JAI SHREE RAM !
How can 'Jai Shree Ram !' be foreign to West Bengal when Shree Ram is the Avatar of the Hindus and Sri Ramakrishna himself had said to Narendranath Dutta (Swami Vivekananda, after entering the monastic order) that he was the incarnation of Shree Ram and Shree Krishna? Does the present political dispensation in West Bengal consider itself as not belonging to the Hindus in terms of heritage or has West Bengal dissociated itself from the rest of India? After all, it is the Bengalis alone who, to maintain exclusive and narrow-minded community status, I guess, call those who are not Bengalis as non-Bengalis. I have never heard this strange epithet being ascribed by any other community in India to those who do not, in cultural and linguistic terms, belong to their fold.
Anyhow, Shree Ram is God and continues to be so in the hearts and minds of a billion Hindus despite the Chief Minister's discomfiture with chanting or even hearing His Holy Name for obvious electoral reasons of appeasement. One more thing. It is a privilege to hear the Name of Shree Ram and only those who are of spiritual merit get to hearing it. That the Chief Minister takes serious exception to hearing it has other connotations, therefore, one must understand. Now, what are those connotations, one might wonder. Well, I leave you to ponder it and arrive at your own conclusions. Meanwhile, let me earn some more merit in taking my God's Name. So, Jai Shree Ram !
Written by Sugata Bose
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