Land of the Bangalees
The hands of gurus were cut off and the thumbs of weavers were
chopped off. The native education system and Industry was destroyed -
- wiped out. History was erased and re-written with the murderous
foreign conquerors edited and made into heroes, saints or Gods.
What is left of Bangla's national identity that could yet a spark a
revival? Spark a quest into our past?
Our language and the remnants of our culture.
They are also under constant attack. The written language of many
colonies were successfully wiped out... Mollas tried wiping out the
Bangla alphabet under the auspices of the Noorani Academy. Had they
been successful they would have increased their attack on the spoken
language.
The mollas and the media constantly engage in attacks on our culture
and heritage. The destruction of the Lalon sculpture is just the
latest attack. It was preceded by the scandalous export of historic
artifacts.
The destruction is done in the name of religion and also
modernisation, which has become synonimous to westernisation. Those
who are aware of the threat of religion are sadly enamoured by
westernisation. Those who are alert about westernisation fall into
the religion trap. Some fall for both. Bangla is slowly but surely
falling under the two pronged attack.
Even the communists in the country have fallen. They either see
their paradise in the USSR or China. They forget they are leaders of
a nation which has a grand history -- a nation mentioned even in
prehistoric greek epic stories. I see no hope in the communists
unless they give up worshipping their foreign masters and become pro-
Bangla. If they don't, they are the same as the religious bigots or
the westernization proponents who worship their imperial masters.
The imperialist scheme is to wipe out the memory of Bangla -- to
wipe out the legacy of the Gangas... the children of the people of
the Indus civilization. Extreme arrogance and nationalism is very
bad but it is equally bad to forget one's identity. And that is what
they want -- the imperialists (religious and colonial). We want to
be a part of the world but not by losing our identity -- our soul.
We have something to bring to the table. Don't lose what is left.
Che
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