PRAGOTI

Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore is a great humanist in the world. His superb role against British Rule reveals that no political leader at that time has shown dynamism in anti-imperialist movement. Most versatile figure not only in India but in the world. But it is rather wonderous and/or ridiculous feature that the left blocs particularly Communists had projected him as a bourgeious poet. This has shown the mean-mindedness of the communist leader as all the time, communists want to project themselves as an ideal fellow, but in reality the picturesque is quite contradictory. Not only Rabindranath Tagore, what about other stalwarts in Bengal renaissance ? In my boyhood, I heard that Sri Ramakrishna was a mad person even an epileptic patient. Swami Vivekananda was a reactionary fellow. Raja Rammohan Roy-Iswarchandra Vidyasagar are the sympathesisers of British rulers. This type of canards were spread whisperingly from a section of progressive blocs. Now I realise that all these canards spread from them was nothing but made on jealousy and not at all based on any concrete analysis of the concrete role played by them in society. Of course there were contradiction-confusion-abstract ideas prevailing in their minds, but that does'nt mean that these stalwarts of Bengal were wicked fellows. What we are experiencing now that so-called leftists have done so much damage in the society due to their dubious mentality in every sphere. As a bengali, I firmly opine that Bengali culture is unthinkable without Rabindranath Tagore. It is a phallacy that umpteen number of times, the communist leaders accepted their misdeeds-mistakes after a lapse of 10-15-20 years span of time. The reality is that the whole world bears the heritage of Rabindranath Tagore even the foreigners heartily regards the great poet.

But in West Bengal particularly in Kolkata, day by day the cultural atmosphere is dwindling or rather degraded in to-day's globalised spectrum. Majority of younger generation even their guardians were mesmerised with globalised by injecting yanki songs-yanki films- yanki literature et al. It is a fact that Rabindranath Tagore has become a source of income to a large sections of citizens of West Bengal. The philosophy proclaimed by Tagore is to some extent wiped out regarding betterment of peasantry, education, culture as the case may be. Rather his advice has been thrown in dustbine as the cultural climate in West Bengal is endangered in the hands of so-called intellectuals. Both the rightists and lefttists blocs are responsible for this debacle in bengali culture. Let us see whether Bengal will survive from this disarrayed situation or will die in course of time.