried out and begged to be forgiven. He cried not because the beating was painful to him; he could, if he had been so minded, have paid me back in the same coin, being a stoutly built youth of seventeen; but he realized my pain in being driven to this violent resource. Never again after this incident did he disobey me. But I still repent that violence. I am afraid I exhibited before him that day not the spirit, but the brute, in me."

damn my digressions!
actually,all this made me think that why don't i blog this experience along with a description of the despicable place where poor throng in large numbers to get treated of there ailments?but my laziness or incapability-i dunno what it was-prevented me from penning it down.
and then,this morning i read Rohini Chaki in Telegraph:her journalistic style of prose,especially that story-telling style that i've seen in Telegraph articles(op-eds,editorials,newspieces by correspondents-all have that same style which makes me feel more as if reading a short story than a prosaic newspaper) which seldom dumbs down on substance and is still an enjoyable read.i tried to reflect on my writing skills:could i come up with such a piece?i don't think no but still i felt that as an aspiring writer i dont have that knack for observation-and-commentary that stimulates a reader's imagination.
just a minute!that little piece by Rohini wasn't really such a literary merit!but the point is i can't write even such a simple piece.

my fault?

after having posted that bourgeoisie blogese (true,this link only enforces Kesavan's second-hand comment),i came across the TOI piece which forced me to give a second thought.i have stated in my post that it is a commonplace to harangue ABP at Presi but it seemed(at least,for a while,yes)that i too was waylaid by that Presi ethos:was i wrong in suspecting Telegraph of McCarthy-ism?was it just another interpretation that could always be rightly different from HT?and by the way why should HT be laying the standards?moreover,how could i single out just a newspiece to make such an allegation?
whatever,i still cannot deny that i have totally purged myself of the Presi ethos:that gut feeling for something devilish in ABP propaganda still doesn't go though i have been able to become a little critical about it.

Bengal makes Karat kinder: this is how Biswajit Roy analysed the culmination of CPM's central committee meet।nothing that was wrong in the detailed report or any sort of fiddling that i generally hear students at Presidency alleging the paper of; still, the kind of interpretation Mr Roy gave was at great odds to what Tanmay Chatterjee had to say in HT( CPM politburo gets nuke power ).
this HT City Kolkata edition headline has been paraphrased on the net even harshly ( "Politburo told to go all out to stop N-deal" ).

i am not against news analysis but this kind of "editorialising" worries me . is this newspaper trying to steer public opinion and bend it the way it feels like?
The Telegraph very cleverly moulded the news piece to show a mellowed Mr Karat when HT very explicitly stated that he's all bombastic and even though the PM might consider him another Don Quixote he's in no mood to give up his rhetoric ( in a true Gandhian way! ).