As such the news credited to the politicians and politics are hardly worth reading. But sometimes it’s make me really morose.

One such news got busted by the Bengali Babu who practically is the only heavy- weight in UPA-II government. Krishna and his deputy, celebrityTharoor were staying in the suites of a deluxe 5-star hotel paying huge tariffs since they got into cabinet, as their bungalows were not ready to their satisfaction. Why should Pranab Babu be repenting for that? Are the two not rich enough to pay on their own, as claimed? But I am forgetting the norms or code for the politicians in public. They must showcase themselves as aam aadami and ordinary middle class, if possible even as BPL. They can’t spend lavishly their own money too. After all, both of them are multimillionaires. Why should they live in the State Bhawans, if those do not provide the services to their standards? Are not the majority of members of this Parliament crorepatis?

Next news came from Kolkata, my city for years since childhood. We moved to our Salt Lake residence in end of 1996. All these years, I had been hearing about the new city getting developed by the leftist government at Rajarhat that was to be better than Salt Lake City. In January 2009 when we went to Kolkata with Anand and Shannon, we took the route through Rajarhat intentionally while going to AJIRA from the airport to see the progress. Every time the media reported about the big corporate houses getting into the new city, I got excited for a reason not known to me. Perhaps I like the place where I have spent the best part of life. All these years I had been talking about the way Marwari business community is capturing the real estate sector in Kolkata. It started from the era of Jyoti Basu and continues till date. We kept on assuming the left to be more honest and transparent and keen on doing everything for the common people. But basically it appears they were no different. Only goons and mafia rule the day and the economy of the state is in the hands of the marwaris. And so shockingly Bengal is losing the momentum of industrialization that Buddha dreamt and we all wished him to succeed.

What started with Mamta’s maneuver in Singur has become the fate for each project in the state. Infosys and Wipro are out from the IT township project in Rajarhat, the prestigious project of left creating a huge employment for the local graduates coming out of many of the private engineering colleges that have mushroomed in the state. While Mamata enters Rajarhat, Buddha has gone silent. In the meantime, the real face of the realty business of this left regime gets known to everyone, courtesy media. And the cops are busy proving their efficiency in catching the real culprits of the Vedic Village flare-up in Rajarhat on August 23.

Unfortunately, Bengal appears a lost case. And the people are still content with the politicians.