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Tathagata Roy

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3 Jan

আজ আনন্দবাজারের পাতায় প্রধানমন্ত্রীর বাংলা উচ্চারণ 'চোলায় চোলায়' নিয়ে ব্যঙ্গ করা হয়েছে, কিন্তু নির্লজ্জভাবে মুখ্যমন্ত্রীর 'গরমেন্ট' 'পবলেম' ইত্যাদি উচ্চারণের কথা চেপে যাওয়া হয়েছে | এর মধ্যে আবার সুগত বসুকে সাক্ষী মেনে বলা হয়েছে নাকি "গভীর শ্রদ্ধা ও আকর্ষণ থেকে গাঁধী...

বাংলা শিখছিলেন" | তাঁর শেখা বোধহয় বেশিদূর এগোয় নি, কিন্তু সুগতবাবুর কথা একেবারেই বিশ্বাসযোগ্য নয় | গান্ধীজির বাংলার, বিশেষ করে বাঙালি হিন্দুর প্রতি বিশেষ প্রেম ছিল এমন কোনো প্রমাণ আমি অন্তত পাইনি | তিনি আপাদমস্তক রাজনীতিক ছিলেন, রাজনীতির প্রয়োজনেই বাংলা শিখেছিলেন

(বা শেখার ভান করেছিলেন) |
বস্তুত গান্ধীর সম্বন্ধে এখন কিছু ধোঁকা ভেঙে দেবার সময় এসেছে | আমি জানি এই কথা বললেই একটি পুরো গোষ্ঠী নাথুরাম গডসের নাম করে চিল-চীৎকার আরম্ভ করে দেবে | কিন্তু গান্ধী মানুষই ছিলেন, দেবতা ছিলেন না | তিনি সমালোচনার উর্ধে নন, এবং তাঁকে সমালোচনা করা মানে

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Tathagata Roy

@tathagata2

16 Dec 20

Recently a woman made certain offensive tweets at me and Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) provoking me into a reaction. The woman was inconsequential and her arguments stupid,but it set me thinking: why do people abuse the RSS so much without knowing the first thing about it?...

And why do seemingly intelligent people believe,without question,in Goebbelsian lies thrown at them by Islamists,Leftists and Nehruvians (ILN)? I pondered over the question and came to the following conclusions:
1. The fact that there are no thieves nor anti-nationals in the....

RSS somehow unnerves the ILN
2. Similarly the discipline in the RSS ranks and the fierce loyalty that RSS generates also unnerves them.
3. They are scared of the way RSS works quietly,steadily with 50-year or 100-year horizons and have already busted the ILN myth “A Muslim....

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Tathagata Roy

@tathagata2

13 Dec 20

After 1947 a huge number of Bihari Muslims migrated to East Pakistan and settled there. They committed the most horrible bestialities on Hindus there. Some of these have been described in my book ‘My People,Uprooted’ and ‘Ja Chhilo Amar Desh’.
During the liberation war of

Bangladesh the Biharis sided with the Pakistanis,became Razakars,and killed Hindus and Bengali Muslims alike. Chuknagar mass murder,possibly the worst such in this subcontinent,Rayer Bazar massacre of intellectuals at Dhaka,and the Santahar train massacre were committed by them.

Even after BD was liberated they killed the famous filmmaker Zaheer Rayhan. But they became persona non grata in Bangladesh and wanted to emigrate to Pakistan. Now Pakistan did a neat bolte-face and said they wouldn’t take the Biharis back.
The Biharis then decided to get back

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Tathagata Roy

@tathagata2

10 Dec 20

I listened to a lot of Bengali/English TV channels,and participated in one,to hear how TMC defends the indefensible: the murderous attack on BJP’s National President. They used 4 weapons:
1.Whataboutery 2.Irrelevancies 3.Negation (it never happened) and 4.Good old shouting.

But the most interesting was the one holding the ONLY POST in the party (anyone familiar with West Bengal politics knows there is only one holder of a POST in TMC; the rest are lampposts). She called the whole episode ‘Nautanki’! She even made fun of Naddajis name,calling him

Nadda-Bhadda-Gadda!
She had very little decency in her to begin with,as was manifest from (a) her threat to tie a rope around Modiji’s waist and (b) gesticulating about the central government pushing a ‘bamboo’. But this,to a national leader,the victim of a dastardly attack!

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Tathagata Roy

@tathagata2

26 Nov 20

I was quite surprised at Mamata Banerjee’s blaming the Railways for delay in commissioning Majherhat Bridge. I am,apart from being in politics,a former Chief Engineer of Indian Railways. I was quite incensed and made inquiries from my own sources. Mamata has mixed 95% untruth

with 5% facts and dished it out. Here are the facts,simply put in layman’s language.

West Bengal PWD first proposed a ‘Bowstring Girder’ bridge for this job. Then,of their own,they changed it to a ‘Cable Stayed’ bridge which is quite a different kettle of fish and is much

more complicated. Indian Railways,a venerable institution of 167 years standing won’t pass a design lightly,least of all a cable stayed bridge. Still they approved the design,(with necessary changes) in the minimum possible time. But Railways insisted that the bridge

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Tathagata Roy

@tathagata2

30 Oct 20

Today is Kojagari Laxmi Purnima. On this day Bengali Hindus worship Devi Laxmi,the Hindu Goddess of wealth,and pray for prosperity. But in pre-partition Bengal,on this day (10th October 1946) there was no jubilation among the 20% minority Hindus of Noakhali district and

Chandpur,now in Bangladesh. The majority Muslims,under the leadership of a Muslim League goon called Ghulam Sarwar,mounted an attack on them. The leaders among the Hindus were beheaded. The rest were forced to ‘embrace Islam’ or die horribly. Many,including many of

the so-called ‘lower castes’,refused to give up their religion and chose death. The usual method of conversion was to kill the cow of the household and feed a forced meal of beef. For Hindu women between seven and seventy rape was the usual thing to do. The prevalent Hindu

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