RAPID RESPONSE : CHHATTISH GARH -TRAGEDY

IS DEMOCRACY BEING DEFEATED IN INDIA !

FOM JAMMU-KASHMIR TO CHHATTISH GARH TO MAHARASHTRA TO ANDRA TO M.P TO Bihar TO Orissa TO WEST BENGAL ,

THE FIRE AND FANGS OF TERRORISM / MAOISM , NAXALISM STAGING 'THE DANCE OF DEATH ' EVERY DAY AND NIGHT.. almost !

AND ,to Add more - INSULTS OR LIKE SALT TO THE WOUND,, MINISTERS COME OUT WITH SAD FACE AND ' GLYCERIN' FOR SCENIC HYPE , OVER-GUARDED By SECURITY FORCE s FROM ALL SIDEs AND SUPPORTERS TO ' CLAP' the EVENT, _ TO DECLARE Rs 2 LAKHs per Dead and then returns to safety for the Next Meeting to plan another IMPOTENT ACTION , While wounded and dying men / women overflows Hospitals.

That is the inevitable fate of a NATION where Civil Police force and Ill-equipped and ill trained CRPF are sent to face and fight modern Terrorism or Guerrilla WARFARE , more dangerous than even Vietnam Days.! On such scenario, I think , a GOVT , is as mush responsible , if not More , than the Maoist Guerrillas, for the tragic DEATH of all those Jaw ans.

AND while 'Winter of Discontent ' is spreading fast through the veins of NATION , Some Central Ministers are more 'content'with BCCI /IPL-sport and other 'Past-times ' for Diversion !

'WRITING ON THE WALL ' - Remain invisible , yet !

RAPID RESPONSE ( Latest Events )

A gentle man was passing by my side on Morning walk with the Times of India . Asked him --'-Sir, 26 of CRPF again killed by Maoist, in W. Bengal , like a sitting duck ! - what you think /

His reply was swift - 'PC of Cetral Home Ministry , I think , should Invite Maoists to give a 'Crash couurse training to CRPF for better result. ' ...and walked ahead .

' But what you think about water logging by monsoon -rain in Kolkata , last Night ? ' - I asked again.

He turned half-way and said - ' I think , - TMC of KMC should sue the Monsoon weather or Nature for brtaying their inefficiency so soon after such spectacular election -show.'....

I stood dumb in knee-deep ri-water and he vanished in next lane that lookied like a Canal !

TELEGRAPH dt. 29th March'10

GCRORES & CRORES OF Rupees Floating on KOLKATA's Rain-Flood and blocked drains.

Rs. 660 cries accounted for as 'Misc -expenditure' ........ Really Interesting ...finding ! "ELEMENTARY , - Watson Elementary " - thus said Sherlock Holmes

(Remember a Joke of my college -time friend who said - ' whenever I could pinch out some amount , I would make use of Misc, A/c.)

___________________________________________________________________The Show is on ! LF anf TMC on Killing Games again in Waste ,- sorry ! - West Bengal. And 26 CRPF Killed by Maoist.

'Mahabharat's War was for 18 days while West Bengal's Suicidal and ' inter-party friendly ' killing War is going on for years (? decades).

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'STRIKES' should be allowed as a Political 'Weapon' if Heavy rains threaten Kolkata life. Why not use political advantage from Naure or Monsoon . How it matters if good lucks prevails.

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STRIKES makes the Poor Class suffer? But where can ' We ' get cheaper comodity/ means?

RAPID RESPONSE ( INDIA )

ABUNDANT MONSOON WATER SUPPLY TO METROPOLITAN KOLKATA :

MONSOONS RULES THE CITY. LAKES ,RIVERS are now flowing through Kolkata .

Drains are like Pre-historic Antiques. Revert back to 'Boats and (then) you will have a good transport System.

Home-Delivery technology of Water Supply not only in your kitchen and baths but even unto your Bed-roms and court-yards.Great 21st century Gift of Monsoon for aspiring Kolkata .

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'Buddhi-jibis' and 'Shilpa-jibi-s' are silent for some long time !

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Even the L.F stalwart now mutters - ' Ma - Maati -O- Manushh ' Mantra.... It would be so good if ' Both' could do 'Handshakes' for the sake of ailing mother -west Bengal !.

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If there is more Monsoon Rain , why not Announce a ' Strike ' against Mother Nature !

