The Capitalists in West BengAL

A careful study of the Singur land incident depicts a scenario which has been documented very beautifully in John Steinbecks novel The Grapes of Wrath where huge multinational entities drove thousands of people from their lands which was up for sale at throwaway prices for the benefit of these ivory tower filthy capitalists. Millions of unskilled,cheap labour flocked over to California in search of jobs just to be employed as slaves or worse than that in abominable conditions of human rights. Often working for more than 16hrs a day resembling a Roman slave camp.This is exactly what is happening to WestBengal where this coterie of politicians,intellectuals and businessman have started practicing that they would have never dared to do if the common man on the street had not been so naive, so ignorant.Today in the name of development 45000acres of farm land that was the unshakable foundation of prosperity in the agarian Bengal is being sold to the Tata's and Birla's in the hope that Tata's and Birla's will trasform all our miseries into a world of endless Utopia.What great men through ages cannot do, these people are going to accomplish them in a few years.A state of crores of intellectuals of whom Bal Gangadar Tilak once said "What Bengal thinks today,India thinks tomorrow" has been held to ransom by a few rich Marwari baniya's and politicians who sit in their air-conditioned chambers quoting statistics from World Bank reports profess that they are doing a miracle while the whole human civilisation collapses as a social gangene in its own vices of greed, rust and orthodoxy.What is going to happen to those millions of landless labourers .Those small farmers who will be deprived of all sources of income once their land is sold to the tata's .A million of them will survive on the breads and crumbs thrown to them by working in menial jobs like pulling rickshaws and other menial jobs that does never garranty twice a meal a day. ARTICLE BY : - ANIRBAN BASU