The morning sky was gloomy. Over cast, wet and chilling. The wind was blowing and the Googz wind-o meter recorded the gush at 10Km/h. The Sunday morning started with the normal pace. The usual break fast, a test cricket in Bangladesh, where the host was facing India. Sehwag captains after a heated word exchange over the issue that Bangladesh is not a side to be taken seriously. [At Tea, on Day 1, India was 160/6] I took the warm sips, ate the bread and butter with hot jalebis and then came my Honors students and the usual Physiology Hons class commenced. It was 12:15PM, the class was in its normal paced, trying to explain the Ephatic Synaptic transmission and the next topic of discussion to be Properties of the Synapse, when my mom announced: "Jyoti Basu is dead...." That drew a silence, after breaks of exclaimation amongst the students and the few customers in our Xerox booth. The Era has ultimately ended.
Coming 2010, I have had mentioned twice about this man. He has had been a great politician with a great mindset, many folds better than the present CM, of the same political clan. He was the last, who could properly express the Communism, in a Democratic nation. Often regarded as the Stalwart figure in the Rights of the Working Class and the Poor, Mr. Basu was never summoned as Jyoti Da. He was always called Mr. Jyoti Basu or with love and respect out of the awe of his achievements, he was called Jyoti Babu, I might not believe in the present work of his party and have faced and got involved in the Protest of The Party's and Party Goons' atrocities, many a times, but I respected the man. He was a thinker, a man, whom I can certify with my "less acclaimed certificate", he was a man whom I say, apart from Late Mr. Subhash Chakraborty, who spoke out of the Party...
He might have done some blunders, like the Average state of Education in the State, too much Union goonism.... but his bout with the oppression in the post independence era, bringing about land reform gifted him with 5 consecutive sessions of CM-ship, the longest and a record. He was the eldest of the Statesman in India and is recognized by all from Bengal to India to the World.
Heard names of Che? Castro? Mr. Basu has created a history of surviving and strengthening the feel of Communism in the Largest Democratic Nation in the World, a feat that even Mao Tse Tung have failed to achieve. Marx thought, Lenin and Stalin strengtened, but the Bengal Brave optimized it.
Mr. Jyoti Basu, 1914 - 2010, breathes his last breathe at 11:47AM, at AMRI-SaltLake, Kolkata on 17th Jan, 2010.
Red Salute.... Lal Selam....
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