MAN AND HIS MISSION ... 26

MAN AND HIS MISSION ... 26

THEY ROSE AND THEY FELL, A GENERATION LAID WASTE

There is an anger that mounts in the youth at the easy compromise made by religion with the exploitative powers that be, that keeps the masses in perpetual servitude. Redress they seek in romanticising revolution and often following the dark designs of deluded leaders who send them to the mouth of the classical cannon to be powdered to death. But the call of revolution they hear and it pulsates through their being, their blood-stream coursing in consonance with it.

Many a bright lad is misled by maturer brains, themselves losing their path in the severe reaction to the tyranny of the times. These fresh flowers of humanity, these budding, blossoming youths are naive enough to believe in what they are told by their leaders and, in the innocence of youthful idealism, plunge into bringing about a violent transformation of the existing order of things, scarce realising the lop-sided power equation between the exploiter and the exploited. The state crushes them with its brutal might and reinforces conviction in the old Leninist theory that it, after all, 'is an organ of class rule'.

A generation is lost and with it 'the simmering revolution', too. Mothers lose their children, society loses its brightest brains, its heroic souls, and revolution loses its way amidst dashed dreams dissolved by dastardly designs on both sides, the power-brokers and the power-wielders. Capitalism in all its nakedness reigns once more and with redoubled might as the Ganga regains its muddy hue from its recent reddish tinge. It is time and out for red revolution for good.

But can the beating heart of opposition to oppression ever be stopped? Can conscience be 'stilled or stifled'? Can growing consciousness be thwarted in its comprehension of the dialectical process of social evolution? Can the inevitable resolution of historical forces arising out of such mass exploitation be checked for good and that, too, by the collaborative power of the malicious minority against the bulk of the population in penury who in the fullness of time ought to blow them up like so much refuse in a powering cyclone?

Written by Sugata Bose

15Sharmistha Chatterjee, Riya Bhattacharya and 13 others

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