Where the mind is with fear

Where the mind is with fear and heads hang in shame;
Where knowledge is hostage to terror;
Where the state has been broken up into fragments by mafioso party cadre;
Where words come out from the abyss of subterfuge;
Where tireless indoctrination manipulates minds into deception;
Where the clear stream of revolution has lost its way into the
dreary politics of dead ideology;
Where the mind is led backward by them into an ever-widening?chasm of?fear
and inaction–
Into that cess pit of horror, Gurudeb, your sons have regressed

With due apologies to Gurudeb Rabindranath Tagore, a lament on the terror unleashed in Nandigram by the CPI-M’s mafioso Harmud Vahini with the full blessings of Comrades Prakash Karat, Sitaram Yechury, Jyoti Basu, Brinda Karat and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee and Biman Bose.

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