Nandigram.....My placid feelings.

Funny that Iskinder Mirza the trampled to death president of Pakistan had made the statement: "Democracy without education is hypocracy without limitation." Somehow this statement has taunted my sensibilities quite often. When I think of this, alongside vacillates another original quote from the deceased Mr Clean Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. He said we may have literates but not enough educated.
How ironically these statements applies to certain section of people. Particularly of Bengal, who loves to be political for the heck of it. Every Mashima, kakababu, Laltu and Jyotsna consider themselves qualified enough to use expletives against their choicest political leader.
Aristotle Rousseu Voltaire or even Marx or Lenin may turn in their graves if their wandering spirits get caught in the storm raised by these people,over tea cups!
I have often wondered about my political inclination towards the left.....other than my elective of political science, I consider myself pretty ignorant to talk about 'ISMS'. However after analysing the principles and doctrines the political parties in India follows, I kind of decided to cast my vote to those who took up the cause affecting the exploited people.
In my formative years when I visited my maternal relatives in the then Calcutta, I use to feel sad that a city of such grandoise was declining toward decadence.....I silently heard the Calcuttan relatives hurling abuse toward the legendery politico duo Promod Dasgupta and the then CM Mr Jyoti Basu. I tried more and more to find out about them.
Its at that juncture. I came to know how news are made and sold!! It saddened me a lot to know that scribes who are exponent of the proverb 'pen is mightier than sword' caboodled the herd mentality populace, who read whatever was fed to them. Freedom of press was nothing but a misused medium.
The so called public swallowed what was served them on a platter...........(this tradition is still continuing)
The most recent case is this burning Nandigram. Suddenly a section of the society woke up to the atrocities of the ruling party, which begun almost a year ago.
Everyone is desecrating the soft spoken suave CM, whose emotions are conspicuously known to be above his politics. The All India press calls him 'Bhadrolok' for nothing.
If he is the perpetrater of the heinous crime, how many are aware of the initiator? Everyone is suppossedly equal in the eyes of law........but here the lawmaker is non other than the jaundiced press. So CPM and Budhdho Babu is receiving the flak. My question to all those intellectuals who are enlightening the mass with their provocative opinions, have they personally visited the gory fields of Nandigram to enquire the root cause of their predicament?
Its often said no one is indispensible.........but right now I am sure Budhdhodeb is missing the Chanakya of his team. Had the cool and composed Mr Anil Biswas been alive, Nandigram would never ever had become a political pawn. My heart goes out to the poor poor victims who helplessly got ensnared in a political mesh. What has happened cannot be undone. Buddhodeb has a mammoth task of scouring the blood stains on his spotless white 'Dhuti Punjabi'....
But most importantly the troubled people of Nandigram would replay the lines for the coming days...........''Aadim hingosro manobothar aami jodi keu hoi,
sojon harano chithaye aami tader tulboi''.

My silent tribute to the sufferers.