Election, your choice

My dear friend,

I’ve not called a spade a shovel. We’ve kept our promise of giving you the choice. How can you make the choice unless we place some truths before you.

You, my friend, should know that the Association has taken a loan of Rs.50 lacs. Meaning thereby, there is not only no funds, there is lien on future membership subscription receipts. In State Bank of Indore, with half the number of officers, their Association is having a fund of Rs.8 crores.

Another matter, where is now the Qualis car the Association had purchased ?

You have been looted my dear friend. There are many more skeletons they are hiding. Change is necessary.
People who have run the Association for 20 years on the basis of community politics, are strangely now speaking of caste. But if you look at the composition, we are a more consciously balanced lot. They would have loved, we had no base.

A friend

Sanjoy

PS:-

Team for Change: Vote for the Panel for Merger :

Ashok Meena (President)
D. S. Ujjwal (Vice_President)
Santosh Kumar Sharma (General_Secretary)
Sanjoy Gupta (Treasurer)
C. L. Jonwal (Organizational Sec)
Sunil Kumar Gupta (Zonal Sec - Bikaner)
Vijay Kumar Rajora (Zonal Sec -Delhi)
Surendra Singh (Zonal Sec - Jaipur)
Man Singh Kachhawaha (Zonal Sec - Jodhpur)
K L Meena (Zonal Sec -Kota)
J. P. Sharma (Zonal Sec -Mumbai)
Ram Ratan Meena (Zonal Sec -Udaipur)

MF HUSSAIN - HYPOCRICY UNVEILED

Hello all,

Find below the masterpieces by our famous painter MF Hussain.

Goddess Durga in sexual union with Tiger

Prophet's Daughter Fatima fully clothed

Goddess Lakshmi naked on Shree Ganesh's head

M.F. Hussain's Mother fully clothed

Naked Saraswati

Mother Teresa fully clothed

Naked Shri Parvati

Hussain's Daughter well clothed

Naked Draupadi.

Well clothed Muslim Lady.

Naked Lord Hanuman and Goddess Sita sitting on thigh of Ravana Muslim poets Faiz, Galib are shown well-clothed

Full Clad Muslim King and naked Hindu Brahmin.

The above painting clearly indicates Hussain's tendency to paint any Hindu as naked and thus his hatred. But the height is the painting of Naked Bharatmata -

Hussain has shown naked woman with names of states written on different parts of her body. He has used Ashok Chakra, Tri-colour in the painting. By doing this he has violated law & hurt National Pride of Indians.

Both these things should be of grave concern to every Indian irrespective of his religion.

He says nudity in art depicts purity and is in fact an honour. But is it not strange that only Hindu gods and Goddesses are singled out for this purity and honour.

Now look at the last picture. There are four leaders in the picture.

Out of the four leaders M. Gandhi is decapitated and Hitler is naked. Hussain hates Hitler and has said in an interview 8 years ago that he has depicted Hitler naked to humiliate him and as he deserves it !

How come Hitler's nudity cause humiliation when in Hussain's own statement nudity in art depicts purity and is in fact an honour !

This shows Hussain's perversion and hypocrisy.

When a person dresses like a Sikh Guru, thousands of Sikhs gather and destroy their establishments , threaten to kill him, announce a bounty on his head.

If a Danish journalist depicts the Prophet of the Muslims , Muslims all over the world rise in anger, there is violence, a booty on the head of the Journalist.

But if MF Hussain draws paintings depicting Hindu Gods and Goddesses in sexual positions (which relations are not borne out by ancient texts at all ) and Hindus merely protest , they are called communal, intolerant and taught lessons in secularism by one and all.

The problem with Hindus is that they accept what ever is dished out, they do not have the guts to say that this is wrong , they seek acceptance from outsiders rather than standing for their religion.

We worship the same Gods and Goddesses but don't stand up for them when the time comes.

Is it a matter of shame when you do not stand for your religion, your faith and your God.

Manoj

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. ~Harold Wilson

My dear sir, my dear friend,

Someone who begins on a loan of Rs.35,000 at the beginning of his political career, ends up as owner of petrol pumps, cold storage, medical stores and real estate agencies when he retires 20 years afterwards, on the salary of a bank officer, and we meekly salute him. Shame on us !

