Kissing in public, hugging, holding hands, showing cleavage, wearing short clothes in home or outside-"Our culture is getting ruined, yaar."
But damn, our parents' generation had such a beautiful culture, right?
1) Peeing in public.
2) Beating your wife.
3) Creating a scene in front of the entire neighbourhood.
4) Killing a girl before she was even born
5) Marrying off girls who hadn’t even finished school (or started periods).
6) Treating widows like they were already dead — white sari, no bangles, no second chance
7) Pushing widows onto their husband’s funeral pyre (Sati still happening in pockets).
8) Declaring a woman a “dayan” and beating or burning her for “witchcraft.”
9) Taking dowry.
Surely, what a glorious culture that was.
The whole timing and coordinated “food inspection” ongoing in Kolkata eateries specially before the festive season looks extremely suspicious amd more of an effort to restrict the sale and consumption of non vegetarians food than “hygiene”.
One cannot also overlook the fact that food chains will now have to pay up hefty “fines” for licensing and other issues. You know what that means.
You will not see food safety inspections in Haldiram, Bhikaram Chandmal, “pure vegetarian” eateries, extremely unhygienic food shacks in Burrabazar area like Changiani etc.
Do the maths.
Bengal is the birth place of all ideologies
AZAD HIND FAUJ — Subhas Chandra Bose
HINDUTVA — Chandranath Basu
COMMUNISM — M. N. Roy
CONGRESS — W. C. Bonnerjee
SOCIALISM — Sucheta Kripalani
MUSLIM LEAGUE — Khwaja Salimullah
If India were a novel, Bengal would be its heroine.
I will applaud the decision when they visit Gupta Brothers, Haldiram’s, Bikanervala, unhygienic kachori stalls, and every non-Bengali sweet shop and food joint.
this is what we mean when we say the luxuries you enjoy in the global north are built upon the oppression of people in the global south. may the US empire collapse 🙏🏻.
The soil which had the sacred presence of Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Vivekananda, Ma Sharada, Bhogini Nivedita, Rishi Aurobindo, Baba Lok Nath, Ma Anandmayi and Mother Teresa! Shame on you Moumita for desecrating their memory!
The old West Bengal tourism ad of "Sweetest Part of India" featuring Shah Rukh Khan was so good & beautiful which explored the Bengali culture. Now look at the big downgrade from that to current one.
Former PM Manmohan Singh was an Economist.
He used to visit colleges and tell students about his policies and answer their questions
Modi visited SRCC, took no questions & talked about “Homeopathy dose to Dimagi Naxals”
That’s the difference between Class & Crass
Yesterday, five people died in MP after consuming poisonous liquor.
Yet in WB, raids are being carried out selectively on small Bengali businesses selling non-veg food, to stop them from selling it during the Puja season.
With a Medo govt in power, they won’t raid bhujiwalas!
Lol we are allowing the VHP now to tell us how Durga Pujo, arguably the most iconic/recognizable, almost all-encompassing cultural event of the city, will be conducted. Yeah, just kilometres.
Bengalis are a spineless race without any self respect. That is why any Tom, Dick and Harry can come to our state and dictate to us how to celebrate our festivals.
Have you ever seen a Bengali telling Marathis how to observe Ganeshotsav? Or lecturing Malayalis about Onam? +
Have you seen food department raiding the Gupta brothers or haldirams or bikanerwala ? Or any Biharir phuchka wala getting raided? Only non veg restaurants and Bengali food joints are targeted to create a panic amongst public
Someone posted on FB that these so-called food safety raids on Kolkata restaurants, and the discovery of alleged stale meat may just be a part of a larger conspiracy to ban meat ahead of Durga Puja.
Something to think about.