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It wouldn't be too late in the night for bachelors like us, a couple of who were forced ones with their families living in Bengal, enjoy a good session of gossips in Bangla, the mother tongue! Amongst the handful few, a few enthusiastic Bengalis would pool in after the day's work in the hills of West Sikkim. A few was the count of Bengalis in that place and fewer the ones who would dare to participate in a jamming adda session. I used to stay in Tikjuk, a place between Gyalshing (Gayzing) and Pelling where government quarters are located and would come down to join them occasionally. The adda would usually unfold at the manager's residence of a bank in Gyalshing, sometimes to be joined by the branch manager of another bank who was posted in Pelling. There were no core banking solutions and the bankers used to break their necks with heavy lenses on the bridge of their noses poring over big fat registers called ledgers by different names. Information technology was a

Impunity is the perfect word today perhaps to forge ahead with wrongdoings in this country of Mahatmas. Every facet of life has become traffic to immoral acts that we may agree or disagree to. It's not that surprising when such news of fraudulent acts come to our knowledge. Comical it is that the laws of the land is for the law abiding. For those who flout the law continue to do so with impunity. Huge profiteering in mind to get rich quick kill our morale of virtuously existing on this land that cherishes Satyameva Jayate . Virtues are to be shown off on the foreground and in the backdrop, a criminal mindset takes over the centre-stage. Nobility of professions, be it service to mankind or those above the gentry, has seen a huge degradation in the recent times. Citizens are fooled in the name of higher degree of services for better profiteering motives. They are the merchants of fraud! Fraudulent  methodologies are becoming handy tools to poke gullible citizens into cons