Many of us dreamt of complete freedom and make the newer generations' lives better by soaring high in education, sports and culture, and a better life by getting a slice of the economic benefit of the country. Indeed, the country has grown in all dimensions - education, GDP, per capita income, value systems, social unrest, degradation and poverty proportionately, as the population has grown by many folds since independence.
In the last 6 decades, the fruits of democracy have hardly reached the majority of people in India. Post-independent India has been literally hijacked by groups of people under the banner of political parties, a section of busienss community, middle class and higher middle class populations, who have been mostly benefited from Democratic India, terrorists and separatists.
Many of the educated people who are vociferous and are so-called champions of democracy are juggling and manipulating the statistics in his or her community's favour.
Misuse of democracy in India is simply varied in degree in every state and union territories. The so-called political aware states, like West Bengal, have been inherited by various movements - such as the fight against the British Raj, and the borrowing of all "-isms" by a section of ill-conceived politicians - have been proved futile.
The last 40 years of experiments of the various types of "-isms" in the political arena, the educational system and the economic models did not add any extra benefits to the people of Bengal, while comparing other states, who "factually" practise feudal systems that have been existing for the last hundreds of years.
The current political chaos arising out of Nandigram and Singur fiascos at the cost of thousands of poor, socially-disadvantaged people are the eye openers to all the blessed citizens who are urged to come forward and raise voices against debased politicians in Bengal, many of them who pretend to live like have-nots, which is all but an illusion to the millions of disadvantaged people in Bengal.
