Price for our Pride

today there was a mail from Sathish (my collegemate)

an oscar seems to be near , but at the cost of pride of our country, and rowdy is kolkota
government doing nothing abt this

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/23/docu.brothels/index.html

i grew curious when the matter drawn to attention was regarding Kolkataand pride of our country..

when i read the content i was a bit shaken..

Kolkata once upon a time was a City of Pride,City of Joy and rich Heritage.. but its true that its been devastated to this extent...

it was once kolkata was projected as the heritage gateway to india but now its the other way.. the poverty is what is being used to project this place..

the entire east india is not of very big growths, people from states like Bihar,Orissa and other Eastern part of our country come to Kolkata to make thier life.. whether there is a flood or there is a drought millions of people have come to this small place.. how could you expect a city to accomodate millions of people..

now its gone really out of control.. the heart of the city is so crumbled,shabby with traffic,pollution.. and lots of poor ppl whoz daily life goes on platform..

it was really difficult to accept the fact that a SINGLE PARTY WAS RULING THIS PLACE FOR 25 Yrs.. and the people of this state are called Intelects..

most of them seems to have, who cares nature.. and for huge number of ppl who had left thier village during drought or flood.. survival is the biggest thing.. and you cant expect them to have a perfect living...

I've been to the place Sonagachi, the very near place before it is so busy market place,and it looks like a very very descent area always bubling with traffic.. and no signs you could notice .. but once you make a small turn you enter this place.. where you find lots of ppl pushed into such a drastic life..

we were able to see policemens roaming just before their houses (security for them ?) ..

you can even see small kids standing and inviting you .. it was so horrible da.. so small small kids..
(we had actually went with an intention of having a different funny experience..by seeing it,.. but after seeing such cases.. it went out the other way.. we came with a heavy heart)..

ppl are accepting this to a level that they start fighting saying.. if such a place is not there, then family girls cant proceed a normal life.. (what shame of them..) ..

and even TV Channels like Discovery once showed a tv program about kolkata where they were showing dresss-less Fakhirs.. (or samiyars).. but the place actually they showed is called Diamond Harbour.. which is very very far from kolkata and such things happen very rarely.. (where during a festive time..they gather..).. but it was projected as if.. entire kolkata is always like this..
so these foreigners are making money out of such stuffs..

there is no use with the govt over here...

if i could do a small effort.. even it can be a very small effort.. in helping to improve this place , before i leave Cal permanentaly ..i would a bit satisfied .. just trying to explore how can/where can i contribute a help (not just monetary.. but something more than that..that could really help to make the change possible..)

letz see what time has to answer my queries