The truth about Singur,

The truth about it all is, the expectation of a CPM back firing , another siege and a shootout, some deaths and then a whole political drama altogether,

Nobody bothers about the long term harm that the state will go through , the overall, attitude of Bengalis and that of the others about us, Nobody cares about the same,

 

I found most of the anti left channels to telecasting movies , songs and useless everyday drama without realizing or coming to terms with the fact that there has been a loss. A irrecoverable loss, This is the time, when the state could have done wonders, due to the intellect it possesses , the hard working lower class it has and the low prices it has maintained over the years. We have never been in a better position to do better and never been in a worse position to commit this act of mindless naxalism in the forefront of the Nuclear deal that takes the country one step forward

Singur, Agitation from the local people

A mob based approach to the whole scenario and the West Bengal government abstaining from any Nandigram tactics. They have abstained from reenacting  Tianamen Square this time.  They have just kept it low for the sake of popularity and politics, not because they really care

 

 

I just saw some reports from Star Ananda, ( there are a number of channels here in Kolkata that telecast  something or the other throughout the day ) . Tara Newz though has learned some lessons from one of Abul Kalams speeches and have resorted to a coverage of films, and upcoming events and the Panchami ( agomoni  tomorrow ) . They have somehow not brought Kabir Suman to the studios for a brief introduction to hysteria for a change.

 

Yesterday the local boys here celebrated  the Puja hard work ( bhaater kaaj )  with a lot of booze, dutch courage and abuse and fight. They have no care where the world is going and what is happening to their own future. The noise was something that I was not used to and right below my window here in my house, men of my age ,  celebrating a day which can only be written in history as a complete full stop for many.

 

 

Today , the localites in Singur have started to dig up the road, stop some more work and for them life is a continuous process of wasting your days. Nothing can be of importance, not even the world waiting at their doorsteps.

 

Singur , why and what

I will tell you onething, CPIM has stepped into one of its own laid traps.
The noose goes this way, If literacy was high, if they had allowed media and technology to seep deep into the rural areas, this agreement and compensation package would have been enough.

 

TATA has never seen a stance from a State Government ever before, It gives the industrialists a real good feeling about the people controlling the affairs. Here it is

1) 67 acres from the project area will be returned,

2) Additional 50% compensation for all land losers, both willing and unwilling, which means that land losers will gain Rs. 4-6 lakh more per acre,

3) Additional 50% compensation for all recorded sharecroppers in case where land is owned by absentee landlords. Recorded sharecroppers were eligible for 25% of the compensation for the regular land losers,

4) Wages for 300 days will be paid at one go to all unrecorded sharecroppers and agriculture labourers,

5) State government will commit itself to providing government jobs or indirect employment within one year from the commissioning of the project to a member from each land loser family,

6) Such members will enjoy a special category status in the employment exchange and will be given privileged treatment for filling up vacancies in ancillary units,

7) All surrounding villages, under a peripheral development scheme, will get roads hospitals, schools and colleges which will be funded by the government through the gram panchayat which presently is with the Trinamul.

 

 

 

Now you can always ask ,as to what could have gone wrong. This in itself could have been a victory for Trinamul . But the agitation continued for ever.

This is our 9/11

How many lives were affected by the 9/11

 

Tata Nano gone from Singur and the whole states dreams hopes and aspirations killed in the same shot . WE die today  a mass grave needs to be put out,

Somebody come and draw the lines, please, Bengalis, wake up, we as a community are now one of the most hated ones ,for our aversion to hard work , politics in the work place, crab mentality at its highest levels, and failures at its best.

 

What do we do?

Do we sit and produces, scholars either, nope , they die some where  in the education system, artists, they die singing in the rails and industrialist, they die in the hands of the local goons.

 

This is our 9/11 , we have been stuck by the unlucky snake, ugly face of politics, throws the state back a hundred steps.

Somebody give me some hope

There are still no articles on Singur

Nano is gone and none of the internet results yet show this.

 

I as a Bengali and sitting in Kolkata, do realize that this is a historic moment of failure. I will celebrate this failure of the Bengalis. I just hope we will learn something from today,
May be this incident will turn the wheel around, May be there is a positive side to it, May be we will survive politics, and do something worthwhile,

 

May be something inside me is afraid to put it out in the open. It is not the government, yes, the fear is true, the people themselves are weak . I am afraid to say this but may be it is ingrained in we Bengalis, We are supposed to fail,

 

And here we come crashing. Failure it is . I want to go out and shout, Failure it is , lets celebrate failure

Nano Singur, Gone

Singur is gone , and we are in no doubt in a lot of pain.

This post is to tell the world, if any body cares to read this,

We as Bengalis are extremely sorry to the nation to be a part in this shameful thing. I believe yes, industrialists are always running behind profits, and this and that , blah blah,

But we do know somewhere somewhere deep , we want development. All philosophy apart and leaving the romantics aside, we all take a small breath once in a while looking at others development. I am sorry , we are a bunch people who are slowly moving towards our deaths. A suicidal community, we criticize each other, we have crab mentality and cannot survive the success of others, we have only learned work place politics , we have only learned nepotism, we have only learned how to mock , jeer and look down upon others.

We are lazy and we are hopeless to the extent that we cannot justify by any amount of words. Today I sitting somewhere in Kolkata ,Somewhere near to the whole fiasco, friends, we have gone back 10 years all of a sudden.

Mamata Banerjee has pulled the trigger

Yes, the dead meat is hanging and we need to cut out pieces from it for a single dinner may be.

 

Who will understand me today ?

Who will cry with me today?

 

May be a small ray of hope died somewhere, somebody shouted, somebody writhed in pain. Some are happy, may be the competitors of Nano.

 

No one but the middle class, we the screws and bolts of daily life, We sit down today, take a small breath amidst the many we take , stuck in ruthless traffic, bustling crowded buses , in our run for the next empty auto and haggling with the rickshaw walla.  We take this small breath, a small heave, small death,

A small funeral .

 

Somebody has pulled the trigger, There exists a time machine and yes West Bengal today has stepped ten years back ,

Yes, we have  suddenly jumped ten years back when the world is progressing.

I say that , yes, lets not have industrialization which kill greenery , and kill innocents, but somewhere I too feel that in India, some of the lives are not living. They die every morning and remain dead throughout the dead

 

There is just too much usage and too less to give.

I pay my homage to my dreams that once thought , West Bengal will rise back to its dreamed future.

Yes Tatas are gone

I never thought that I will follow politics this actively.

Yes, when you are making money, when you are running behind your dreams, when you are outside West Bengal, you will never know that how a mass of idealists who turn mob mentality in politics of rather twisted values, don’t even know that time is of such importance and value.

They while away, they swindle with time.

They love, and romance and write poems and do agitations., Yes, all those are good, there are a number of Hollywood movies like Click, Mighty Evan and so many others  where they show how family is important,

But what about the average people who need to earn a proper living, how the youth is wasted idling on the rocks, how the middle ages are wasted running behind autos and buses .

How this state cries I don’t know, but even I today they don’t agitate and make move we are doomed for ever.

Every other year more Bengalis ( the more skilled and more talented ones are moving out of the state ) More and more people are losing their faith in the states growing frustrations. More boys will die elsewhere than live in this dead coop,

 

I am sure that there are some philosophers who might inetervene and say yes , Bengalis are a bunch of intellectuals and these deals like Tata all come and go. It is all the maya . There is no need to do back breaking work.

Nope, My friends that is the crap that holy saints can take and only they can survive it. Mere mortals like me and you need a concrete structure with a lot of blacks and whites, some greys  which we will never get the time to ponder

 

Bengal , we cry today.