Article heading: Muslim takeover of West Bengal.
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The subject is well known to anybody with half a brain living in or near West Bengal, India.
There is a near silence on any public dialog on this topic, for multiple reasons – heavy censoring by the local Government and media, to collective myopia of the false liberal non-Muslim “bhadralok” clan that prefers to use secularism as an excuse to sidestep an existential demographic crisis in the making.
The topic is well known, and the servant class non-bhadralok clan appears to be getting increasingly agitated and determined to bring in BJP to deal with it. No matter what other faults BJP might have, the general perception is that it is the only party in India that is willing to look the problem in the eye and grab the bull by the horn.
As to BJP being right wing, or fascist, or various other adjectives of being a political thug, the whole thing reminds me of why Joseph Stalin three generations after his death, has suddenly become the most popular political icon in today’s non-soviet capitalist Russia.
The outside world shows incredulity at the strange development where such a cruel megalomaniac as Stalin, that killed millions of its own people, could ever be considered a hero by descendants of the people under a modern, non-authoritarian, democratic government. But it has happened, and according to me, the reason is a perception of a looming external existential threat that Russians feel today, thanks to western war mongering.
This is no more an issue of communism versus capitalism, or freedom versus lack of it. This is a realization among Russians that the west in general, and USA in particular, just would not leave Russia alone, no matter what Russia does.
And Russians have an enormous love for their motherland. Unlike the US, Russia is not a nation of immigrants. Their sense of belonging to their motherland go deep, and they are usually willing to face unbelievable levels of hardship to safeguard their nation.
But, desperate times need desperate solutions. Stalin, with all his faults, had qualities that saved Russia from Hitler.
Communism was considered an ideological enemy of the free world. The free world, lead by the US, did everything possible to curtail its spread. Here of course a few terminologies have been mixed up. Communism did not theoretically means lack of “freedom” or un-free. And capitalism did not actually mean “freedom”. Communism and capitalism were two different economic and social systems, not necessarily linked with either freedom or lack of it.
However, a peculiar and perhaps regrettable development in Russia linked communism with totalitarianism, or lack of freedom, with heavy persecution of dissent, mainly under Stalin. Therefore, Stalinism became a synonym for communism.
Anyhow, the other side of the story is – Russia became communist under seriously trying conditions, thanks to two devastating world wars. In both wars, Russia wanted no part in it, but nonetheless got invaded both times by the so called capitalist “free world”. It nearly ruined and permanently maimed the nation.
It took someone of the mettle of Stalin, with all his cruelty, to hold the nation together, resist disintegration, refusing to surrender to incomparably a greater military power of Germany at the start of the second world war.
Stalin eventually beat the undefeatable Hitler almost single handedly, while the rest of the “free world” was more or less sucking its thumb and waiting for Hitlet to be bled to near death by Stalin, before deciding to get involved and open a second front, and then claim to have saved the world.
Fast forward to today. although communism is gone, Putin is here. And the US wants what Russia has – its vast resources. Putin does not wish to hand it over. Therefore, Russia, even without communism, has become the new enemy of the west, simply because it refuses to be dictated and ruled by western corporate interests.
Further, after the transition to free economy, Russia’s military might took a nosedive and the nation took a long time to steady itself, cutting military budget substantially. So the US conveniently broke all its soviet-era promise of nuclear parity and started weaponizing everything with new zeal. The thinking is – Russia cannot afford to catch up or match up. So, by increasing military threat to Russia, Russia will be forced to either capitulate to US interests, or go bankrupt it trying to protect itself.
US started pulling Eastern Europe into a new look NATO, which created the myth of Russia, communist or not, to be a global threat. Therefore, entire Eastern Europe is to be weaponized, targeting the Russian heartland. This costs a lot of money that means a lot of profit for the US war machine.
Russia is facing a new existential crisis. And in such dire situations, Russians are rallying behind their nation. They remember that Stalin had saved Russia from unbelievable adversities. It may need someone like him, again, to save it from the current global attack. Like I said, desperate times need desperate solutions.
Back to West Bengal and the bhadralok clan, who are diametrically opposite of the Russian man and are not willing to take any hardship at all, to safeguard anything. They are not even ready to acknowledge that they run the serious threat of becoming a minority in their own land, and forced to leave or convert.
The new genera don’t even speak Bengali at home except slang Bengali. They stopped reading, writing or composing in Bengali and the only songs they know are Hindi Bollywood songs. At best, they are a poor caricature of whatever being a Bengali was supposed to mean. They are singularly averse to hard work and avoid looking uncomfortable truths in the eye. They’d prefer to call a spade a rosogolla.
