Kaveree Bamzai

It was Dr Shyama Prasad Mukherjee, who opposed the formula of “Sovereign united Bengal” otherwise; the Bengal would not be divided. Dr. Mukherjee was a Brahmin only thought to live mostly with Brahmins as such he thought to form a “Hindu Home Land” centering Calcutta forgetting the non-Brahmin Hindus of East Bengal. If he could take lessons from Abraham Lincoln he would not oppose Suhrawardy rather he would try to win over him to form a United Bengal like that of the USA. Dr. Mukherjee neither could form a Hindu-Home- Land nor a West Bengal free from Muslims. He had realized later how he was cheated by Nehru, Gandhi, and President Kripanali but in the end, he left Bengal and died in Kashmir. But he will live as a destroyer of Bengal for all the time in the minds of Hindus of East Bengal. Our respected Tathagata Roy might be a supporter of Hindus or RS or BJP but he could not be accepted as sharp intellectuals for the betterment of Bengal and East Bengal Hindus.

I think it’s abhorrent that the so called reporter (and her/his US based hard left and/or “Capito Commie” pseudo intellectual(s) are a permanent breed of anti Hindu bigots. (and. that too, in India where majority of citizens are Hindus.) The fact of the matter is- In Bangladesh which couldn’t have been free without India’s intervention in the last phase of it’s war of liberation (before 3 million civilians were killed and 250,000 women were raped – disproportionate number of Hindus among them- by the then West Pakistani army) there have been ongoing ethno-religious cleansing , crimes against minority girls and women, mass demolition places of worship, unprecedented & wide scale ‘land grab’ and, millions of internal & external displacement since 1970. As things got much worse since October 2001 – it’s noteworthy that, it’s only the courageous, conscientious and real journalists who spoke truth to power there are Muslims whereas, absolute hypocrisy reigned among most Indian English language journalists and pesudo-intellectuals who are either, too afraid to chronicle such history of crimes against humanity or, are unable to speak out to please the western media and, get plaudits from the movers and shakers of the two Abrahamic religions. . Shame on these guys and girls’ except in so far as it is abundantly clear that’s the only way they can make a living (and prosper.)

I think it’s abhorrent that the so called reporter (and her/his US based hard left and/or “Capito Commie” pseudo intellectual(s) are a permanent breed of anti Hindu bigots. (and. that too, in India where majority of citizens are Hindus.) The fact of the matter is- In Bangladesh which couldn’t have been free without India’s intervention in the last phase of it’s war of liberation (before 3 million civilians were killed and 250,000 women were raped – disproportionate number of Hindus among them- by the then West Pakistani army) there have been ongoing ethno-religious cleansing , crimes against minority girls and women, mass demolition places of worship, unprecedented & wide scale ‘land grab’ and, millions of internal & external displacement since 1970. As things got much worse since October 2001 – it’s note worthy that, it’s only the courageous, conscientious and real journalists who spoke truth to power there, are Muslims whereas, absolute hypocrisy reigned among most Indian English language journalists and pesudo-intellectuals who are either, too afraid to chronicle such history of crimes against humanity or, are unable to speak out to please the western media and, get plaudits from the movers and shakers of the two Abrahamic religions. . Shame on these guys and girls’ except in so far as it is abundantly clear that’s the only way they can make a living (and prosper.)

Though certainly, one cannot subscribe to the view of Governor. But in my view, what he is advocating, is to have a homeostatic system where if repression is done in the name of caste, religious or ethnic divide then it must be responded in that manner. Certainly, subcontinent as a whole has suffered enormously from the Muslim invasion and then from British Raj , which is etched in the memory of India so deep that any talk of appeasement exhumes the very scar. In the guise of pluralism, apparently one cannot go on hurting the sentiment of the majority. Though such check and balances should be done through laws, but what if laws are inept to deal with certain situations. Thus the deep sentiment of history needs to be looked before completely blaming the person. As a nation, we have sailed through a lot of pain and surely we will sail through fundamentalism, terrorism and intolerance growing in the society at large.