Friday, February 19, 2010
Basu
Just someone's memory of Basu "The other thing I recall vividly is violence, the blood curdling violence his goons would unleash at the slightest pretext, in the hallowed tradition of Stalin and Mao and Pol Pot. I remember in 1982, 17 Anand Margis (including a nun) were battered to death by his goons in broad daylight. There was blood on the streets. I saw the blood. We also know how his goons cracked Mamata Banerjee’s skull when she led a procession against his misrule. The deputy commissioner of police in the Port area (Mehta) was hacked to death by smugglers led by one Idris Mian in Kidderpore, and they were shielded by Kalimuddin Shams, the deputy speaker. Within a week, Idris was caught, and beaten to death in the Lalbazar police lock-up. Nothing ever happened to Shams".
IMO: Hardly surprising then, that Banerjee did not attend the great socialist's funeral. I find it hard to accept socialism after having come across such things as this, frequently enough. Perhaps that is part of the reason the US won the cold war. But the recent behaviour of the US reminds one of its flaws also, as exemplified in the work of Gustavus Myers in "History of the Great American Fortunes". The winner of a war is often blind to its own faults. But at least Obama seems prepared to meet the Dalai Lama, surprising when America is so under the thumb of China.
IMO: Hardly surprising then, that Banerjee did not attend the great socialist's funeral. I find it hard to accept socialism after having come across such things as this, frequently enough. Perhaps that is part of the reason the US won the cold war. But the recent behaviour of the US reminds one of its flaws also, as exemplified in the work of Gustavus Myers in "History of the Great American Fortunes". The winner of a war is often blind to its own faults. But at least Obama seems prepared to meet the Dalai Lama, surprising when America is so under the thumb of China.
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