Anand Matth Blog - Nationalist Indian celebrating 75 yesrs of Indian independence

This man was not just destroyer of West Bengal but entire eastern India with a destructive communist ideology. On April 30, 1982 morning, Calcutta (now Kolkata) had just woken up and many came out with a shopping bag in hand for their daily routine shopping. They were not aware a huge bunch of communist goons were sitting in ambush at the Bijan Setu-Bundle gate from 7 to 8 in the morning. The communist goons conducted a swift massacre in the heart of south Calcutta, a metro city, in just an hour's operation which 17-18 Hindu monks and nuns (yes female monk included) were killed. What was their fault? They were Hindu religious people or sadhus who are considered to be ‘class enemy’ of communists as many communist leaders have said – ‘religion is opium of the masses’. The sadhus were strongly disliked by communists in Bengal. Before the sadhus knew what is happening, they were dragged out of the taxi one by one on their way to Tiljala Ashram, smashed on the head with a shovel, their ...

Political violence has reduced in comparison to past in West Bengal. Earlier it was very high. We need to analyse last 100 year to compare the situation of violence in Bengal. Warning: some pictures may be disturbing. Year 1905 Bengal partition created massive political upheaval and bloodbath in Bengal. This is not the first or last mass agitations, violence and deaths occurred in Bengal. Later in 1943, Bengal witnessed a massive and biggest recorded in history famine which led to 3 million perished in hunger. People dropping dead in the middle of street or paddy fields were common scene then. Noble Laureate Prof Amartya Sen who saw Bengal famine of 1943 in detail concluded that famine was man-made disaster as Britishers were mostly focused on WWII and Churchil refused send aid. When Churchil was told about the famine death figures in Bengal, he asked ‘Why Gandhi (Mahatma) is still alive?’ Subhash Chandra Bose who was part of Japan controlled Burma government during WWII, also tried to...