No wonder, bank officers are the softest targets of society today. Everyone throws a punch at us in passing. And nobody really seems serious to even save the faces of our so-called netas with a whatever wage settlement.

We have an election before us, after 20 long years, at last a chance to have it out man. Throw out these fellows who have brought us to this plight.

Of course, as W. Edwards Deming had said, “it is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.”

Seriously, we’ll change, we’ll thrive. We seek merger, the mother of all changes. So vote not only against the existing netas, but also against those handful of guys who have no chance of winning except fragmenting the voters a little bit.

We’ve brought you a decisive choice at last. Come on, it is your turn now to use it.

A friend

Sanjoy Gupta

PS :

Team for Change: Vote for the Panel for Merger :

Ashok Meena (President)
D. S. Ujjwal (Vice_President)
Santosh Kumar Sharma (General_Secretary)
Sanjoy Gupta (Treasurer)
C. L. Jonwal (Organizational Sec)
Sunil Kumar Gupta (Zonal Sec - Bikaner)
Vijay Kumar Rajora (Zonal Sec -Delhi)
Surendra Singh (Zonal Sec - Jaipur)
Man Singh Kachhawaha (Zonal Sec - Jodhpur)
K L Meena (Zonal Sec -Kota)
J. P. Sharma (Zonal Sec -Mumbai)
Ram Ratan Meena (Zonal Sec -Udaipur)

Books worth reading - The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

I read Wilkie Collins “The Woman in White” on the recommendation of my dear friend Mariam Karim.

Before getting to the book I would first like to give a brief description on the writer. Wilkie Collins was born in London in 1824, the eldest son of the landscape painter. He had worked in tea business and entered to read for the bar at Lincoln's Inn. The legal knowledge he acquired was used in his writings.
He was a friend of Charles Dickens, acting with him, contributing to ‘Household Words’ and traveling with him on the Continent. Dickens produced and acted in two melodramas written by Collins, The Lighthouse (1855) and The Frozen Deep (1857). Dickens also edited “The Woman in White”.
Besides “The Woman in White” (1860) Wilkie Collins also wrote “The Moonstone” (1868), which T. S. Eliot called 'the first, the longest, and the best of modern English detective novels'. His novels ‘The New Magdalen’ (1873) and ‘The Law and The Lady’ (1875) were considered rather sensational novels for its time.
Collins also braved the moral censure of the Victorian age by keeping two women (and their households) while marrying neither.
He died in 1889.

“The Woman in White”
First of all I would like to say that once I started reading the novel, I wanted to complete it. A sure shot sign of the book being to my liking.

The book is divided into chapters and sub-chapters and reads like a television serial. Some readers have also likened it to a Soap Opera. Later I found out that the book was first published in a serialized form.

The advantages of the form being that at every break there was something to look forward to. The disadvantage being that every break was built up in an elaborate fashion which did not suit the novel format. The passages just before the break became long drawn and tempted you to skip them and exactly when you begin to think that you are near some discovery, the book takes you back into the spider web.

The novel is a Victorian Age tale of an ordinary drawing master and an heiress in love and their adventures, both forced and self imposed, mixed up with murder, conspiracy, lunacy, illness, affairs and a ‘look alike’ thrown in. The good win at the end, and the bad, although smarter all the while, get screwed by destiny in the end. Melodramatic it is.

Sample this for intrigue:

A man put his head from the window and asked: "Have you seen a woman pass this way-a woman in white? She has escaped from my asylum."

These lines make you look ahead and several times in the novel we have starts like this which keeps our interest.

We have characters like Laura Glyde nee Fairlie and Walter Hartright (lovers who separate at the start to reunite at the end) Marian Halcombe (the intelligent sister of Laura), Pesca (the bubbly Italian friend of Walter), who love selflessly and then we have characters like Sir Percival Glyde (The impostor Baronet and husband of Laura), Count Fosco (An Italian in exile and friend of Sir Percival) whose devotion to another is based on logical calculations. We have fringe players enacting the roles of lawyers, doctors, asylum keepers, nurses, housekeepers, etc, who help in the story of Anne Catherick (Laura Glyde’s look- alike and ‘The Woman in White’), reaching its conclusion.

In short it is story of the desperadoes Sir PG and Count F, Short of money, getting the better of LG and MH, pocketing LG’s inheritance and her identity, till WH comes back into the story to set things right. Sir PG is done in by his obstinacy and meets his death at the place of his original crime, while Pesca unwittingly scares Count F to his end.

