AaNdharbela--written by Mrs Suchitra Bhattacharya
Published in Sharodiya Ananda Bazar Patrika.
firstly kudis to Suchitra Bhattacharya for being able to pen down the most turbulent time of Bengal politics in recent times....the Singur-Nandigram massacare...though the places and the characters are all changes yet the connection can be made without any effort.
The story revolves around an elderly man, Prabhash who has an ancestral land in Ruudrapur....thing take unexpected ( or expected??) turn when a foreign business man ...some Sakura comes up with a car-plant proposal...and huge land in and aroung Rudrapur needs to be acquired. The government's turning a deaf ear, its pro-active acquisition and tourture...the present political scenario of the ctate, the sharp polarization, disillushionment of the intellectuals with the so called communists....all these come as it had actually happened.
Suchitra touched politics without being political. Nowhere she can be accused of dogmatism...well some people may find her work a bit disturbing because she by far represented the voice of common man. The characters...those characters who are not associated with political organisations.....react in the way the general people reacted.
She has tried to maintain a distance so that she may not be regarded a spokesperson of a particular political organization....the problem with this state lies in this malicious tendency...either with "us" or with "them" and thanks to the Chief Minister this split is clearer than ever. people surrounding Prabhash are divided, his son...a college lecturer...and a smart and trendy 'communist' is in favour of giving up the land...he has no sentiment for the landless farmers who earn working on their land....roblem is he is the owner and he is settled in the city with hardly any attachment to ta rural life....he fails to understand the sentiments of the farmers...but what complicates the situation is his "communism"...which claims to establish his pro-poor legacy while at heart is is nothing but an outright rightist. He lobbies for the investors...investment is necessary but not at the cost of lives of poor people...but for the people like Ayan....the city bred brand-conscious communists...what the CPM government declares is comminism....these people have known to love CPM because it breeds jobs and other earning oppurtunities in return.
The inhuman, illegal misrule of the Left Front is lablasted at.
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