Our Chief Minister of state. Despite mistakes can't help admiring her simplicity and plainness of living standards. She epitomizes the mindset of many simple motherly hardworking women of our poor state.
We die to welcome in urbanization with the Ratan Tatas and the Nano car but what we don't realize turning our rural brothers and sisters into cheap labor for mass produced tinshell contraptions not worth the money spent or the pollution of our already overclogged roads will ultimately bring about our economy's collapse.
Pushing the green belt further away from city limits increasing the urbanized sectors setting up special economic zones and behemoths of super malls and movie theatres...
What good will it do to you when the cost of food skyrockets and you cant afford EVEN the hybrid GM fruits and veggies you eat?
Congratulations to the cobbler who could afford the nominally priced Nano and commiserations to an entire generation of free holding farmers who lost their independent livelihoods and evergreen lives.
While a behemoth industrial machine quietly swallowed a 1200 crore rupees loss with ease locked up the factory built on lands bought at laughable prices from the poor and oppressed under the previous corrupt government
(often under threat, by local political big wigs), and decided to punish the non cooperation by building the same factory in another richer state where political conditions are entirely different.
As if the bloodbath of Singur was not punishment enough for those rural folks who had already been coerced into selling their ancestral lands.
Laugh at her if you like she has a finger on the pulse of the poorest of poor and one day the not so rich but comfortably off will realize that industrialization at the cost of environment isn't a blessing but a short lived gain...
Wishes of Shubh Bijoyadashami from a quaint lady with her own peculiar charm, someone who can only happen in West Bengal. And I say it quite fondly.
(c) Amrita Valan 2015
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