Death of an audacious idea - To Make Uttarpara The Seat Of Culture and Heritage
If you have read the 3 preceding blogs, it should give you a sense of how hunger for power can destroy visionary ideas and ideals. Be it the British occupation of India (they posed as traders like their predecessor European counterparts) or vilifying and destroying an honest effort of absolutely great people to carve out a progressive township that would define the future of India or for that matter the collusion of businessmen and politicians to thwart the demands of the white collared labor force. If we run a time series on the general character of human beings over the last 10k years, we will see that it will not deviate much from the mean - we are lost in the interplay of pain and pleasure, hungry for a slice of the power pie. The greatness of people like Raja Joykrishna Mukherjee, Raja Peary Mohan Mukherjee, Rashbehari Mukherjee, Kumar Rajendranath Mukherjee or Raja Bhupendranath Mukherjee lie in the fact that they were not self serving. You will not find a singl...