Deba Pratim Ghatak

Deba Pratim Ghatak (Debu Ghatak) is a practicing Chartered Accountant who has been in the profession for over three decades. He has been an avid watcher of Bengal politics and Bengali society. The Leftists came to power when the writer was seventeen years old and was dethroned from power when the writer was fifty-one years of age. He has been watching from the wings of the dais all the political changes that Bengal suffered (and continues to suffer) during the last four and half decades.

His in-depth knowledge of political violence comes from following the political movements through the prism of rationality, conservatism and non-partiality. During an era when every other person of Bengali society was nurturing Leftist sympathies, the writer managed to maintain a safe distance from any leanings. During his student days of politics, he has watched closely the student wing of the Left politics and their undying dedication to all the wrongs and evils that their mother organization organized. The students’ wing had always been a cover-up brigade of the Left rulers. The Leftist has systematically destroyed peace, freedom, legal remedies, civility, right to property and family life in a clinical way over the decades. All these years, society either joined in the mayhem or watched helplessly. The author, in his youth, always stayed away from the Leftist mayhem of destroying our social assets which the young otherwise found exciting. He always believed that creating social assets to be a hard laborious work and a dull one. As Roger Scruton wrote “their [conservatists’] position is true but boring. That of their opponents’ exciting but false.”

The author undertook it as a mission to highlight the violence on the have-nots that have achieved nothing for society except for keeping the Left in power. As days went by, sadly, the Leftists had to become advocates of capitalists, seeking investments from the capitalists whom they had always pretended to hate. In this book, the author has tried to record this barrage of crimes that otherwise gets treated as manifestations of class struggle.