Taking on the Left

There is a brilliant painting of “bombing of Guernica” by Picasso .This blogger happened to visit Picasso exhibition at National Museum, Delhi but unfortunately this one was not there, later I came to know that French had problems with Picasso. Anyway it was great experience for me, I saw the ‘blue period’ and ‘pink period’ paintings as also that brilliant sculpt of the goat (I visited twice to have a good look, thankfully there was not much crowd, primitive Delhi has other preoccupations!!...like for instance squatting around the power centre to wait for crumbs to fall you never know when what is falling- also referred to as networking, the business of licking. Some have passed this talent on to next generation!!!. Apart from politics, business …the soft target is culture. So we have lots of pretentious mediocre people doing the round hawking secularism, freedom and so on to catch the attention. It is not about what you speak-that is absolutely easy when God has given tongue and face to mime, it is about what you gain by what you speak. The lick is big in the capital of a country with more than billion people).

I also recall buying Picasso painting cards that has since adorned my wall! Gen. Franco’s Nationalist forces heavily bombed and completely destroyed Guernica killing hundreds of people. In the meanwhile Soviets were asking money from the Republicans to fight the Nationalists! As is the case Communists generally mutate into manipulative clique that eventually loose touch with reality and soon turns onto its own people. The case of Bengal is just an example. The worst is to follow in Kerala, thugs at lower level who caused maximum damage to common people in the name of communism in 80s and 90s, they even had “noku coolie” which meant they have to be paid even to look at others doing work! I have seen these scoundrels in action at personal level when I was a kid, every time we came to kerala we experienced this. Further the ideological shift from Left to Right is as easy, this too I have seen with people around. The fellow who quoted Marx few years later is exaggerating religion, it sometimes make me laugh! Ideologies lack soul, the reason why the shift is immediate (photo taken from the Net).

The Left leaders in Bengal and Kerala represent two end of spectrum, wherein in Bengal they are still the brown sahibs of 50s quoting English poems and eulogizing bourgeoisie passions et al cricket, recently though with proletariats catching up on cricket the comrades sahibs in Bengal had early advantage! Bengal remains one of the most backward region with low human indices and poverty, and absolute lack of social mobility with squatter most conveniently ensconced themselves for proletarian cause. As expected when the time has come to give way to others the arrogance is not astounding.