It disturbs me immensely when
people tend to go back to history and try to dig out the cause rather than
channelizing their collective intellects in focusing on the effect. This
perhaps reflects nothing but an underlying perverted intention of justifying
the wrong. Today, what is important for all of us is to stress on the urgent
need of putting an end to the terrible wrong that is going on in Bengal. The
changing character and present scenario of politics in West Bengal has reached
to an alarming level. It’s really shocking to see fountain pens are being
replaced by Javelins. If things like this continue, many of us would lose the
respect that once we used to have for our glorious past students and youth
movements. This may be a high time to come together to disassociate the
students movement from our constantly deteriorating mainstream politics. However,
it would be foolish to hope for an immediate change knowing how things work and
spark in Bengal. “An eye for an eye will make the whole world go blind” – I’m
afraid today that Bengal doesn’t turns out to be the living example of what MG
had once warned.
