Why have the Nano, when you have Trams

Everyone knew. It was too early for Bengal. The state has been in a virtual shutdown in terms of Industry and business ever since communist takeover. The state until very recently was the only one in India to have rickshaw pullers. It is not surprising. The communist promise of heaven on earth is one of the biggest lies of 20th century. Of the three remaining communist dictatorships (Peoples Democratic... yeah right!), two are surviving on donors and one has had embrace free market reforms to surge ahead (turning communist doctrine on its head).

Ms. Mamta Benerjee is not a communist but she is the end result of 30 years of communist rule in Bengal. Anything somebody has, is the reason you did not get it. Forget that you never worked for it. Somebody has to be blamed. While the blame is just "playing politics" in any vibrant democracy, for the communist life begins with a blame. When they cannot find anyone to blame in India, United States is readily available. Ofcourse, they have everything we don't have. I wish they had our communists and we didn't.

Communist call foul over Benerjee's strikes. Forgetting that the ruling government Bengal has shutdown its own state several times. They have thrown the spanner at everything - every reform, every industry, every new idea... hell I am sure somewhere in the country they have thrown a spanner at a factory making the spanner. Ok, thats a bit of exaggeration. They were happy about massive pay hike to government officers, without changing terms of their employment - cannot be terminated, convicted by Lokyukta.. the list goes on.

Mind you, Mamta is no lady. Far from it. In the end she has screwed herself by hurting the farmers and workers who were relying on the Nano project, she has hurt her traditional urban constituency and Bengal in general. CPI has hurt Bengal by not being honest and open with public regarding the Nano project and with Nandigram.

West Bengal has to face more hardships before it can become better. This virus of communist ideology has to take a real beating before the people give up it and start to do an honest day's work.