THE TRAGEDY CALLED MAMATA BANNERJEE

Intolerance is no new thing for Mamata Banerjee. That makes her a firebrand leader and well, it was her intolerance for sickles n hammers n stars, that cleared Kolkata's Writer's Building of any such tools. She had walked the talk at last, and she was the worthy victor, history books (sans cartoons I fear)shall remember her. They remember Razia Sultan and Laxmi Bai and Matongini Hajra (I mention these names in the same bracket because all of them were Tough & Courageous Women - I do not wish to refer to any other attribute, & I'm not drawing cartoons for the moment).

How's things been since? Let's be a bit pragmatic for a while. Where does the Lady Victor stand now that a year has passed since then? Is it too early to ask this question?nay, nothing's too early for us, we are the mob, we don't go anywhere, we are the governed ones, we are impatient, we are imperfect - and of course we deny imperfection.
Because we are the mob. We press buttons too. We cast votes too.

Mamata Banerjee has already become a tragedo comic one act play that will keep on happening again & again.
Couldn't such a fearless lady write her own play that would draw packed houses? What went wrong? where? why?

I can see just TWO glaring disharmony in her reality, which is incidentally mine too. Social observers shall dissect it and pass on the knowledge.

1) she's such a pathetic administrator, inspite of being a firebrand leader. To lead a mob into a palace of age old tyranny & destroy the royalty is a Good Thing in history. But sitting now in place of the royalty that's no more, and to provide food, clothing & shelter to the mob is a different ball game. There is no place for anger here, the same mob still needs food as it did in the days of tyranny.

2)Everybody is not a born administrator. But she, not being born as one, cannot be sympathized with & forgiven for her inability to lead good governance, not a rebellion, but of peaceful times that follow. Because during rebellions, you have to learn how to manage post rebellion days, for the sake of those whom you lead (or you give the responsibility to a befitting one). That process is called Having a Vision. Simple. Her vision didn't go beyond overthrowing tyranny. This makes her Guilty. She is too Greedy to hand over the scepter to good governors.

Greed is humane albeit being baneful for humanity. We all are greedy. I am very greedy myself.

But Mamata Banerjee is Guilty for being greedy. She is Guilty of not having the vision to help her People. That subconscious guilt comes out as a possible 'discomfort' that pokes her all the time, and comes out as morbid paranoia for all of us to see.

You cannot look upon the state as an extended version of your constituency. She is incapable of developing this perspective. I doubt whether she has the will too. Hence she is and shall continue to be a Failure as far as leading her state is concerned, not a rebellion.

She won battles, but she has lost the war already. The war is with her own self.

We continue to scream and mock and smirk and write words like these. Yet my state, our state keeps on sinking. Ocean or a swimming pool, it still doesn't know how to swim. I've been seeing that since 1977. I was an eight year old boy then.

Nothing has changed for me. Nothing.
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Anirban Chaudhuri,
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Mumbai, India.
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