Risha Chatterjee makes fun of eavesdroppers who could hang in the cafeteria. She is angry and cries. His two friends nod and sip fruit juice. There, in the heart of the Presidency College, Calcutta (West Bengal), August colonial architecture faculty at the faded by the years and the monsoon, the three young Bengali say their ras-le-bol of the local Communist government.
They want to finish these thirty-four years of uninterrupted fashion Bengali communism. Risha Chatterjee cites bulk "Corruption," exploitation of the poor, "" violent methods of the student union subservient to the party, "" the decline of education, "" the exodus of young people "... When we know that the Presidency College was the birthplace of the extreme left in the 1960 and 1970, nursery of a generation of revolutionaries rallied some even armed Maoist rebellions, we measure the progress.
The left has become an old idea in the cave of Bengal red. Monday, April 18, West Bengal began to vote for a consultation that could prove historic across India. The election to renew the local Assembly will take several weeks, polls pearls in the depths of the countryside. Came to power in 1977 through democratic elections, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) - CPI (M), PMK became part of everyday language - could lose control of the state by virtue of the same polls.
All indicators are ... green-orange colors of his favorite opponents. Galvanized by Mamata Banerjee, a tiny woman determined to kill the red citadel of Calcutta, the opposition has never been so confident. If the PMK was dropped - the announcement of the results is expected in late May - the shock would be felt throughout India.
Because West Bengal was the Foodland of Indian Communism, which is built an impregnable fortress. Defeated in Calcutta, the party does not reign longer than a single large stronghold, last besieged reduced by the headwinds of history: the southern state of Kerala. If the case is important is that the West Bengal appeared something of an anomaly, an enigma even, on which wide drawing legions of political scientists.
How communism could he survive in the estuary of the Ganges when he collapsed elsewhere in the early 1990s? Or, to mark the difference with China, how he endured through the democratic process? For if the portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao are still enthroned in many meetings of West Bengal, it is a basic reality in mind: the state belongs to a democratic India and the PCM, despite its genetic Stalinist, had to acclimate to the culture of the polls.
And since 1977, have in recent acclaimed unabated. There was therefore a recipe for longevity, an elixir of eternal youth. All analysts agree: the key to the riddle is land reform. Immediately after taking office in Calcutta, the PCM has honored a promise made during the dark years of his fights illegal: the redistribution of land to the poorest farmers.
The experience was unique in India. She shook the sociology of West Bengal, devoting the emergence of a new social group that forms at the base of the local red empire. But the coin had its setbacks. Tropism rural party, fed agrarian ideology, made him neglect the cities and industry. The contractors had fled the region, suffocated by aggressive unionism.
The gap became glaring in the 1990s, a symptom of a model being depleted. The party then spent the potato to the steel, but he did it his way, that is to say brutal. Sure of his influence over the villages, he ordered the peasants to sell their land to the capitalists rehabilitated - a "reform" high Chinese style.
And sent the police, supported by his militia, punish the recalcitrant. In 2007, there were clashes in Singur and Nandigram dead, fragments of doomed campaign to host industrial projects. Deadly irony. "The party took over the land to the very people who had been beneficiaries of land reform thirty years earlier," summarizes Rudrangshu Mukherjee, historian and editorial manager at the Telegraph, the leading newspaper of Calcutta.
It was a serious error, probably fatal. Stunned, the Bengali peasants. And traumatized, the intellectuals of Calcutta, eternal companions suddenly seized with vertigo. This is another characteristic of West Bengal: the wealth of an intelligentsia which, the writer Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize for Literature 1913) to the filmmaker Satyajit Ray, often engaged in civic affairs, kneaded idealism.
"In the aftermath of Nandigram dead, divorce is consummated between the party and the intellectuals," said Sourav Sarangi, a documentary filmmaker from Calcutta. The ground shifts under their feet PMC. Who does not want the "Chinese model". When democracy is there, just a ballot to end the adventure.
coiled @ bbc. Frederic Bobin en Article published in the edition of 30.04.11 
They want to finish these thirty-four years of uninterrupted fashion Bengali communism. Risha Chatterjee cites bulk "Corruption," exploitation of the poor, "" violent methods of the student union subservient to the party, "" the decline of education, "" the exodus of young people "... When we know that the Presidency College was the birthplace of the extreme left in the 1960 and 1970, nursery of a generation of revolutionaries rallied some even armed Maoist rebellions, we measure the progress.
The left has become an old idea in the cave of Bengal red. Monday, April 18, West Bengal began to vote for a consultation that could prove historic across India. The election to renew the local Assembly will take several weeks, polls pearls in the depths of the countryside. Came to power in 1977 through democratic elections, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) - CPI (M), PMK became part of everyday language - could lose control of the state by virtue of the same polls.
All indicators are ... green-orange colors of his favorite opponents. Galvanized by Mamata Banerjee, a tiny woman determined to kill the red citadel of Calcutta, the opposition has never been so confident. If the PMK was dropped - the announcement of the results is expected in late May - the shock would be felt throughout India.
Because West Bengal was the Foodland of Indian Communism, which is built an impregnable fortress. Defeated in Calcutta, the party does not reign longer than a single large stronghold, last besieged reduced by the headwinds of history: the southern state of Kerala. If the case is important is that the West Bengal appeared something of an anomaly, an enigma even, on which wide drawing legions of political scientists.
How communism could he survive in the estuary of the Ganges when he collapsed elsewhere in the early 1990s? Or, to mark the difference with China, how he endured through the democratic process? For if the portraits of Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin and Mao are still enthroned in many meetings of West Bengal, it is a basic reality in mind: the state belongs to a democratic India and the PCM, despite its genetic Stalinist, had to acclimate to the culture of the polls.
And since 1977, have in recent acclaimed unabated. There was therefore a recipe for longevity, an elixir of eternal youth. All analysts agree: the key to the riddle is land reform. Immediately after taking office in Calcutta, the PCM has honored a promise made during the dark years of his fights illegal: the redistribution of land to the poorest farmers.
The experience was unique in India. She shook the sociology of West Bengal, devoting the emergence of a new social group that forms at the base of the local red empire. But the coin had its setbacks. Tropism rural party, fed agrarian ideology, made him neglect the cities and industry. The contractors had fled the region, suffocated by aggressive unionism.
The gap became glaring in the 1990s, a symptom of a model being depleted. The party then spent the potato to the steel, but he did it his way, that is to say brutal. Sure of his influence over the villages, he ordered the peasants to sell their land to the capitalists rehabilitated - a "reform" high Chinese style.
And sent the police, supported by his militia, punish the recalcitrant. In 2007, there were clashes in Singur and Nandigram dead, fragments of doomed campaign to host industrial projects. Deadly irony. "The party took over the land to the very people who had been beneficiaries of land reform thirty years earlier," summarizes Rudrangshu Mukherjee, historian and editorial manager at the Telegraph, the leading newspaper of Calcutta.
It was a serious error, probably fatal. Stunned, the Bengali peasants. And traumatized, the intellectuals of Calcutta, eternal companions suddenly seized with vertigo. This is another characteristic of West Bengal: the wealth of an intelligentsia which, the writer Rabindranath Tagore (Nobel Prize for Literature 1913) to the filmmaker Satyajit Ray, often engaged in civic affairs, kneaded idealism.
"In the aftermath of Nandigram dead, divorce is consummated between the party and the intellectuals," said Sourav Sarangi, a documentary filmmaker from Calcutta. The ground shifts under their feet PMC. Who does not want the "Chinese model". When democracy is there, just a ballot to end the adventure.
coiled @ bbc. Frederic Bobin en Article published in the edition of 30.04.11
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