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LESS THAN TWO HOURS' RAIIN IN KOLKATA AND ........

MONSOON SMILES AND RIVER CLIMBS ON KOLKATA ( INDIA)

LEFT FRONT ' S 34 YEARS AND NOW TMC TAKING OVER ! :

IF Monsoon Delays KOLkATA Burns ; If MONSOON COMES , KOLKATA IS DROWN ED.

MEMORABLE KOLKATA ! with two hours of Rain !

NOW TO BE HANDED OVER TO TMC afte long ...long of UP-KEEP BY LF.

Let Us SEE how things will SHAPE when MAMATA 'S TMC RULES !

PEOPLE will do better , if they buy rowing BOATS with OFFICE- LOAN instead of Going for CARS.

OR SHOULD NOT MONSOON BE Declared 'HOSTILE' -AGENT AND BANNED OFFICIALLY BY ORDINANCE !

OR , Let Us Announce a Lighning 'Strike / Bandh' to- morrow , as a 'PROTEST' .

MAGNIFIED

MODERN TIME IN WEST BENGAL :

After more than SIX Decades of Political 'Freedom' ,it has still a 'fragmented Identity i. ' West Bengal' while , the Greater Eastern half has chosen the name - BANG LA DE SH.. We boast of our culture so much in vain, when both Rabindranath and Jibanananda Das come from Eastern Part ( now Bangladesh) i,e from Jsssore and Barisal.

Now POLITICS of WEST BENGAL has Sub-divided Bengalis into -Buddhi-jibis,', Intellectualists, Vichakshan jibi-s, shilpa-jibis , Chitrasilpa -jibis, A-buddhi-jibis etc, etc, etc and lot more for political ascent / descent or 'Decorations'.

While majority of urban - Intellectual-jibi-s speaks a language with 60 - 40 mixed or ' KICHRI Bhasha' (which is neither Bengali nor English ) and observe Rabindra Jayanti as a Social Status ( Vidyasagar-s , Ram Mohan-s ,J,c Bose-s , Sarat Chandra-s are Cultural Out casts , because they did not write songs ).

Other notable jewels are Film Actors (Chala-Chitra-shilpa Jibis) and so many Metro Stations are named after them , while now the most Famous Bengali known all over the Globe and with ever lasting ( BOSON) contribution to the Field of Science , is not even mentioned as a 'Sera Bangali , because he was not a Film star or -a Chitra-shilpa jibi.

So FAR AND SO MUCH , -TODAY .

DEFORMITY

MODERN TIME IN WEST BENGAL :

Aftermore than SIX Decades of Political 'Freedom' ,it has stll a 'fragmented Identity i. ' West bengal' while , the Greater Eastern half has chosen the name - BANGLA DESH.. We boast of our culture so much in vain, when both Rabindranath and Jbananda Das comes from Eastern Part ( now Bangladesh) i,e from Jsssore and Barisal.

Now POLITICS of WEST BENGAL has Sub-divided Bengalis into i)' Buddhi-jibis ', Intellectualists, shilpa-jibis , Chitrasilpa -jibis, A-buddhi-jibis etc, etc, and lot more for political acsent / descent or 'Decorations'.

Wile majority of urban - Intellectual-jibis speaks a language with 60 - 40 mixed or ' KICHRI Bhasha' (which is neither Bengali nor English ) and observes Rabindra Jayanti as a Social Status ( Vidyasagars , Ram Mohan-s ,J,c Bose-s , Sarat Chandra-s are Cultural Out casts , because they did not write songs ).

Other notable jewels are Film Actors (Chala -Chitra-shilpa Jibis) and so many Metro Stations are named after them , while now the most Famous Bengali known all over the Globe and ever lasting ( BOSON) contribution to the Field of Science , is not even mentioned as a 'Sera Bangali , because he was not a Film star or -a Chitra-shilpa jibi.

So FAR AND SO MUCH , -TODAY .

RAPID RESPONSE

STRIKES' & ' BANDHS' :

WEST BENGAL SCENARIO :

Cheapest Political weapon to Raise an Issue (without Joint Approval at National Level ) & harass and Punish the Poor Class - the most . Even minimum period of 'Notice' often not respected .

Result - Gradual Alienation of ' Neutral Population ' . Frustration and Economic Sliding Back.

Peoples Response :( i) May avoid Polling Booth on VOTING DAY. (II ) Demand the right to register NEGATIVE Vote .

