RE:Icon-starved Bengal
by Lili Pingpong on Mar 31, 2007 12:18 AM
They don't have anything else to do. Mostly Kolkata people are jobless or don't go to work or go to work at 2pm and leave at 3pm. Bandhs, Lal Jhanda and Hartaals are always the norm. So people have lots of time in hand to welcome this feminine jerk back home.
What more can you expect from them? Look at the way Bengal is performing in other sports. Take football for instance, once Kolkata was called the Mecca of Football. Now, all 3 Kolkata based teams make up the bottom-rung of the National Football League. All good players are in Goa. Show me even one Bengali Player in the National Football team.
A couple of months ago, I happened to read an issue of the Bengali daily Anandabazar. That day, an eminent Bengali movie director Anjan Chowdhury had passed away. But he was mentioned only in a footnote. The cover page, cover picture was of .....who else? Saurav Ganguly. The picture was he was presenting his wife with a flower on his anniversary.
Now you know why he will be always be welcomed in Kolkata no matter how is performance is.
