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.
A watered down report on the riots that attempts to portray both communities as equal victims.
Everyone knows what transpired in Jafrabad.
Islamist radicals, under the patronage of Mamata Banerjee administration, were let loose on innocent Hindus. The Bengal government, especially the police force, worked in tandem with the Muslim fundamentalists and targeted Hindu homes and businesses.
Mr. Roy Barman, dyed-in-the-wool “secular” journalist that he is, obviously tries to paint a picture where both communities are equal victims. Also, he tries to convince us that the Muslim youth of the nearby localities are actually innocent.