Editorial

It has been an exciting week. We started the blog with modest expectations but your support and engagement with the blog has taken us by surprise. It has been such a phenomenal response that you have raised the bar for us.

 

With every success becomes even greater responsibility. It is upon us to ensure that we reach an even wider audience. It is crucial in a democracy that the misrule and utter hopelessness in Bengal be discussed, debated and actioned upon to bring about real change.

 

Bengal is no longer just stagnant, but has began to rot from within. There is just so much that this state of ours could endure. Companies are closing down, people are dying of disease and starvation and all the while our CM is cavorting with cricketers and movie stars. The open pandering to Muslim minority is simply the icing on  the this sordid state of affairs.

 

We need to raise our voices. We need to make the system shake with our anger. We should make elected representatives quiver with our wrath. After all, government is for the people, of the people and made by the people. When that very government forgets its source of origin, it is the fundamental duty of each citizen to ensure that same government is made acutely aware of its displeasure.

 

This is also the week when we are  awaiting for the verdict on the Tapas Pal rape incitement is to be delivered. We repose our faith once again in the Judiciary to bring a callout and careless government to its knees. If lawmakers attempt to become lawbreakers they would think a million times before acting out.

 

More than the statement, we have been appalled by the shower of applause for the adored MP! Have we become so insensitive to rape and other such violent crimes that we applaud it now? What does that stay about us as Bengalis and our Bengali culture and society? Have we really stooped so low?

This is only a question that we all have to answer individually and collectively...

 

Along with the sad, there is also euphoria. After 10 years of Congress-led sham government, we finally have a responsive and accountable government at the Centre. It is focusing on discussion essential for the society. MyGov has already started showing results. To extend our support to the initiative we are going to take up each topic on the MyGov discussion forum and analyse in greater details at a national and state level.

 

So as we begin our new week of blogging, we can only wish you happy reading!

 

- Editor