These days life in West Bengal is a fiasco. Many people, most of whom take pride in their political bent of mind are blathering at the top of their voice about many things, many of which are only remotely relevant to a way to sustained end of all these things, which every sane person must be wishing for.
Things which are not uttered even by mistake are the contents of the pandora's box. The rural part of West Bengal need to brought back to life immediately. But that needs some sacrifice, a taboo word, to the political leaders and all sorts of businessesmen alike. The common rural people are mere lesser beings who are gaga about all such complexities. They have been made habituated to the life of freeloaders as far as their contribution towards civil improvement of society is concerned.
There is no ideology of service these days - it is extinct. We even do no longer bank on any kind of ideology whatsoever, we fall for contracts by means of which everyone is trying to secure all kinds of mutual transactions to the extent possible: thus everyone is a businessman. Moreover, thsese contracts of business are focused on the defense mechanism against the mutual mistrust of the contracting parties. Under such situations, where there is no trust, one party is, in any case, bound to feel defeated. This discourages everyone to start new projects of real honest effort to eradicate the difficulty in rural life and make life there civilized enough that people living there get a minimum level of social satisfaction. That causes the continued exodus of very high rate towards the cities. This is creating a jeopardizingly unequal distribution of population over the whole state.
This being a border state there is infiltration which is being cashed by the political parties in the form of various schemes. But the border states of West Bengal are no less a threat to the social order in here. Egregious conduct as far as civility is concerned, is a very common characteristic of this cross section of the population of West Bengal. They are the harbingers of boorishness in the society in here. These two factors play equally important roles in the degradation of the quality of life in the cities of West Bengal, most importantly of Kolkata.
There are amenities in the cities: but proper use of them calls for a restriction on the population and their civic sense. The age old Victorian system of education entirely fails to develop the human aspects of the population throughout a large part of India - West Bengal is no exception. This education system mostly creates contraptions which somehow fit into the production system only in a mechanical sense. It has nothing to do about developing ethical and aesthetic senses of the students taking part in this educational system. The products of system hardly bothers to care for the real meaning of quality of life. They are mostly all to busy to bring it to others' notice in a loud and officious manner that they are there, somehow alive!!
On top of that, the rural population of West Bengal hardly goes through any education mechanism in the modern sense of the term. Their education has remained almost in a primitive stage. That is the cause of the total lack of sense of responsibility of the rural population of West Bengal towards improvement of the quality of their own life.
The entire picture is thus bleak. Obviously enough, all the parties are outrageously oblivious about what is at stake. No one sees hardly a few hours ahead and all are way too much engrossed about why things have not been done, as if grabbing the collar of those who played truant is going to revert it all: the fail to acknowledge that this is once again playing truant - evading once own part to contribute in the process of improvement. We keep sliding down the sinkhole in a sure manner and unobstructed.
Politicking is trying to find out a short cut to improvement of quality of life, but actually there is no such shortcut. Neither is it going to help saying: it is easier said than done and pass the buck on others. It is either done or not done and each human being as an individual must do his or her bit of hardship to improve the quality of life. Only sincerity towards living can improve our life
Things which are not uttered even by mistake are the contents of the pandora's box. The rural part of West Bengal need to brought back to life immediately. But that needs some sacrifice, a taboo word, to the political leaders and all sorts of businessesmen alike. The common rural people are mere lesser beings who are gaga about all such complexities. They have been made habituated to the life of freeloaders as far as their contribution towards civil improvement of society is concerned.
There is no ideology of service these days - it is extinct. We even do no longer bank on any kind of ideology whatsoever, we fall for contracts by means of which everyone is trying to secure all kinds of mutual transactions to the extent possible: thus everyone is a businessman. Moreover, thsese contracts of business are focused on the defense mechanism against the mutual mistrust of the contracting parties. Under such situations, where there is no trust, one party is, in any case, bound to feel defeated. This discourages everyone to start new projects of real honest effort to eradicate the difficulty in rural life and make life there civilized enough that people living there get a minimum level of social satisfaction. That causes the continued exodus of very high rate towards the cities. This is creating a jeopardizingly unequal distribution of population over the whole state.
This being a border state there is infiltration which is being cashed by the political parties in the form of various schemes. But the border states of West Bengal are no less a threat to the social order in here. Egregious conduct as far as civility is concerned, is a very common characteristic of this cross section of the population of West Bengal. They are the harbingers of boorishness in the society in here. These two factors play equally important roles in the degradation of the quality of life in the cities of West Bengal, most importantly of Kolkata.
There are amenities in the cities: but proper use of them calls for a restriction on the population and their civic sense. The age old Victorian system of education entirely fails to develop the human aspects of the population throughout a large part of India - West Bengal is no exception. This education system mostly creates contraptions which somehow fit into the production system only in a mechanical sense. It has nothing to do about developing ethical and aesthetic senses of the students taking part in this educational system. The products of system hardly bothers to care for the real meaning of quality of life. They are mostly all to busy to bring it to others' notice in a loud and officious manner that they are there, somehow alive!!
On top of that, the rural population of West Bengal hardly goes through any education mechanism in the modern sense of the term. Their education has remained almost in a primitive stage. That is the cause of the total lack of sense of responsibility of the rural population of West Bengal towards improvement of the quality of their own life.
The entire picture is thus bleak. Obviously enough, all the parties are outrageously oblivious about what is at stake. No one sees hardly a few hours ahead and all are way too much engrossed about why things have not been done, as if grabbing the collar of those who played truant is going to revert it all: the fail to acknowledge that this is once again playing truant - evading once own part to contribute in the process of improvement. We keep sliding down the sinkhole in a sure manner and unobstructed.
Politicking is trying to find out a short cut to improvement of quality of life, but actually there is no such shortcut. Neither is it going to help saying: it is easier said than done and pass the buck on others. It is either done or not done and each human being as an individual must do his or her bit of hardship to improve the quality of life. Only sincerity towards living can improve our life
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