Yippie!!! Kolkatans, completely fed up with the Bandh, came out onto the streets today and went on with life as usual. For the few "Bheetu" people, thank you for being such losers. The streets were rid of you slow coaches and traffic moved effortlessly. I'm even more proud of the shop keepers, who are usually mostly affected and bear the brunt of the political madness of uneducated cadres (read "goons") of the political parties. They came out and opened their shops and it was business as usual.
Yes yesterday I was condemning the bandh. That doesn't mean that I'm not open to the sentiments of the people of Singur. The Government of West Bengal has taken a stand and made a commitment to it's people of industrializing the state and also to Corporate India of sticking by their commitment. If there is dissent, politicians should debate it at the assembly, not vandalize the place, or then damage the beautiful Maidan with millions of party workers on joyrides into the city, disrupting life here.
Anyway I don't want to get all political and all. All I want is that Bengal has the intellectual capital to spearhead a revolution of sorts, economically speaking.
So, thank you Kolkata for showing solidarity towards having a healthy working culture.
Yes yesterday I was condemning the bandh. That doesn't mean that I'm not open to the sentiments of the people of Singur. The Government of West Bengal has taken a stand and made a commitment to it's people of industrializing the state and also to Corporate India of sticking by their commitment. If there is dissent, politicians should debate it at the assembly, not vandalize the place, or then damage the beautiful Maidan with millions of party workers on joyrides into the city, disrupting life here.
Anyway I don't want to get all political and all. All I want is that Bengal has the intellectual capital to spearhead a revolution of sorts, economically speaking.
So, thank you Kolkata for showing solidarity towards having a healthy working culture.
Bandh in kolkata is the sole reason, that the young generation of kolkata are being exploited in work, if they manage to land any work at all. No one loves to stay away from home to work day and night only to get just a decent living. It is time that the whole wheel turning for more than last two decades is reversed, and some new industries are set up in west bengal. Just think the position of bengal due to bandhs. Today the state has to sanction acres of fertile land to set up industry, when bengal does has its share of uncultivable land. So from my heart I DO Oppose bandhs at every whim of some political people.
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