Meanwhile, many of the non-bhadralok clan, or the people in the lower rung, the servant class, those that have to work hard for a living – are waking up and showing more signs of life. They display an ability to think things through and call a spade a spade. BJP, perhaps loosely comparable to storing man Putin or cruel dictator Stalin, is the only party that can save the land in this desperate times, by grabbing the bull by the horn.
The bull itself is related to incursion of illegal immigrants, a vast majority of whom are suspected to be Muslims from Bangladesh of the wrong kind – i.e. the non-secular kind, who wish to turn this region into another islamic nation following islamic way of life as the only tolerated way by which anyone is allowed to live. A lot of that drive comes from Islamic schools being funded by overseas sources in the Middle East. The whole thing is a rats nest.
The reason I post this is not so much to convince the Bengali bhadralok. There is no point in convincing someone who is paralyzed and incapable of action either way.
Neither do I want to ask anybody to read the attached article, which I got from a friend. The reason is to taunt the so called “bhadralok” Bengali intelligentsia, for whom I have developed a serious distaste. That distaste has been rising incrementally for the last forty years or so, ever since I became an adult and had to deal with adult Bengali bhadralok in my line of work or interactions. Its not because of their convoluted view of secularism, but their lack of humanity, aversion to hard work, propensity to argue the hell out of anything, extreme myopia, and false assumption of being cultured, and, the most vexing, is their unwillingness to deal with adversities. They display the mental strength of a vegetable.
Initially I thought only the Rabindrik ones, i.e. growing up in Santiniketan that claim to like Tagore literature and music, were the worst kind. But I have since changed my mind, being myself influenced by much of Tagore’s writings and beginning to understand why and how he became increasingly radical and disenchanted with his fellow Bengali bhadralok clan as he grew older. I realized what I see in Santiniketan is in fact a reflection of the average Bengali – the same big headedness, same lack of spine, same aversion to constructive hard work, same fear of speaking out against injustice.
Many of these traits are common to many others in India as well as outside, but being Bengali by birth myself, and having had close exchanges with so many of my kind for so long over the years, I have a hardened view of the people here, of which Tagore himself had written sarcastically often enough in his poetry, as well as seriously in his essays and letters. Describing the typical, work-averse Bengali in a sarcastic poem, he added the line – “ইহার চেয়ে হতেম যদি আরব বেদুয়িন ” – meaning “wish I was born an Arab Beduine, instead of a Bengali gentleman”.
Being a believer of humanism and promoter of hope, Tagore never gave up efforts to lead by example for the people and get them engaged in constructive socio-economic activity and progressive endeavours towards betterment of the nation, but perhaps he realized he was fighting a losing battle and got bitter and dejected in his later years.
Anyhow, I do not expect the bhadralok to respond here. It is not in their DNA to react. They’d rather be a tortoise.
I write because I am a human. I have views and opinions, and wish to keep thoughts that I find relevant to be recorded. I may not be around for long, but time will tell if I was right in my guess – this is the end phase of Bengaliana.
Most of the spineless bhadraloks of Bengal will tip toe or side step around this topic. At best they will locate arguments why my notion is wrong, why the population demography of Bengal is not changing and there is no real threat of Hindu’s becoming a minority in a province that was separated from its eastern half in order to keep the hindu majority portion hindu and the muslim majority section muslim.
Islamization of West Bengal and a near future when non-Muslims will be minority and unwanted in the province, possibly forced to leave or convert – is a reality and not a mirage.
Sidestepping these questions is what I expect the liberals bhadralok to do. This is what defines the Bengali intelligentsia, who I hold in low esteem due to spinelessness and myopia.
I actually find my maid servant, and other lower class people, including a section of the muslims in Kolkata in agreement with me – those secular minded muslims who are themselves shit scared of the religious diktat that comes down from their own community elders, and some of who, at least so they say, are thinking of secretly voting for BJP this time. Why? because, they claim in a low voice, they ran away from rural Bangladesh because they wished to get away from too much Islamism. They are afraid to raise voice, but they are willing to vote against parties that continue to support illegal immigration into this sliver of land. All these non-bhadralok people, both Hindu and Muslim show more humanism, ability to think and speak their mind nationally, and a willingness to deal with an emergency, than the spineless and hamstrung bhadralok clan.
Well — I got that out of my system. Now, back to pictures of birds from Bharatpur, and my write up to a few officials about pesticide poisoning of wildlife, as well as other related things.