No Political Party ( In power or Outside) should have any right to make commoners (without private means of transport) suffer, or put them to difficulties or harass Public , unless the STRIKE /' Bandh ' is a major National Issue and decided by 'JOINT OPPOSITION''. for COMMON CAUSE.

STEP BY STEP - Weat Bengal Issue

The Municipal Corporation level of election Result is OUT. That shows the Trend not the final picture .

Trina Mool Congress has won the First round , no doubt, and hugely !

But for at least next six months or until next Assembly election (2011) , it has Time and must show that It can administer what It promised and even better, at Municipal level, as a new Ruling Power.

So , it should not claim to overthrow any system , greedily, by claiming an Early ELECTION, over-turning the normal procedure.

TMC of Mamata Banerjee has to prove its Administering capacity to replace the Geriatric and 'Termite -infested ' Left Front.

Better, - BOTH PARTIES SHOULD THINK AND TRY MORE FOR THE WELFARE OF WEST BENGAL THAN ( NOT MAKE IT 'WASTE' BENGAL ) ,TRYING TO WORK FOR THEIR OWN 'MUSCLE-BUILD-UP' .

FINAL ' FINISH " !

HUMAN 's EXIT FROM WORLD STAGE :

FENNER ' S FORECAST ( Source - T.O.I . Dt. 21, June ' 10 )

Frank Fenner the Australian Scientist ( Microbiologist) who eradicated Small Pox , from the face of the World now predicts the EXIT of Human beings on Earth, by another 100 years.

"Homo sapiens will become extinct, perhaps, by another 100 years '' Frank Fenner said " A lot of other animals will, too"
This is an 'Aftermath' -effect , - anrhropocene - i.e Post - Industrialisation phenomena..
"the Human species is likely to go away as many of he species that we have seen disappear "
Earlier Nicholas Boyle of Cambridge University predicted the DOOMS DAY by 2014..

Is the ATOMIC WAR or some - Nature's Final 'SLAP' Imminent ! ?

A TALE OF TWO PARTIES ( West Bengal)

Like an old and withering tree, Left Front in West Bengal lasted even until now and for 34 Record- breaking -Long ..ling years.

TMC,'s creditable advance and winning Spree is impressive and praise worthy. But TMC is still waiting to taste POWER (Until Election - 2011 ) . Hope , Mamata Banerjee will set up a Programme good enough to elevate / lift the the base of West Bengal's Poor People ( Please don't revert her to 'Waste' Bengal) and try to stay , at least for 15 years.

Otherwise, People will remember 'LEFT ' more than TMC , -in aftermath. That way LEFT's Staying Talent for Three Decades and more is worth keeping in mind.... TMC has a lot more to do , in future than winning ELECTION only.

And as always , - "old order change-th yielding place to new".

ENTER THE REAL WITNESS - (At last )

ARJUN SINGH Speaks , at last, on Bhopal Tragedy ( India ) and Aftermath :

' no locus stand ' - the Ex- C.M of M.P (India ) discloses.

It was like a ' Full Speech ', packed in a medicinal Capsule . Could not be more eloquoent or done smarter, in a position - so difficult ! ...... Touch it or handle - rough !... it may burst.

Now , it seems , ... someone Mr "X" and his Office , not even Anderson, is the real Responsible for this TRAGIC AFTERMATH of Bhopal Tragedy. Under this Specific ceircumsrances it needed Real Courage to ' Come out ' and open the ' Box '.

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After 'Buddhi-jibis', now new species of ' intellectuals' are sprouting on West Bengal soil on 'Media - Petri dish ' ( TV show on Channel on 20/06/10 ).

Interesting efforts , of getting Public- notice for Re-employment in' POLITICS' for ' honorary' posts' through Media-Foot-light-focus and are on rapid rise.

La MARTINIERE CASE OF SUICIDE

"ELEMENTARY WATSON,- ELIMETNTARY" - Sharlock Holmrs .

The Opinions do not fit the 'Frame'.

Teen- age Emotional storms/shocks are quick like 'spinal Reflex' and do not wait or Plan over four to five days . The Investigators should search and re=search elsewhere to find the Cause [ 'Rats and rats ' - Shakespeare ]

Common Sense is oftener - a rare sense too .The Investigators / detectives should scan intensely the period between the boys coming back 'Home' and committing 'Suicide' i.e those 4 to five days in-between. Look at the whole Picture under a Lens.

