This was the Bengal of my grandfather’s generation that I had only read about, and of my father’s generation that I got glimpses of, the vestiges of which I found only in Pannalal Bhattacharya’s cassettes when I came of age. This is the Bengal I wanted back. This is the Bengal I have longed to go back to.
In 2011, I asked Derek O’Brien whether he would advise my return. He said I should, but the portents were not encouraging. I’d left Kolkata not for Bengal’s anti-Hinduism but its sheer lack of development. A report on Anandabazar Patrika in early 1994 said the then-Left Front government would build 14 flyovers in Calcutta — the few that existed back then ran only over railway tracks — in collaboration with Japan. As the Purva Express left the Howrah station, and my mother asked when I would return, I replied, “When those 14 flyovers have been built.”
While the Trinamool Congress hadn’t yet turned jihadi, it ran like a headless chicken for its first five years in government. Nothing happened on the economic front. Yeah, flyovers did come up but as eyesores, affecting the city’s skyline (in front of the Oberoi Grand), confusing motorists (the Esplanade-Santragachhi stretch and those over the Lower Circular Road) and with warnings that they were unfit for heavy transport (the flyover at the Gariahat crossroads).
In the next 10 years, Mamata Banerjee let loose her ‘milch cows’ whose kicks she later said she had no option but to tolerate. Returning home was out of the question.
With the Bengali youth singing Shyama Sangeet in chorus as fervently as their counterparts in northern India sing paeans to Rama, Ma Kali is reclaiming her land. With Ma Lakshmi promising to return to Bengal, too, I must rebuild my home that has remained under lock and key, nearly forgotten, for the past 32 years.
Illegal Bangladeshi Muslim woman in “Brand Bengaluru” claims to be the wife of a man who earlier called her his sister. Are you surprised? I am not.
Be that as it may, the real question is👇
How do ordinary Kannadigas seem to know more about these illegal muslims than @BlrCityPolice’s intelligence network, if one really exists and is actually working 🤔
👉 Telugu actor @PawanKalyan's Fiery Assembly Blast:
Hindus Wake Up or Lose Your Faith! "Every Hindu Must Defend It"
No More Taking Hinduism as a Joke,
Says Pawan Kalyan in Scorching Speech
Pawan Kalyan, spoke passionately in the assembly. He said #Hindus treat their own religion as a joke due to divisions and apathy, unlike the strong reactions if Islam, Christianity, or their prophets were mocked.
He urged every Hindu to take personal responsibility and defend their faith.
In Karnataka, a lone Kannada Gen Z youth protesting peacefully for job notification was dragged away inhumanely by Congress.
Yet the same Congress government allowed muslims to protest over the killing of Ali Khamenei.
Priorities speak for themselves.
Muslims 1
Kannadigas 0
In 2020, I was interrogated and my family was threatened. In 2021, during post poll violence, I was hounded, threatened, driven out of Bengal by Mamata Banerjee, Abhishek & their goons z
Today, it’s vengeance
My comments on @republic
Bengaluru and Mumbai are two of the most important growth engines of India. They deserve best of connectivity, which the PM Modi Ji led government is fulfilling through the approval of the Vande Bharat Sleeper train between the two cities.
The Railway Board Chairman informed me in a telephonic conversation that the brand new coaches are being readied and the target is to start the service latest by the end of July.
This much needed addition will greatly benefit the working population of both cities.
Huge thanks to Union Minister Shri @AshwiniVaishnaw Ji and MoS Shri @VSOMANNA_BJP Ji for their continued support.
PM Shri @narendramodi Ji’s government prioritises delivery and a citizen-first approach.
ಹಸಿರು ಇಂಧನ ಕ್ರಾಂತಿಗೆ ಕಾಂಗ್ರೆಸ್ ಸರ್ಕಾರದ ದಿಟ್ಟ ಹೆಜ್ಜೆ!
ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಹೆದ್ದಾರಿಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಪ್ರತಿ 60-70 ಕಿ.ಮೀ. ಇವಿ ಚಾರ್ಜಿಂಗ್ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ಸ್ಥಾಪನೆ ಮಾಡಿದ್ದು, ಎಲೆಕ್ಟ್ರಿಕ್ ವಾಹನಗಳ ಪ್ರಯಾಣ ಮತ್ತಷ್ಟು ಸುಲಭ ಮಾಡಲಾಗಿದೆ.
@INCKarnataka@DKShivakumar@CMofKarnataka Public toilet tax vandu is left out go make some money ther too!!
Shameless congress. Ev tax is heights of your cruelty towards mother land
Delhi promoting EVs, Karnataka taxing them, says BJP leader Bharath Bommai - The Economic Times. Karnataka going backwards ���@CMofKarnataka @DKShivakumar Karnataka has the first EV policy going backwards driven by huge revenue deficits Sad https://t.co/ITmmb0H9ZT
No addition of petrol, diesel vehicles to delivery, ride aggregator fleets in Delhi: Draft EV policy - Minister @DKShivakumar Bengaluru needs a similar policy.only EV 2W to be sold after July 2026,all @BMRTC buses to be electric by 2027. Save city https://t.co/LT36YqNK4Q