Too often maxims and talismans handed down to us by great men of past become a straightjacket-used by the complacent bureaucratic order against freedom loving and thinking individuals.So that the very liberal and democratic(a deconstruction of the binary opposites implied is welcome) spirit of the maxim is reversed.
The same is the case with Bengal.Decades after decades of Tagore , Ray , Vivekananda worship have turned their teachings into cliches and deprived the people of any challenging spirit.Who said that you can't be a better poet than Tagore, or a better filmmaker than Ray?.And why treat the Naxalite movement as if it were the illegitimate love child of the whole of Bengal? Could it not have been communist adventurism? The whole growth of Bengal is stunted by such a decidedly demented mentality.
The same is the case with Bengal.Decades after decades of Tagore , Ray , Vivekananda worship have turned their teachings into cliches and deprived the people of any challenging spirit.Who said that you can't be a better poet than Tagore, or a better filmmaker than Ray?.And why treat the Naxalite movement as if it were the illegitimate love child of the whole of Bengal? Could it not have been communist adventurism? The whole growth of Bengal is stunted by such a decidedly demented mentality.
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