Frog’s Dream

                 Frog’s Dream

                         

                                          Nidhu Bhusan Das

          Professor Kola is the dean of the Faculty of Hypocrisy at the University of Imbecility in Frogland.The University is the only centre of excellence in the whole land. He is the Emeritus Professor of Frog-psychology and teaches frogs how to lie on their backs. He is known and respected as the Machiavelli of Frogland.He has a fascination for the term Mafia, which like Machiavelli has an Italian overtone. Professor Kola isn’t aware that Italy had been the birth place of European Renaissance in the wake of the fall of Constantinople, the Capital of eastern Roman Empire, in 1451 to the Turks. Nor has he heard of the Bengal Renaissance of the nineteenth century.

       Professor Kola has learnt to lie on his back and walk with upside down always dreaming of hypnotizing others to his profit and prospeirty. His four hands remain always suspended in the air. They are used as tentacles to catch the imbeciles living in Frogland.He claims he is a bibliophile. You cannot disbelieve. He takes all and sundry to his home where he has a stock of books he cannot read. To show his love for reading, he keeps books open on his huge table and when he shows he reads the books are always held upside down. This increases his importance to the visitors as they think this is the way of reading by great scholars. Once he lectured a visitor on Communication thus: “Your no,Kamanikason geret ata of waking on hed and lain on bek.I is a geret kamanikator.I is a motarkor of kooson popr of Kamanikason in d univociti.”The visitor from Apeland took pains to decipher the Froglandian English thus: “You know. Communication is a great art of walking on head and lying on back.I am a great communicator. I am a moderator of question papers of communication in the university.”

    Everyone and every political party and social organization likes this great scholar and learns from him with delight lollipop of knowledge. He has been warned by his grandpa Kola the Wise not to eat the fruit of knowledge because it is dangerous as aphrodisiac. The lollipop of knowledge keeps you unaware that you are naked. So the Apeland visitor sang his parting song:

     “I’ve met one in the queer land

      Who always chews lollipop

      Licks pages of books

      And never knows he’s nude

      But proud being the butt of joke.”

       When the visitor said ‘You are really an education mafia’, the professor smiled and said, “ Hapy..hapy!”