Where is the building?
For years, I have been looking for a particular building that must be in existence now for over 62 years. No doubt it is a huge structure by now because there must have been numerous additions to it, to increase capacity and to take the ever-increasing load over the years. It is certainly centrally air-conditioned because the contents stored there require to be kept safely in cold storage.
Being a government building, maintenance must be minimal and undoubtedly the place will be overrun with insects, rats, cockroaches and other vermin because there is plenty for them to feast on.
The question is: Where is it? Is it deep in the Sunderbans Forests? Somewhere in the Madhu Reserve in Bandarbans? Or perhaps on or under one of the numerous chars somewhere in the Bay? That it exists is beyond any doubt. Why?
Because over these 62 years there have been thousands and thousands of incidents, serious and not so serious, and all of them, without fail, have been subjected to enquiries, probes, investigations, examinations, scrutiny, studies, surveys, inspections and searches.
Thousands of dedicated bureaucrats have worked tens of thousands of hours writing the reports, spending millions in public money, but has anyone from the public fraternity ever seen a single report at any time?? So, simple logic and common sense tells me that they must all be stored in a secure building far away from prying eyes and I would like to know where.
Because now some gnome will be making additions to the "B" shelf in the building, for the latest reports on the "B" happenings to be sent there in due course.
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