CORONA MONOLOGUE (7) -By N P Samal

A GIANT IN ME

There is a giant in me. He has alwsys been in me since times immemorial. Yes, the giant is sleeping in me. No! He is not sleeping. He cannot sleep while I am awake. He sleeps only when I sleep, and wakes when I wake. He remains awake, wide awake as long as I am wakeful. He walks with me, runs with me and hops with me. He goes with me and comes with me. He does not leave me alone. Now that I have been locked in, he is sitting inside me with his eyes red and round, open and wide. He has a violent stare. He is lurking...On the prowl. 

I do not know when he came and settled in me. I only can remember he has been inside me since the root of my existing memory. Over years, he has grown powerful and deadly in me. I can realize knowingly or unknowingly I have cultivated him in me. Now he has become too obstinate. It is not possible for me to move him out of me. He has been in me as a necessary devil.

In fact, the giant is loyal to me. He is serious about my well-being. He fights for me. He protects me...He is friendly with you if you are friendly with me. He loves you if you love me. He is peaceful as long as you are at peace with me. Once you turn bad and do any harm to me, he will tear you apart, eat up your flesh and drink up your blood. He is so vicious! He is so cruel!! He is so brutish !!!

The giant is vilely selfish. He is sadistic. He feeds on your sufferings. He lives on your miseries. He wants I dominate you. He wants I dictate you. He wants I become extremely rich and strong, and you extremely poor and weak. He wants to take pleasure on seeing you serve me...But you are nowhere! You are inside your lockup. I am inside my lockup. You cannot come out. I cannot go out. And this giant in me has been sitting inactive all through this Corona lock-down. He feels so bored! He feels so entertained! 

The giant now has become rebellious. He has long been starved. He has long been parched. He has started baying for blood. Human blood. Fresh blood. He is madly kicking inside me. So, I get hints that he is about to break through. He will run amok. He will wreck havoc. He will loot, plunder, torture... He will predate and depredate. Yet, for now, I can control him. But once the lock-down is lifted, I will fail to contain him.

So, please get ready to face the giant. But if there is a giant inside you and as powerful and strong as the giant in me, then let's brace for the 'War of Giants'.

Yes, the post-Corona world is going to face a bitter war, a violent war, among all the giant-possessed men. They will first destroy the giant-less humans. Then they will destroy themselves. There is the inevitable mass destruction. Beware !!!

-- N. P. SAMAL, POET, AUTHOR, ACADEMIC 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

QCI DOCUMENTS : CRITERION 1

          QCI DOCUMENTS: CRITERION 1 CRITERION 1: CURRICULUM   Key terms: Qualitative parameters  Quantitative parameters  DCF: Data Capture Format FDP: Faculty Development Program* CEP: Continuous Education Program  MOUs: (with reputed institutions) Parameter 1.1:  Implementation of Curriculum by the Institution in alignment with Program Specific Competences laid down by PCI Key terms: -- Implementation of curriculum framework  -- CO: Course Objectives  -- LO: Learning Outcomes -- PO: Programme Outcomes/Objectives -- Transaction of Curriculum  1.1.1 -- Alignment with Program specific objectives / competences laid down by Regulator Supporting documents: 1. Curriculum Plan 2. Lesson or Teaching Plans 3. Subject Attendance Register, Teacher Diary, etc. Note:  Documented evidence of Mapping of course-wise Course Objectives (CO) with Programme Objective. Lesson plans or planning documents for theory or practical session b...
Read more

CORONA MONOLOGUE (10) -By N P Samal

THE UNIVERSE AND YOU The Corona lock-down is being extended. Indefinitely. Interminably. At first, you had thought it would be a matter of roughly two weeks. But to your dismay, it did not end. Then two months. You thought you would die.  But you did not die. Now six months already into the lock-down, you have not died. Neither Corona nor your fear has been able to break into the shell of your life, although you have been deprived of the zest. You have been sitting idle. Nothing really is interesting inside the house. Everything is hackneyed. Everything is uninteresting. So, you are curled up in your armchair, legs bent up into the tight hold of your arms, head hanging down the lower jaw resting on the knees and the eyes are wide open but seeing nothing as the interior of your visual limit looks insipid... Please listen to me! Just do one thing to get freedom from COVIDIOCY as well as to exercise your workability with the following activity : Take a set of crayons and a drawing she...
Read more

QCI DOCUMENTS: CRITERION 5

          QCI DOCUMENTS: CRITERION 5 HUMAN RESOURCE & TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS  Parameter 5.1: Teaching-Learning methods being employed by Sampled Faculties in their Theory classes Key Terms: -- Teaching pedagogy adopted by faculty/staff in their theory/practical classes  -- Competence based Curriculum  -- Mastery over pre-specified Course & program specific Competences or objectives -- Student centered teaching methods -- In sync with competences or Learning Outcomes or Learning Objectives  5.1.1 -- Alignment of Theory sessions with framed Learning Objectives or Outcomes laid down by Regulator  (Interaction with minimum 25% or 1 sampled Faculty from each applicable Department for B. Pharm) Supporting Documents: 1. Recorded videos & documented evidences like Lesson Plans etc. by Pharmacy Faculty (for last 1 month) 5.1.2 -- Adopting Bloom's Taxonomy or any other Model for Systematic & progressive development of Thinking s...
Read more