Can Bengal produce a Shivaji? We need such a soul to rescue us from the utter annihilation that faces us. But such souls are rarely come by. The mother must be pure, valorous, virtuous, of high idealism and noble lineage, intelligent and aspiring, yet rooted in the spititual traditions of the land. She must have the worthiness to hold such a soul in her womb and the capacity to rear him unto maturity with the raging aspiration for freedom from perfidious elements threatening to destroy the ancient motherland and her spititual culture.
Times have changed and imperliasm is gone forever apparently, although its modern variant still exists cloaked in high-powered democracy and party dictatorship. But kings of the old order have gone and with it absolute monarchies have disappeared in India. Therefore, for a Shivaji to be born and bred in the classical mould is a puerile proposition and altered times will necessitate adjusted bearings if not altered attributes, for the fundamental aspects of civilisation have hardly changed over millenia, all of the predatorial propensities of man persisting despite the outer advance of material civilisation.
Bengal was fired up by Vivekananda in the last decade of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th. Therafter since Independence Bengalis have progressively become an excitable race full of rising reaction to perceived capitalist exploitation and little constructive nationalistic work done. It is an endless series of action and reaction, quick in perception, quicker in response tantamount to nothing substantial in the end. The leftist movement rife in Bengal, perhaps an organic necessity for Bengalis so full of utopian idealism and destructive strength in political terms, sent Bengal reeling backwards in a fast modernising world where the capital rules man. The change in China, courtesy Deng Xiao Ping, and later Glasnost and Perestroika, courtesy Mikhail Gorbachev, did not alter Bengali titular allegiance in the mass towards Stalin and Mao and allowed our state to progressively slide down the slippery slope of alien ideological affiliation which coupled with demographic change brought about by engineered illegal immigration from Bangladesh to bolster electoral support finished Bengal's future hopes. All the while criminality rose with administrative appeasement of the minority community and open affiliation of the head of the province as of now to woo voters. Islamisation during the communist reign of 34 years was progressive but during the TMC reign of the past 14 years it has been a veritable tsunami of sorts.
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