Shame!

What followed the Jnaneswari Express derailment that cost nearly 150 innocent lives and left many more injured is utterly shocking. While primary investigation points to the fact that the ghastly incident might have been engineered by Maoists, a section of so called intellectuals went over board to accuse CPM, of course without mentioning the name, of having perpetrated such heinous crime to malign railway minister and reap benefit in Civic polls in a Press meet convened by them. Their logic was CPM could be the only beneficiary of such a gruesome tragedy. Incidentally, many of the proponents of such a theory are drawing hand some honorarium by virtue of their being on different committees of the railways because of their proximity with railway minister. Perhaps, never before any member of the civil society overtly stooped so low for personal gain or went to such an extent of slapping so serious and wild an allegation on a particular political party to show allegiance to party of his choice. To call them intellectual is doing sheer injustice to the very word ‘intellectual’. Nor can they be termed Member of the Civil Society for their uncivilized behaviour.Let us leave it to people to determine which category they belong to.