SINGUR
Submitted by Mrinal Bose on Wed, 2006-12-06 18:56.
Lit Body:
Singur is the great betrayal by a government of its people.
Singur is Marxism undone in one fell stroke.
Singur is unabashed corporate greed.
Singur is collaboration between agents of globalization and local government.
Singur is the great showdown between power and the people.
Singur is the underdog’s battle against sophisticated state machinery.
Singur is the police’s ultimate sadistic delight.
Singur is a mother’s moan over her son taken away by the police.
Singur is all wrongs and mistakes.
Singur is a burgeoning movement
Singur is history’s great denouement.
Singur is Buddhadeb’s trial and nemesis.
Notes: Singur, an obscure but agriculturally fertile area in Bengal in India, now hogs the limelight across the world. It is where a degenerated Marxist government forcibly takes away land – a vast expanse of 997 acres – from poor farmers, in the name of industrial development, to favour a deshi industrialist in setting up its small motor car project. Buddhadeb,in the poem, is the chief minister of Bengal. Once a firebrand Marxist, he now openly admits to being a capitalist, and gets, increasingly, under fire for his much-touted pro-reform and anti-poor policies.
As a citizen we just cannot
As a citizen we just cannot accept the double standard of our state government. As a poet you have reflected not only the exact scenario and situation of "Singur" but also helped our voice to reach higher against the barbaric aggression and human right violation under the name of industrial development.
"Singur is all wrongs and mistakes" - rightly said, without any doubt. we do not expect that things will change suddenly at a glance, as no one has a magic stick, but once a state machinery starts betrayal with it’s people, then it’s downfall starts - history of our civilization has a lot of examples.
SINGUR
The recent act of so called Marxist (W.B Govt.) at SINGUR makes me beleive as if it were the policies of a Coalition Govt. having the Common Minimum Program implemented from the policies of two parties; one believing in Capitalism and the other in Feudalism.
S Roy