Not only BJP, but all other political parties are more or less Brahminical in eyes of Matuas anandabazar.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from anandabazar.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A marked shift in realising this moral decay on screen is apparent from
Aranyer Din Ratri to his Calcutta trilogy
Pratidwandi,
Jana Aranya. In
Pratidwandi, Dhritiman Chatterjee’s Siddhartha declares that he doesn’t want to leave Kolkata, no matter that he is unemployed, with his mind unable to find an ideological footing. The film coincided with the Naxalite movement that began in Bengal, with the caste system and land rights at its root.
Still from ‘Pratidwandi’.
It’s no coincidence that the trilogy charted the course of Indira Gandhi’s India as it inched towards Emergency, creating a swelling anger at the state. Ray’s films still focused on capturing the Bengali Brahmin’s, or more importantly, India’s ruling class’s frustration with itself and the country. The trilogy’s protagonists Siddhartha in
The argumentative Bengali psyche is programmed to be sceptical of authority. 6 hours ago Union Home Minister Amit Shah at a roadshow in Krishnangar city of West Bengal on April 16. | Amit Shah/Twitter
As “experts” from the “national media” were airdropped on Bengal during the campaign for the assembly elections, they confidently filled with airwaves and churned out column inches with a variety of theories about how the state would vote.
They detected an anti-incumbency sentiment against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and reported on corruption and nepotism in her Trinamool Congress party. They claimed that the Bharatiya Janata Party had created an invincible juggernaut because of the “magician and the Chanakya” pair of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah. They discussed the unprecedented religious and caste identity politics in play in Bengal.
Irrespective of the election results, Bengal, which once prided itself in intellectual heritage and broadmindedness, has got mired in a vortex of narrow identity politics.
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