The exception is not the rule. Bengal has great sons.daughters - Rabindranath , Vivekananda, Ramkrishna, Amartya Sen, Satyajit Ray, Jhumpa Lahiri and quite a few others.
But she has also produced Mamata - and many many more hot headed- blind - egocentric - emotional idiots. Otherwise, how do you account for the anti-computer agitation of the 1990s? How do you account for the anarchy of Naxalism? How do you account for the 30 year stint by one party - how do you believe in Communism - when it is proved that the philosophy doesnt work?? Why does the likes of Kabir Suman believe in Communism - and why do people in bengal call such stupidity - intellectualism.