No bell for Dylan again
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2006, May 24th, Shillong, Meghalaya:
The early summer rain drizzled outside the Shillong's State Central Library auditorium. As I sat inside, Lou Majaw, (aka Bob Dylan of North East) along with Lew Hilt and the father son duo Anjan and Neel Dutt from Kolkata crooned 'Chimes of Freedom'. If you can't meet the reclusive legend in your life time, Majaw and the gang of Dylanophiles paying homage to the living legend in Shillong every year on his birthday is your best bet.
That's beside the point. But Bob Dylan has been denied Nobel dues for literature again. And that pisses me off. No offence Thomas Transtromer, I am sure your work is great, haven't read any of them. But having heard the only sane voice when the "World Gone Wrong", and when the "Masters of war" who build the big bombs... told us that "I shall be free" when the "Hard Rain a'gonna fall." It's plain case of justice denied to the wondering minstrel and the songwriter-cum poet laureate-troubadour of our times.
"Even Jesus will never forgive what you did"... "I hope that you die and your death will come soon"... No matter how you read or where you pick the lines from like the Holy Scriptures, Dylan's songs still makes sense for today's "World Gone Wrong".
Like every year, in the run up to the Nobel, Dylan has been the favourite among bookies to win this year. Yet he is denied the prize once again like every year. Ironically Dylan's name has popped up every year for the last 15 years for the Nobel Prize. He will never say this but let me choose bits and pieces the prophetic words of the bard himself to say why many of Dylanophiles across the world are aggrieved and are crying... "I hope that you die and your death will come soon"...Nobel Jury... "I will follow your casket on a pale afternoon... I will stand by your grave till you are dead."
"How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a man?"
Meanwhile, I will continue to hear Dylan croon, Nobel or no Nobel.
More about Mike Sangma
Graduate in Mass Communication from St Anthony's College Shillong and a Diploma in Journalism from IIMC Delhi, Mike started his career with ANI. Later he shifted base to financial capital Mumbai where he worked with Times Now as a business reporter. It was in Mumbai that that his fascination with financial news really started. Mike has been with CNN IBN since 2008 and churns out business reports that affect the average viewers. Inflation, Sensex crashing, Satyam fraud, subprime crisis and all. Worst thing he has ever done as a journalist? Stalking Ratan Tata for a byte on Jaguar Rover deal at Bombay House in a tinted car and being hauled by Mumbai police for the crime. He also keenly follows what happens back home in the North East and fancies his chance of becoming Meghalaya's CM one day. CMs are changed every 6 month in the state and he is hopeful that at this rate his chances are bright. When not working Mike loves listening to Bob Dylan croon. He boasts of the entire collection of Bob Dylan's Album. These days he also slogs out at the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, Delhi on the weekends with the intention of acquiring MBA degree he thinks will help in number crunching better. Mike also wants to write one day. Big deal! Everybody wants to be a writer but no one wants to write.
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