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১৬ মে'র পরে কাদের বাক্স প্যাটরা বেঁধে দেশান্তরী করা হবে এই হুঙ্কার না দিয়ে আমাদের ভাবী প্রধানমন্ত্রীর সততা থাকলে উচিত ছিল বলা যে মরিচঝাঁপির ফাইল খুলবেন, আর দলিত হিন্দু উদ্বাস্তুদের সুবিচার পাইয়ে দেবেন। বলবেন কী করে! সুবিচারের কথা উঠলে যে মধ্যপ্রদেশ ছত্রিশ গড়ের দণ্ডকারণ্যের কথাও উঠবে যেঃThe Exactly thirty years have passed by this fateful event that took place in Marichjhapi but not many from outside are aware of the communist government’s genocidal acts against Dalits. There has been complete silence even from the Bengali civil society that claims to be very progressive and free from caste biases.
The Bengali scholars, Marxist or otherwise, rule the Indian academia and write, articulate on all the problems that plague this earth. But none of them broke their silence ever on the merciless killings and eviction of people who belonged to the same Bengali society but happened to be Dalits. Marichjhapi was soon forgotten, except by the Dalits themselves.
The communists who keep on harping on fighting for the poor and dispossessed took no time in killing the same people soon after occupying the state power.
Perhaps this was the revenge of the Bengali Bhadralok, (that completely monopolizes the Bengali civil society, it’s so called scholarly class, communist and congress leadership) against Namashudra community that once successfully challenged ‘upper’ caste hegemony in undivided Bengal. So successful is the revenge that the community now lives in complete oblivion and scattered across the country without anyone standing for their rights or speaking about what actually happened in Marichjhapi in 1979.http://dalitandtribe. wordpress.com/2010/01/02/ marichjhapi-and-the-revenge- of-bengali-bhadralok-the- story-of-a-dalit-genocide- that-remains-untold/
The Bengali scholars, Marxist or otherwise, rule the Indian academia and write, articulate on all the problems that plague this earth. But none of them broke their silence ever on the merciless killings and eviction of people who belonged to the same Bengali society but happened to be Dalits. Marichjhapi was soon forgotten, except by the Dalits themselves.
The communists who keep on harping on fighting for the poor and dispossessed took no time in killing the same people soon after occupying the state power.
Perhaps this was the revenge of the Bengali Bhadralok, (that completely monopolizes the Bengali civil society, it’s so called scholarly class, communist and congress leadership) against Namashudra community that once successfully challenged ‘upper’ caste hegemony in undivided Bengal. So successful is the revenge that the community now lives in complete oblivion and scattered across the country without anyone standing for their rights or speaking about what actually happened in Marichjhapi in 1979.http://dalitandtribe.
Marichjhapi and the Revenge of Bengali Bhadralok The story of a Dalit Genocide that remains untold
Exactly 30 years ago, Dalits, in West Bengal, came to realize the true nature of Indian state that i...
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