The 'Rat' may be hiding somewhere beyond the School .

Of course , the principal is guilty of caning the student. This is 21st Century and not Feudal Age and must accept his due. ...Would he accept a 'Re-turn Public Caning', even mild ?

IDENTITY - CRISIS !

After 16 years of living in USA and now coming back to Bharat (India ), with OCI , my confusion is multiplied :

Should I identify myself , now ( in konnagar,West Bengal), as a ''West- Bengali' , or a 'Bangali '[not Bangladesi , -I know that] ?

And , - on National level, am I a Bharatya or an Indian or a Hindustani ).

The other day, some innocent UN-educated gentleman sent a letter filling the Address-space with 'Waste Bengal' !

May be it was a short-coming or his mistake (- no fault) but I am suffering from some sort of Identity - Crisis too., -since .

ECONOMIC BLOCKADE ( Manipur)

Only in Indian Democracy, I think, it is possible to block National High Ways , the main connection to a remote small state (Manipur) for long two months (60 days or more) and paralyse the system of Democracy ,creating an impression of confused or helpless Central Govt unable to Maritain National and inter-state roadways - Safe and functioning.

NATIONAL HIGH WAYS BLOCKED for SIXTY DAYS ! - My GOSH ! ! And who is IN- CHARGE ?......... G.O K ( God only Knows ) or does HE ?

' POLITICAL SPEECH ! ! (- BHOPAL TRAGEDY)

91 years old Anderson with Alzheimer [ wife's statement ] and Politicians thinking in terms of EXTRADITION !......[In Politics and WAR half -Truth -s are often served as a full meal ].

'Forgive them oh Lord , - they don't know what they are talking about " - sounds like words of Jesus ( Bible ).

Is it not another play of 'Stalling' Tech i.e thinking, now, on the line of EXTRADITION of ANDERSON who is now beyond 91 years of age and may be suffering from Alzheimer .

So ! whom , now , 'they' are trying to get back through Extradition for TRIAL ? Is it for a 'good' cover up of past mistakes of involved Administration & Judiciary ?

HALF - TRUTH For GOOD ESCAPE -----(-BHOPAL STORY)

HALF TRUTH :

' It was Arjun Singh's decision to send Anderson out of Bhopal : Pranab ' - NDTV, Sunday, June 13 , Kolkata.

Clever Half -Truth ! --

OTHER HALF :

But who allowed Anderson to Escape ( out of India ) to! USA ) ?....... In the answer or finding lies the 'Other Half' of TRUTH '.

In POLITICS, - 'Half - Truth' is oftener served as a ' Full Meal '.

It is like" Asfhwatthama hata iti Gaja " [ Ashwastthama is dead (said loudly ) ...but it is the Horse( in low Voice) ] - as told by Yudhistthira in MAHABHARATA ] .

THUS IS THE 'CHESS GAME' OF POLITICS'. too !

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Post script : As political game show unfolded, - Arjun Singh CM of M.P was put up as Scape-goat to cover the promise of External Affairs given to Anderson of Union Carbide,

CLEVER GAME OF 'POLITICS'

FOR ANY BROAD SPECTRUM CRISIS :

Avoid or Evade Media exposure [1st week] --- Pass the ball to other's field [2 week's game] ----Enquiry committee/ Investigation Commission [4 to 8 Weeks ] --- HOUSE /Parliamentary Debate [ 8 to 10 weeks] -- over lapping Issues and Happenings for lucky dumping --- Coming Election or some other National Development ----------.

Average TIME Consumption = 6 Months.----------RESPITE !

RAPID RESPONSE

NEWS - INDIA : 12,June,'10 :

In The LARGEST DEMOCRACY of the WORLD ( by population index), The Teacher of a ' MINORITY SCHOOL " [La Martini ere, in West Bengal } can cane any student to the limit of inducing him to commit SUICIDE. The GOVT. Machinary is Helpless because the NATION is so DEMOCRATICALLY Built up !

IF YOU are in DELHI ( INDIA) and the son or daughter of Someone , very RICH and Politically Powerful, you can Drive your Mercedes , while drunk, and kill Mothers of any number of Chilfren on Street-side, adapting HIT and RUN technology . You are assured of Immediate Bail and can join your kin anywhere.

