No, this is not in response to a clarion call given by some Masters-holder in entire political science garrulous supremo that these men and women had gathered in large numbers to bang away their utensils. They are from the Sunderbans, and have lost everything they had, as the cyclone #Amphan in its wake razed their ramshackle homes - actually in most of the cases, very modest thatched huts, to the ground, and left vast tracts of arable land inundated, turning them uncultivable for years to come because the water - as you all know - gushing in in surges on that fateful day from the nearby Bay of Bengal was brackish. Now these people are left with no means of livelihood. Many of their menfolk who are away in other states working as migrant labourers are yet to return home, because of a very shoddy, unplanned lockdown. These people are now somehow surviving on whatever some NGOs, and particularly eminent Left social activists like Kanti Ganguly could arrange for them by way of a temporary relief, through crowd-funding. But this cannot really bring about a long term solution to the problem unless or until the government steps in. So now, with hunger stalking and a very painful death staring them in the face, they have taken to the streets with dishes in their hands. As the last resort. None in the authority has so far bothered to hear them out. The less said about their plight, the better.😢 *Yesterday, in front of the Mathurapur Block (No.2) Development Officer's office. https://www.instagram.com/p/CAuh-N3gb_S/?igshid=1ha4s25ebwa4r












