Actually this post was planned for Chattagram uprising,about Master-da and about the latest Hindi movie based out of that episode.For somehow I was reminded of my childhood or should i call it the budding adulthood when uncontaminated by the realities of the life,we used to get emotional,get charged up and had a picture of the nationhood beyond"roti,kapda aur makan".It was the time when going through the pages of "Aami Subhash Bolchi"..an epic Bengali book ..we could see the India of half a century ago,we could feel the anguish and the insult of the pre ondependent India.
But the brutality of the present is much more strong than the nostalgia
of a romantic past.The news of recurring violences coming out of West Bengal was indeed depressing but the recent incidents of student violence which happened over the last week was simply shocking.That the communists who ruled(or ruined ) the state for the last three decades are the master violence maker, rhetorical propagator of poverty and destroyer of all democratic norms is quite well known and any glimmer of an opportunity to throw them into the "Bay of Bengal" will be welcomed by any civilised bengali;it is the alternative which made you despondent.I dont know whether the lady in the waiting actually wants to soak her tongue in the blood to assume the pesona of the Goddess whose famous temple is in her neighbourhood;but her approach of using violence to uproot the present regime may bring in even worse time for the state.The yen-ken-prakaren way will destroy whatever little is left of the state.West Bengal is almost a Waste Bengal today and looking at the portents , the only thing we will need to edit in the future is to drop the word "almost" from the sentence.
Swapan Dasgupta,in his today's TOI column,has written about the shivering that will it cause to the Bangali bhadraloks if today they have to look at Bihar for a model,but the fact of the matter is that they have to look at either Bihar or Gujarat or both to learn.In Bihar,Nitish has shown how even Bihar market has a hunger for a product called "development".Singur,which showed how not to have a industry,notwithstanding,Mamata should look how to create an atmosphere of peace in the state..Without law and order,no businessman will invest in the state and whatever is now left will also run away.Modi also used violence to strengthen his postion but he followed it up with what Vajpayee termed as proper "Rajdharma".Mamata may be thinking that using any mode-shram,dam.dand,bhed-is justified in her fight against the Leftists but as the recent student violent clashes showed..the poison would have spread so much into the society by then that she will inherit only a dead body.
True,,,,,,,,,"what Bengal thinks today India thinks tomorrow" is a famous quote but remember it was said almost a century back..
2 comments:
We need some personality like Nitish or Modi for West Bengal to steer it out of its sorry state. The days are not far when people will move from Kolkata to Patna if the situation continues like this. Bihar has shown in the elections that development begets vote. Indian democracy is maturing out of its caste based vote banks. Also, in Gujrat, it is development. Admittedly, in Gujrat Modi and Gujjus have both contributed to their development. In Bengal, the politicians and the Bengalis are ruining the state, which was once a pride. It is the bangosantans who have to stand up and now make the politicians, whether Biman or mamata to work for the state...not for their party/image/belief.
rightly said dada....the rot that has creeped into bengal due to the selfishness of a few individuals will take a lifetime to remove. The state needs individuals who can think and enact for the future and move beyond the short sighted politics....but sorry to say no one's in sight.
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