The CHIEF-MINISTER is there to take charge of ORPHANED Children. So much UP-DATED is the Administration , these days !

RAPID RESPONSE

LATEST SHOW ON INDIAN STAGE :

UNION CARBIDE Vs DIS -UNION - CONGRESS

CONGRESS PARTY STALWART , while in USA , exposes interesting scenario with terrific Suspense !

STONY SILENCE of Former CM From M.P' India .

Even Hitch Cock would would have loved the 'Script ' for his next Screening !

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GRAND GALA -OPENING :

HOME & DEFENSE on the BOXING FIELD against other , instead of fighting MAOISTS .

INDIAN PICTURE

Mamata won not because TMC was the ' BEST CHOICE' but because Left FRONT was the WORST FACE.

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DAVID HEADLEYs can pass through INDIA any number of times . INDIAN 'INTELLIGENCE'

will hardly find him. So EXTRADITION is the only 'FINAL CHOICE for INDIA.

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When ANDERSON of BHOPAL TRAGEDY was caught the 'ROYALS ' of INDIA planned for his Escape and even provided a Plane for 'Exit'...... Now he is in USA and on the End -side of LIFE, the GOVT. is vigorously demanding , his Extradition........What a show of efficiency, hipocracy and incompetence !

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Now even Biman Bose of CPM is baptised with the 'MANTRA' - Ma -' Maati - Maanush' !

What a speedy METAMORPHISIS ! !....'PPLITICS" is suitable Base for any GROWTH.

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For practice of MOLESTATION, Haryana seems to be the best center for practice . There are DGPs & IPs to guide you.

RAPID RESPONSE ( BHOPAL - TRAGEDY -II ) )

OF COURSE , - DEMOCRACY WORKS IN INDIA.

IF yoy don't believe , look at BHOPAL TRAGEDY. ....Big -Bang Tragrdy of GAS -Leak.... ? If you are Big ..Powerful and Rich and specially a 'sahib ' of ANDERSON - Stature, the whole machinery there, to help your ESCAPE.

A few days cries and tears and weeping after 20,ooo deaths........ a few years Political sympathy and Condolences ..... a decade or more of Legal Litigation.....Ministerial suupport , help and device to help your escape ... even minister's plane to fly out..... what more Hospitality one needs to prove the official Help and co urtesy of a Nation to a Foreigner !

And after 20.ooo dead and 20 years of judicial Waiting comfort , only 2 years of Jail-term for 20,ooo deaths with Escape Reward for the Respectable ' Foreign Head'.....

Now the Political ChessGame of Extradition Drama for another few years.

What a tragedy ! What a of Democratic Dance of Judicial Display ! ! What a Compensatory-RETURN to the 2o ,ooo DEAD and four times (approx) more of the family-members's sense of Loss and Deprivation ! !.

RAPID RESPONSE (Autonomous CBI ?)

SHAPE OF DE MOCRACY IN INDIA : HOW MUCH AUTONOMOUS IS C.B.I ?

'Govt forced CBI to let Carbide CEO off hook ' -The TIMES OF INDIA " -KOLKATA / Wednessday / June 9' 2010

'..the Investigating Agency was forced in 1994 by the Narashimha Rao Govt not to press for extradition of Warren Anderson, the fugitive CEO of Union Carbide..
"We (CBI) were forced by Ministry of external affairs officials not to follw Anderson's extradition" - T.O I , Kolkata, Dt. 9/june, '10
With the back Ground of such revelation, it is easy ,even for a child, to understand , how much 'Free' is CBI and more particularly , now, to believe the integrity and freedom of CBI in investigating the Rail Tragedy of Ganeshwaree Express in West Bengal , recently.

Is it the real shape of Democratic Process and infrastucture of Indian Democracy even now or we can expect something better?
And how the people should receive and react after such revelation ? Who should pay to compensate those lives - Union carbide or Central Govt responsible? ?

WEST BENGAL ? ?

IS IT A NAME ? OR A SLUR ?

Taking up the Larger FRAME , Mamata Banerjee should take up the issue of giving" WEST BENGAL" a more respectable name , particularly when so many "Buddhi - JIBI-s" are decorating her growing Canvas.

For more than six Decades after 1947, RABINDRANATH's place of Birth is still bearing such a colonial and distorted Name and this part of BANGLA is still enduring like a Leper's sore while, Bangla Desh proved a better standard and culture in her selection of naming the Land and also the National Song.

