West Bengal and The Reign of Present Violence
by People of this region, presently, seem to have learned to live with violence of any form. One will hardly find a day in the calendar when, just in West Bengal, one house is not burnt or one person is not turned into an orthopedic patient or even one person is not killed.
West Bengal and the Reign of Present Violence
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We have been perturbed by the spate of violence almost everywhere in our blue planet. Pakistan has been bleeding and Afghanistan is not different. Indian people have not been spared. Violence may display its ugly teeth any day anywhere in the Indian subcontinent, anywhere from the Kashmir valley to the Coromondal coast, or from the north eastern mountainous settlements of Assam and Manipur to the tribal belt of Chhattisgarh or the Junglemahal of West Bengal. Let us study the state of West Bengal.
People of this region, presently, seem to have learned to live with violence of any form. One will hardly find a day in the calendar when, just in West Bengal, one house is not burnt or one person is not turned into an orthopedic patient or even one person is not killed. Major political forces have developed their own militia and those elements have been heavily armed, armed with local, national and international weapons. The militia is controlled by the political parties, constitutional or underground. Some political parties have secret relation with some miscreants and persons with criminal background who take part in the violent operations as and when instructed.
West Bengal is mainly a plain land with an exception of the Darjeeling hills in the north and some area of undulating land in the west. The land is mostly green and the Sunderban delta lies to the south touching the Bay of Bengal. People are generally soft-spoken and basically peace-loving. This is the region of India where legendary figures of the stature of Atish Dipamkar, Chaitanya Nemai, Raja Rammohan Roy, Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, Jagadishchandra Bose and Satyajit Ray have emerged. ‘Charyapad’ is the first poem from the soil and Jibananda Dash is the last great poet. Violence has never been worshipped by the people of this region.
People active in the arena of the Bengal politics should stop at some point and decide to think whither all have determined to move. Violence cannot be the desired tools. It is time give up violence and give up violence for good. It is really painful to experience that children of Bengal are being converted into hardcore murderers although they have parents, wives and kids too.
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