West Bengal, a zone of silence in India

Talk about irony. The opening ceremony of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 6 last Tuesday began with Shah Rukh Khan, filmstar, co-owner of the current champions Kolkata Knight Riders, and brand ambassador for the state of West Bengal, reciting Tagore’s immortal poem: “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high/Where knowledge is free/Where the world has not been broken up into fragments/By narrow domestic walls/ Where words come out from the depth of truth/Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection/Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way/Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit/Where the mind is led forward by thee/Into ever-widening thought and action/Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.”

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