State emigration

The last three decades, constructive people and people who had learnt something and wanted to accomplish something out of life went away in ever-increasing number to other parts of India or the world. There was an exodus to those areas where so called communism or socialism had not touched or corrupted the minds of the people and had not established it ugly head.



Architects, engineers, chemists, doctors, teachers, managers of works and mills, and all kinds of skilled workmen, emigrated from the stagnated swimming pool. These people envisaged themselves to be something better, and they could not bear the thought of getting only the same reward as the straightforward honest day labourer.


These people were in luck since West Bengal was a state and was under the Indian Constitution. Otherwise we would have witnessed an emigration ban, where a diktat would have been issued against all emigration without the permission of the State Govt. . . . . Senior Citizens, people beyond work, infants and physically or mentally challenged people would have been allowed to go away. The right to emigrate would not have been approved to strong and healthy people, who would be under the obligation of the State Govt. for their education, work and life, so long as they would be under the working age.


Under these state of affairs the State Govt. would harshly carry out measures deterrent to emigration. Troops would be employed in all exit points. The border patrols would be given directives to brusquely shoot down all turncoats.


What a revolution it would be – Not much different from the era of slaves that were deemed economical and viable – depriving the citizens the liberty to choose their profession or location, amplified work hours, strict rationing, enormous military expenditure, corporal punishment, forbidding them to quit, splitting up the family system, imposing and establishing Draco’s rigorous, harsh, severe and cruel laws.

It would have been akin to raising the Berlin Wall, where a movement was founded primarily to liberate the worker. The guns were then turned on the very people that the authorities vowed to save.

What a revolution!