Begal and India

They say Bengal is poverty-stricken and curse the comrades’ rule. But why don’t they talk about Manmohan’s India where poverty and hunger are rising? How does the irony of dismal agricultural growth in the India of neo-liberals escape their attention? Those celebrating the ouster of the Communists in Bengal are casually blind to the murder of the egalitarian dream; the rape of fertile lands through sezs; the murder of livelihoods and rape of indigenous systems; and the murder of, to quote Vandana Shiva, food democracy across India. Give Manmohan a free hand; he won’t take 34 long years to destroy India.

By Viswanath V
Published: Outlook