Violence Vs Violence

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.