WORDS ARE INADEQUATE TO EXPRESSTHE INDIGNATION WE FEEL AT THE BARBARIC INHUMAN FIRING EVEN ON UNARMED WOMEN & CHILDREN OUR HEADS HANG IN SHAME AT THE SAVAGE BRUTALITY IN NANDIGRAM %u2013 THE DARKEST SPOT OF LEFT TRADITION AND HISTORY IN INDIA WHICH HAS SHAKEN OUR LONG CHERISHED BELIEFS AND VALUES.NOWADAYS IT SEEMS A SECTION OF THE LEFT IN INDIA HAS BECOME MORE RIGHTIST THAN THE RIGHT ITSELF.NOBODY IS AGAINST INDUSTRIALIZATION (A JARGON OR RHETORIC COINED BY THE BURDWAN LOBBY WITHIN THE CPM, CIRCULATED BY A SECTION OF THE SELF SERVING MEDIA,BOTH PATRONISED BY THE BIG INDUSTRIAL HOUSES & MNC LOBBY)BUT AT WHAT COST,AND IN THIS WAY?DOES%u2019NT INDUSTRIALIZATION INCLUDE THE HUNDREDS OF CLOSED FACORIES AND THE PATHETIC CONDITIONS OF THE TEA GARDENS? MODERNITY& INDUSRIALIZATION GOES HAND IN HAND WITH PROGRESSIVE DEMOCRATIC IDEALS NOT WITH STALINISM AND FASCISM.THE THEORY OF OUTSIDE INSTIGATION DOES NOT HOLD TRUE AT LEAST IN THIS CASE AS IT ALL STARTED WITH THE NOTIFICATTION OF HALDIA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY FOR LAND ACQUISATION WHICH MADE THE POOR & IMPROVERISHED PEOPLE INSECURE AND SUSPICIOUS.BULLETS WERE PREFERRED TO A POL SOLUTION THAT IS THE NOTIFICATION COULD HAVE BEEN CANCELLED AND DECLARED NULL AND VOID IN WRITING.ALSO IN THE ABSENCE OF A STRONG ORGANISED & RESPONSIBLE OPPOSITION(A BASIC REQUISITE) DEMOCRACY DEGENERATES INTO DICTATORSHIP