My space thoughts and day three in prison. Part-10
That was many years ago. When I used to take my mother's hand for a sea bath (called Barunisnan here in the local language), I used to see how big the sea was. As far as the eye can see, I used to look at the distant ocean. It seemed as if there was nowhere else to understand the vastness of the ocean. Big waves of water came and crashed on the seashore. I used to get wet in the rush of salt water waves. Some of the water from the splash of the waves would enter the nose and mouth and cause suffocation. Soon after, I used to laugh again and spread my arms and legs and play mischief with water. Mother always kept me by the side just like the hem of a saree, so as not to be lost in the depths of the sea. At that time I did not have the courage to think about the depth of the sea. It seemed that our universe is made up of sun, moon and earth. There is nothing beyond it.
After that I found out that there is a world called solar system. Where Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and many other small satellites are constantly rotating around the Sun. Again, a Milky Way galaxy or Milky Way, another name for galaxies, is formed by these billions of solar systems. The extent of the Milky Way galaxy is one hundred thousand light years! Thinking about it, my body is shaking.
When I was young, it was said that there is no clan across the sea, but I used to listen to these folk tales while standing next to my mother on the sandy shores of the Bay of Bengal. Later I came to know that Bay of Bengal is a bay. Just part of an ocean. So how can it be called infinite or infinite?
Even 6-7 thousand years ago, people thought that this world is limited to the region where they are.Mythical Greek civilization, Rome civilization, Mayan civilization, Egyptian civilization, Aryan civilization, these civilizations and cultures were developed based on their culture and urbanization. History is also written around each civilization. People of that time could not invent so much technology. There was no communication system to cross the sea. So there was no way to know. But human curiosity does not stop today, it continues to strive to know. The contribution of Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Newton, Einstein, Stephen Hawking to space science is undeniable. Still, Stephen Hawking's discovery of the Big Bang theory or the "mystery of the creation of the universe" remains the best. So far no one has been able to prove it wrong.
Scientists will come and go over the ages. More and more new ideas will be born. Whatever ideas or theories are discovered by the scientists of this 21st century, the scientists of the next century may prove them wrong. And if you can't prove it wrong, you will accept it freely. This is scientism. Science has accelerated the way of life of people, transformed the standard of living of people into elite class. Scientists from different countries have sent many small and big satellites into space, which satellites are constantly sending information to the earth. Today people are using the products of scientific research for their own benefit. People today exchange and exchange transactions from the country to abroad very easily through online. All this is the blessing of science.
Sometimes this life seems so pointless. Live for the sake of living. I feel so insignificant when I think about the universe. A Milky Way galaxy with millions of satellites. How many millions of Milky Ways, our universe with. Our Milky Way galaxy is like a tiny dot in this universe. And in that milky way galaxy there is a place like a 'dot' of our blue planet earth. Where live millions of different species of animals, plants, and more than 7 billion people.
Millions of years ago, this world was ruled by giant dinosaurs. By gradual evolution and cycle of time, 5-6 feet tall people are ruling the world today. Sometimes even the fierce animals of the forest become helpless to them. People are chasing careers, people are chasing relationships, people are chasing respect, people are chasing money. People are running for nobility. People are running for a livable world for future generations.
Crossing the caves of the primitive age of hundreds of thousands of years ago, today people have built tall buildings, paved roads, industrial revolution in the last century, technological revolution since the beginning of this century. Developed all modern management. The human race has divided this planet called Earth into more than 200 countries, each of which has been demarcated by barbed wire. The constitution is made to govern the state. Laws are made in every country to keep everyone in order. Prisons are built to keep criminals. People have captured forest animals and kept them in zoos for entertainment. Registry offices are created to buy and sell land in countries around the world. Made to exchange money in countries, money, Rupees, Pounds, Diners, Reals, Euros, Dollars..... To connect the transactions, business, trade of all the countries of the world, this medium is named as international medium. All of these are tiny sand-sized planets on the edge of the Milky Way galaxy surrounding this Earth. And 90% of the planets in the Milky Way Galaxy are larger than Earth. Isn't that strange? Still, how many dreams people weave, to live well, to build property. To gain fame. For celebrities. Two sentences to be thrilled. How many years do people live? 70 to 80 years? But these times are nothing to trouble the universe! In fact, sometimes this life, this human civilization on earth seems very meaningless.
