Some of greatest social reformers and philosophers came from Kolkatta... Be it Vivekananda or Raja Rammohan roy or Tagore.
but all of them lived before the CPM rule of 1970s...
the 4 nobel prize winners of Bengal all were born and grew up in a Bengal where there was no CPM rule.
30 years of CPM rule has destroyed all spirit of inquiry and sense of thinking among the elite and created a communist worshipping class blindly worships Mao, Marx and Buddhadeb
RE:KOLKATTA's CULTURAL CONTRIBUTION WAS ALL BEFORE 1970s..
by mailme alladin on Dec 11, 2007 11:04 PM Permalink
No, all nobel prize winners of Bengal all were born before independence.
RE:KOLKATTA's CULTURAL CONTRIBUTION WAS ALL BEFORE 1970s..
by deepak on Dec 11, 2007 11:13 PM Permalink
No, all nobel prize winners of Bengal all were born before independence.
Amartya Sen, Mother Teresa or Dr Yunus are all post independence. Nobel is not the only criterion, Bengal is always blessed with exceptional talent because the society nurtured it and an Indian pride advanced it. That is all gone it seems- Bengalis are now international with fashionable idealism. They got no religion no nationalism.
