Soliloquy

The horror of the recent events transpiring in Calcutta has shaken the nation and brought termites out of its ugly-looking woodwork. The chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, has gone on record downplaying the event and then proceeded to stage protests against her own government, and then losing the thread of any sanity that was deposed on her by voters of this erstwhile capital of India, written to the prime minster of the country seeking his help in a matter completely her own doing.

Ms Banerjee has lost the mandate of the people whom she had seemingly satiated with populist agendas, and if integrity were a characteristic among politicians, she should have resigned already, leading to President’s rule in a state where public outrage reigns supreme and the rule of the mob is more magnanimous than ones forged by the courts. With her attempts to hide the misdoings of the former principal of the RG Kar Hospital, Sandip Ghosh now out in the open, the public knows what is happening behind the scenes.

With the government failing to protect those who protect others and those of the noblest professions of them all, it is time that the public reappropriates what is right and shows the politicians to the world for what they are. Such a travesty and seemingly apparent miscarriage of justice seems shambolic arriving from the land that birthed the basis of the Renaissance, and who led the vision of what modern-day India should look like.

The retribution must be punitive and appropriate enough that the fear of God is instilled in men still daft enough to treat women as second-class citizens in this beautiful land of ours. The victim and her family cannot be bought off with mere reassurances of money, and the predators still at large need to be punished and wiped off the face of the earth. Most importantly, the unholy nexus that Ms Banerjee has created with the goons that go by the name of legislators in her party and councillors of wards almost entirely untended to needs to be annihilated.

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