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The people at base level of this Bemgla (45% ?) should be looked after first , as a priority.

The frightened middle-class under' Mafia-threat-Psychae' should be removed through moral and cultural integration .

POST-ELECTION POLLUTION (KOLKATA)

(T.V NEWS -Ch 14)

The aftermath of Civic-Election In KOLKATA has been , now, the pollution effect of the Election- process itself i,e posters , flags. scattered leaflets , hoardings and other effects of POST-ELECTION left-out wastes on roads or other hang-outs, threatening the Civic-life itself by clogging and plugging the drains/ out-lets with the approaching Monsoon Rain.

The victims will be the people who voted for and the Offenders - the contesting members of all Parties.

Mamata Banerjee's first /immediate duty should be to see that the winners of each zone accepts the responsibility of clearing and cleaning up the mess of Election -Pollution and get down to the job first and fast before the rain comes and the roads and lanes are flooded due to blocking of drains or outlets with materials of Election efforts. and affecting the Health of aspiring Citizens.

ELECTION -AFTERMATH IN WEST BENGAL

THE TREND And SUMMING UP :

"Old order changeth , yeilding place to new"

Even a life or a train has to end or stop in the end.

The CPM took over the stage of WEST BENGAL IN 1977 and it is 2010 ,-now.. 34 years is a Full-term service life even in Human -life. That way it is a long, long and record-breaking Service. The Law of Entropy works in all spheres of living. Even the best Racing Horse has to give up some time, That way , I think, People have grown tired of C.P.M rule and prefer a change. and it happens to be T,M.C , a new Power Base to take up the Place,

It is one thing to overtake and win ( like a Storm) and another thing to win and sustain this victory for atleast a Decade. That way, a great Challenge is awaiting this young Winner, when she takes over, after winning the next election.

As a well-wisher of west Bengal that has suffered enough and for a long time, I pray that the next POWER -House for the welfare of the deprived and downtrodden and prove itself as a wellfare Machinary for long enough time. I think, Corruption & Mafia -spirit is the worst fear-complex, West Bengal people are suffering from

Any great victory for a short time will not help the suffering people. Nor a Egoistic agressive spirit will.

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RETURN ED to KNOW

Coming back to India after long stay out side , I find the dominating trend in West Bengal is Muscle- power, Group or crowd-strength, propaganda and' Fear is the Key '-technique . The upper layer leaders has developed the Street- Fight-Technology, abusive language and verbal acusation and threat and slang-culture and thus pushing the mild and peace-loveing and isolated /seperated middle class to a corner. The second and other layers of followers are happily following and copying their leaders vocabulary and spreading them through Media and and nerve-wrecking 'Loud-speaker' System of Modern Time without caring for the helpless old and handicapped section of the society , You come out and plead, - only to see your house burnt or be treated roughly.

This is the present West Bengal, a name that is even now the colonial stigma ( ask Buddhijibi-s) while Real Bengal is now' Bangla Desh' with its National song Sonar Bangla and her National Language "Bangla' respected even at U.N.O.

IT REMINDS OF THE STORY TOLD BY SWAMI VEVEKANANDA IN CHICAGO (1893) ABOUT THE FROG IN THE WELL.

Once it was "What bengal thinks to day, India thiks to-morrow" -Tilak;

Now ! --' what West(?Waste) Bengal does to day , India will lament for to morrow"- HGT

RAPID RESPONSE

DEMOCRATIC NORMS Vs DEMOCRACY

In DEMOCRACY, if we have to prove or practice it with Sreet-Fights,, Bombs , knives, guns or under police -fencing to hold an Election, I don't known if the system can claim Ideal Democracy.

If the Political Leaders of National levels do not know what to say , what not to say and when not to say to flare up issues , how such politicians can claim Leadership at National level or claim the quality of Leadership of the Country as a whole !.

The Strength and Quality of DEMOCRACY is not measured by the Size or Numer or Slogans they can shout out in public but by the quality and acceptibility by the people of all level stimulating National Integration and involvement.

It would be better and ideal, I think, if India had a ,reformed, Parliamentary Democracy with a nationally Elected Prime Minister with clear and strong Mandate from people to represent the whole Nation , as a Leader, instead of being nominated by the Party alone.

All these thoughts stired me up after observing the very recent Civic Election in West Bengal on 30th May and the aftermath for last two days [, so fresh! }.