The span of the entire universe is 93 billion (means 9,300 billion light years) billion light years. If you travel at the speed of light, it will take you 93 billion years to travel from the beginning to the end of this entire universe! The distance of the sun from our earth is 15 crore 10 lakh 67 thousand kilometers. It takes 8 minutes and 19 seconds for the light from the sun to reach our earth. And the distance of our satellite Moon is only 3 lakh 84 thousand 400 km. The speed of light takes only 1 second to travel this distance between the earth and the moon! This is the empty space between the distance of the Earth and the Moon, in that empty space or space, 30 more Earths like our Earth can easily fit. That means that the distance of the moon from the earth, light takes just 1 second to cross this distance! Now think about the diameter of a Milky Way galaxy is 1,00,000 lakh light years! Hundreds of such Milky Way galaxies form the "Local Group of Galaxies". Hundreds of such "local groups of galaxies" are located in a "Virgo supercluster". Thousands of such "Virgo Superclusters" are also located in the "Lanaicca Supercluster". There are millions of such "Lanaika Superclusters" roaming around our universe. Our Earth is far away, our Milky Way galaxy is a 'dot' in this universe. If our Milky Way Galaxy is equal to a 'dot' spread over one hundred thousand light years in this universe, then our world is nothing in the vast space of this universe!
Only 10 to 12 thousand years ago, the people of this world are slowly becoming civilized. 12,000 thousand years ago, people built the first architecture on earth. Well, let's assume that 7,000 years ago, Hindu avatar Rama is coming. So we got the Ramayana. The Kurukshetra battle of Mahabharata took place 5,000 years ago, so we get the Hindu holy book "Shrimat Bhagavad Gita" from the Kurukshetra battle. The words that Lord Krishna told Arjun to fight in the Kurukshetra field are today the 18th chapter of Shrimat Bhagavad Gita. Which is the main religious holy book of Hindus. There is a famous saying, - For the suppression of evil and the observance of virtue, I descended from age to age. After Krishna came the Gita of the Hindus. After Gautama Buddha came Buddhism spread. Then came Judaism after the cleansing of the Jews. Then the Christian religion spread after the arrival of Jesus, the so-called Son of God, in the lap of Mother Mary. Much later, after the arrival of Muhammad in Arabia, Muslims received Allah, the Koran and the religion of Islam at the hands of Muhammad. So this is natural, Allah, Ishwar, God is created by man. And before Rama, Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Muhammad, they came, people were walking on earth. Where were God, God, Job, Allah then? I also have a little saying about it--
"Ishwar, God, vogoban, Allah,
They are sometimes moon, sun, earth
He did not create them, rather people created them
created in various ways."
In Islam, it is said that the great Allah created the moon, sun, and earth in just 6 days. It is also said in Islam that only Allah created Adam, the first human descendant of this world or the first father of Muslims. And from Adam's chest rib or Bibi created "wind". From this Adam and Eve or the creation of the whole world! We can know the story of Adam and Eve after the arrival of Islam by the hand of Muhammad 1400 years ago. Before the advent of Islam 1400 years ago, Adam and Eve are the first human descendants of the world. There are more than 4200 religions in this world, these religions have different rules and regulations, different characteristics. Each religion claims from its own position that only its religion is superior. As such, it can be said that 4200 religions also have 4200 Gods. Now I will believe in any God from here? Which god do you believe?
I was thinking the words while standing by the window inside the ward, looking at the golden clouds of the afternoon sky. Then Saddam came and said, -Opriya da, will you play chess?
I said to Saddam very casually, - Yes, I will play.
Then went to get the chess pieces and board. Saddam is coming yesterday. The new defendant here is actually, the others in the ward say, fetching cows, fetching cows. Seeing Saddam, the defendants in the ward were saying that the cow is bringing another one, look! Look! The day I came to this ward, everyone said that a cow is coming, look! Look! Saddam Marine Engineer has just finished his studies. our peers This will be 24-25 years. He is coming to the jail with a rape case. Talking to her, I got to know that her maternal uncle framed her in a false rape case due to family enmity. According to the case documents, he tried to rape his cousin. Saddam's uncles have 6 brothers, two sisters. 1 sister died. There is another sister, she is Saddam's mother. Until now, Saddam's mother and his uncles had a very good relationship. From what I heard in Saddam's mouth, his relationship with his uncles was not only good, but sweet. When Saddam asked his uncles to explain his mother's share of property or land, Saddam's problems with his uncles began. Due to this problem, Saddam finally had to go to jail on false charges. Man is a big scary creature. People are most helpless in this world. People are killing, cutting, torturing people. Again, people are putting people in jail by plotting, conspiracies, people are putting people in danger. In this world, there are no animals as chaotic as humans. Even the group of hyenas has disciplined rules. But groups of people have no orderly rules.
