The Otherisation of Bengalis in Present-day India
"What Bengal thinks today, the rest of India thinks tomorrow." At one time, Bengal had shown the way to the rest of India. All kinds of progressive action, along with social reform originated here. Raja Rammohan Roy, Swami Vivekananda, Sri Ramkrishna, Vidyasagar, Aurobindo, Tagore were stalwarts who could teach the western world a thing or two about humanity, ethics and social change. Freedom was wrestled from the British by the Bengal tigers - Netaji, Khudiram, Master Da, Rash Behari, Bagha Jatin and Binoy, Badal, Dinesh. Education and literature owed several path-breaking work to this community. Jagadish Bose, and Prafulla Chandra Ray spearheaded scientific thought in our country. Image for representative purpose only But why am I raking the past and digging up history about Bengali forerunners all of a sudden? Ahh, typical Bengali sentimentality and nostalgia, right? Wrong. Its because in today's Bharat, the Bengali is being pushed aside - both literally as well as