Everyone hate Bengalis. Anti-Bengalism is such a strong feeling among others. When I see these things, I can recall few words
once I heard from my teachers, my parents in my childood “We are first Indians, then we are Bengalis”.
These words have become so meaningless nowadays and this hurts me the most. When I hear regional words from my non
-Bengali but Indian friends, I feel so embarassed that all my childhood teachings about united n glorified India takes a
shakening. I feel part of a disintegrated part of India, named as “Bong” or “West Bengal”.
That time I feel I am not an Indian, to be specific I feel I am a Bengali, to be more specific I feel I am a Kolkatan. I have
never ever treated any non-bong person in my life with a biased attitude. I feel as long as a person has a good heart can always be
my friend. But Alas, the heart has its reasons that reason does not know. I cant go and change people’s heart suddenly.
I have always believed “A person’s world is only as big as their heart is”. So, if my heart is only that of a Kolkatan,
my world will be only Kolkata, If my heart is that of a Bengali, my world will only be Bengal, if my heart is that of
and East-Indian, then my world is Eastern part of India, and if my heart is that of a true Indian, then my world is unified India.
And I want my world to be the “whole India”. I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by regional boundaries.

Why Anti-bengalism is a strong feeling and my counter-views.

1) Some people gets ill-treated from Bengalis and getting tired of their selfishness they fill Bengalis are worst possile person ever!
But to cross their views, I can just mention one thing for them that selfishness is not a Bong trait, its an human trait and one can similarly
treated in any parts of India. Its an human nature and has nothing to do with a person is bengali or not. You shouldn’t punish others for your own choices.

2) As per great Bong “Anti-Gangulyism is often a surrogate for anti-Bengalism in a mixed company of Indians watching cricket.
The Sourav Ganguly issue makes me more acutely aware of my identity than any other
thing simply because anti-Gangulyism is strongly followed by and often driven by anti-Bengalism—
a surprisingly powerful and undeniably perceptible sentiment I have felt more than once in my life in the company of fellow Indians”. Its fairly true.
Some ppl dont like Sourav Ganguly thats why they dont like us. This is not fair.
Yes, we Bengalis love Sourav aka Dada. Instead of needlessly beating the Bengali angle, it is worth making the point that
the way you have been treated is a slap on the face of all cricketers who have contributed significantly to the Indian cricket etho.
No matter what other people say we love our prince of Kolkata and we will love him till the end of our life. He will never retire from our hearts.
We adore Sourav and we are proud of that because we respect other players as well. We love DADA because he has brought more glory to Indian criket than to Cricket Association of Bengal(CAB). We are a soccer-loving state and
when a cricketer from our state makes to the national level and makes India proud, I think there is no harm in loving him so dearly as long as we dont
disrespect other players. We respect Sourav and we respect Sachin, Laxman, Dravid, Dhoni too.

3) We cant speak Hindi fluently but we are the one who readily accepted Hindi as our national language and atleast try to converse in Hindi
,how bad it might sound, but I know we try our best. And just to cite a fact , lot of successful Hindi singers, music composers are from Bengal.
We never say West Bengal is only for Bengalis. We never say we will not allow people from other states to work here. West Bengal is just a part of India and
we love to have people from every parts of India here. I just want to see a day when Kolkata will be as dear to them as it is to us.
When a bomb-blast happens in Delhi, my heart cries for my Indians. I feel I have lost my countrymen. I never try to find out whether he / she is from Bong or not.

4) There is always a complain that Bengalis are bit lethargic n ppl often complain about our laid-back attitude. This is true to some extent.
Yes we are lethargic but since last 5 years, our work culture has improved dramatically and drastically. We are changing and will definitley change for better.
One thing is there we are very happy and satisfied with little things in life. We are content with small earnings which leads us to have a better and happy life.
Yes,it is true we afraid to take risks but it is also true that we know how to lead a risk-free peaceful life where we dont have loads of money
but have lot of happiness and hope which will never die. Kolkata is changing rapidly and we Bengalis are changing too and we cannot make our state better without help of all of you.

I know the list will go on and if I try to make a similar list for some other regional community, I know I may succeed eventually. But I dont want to do that in my life
as I believe I am born as an Indian and will live my life as an Indian forever. I know we Bengalis are not superior in all repspects compared to others but
we as a nation can be at its superior best if we can try collectively. But alas, when that day will come. When the day will come, youngsters of our nation will
forget these regional boundaries and will think beyond. When the day will come when I will re-iterate the teachings which I had once received in my childhood
“We are first Indians, then we are Bengalis”. Can we think beyond that and say to the world ” We are not Bengalis, we are not Marathis”… we are Indians.
If 300 Sparatans can fight the mighty Persians in 480 BC, cant more than 100 crores Indians living in 21st century fight these minor regional boundaries and
put our hands together to fight more larger issues affecting India. If we cant do that, then I can say one thing to hell with our modernism,
to hell with our future, to hell with our economic growth !!!

Gautam Budhha has rightly said ““Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two”. May be in this multiplexed(sorry
multi complexed), disintegrated , non-united India, any theory on unity has lost all its significance. Long live DADA!!! u may the source of inspiration who will
tie our country together as u had tied together the Indian cricket team once.

HARI OM DADA

Kiwi-der deshe eshe Aussie der harano dekha hullat mostir byapar. In fact these guys were supporting India in a big way and there were celebration all around. Though, ami mone mone chaichilam Bangladesher bhaiy-erao jeete jak.

Anyway Dada has been bright yet again. As usual..

Something from Dhoni after beating australia –

Asked what would be the special memory for him in this match, Dhoni said, “It’s Sourav’s 7000 Test run. Since he is playing his last series, he is just going out and enjoying the game, playing without any pressure. That’s how you want to see him play. He is very different from others.”…

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/never-saw-aussies-getting-so-outplayed-dhoni/376098/2

Also I hope you saw Dhoni coming together with Ganguly at the end of the match, and handing him one of the stumps with a soft respectful smile …

I have not seen such a gesture out in the open … it was something great