Salute to you Calcutta
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"Kolkata" - the name is known to almost everyone. This Kolkata was once a village, but today it is Kolkata metropolis. Yes indeed, Calcutta was once a village. Do you remember that childhood education? The city of Calcutta (Calcutta) was built with the three villages of Sutanuti, Gobindpur, Calcutta. Do you remember Job Charnak? Today Calcutta is one of the most important cities in India. Let's tell the readers this gossip of Kolkata.
During the Nawabi period, Kolkata was not very important. Then the capital of Bengal was 'Murshidabad'. Before that, however, the capital was 'Gaur'.
After Nawab Sirajuddaula ascended the throne, he conquered Calcutta (Calcutta) and named it Alinagar. The date of capture of Fort William was 20th June 1756 AD. After conquering Calcutta, Nawab Siraj left Calcutta to Manik Chand. Calcutta has become an important city of Bengal then. After the Battle of Palashi, the British had their headquarters almost entirely in Calcutta.
After the Boxer War (1764) Calcutta became the capital of British India. At that time, the British occupied almost the whole of India. After that, the British rule continued for about 190 years. Calcutta witnessed many events during this British era. How many important decisions were made by the great Lat Sahebs from this city, how much they showed their wisdom and magic. He has built big institutions, built many factories on the banks of the Hooghly river. Kolkata has witnessed all this, how many deaths - deaths from starvation, deaths by police batons, how many murders, how many injuries, how many martyrs were hanged, how many strikes. , How much hunger etc. How much more? Again, this Kolkata has heard many sounds like "Vandemataram", "Jai Hind", "Inkilab Zindabad", heard the cry of the mother of a dead child, heard the cry of hunger and on the other hand, Kolkata has heard the laughter and jokes of the men and women of the European club.
Calcutta is a city where millionaires live, next to it there are slums, that is, poor people live here. No one can eat here and no one wants to eat even if they get food, it wastes it. Calcutta is kind of full of all these things. Sometimes roaring with anger and sometimes quietly, quietly. How many castes, how many races, how many religions, different languages, different people live in this city. A cup of tea costs 500 taka somewhere in Kolkata and 5 taka somewhere. Some have to think five times to buy tea for 5 rupees, while others tip 50 rupees after a meal of tea for 500 rupees. Kolkata is such a busy city.
How many meetings-marchs-strikes have happened in this busy Kolkata and are still happening everyday....
Readers may remember about Kolkata in 1905 partition of Bengal. What is the form of Calcutta then! The wind of Indian anger-anger-revenge seems to be blowing in the sky of Calcutta. Public and student picketing-meeting-march-police baton charge..etc. Calcutta was angry then. The anti-secession movement was everywhere in Bengal, and its main center was Calcutta. Ravi Tagore tied Hindus and Muslims together through the festival of Rakhibandhan. Avni Tagore drew a picture of 'Bharatmata' and created a sense of nationalism. City workers went on strike. Bipinchandra, Chittaranjan, Liaquat all stood shoulder to shoulder against the partition of Bengal. Students were a key component of this movement as well. The students of Kolkata's Ripon College i.e. Surendranath College marched - went on strike - what else... This is how the city of Kolkata got angry. Again with police batons and shots, everything was silent. What is the force of the red turban --- Calcutta's frenzy stops --- Calcutta is silent again. Everything is normal.
This Kshyapami of Calcutta was 1905-11. After some time, Gandhiji called for non-violent non-cooperation movement (1920). Then the madness of Calcutta started again--- strike, picketing, school college boycott, road meeting, procession... Again the police baton charge and Gandhiji's protest. The diameter! Calcutta's frenzy stopped.
What city is this father? Sometimes angry! Kali-Durga-Jesus-Buddha all live in this city, there is more trouble in this city. What is the fault of Tagore-God? First the tyranny of the red turban and then, the tyranny of the foot-licking black babu of the red turban. The common people will be angry.