Some of the quotes that are worth mentioning are:

But the Law is still, in certain inevitable cases, the pre-engaged servant of the long purse.
Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey sat through life.
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.
"I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong."
Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.
The best men are not consistent in good--why should the worst men be consistent in evil?

All in all a book you will read from cover to cover.

A Golden Opportunity for Change in SBBJ called Elections

My dear Brother-Officer,

When is the last time we've had a proper election to the Officers' Association in SBBJ ? This time there'll be one, because Ashok Meena some years back accepted the challenge and tirelessly built up a strong base by working for his guys. And now in his political maturity he has launched a Team for Merger comprising of Shri Santosh Kumar Sharma, a veteran of SBBJ political arena and myself, Sanjoy Gupta, a new comer to politics.

Originally what inspired us was the common plank for merger. The net benefit which will accrue to all of us once SBBJ is merged with SBI is known to all of us to be quite huge. We also now know that after forcing us into strikes against merger and making us suffer salary cuts on that account repeatedly, suddenly the existing office bearers have turned in favour of so-called merger "at par". Obviously their heart is not in it because the understanding which has been reached between the two prominent office bearers is that the one who'll be President will also be the Officer Director, but if there will be merger then where'll be the position of the Director left.

One of our election pledge is therefore, that none of our office bearers will be the Director. We undertake to keep not only this but all our activities and accountings democratic and transparent. We have had excess of the rule by a small group of netas for so many years when a handful of officers have cornered all the privileges and benefits. We seek to overturn that. Why should you and I only suffer while they enjoy unjustly all the fruits of our labour.

Today, the fact at the branches, the BPR centers and everywhere where brother officers are working with dead sincere dedication and for very very long hours, is that, officers are being mercilessly squeezed from all directions, officers are being silently killed with high BP, diabetes, heart problems. And the compensation is not even 54% of what the equivalent state government employee gets. And what does our existing office bearers of the Association do ? Become half-management and exert more pressure on the officers !! Why not leave the management do its job to increase business, to do this also and that also. You do your job. And what is the job of the Association ? It is obviously to represent its members. It is to jump into help every brother officer who is in any sort of suffering and/or facing any sort of injustice. It is for the Association to speak up with courage against the mindless exploitation of the meek innocent officers’ community that is taking place today day in and day out.

But this will not happen if the present set of office bearers who have developed rigid vested interests in the present set up and arrangements, are not thrown out in this election. Our team is the only team having the base capable of doing that. But unless friends like you join us and help us actively, this will not happen. So do reply to this mail to encourage us and keep us posted of how we can be useful to you.

A friend

Sanjoy Gupta


PS :-

the old & original
PANEL FOR MERGER IN SBBJ
Aboa : unit sbbj, election – 2009-12
THE PLEDGE
merger without any ifs and buts
complete parivartan
· · In first week, we shall pass Resolution for Merger and submit to management to be placed before Board of the Bank for approval.
· No question of ever again stupidly resorting to strikes against merger.
· · Quick relief and welfare will be brought to each and every brother-officer facing injustice or suffering.
· Postings will be got changed as per dignity due and desire.
· Officer Director shall not be any one of the office-bearers.
· Monthly subscription shall be reduced to Rs.50/- from Rs.75/-.
· Group insurance for all officers free of cost.
· There will be democracy and transparency in all our activities and accounts.

The Team : SK Sharma-Ashok Meena-Sanjoy Gupta

Openly Supporting : Dr Anoop Goyal, CP Joshi, Parijat Saurabh, Pushpendra Nath Pandey, KS Rekhi, CR Das, Sudipto Bannerjee, RC Mishra, SK Singh, Gautam Prakash, RS Chauhan, PK Mohanty, NS Sharma, DS Ujjawal, RK Kankhedia, JP Sharma, Sanjay Sandhu, Mohan Meghwal, Suresh Chand Gupta, TP Pandey, Ghanshyam Meena, BR Meghwal,
-- "when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." (Paulo Coelho) This is our chance to complete parivartan. Vote whole-heartedly for the team for merger (without any ifs and buts) of ASHOK MEENA-SK SHARMA-SANJOY GUPTA

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