West Bengal: A litany of Farce

Friends, let me share a very interesting observation I recently made while watching a Wild Life documentary.

Scene I:

 A Water source is on the view perhaps the only one in the jungle. A small ambush of Leopards is approaching. Their target is a large group of deer drinking water oblivious of the impending danger about to befall them. At a distance a tribe of wild angry buffaloes defiantly holding on to their place, snorting ready to take on the predators.

A few hyenas from a safe distance awaiting their turn to decamp with the kill, no matter who dies, while a crocodile—only eyes visible on the surface of the water—feigning indifference is taking stalk of the situation, thinking whose fate the Devil might give a slip to and bring to its jaws.

Scene II:

However at a great distance from the roof of a ruined fort in the jungle itself a chatter of Monkeys is greatly concerned. They are not in the fray to kill, nor protect their territory, or run off with the booty, if any.

Yet they all are intensely vocal. In fact all of them are given to various antics—making horrible faces, honking peculiar sound, flexing muscle, thumping on the chest, somersaulting creating quite a scene as you might say....!!! 

Seems grossly out of Context?

Scene III:

The situation in West Bengal to a great extent runs a close analogy to what is described above.

And what a handful of people is doing is no less than that of the primates...Staging protest, raising slogans, crying hoarse in the name of Bengal revival, knowing very well that none of such tactics is going to bear fruit, if not, least affect the destructive process that is going on in the guise of development in which The common Bengali has little to play or expect.

What is going on is appeasement of foreigners (that walks the earth in the name of Gorkhas) and Hindi speaking Savage outsiders, who are sucking Bengal of its Life and glory until Bengal dissolves into the dark oblivion of Hindi primitiveness and savagery.

If we get into a little soul searching we might even as well find ourselves in some way or the other standing in league with the beasts described above.