Calcutta was a little angry during the civil disobedience movement but reached the extreme limit of madness during the Quit India movement of 42. What a terrible form of this crazy queen! What a fight! In August 1942, the whole of India saw the fierce statue of Calcutta. Trams are burning, big houses are burning, buses are burning, factories are locked. No more sticks this time---shooting is going on. Children and children are not afraid, they have also come out on the streets with bricks and torches in their hands. How many sounds in the sky of Kolkata --- the sound of gunshots, the sound of bombs, the sound of "Bandemataram", "Jaihind", "Inkilab Zindabad" and many more... But in the midst of so much noise, everyone is saying, "Englishman, you should leave India". There are no accounts from that time due to the sheer number of deaths in Calcutta. Their dead bodies fall on the sidewalks and streets. The stench in the air, rotting in the body of Calcutta.
Poor people from the village came to this Calcutta because of their stomach. They thought that if they went to the city, they would get a bite to eat. But their hope was not fulfilled. The boy who used to farm came to Calcutta to work in a paper mill and the one who fished was working in the city but due to the strike due to the movement, everyone was unemployed. Again Japan conquered Burma and bombarded Calcutta in this 42 year. Dalhousie and Khidirpur. All around the workers, laborers, corpses of common people and cars. Because of the fear of the Japanese, the English government also introduced the terracotta policy, famine appeared all over Bengal including Calcutta. That famous Manvantar is known as Panchasher Manvantar of Bengal. Between 40 and 70 million people perished.
At that time, this madman, khapat Calcutta was also crying. Hundreds of people were crying. Those who came from the village hoping for two handfuls of food, those mothers returned to the village with their arms empty, those girls returned to the village with their shells broken, the people returned to the village with the pain of losing their relatives. All around only the sound of crying. As if this Calcutta itself was crying that day. No one had ever seen death so horrible before.
Then the group of girls with burnt foreheads wiped their tears and said "Sir, if you wipe the tears of the poor-sad people, if you kill them by starvation-torture, will this injustice be tolerated?" The result of the curse was too soon. On the other hand, Netaji formed the Azad Hind Army with the help of Japan and Germany, attacked British India through Singapore, Bangkok and captured Kohima in 1944. The frenzy of war also started in Calcutta to corner the British from all sides. Again the movement started across the city of Calcutta. The only smell in the air in the sky of Kolkata is the smell of movement. Everyone's goal is "freedom". Rashid Ali Day was celebrated in Calcutta on February 12, 1946 to prevent the imprisonment of their Captain Rashid Ali when the plan of the Azad Hind forces failed. Strike across Calcutta, from 12th to 14th February.
Independence met in 1947 amidst so much movement, so much bloodshed, so much. Indian granted independence into being on August 15, 1947.
But in this moment of extreme joy, that heart-breaking pain, the partition of the country happened immediately after gaining independence. Along with India, a new state is Pakistan. Alas, Indians were born with a burnt forehead, they must cry! So much movement, so much, that is Bengali share. Calcutta died only with trouble and bloodshed.
Its impact was greatest in this city of Kolkata. Millions of people came from East Pakistan (Bangladesh) to this city of Kolkata during this time. They have no place to stay, no place to eat, they have nothing, they are destitute. The government called them "refugees". They may have come to live in the country in search of fortune. This was the situation till about 1950. All this was witnessed by the city of Kolkata.
I have not told the readers the history of Calcutta, I have told the contribution of Calcutta. Here is the greatness of Calcutta, days pass, years pass, this city Calcutta creates new achievements every day. No one can finish telling its story. Even today, go to Calcutta and see the houses of the English period, Victoria Fields, horse carriages, Sealda-Boubazar intersection, every corner of Dharmatala. Somewhere, every brick hides the story of Calcutta. The city tells its own story, just like Queen Victoria does its own boasting. Calcutta is still a witness of new events on a daily basis. Calcutta has endured happiness and sadness, laughter and tears with closed faces. Sometimes Calcutta gets angry when the barrier of tolerance is broken. Do not misunderstand Calcutta, this city knows how to embrace everyone, it also knows how to love because there were many humane people like Tagore Ramakrishna, Mother Sarada, Rani Rasmani, Mother Teresa in this city. So just as Kolkata can show anger like Queen Victoria, it can also pull everyone into its bosom like Mother Sarada. Hence Calcutta is the Queen of India, "The City of Joy". Everyone's favorite crazy queen. This diverse city is the city of love, the city of guiding India, the city of presenting Bangladesh to the world. So I say hello to Calcutta.