After Saddam arrived yesterday, he cried and talked about his problems to me. Saddam's father is dead. Saddam is bringing a chess board and chess pieces. Played chess with him about 5 times. I won four times, won that one time. I lost the last game on purpose. If he did not lose, Saddam would not be allowed to get out of the game. Chess can't be played much, I get over my head. This evening Saddam treated me to scrambled eggs, parota and tea. He likes to chat and talk with me.
It's been three days since I came to jail today. The most difficult thing here is to spend time. How many chess games can be played? How many Ludo can be played? I don't want to smoke more than 7-8 cigarettes daily. I went to the library today, I have read many books there. And besides, I don't like to read stories, novels, poems anymore. Now it is good to know the history based on information or reference. There was a time when I read a lot of stories, novels and poems. I read many books written by Michael Madhusudhan Dutto, Bankimchandra, Mir Mosharraf Hossain, Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Saratchandra Chattopadhyay, Vibhutibhushan, Jibanananda Das, Kazi Nazrul Islam, Aroj Ali Matubbar, Sukanta Bhattacharya, Saido Walillah from that Vidya Sagar. And I have read the books of other authors like Samaresh Majumdar, Prabir Ghosh, Buddhadev Guha, Sunil Gangopadhyay, Shishendu Mukhopadhyay, Suchitra Sen, Falguni Mukhopadhyay, Taslima Nasreen, Humayun Azad, Hari Shankar Jaldas, Ahmed Chhafa, among others.
In the books that I saw in the library, informational books are not visible. And books by Humayun Azad, Taslima Nasreen, Arz Ali Matubbar can be read. Reading them again and again does not feel boring. I saw that there is not a single book written by them. These days I don't like Samaresh Marka, Shirshendu Marka novels anymore. I don't like novels such as Samaresh Majumder's Garbhadharini, Sathkahan, Kalbela, Kalpurush, and Shirshendur, Chakra, Parthiv, Manab jomin. However, some of Sunil Gangopadhyay's books are very meaningful to me, such as, - At that time, Prothom Alo, Purva-Pashim, I enjoyed reading these books. The scope of knowledge was greatly enriched.
Meanwhile, the pressure of asking for money from Shakeel made me uncomfortable. Shakeel said today also, next time he comes to meet, I should take him 5000 rupees from my relatives. What a situation for me! There is no peace in Shala prison! Money game here! We always talk about the exploits of the British Raj. About the exploitation and oppression of Pakistan rulers. But we do not see that the Bengali rulers are exploiting us! This is that lakhs of rupees are being earned illegally under government patronage by taking money from new convicts inside the jails. Isn't this cruel exploitation? On the other hand, our rulers are taking away the fair face of the jail convicts. They are making the guard of the building by killing the money from the mouth of the accused. This exploitation will defeat the policy of the British-Pakistani exploiters. If you come to jail, you have to eat with your own money, live with your own money, why do we pay taxes and VAT to the government? To put our tax money in Swiss banks in the name of the rulers? Our ruling leaders forget that they were elected by the common people and sent to Parliament for 5 years to run the country well. And these uncivilized politicians come to the power of the state without thinking about democracy, without thinking about the basic needs of the people, they think about their own development. Each and every MP-minister in this country committed corruption and deposited thousands of crores of rupees in Swiss bank in their own name or anonymously. And we the people, who are trying hard to move the country forward with VAT-tax, dream of a prosperous country, and the money of our dreams is stolen by a few MPs and left in Swiss banks. Our parliament building is full of thieves, robbers and other corrupt people.
Sometimes I want to shout, - I don't accept this system, I hate this sick system of yours.
I had dinner a while ago. Now it's time to curl up and sleep. Today is my third day in jail.
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