West Bengal is an Indian state in the eastern part of the country, and the only one in India with an incumbent woman Chief Minister — Mamata Banerjee.
The region, which was the political heart of the Bengal Presidency during British Rule, was divided into East and West Bengal in 1947. Bengal was a hotbed of the Indian Independence movement and has remained one of the country’s great artistic and intellectual centres, being home to Nobel laureates Rabindranath Tagore, Mother Teresa, Amartya Sen and Abhijit Banerjee as well as freedom fighter Subhash Chandra Bose and Oscar winner Satyajit Ray.
Geographically, the state is happily situated with the Himalayas in the north and the Sundarbans in the south. It shares a roughly 2,200-sqkm border with Bangladesh (East Bengal at the time of Partition).
For the first 30 years, the Congress ruled Bengal, but made way for Left domination for the next 34 years. In 2011, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress — a breakaway from the Congress — came to power.
Don’t call it secularism. It’s pseudo-secularism.
And no ine in rhe right mind will consider Mamta Banerjee, who asked girls to not go out after dark, as a liberal.
Interesting.
So the only criteria for “respect” for any leader is to be able to defeat modi. The rampant corruption, the steep decline in Bengal’s potential, the dead secularism for which mamata’s appeasement is also responsible, the political violence TMC goondas unleash, all of this is fine. Just defeat BJP.
In your hate for the BJP, the “liberal” class seems to blind to what is being done to Bengal.
Mamata is the most intolerant leader in the current group of CMs.
But hey she defeated modi, right? So chill out.
Absolutely abhorring and disgusting. Glad this “liberal” class is relegated to where it belongs. Oblivion.
Indian liberals ‘respect’ Mamata because they hate Modi. What is the diffrence between CPM’s Bengal vs Mamata’s Bengal ? She with her grit and fighting spirit just co-opeted the CPM people and changed their ‘label’. Inside there’s no change, hence Bengal is still rotting
Wondeful article.Kudos…