Wednesday 18 May 2016

Siliguri a small township

Siliguri a small town in West Bengal commonly said a capital of North Bengal is a most vulnerable town ship, very delicate by its culture, composition, and heritage.

Almost 60 years back this small township began to grow centering around its main railway station named Siliguri Town Rly Station.

Once Rabindranath Tagore, Lord Clive, and many other dignitaries visited this station for going to Darjeeling, the summer capital of Bengal. Darjeeling, Kurseong, Kalimpong,Sikkim, Nepal, Bhutan are closely connected with this small township.. Its a gateway of all those places and Doors, Assam, and 7 states of India.

Hill Cart Road a main road in Siliguri that extended upto Darjeeling. A small train, commonly said toy train used to travel through this road tearing the main city to Darjeeling. Any young could easily embark into and disembark from this train when it was moving through the road.


I grew up in this small town, I studied here,  played here, loved my friends, loved my brothers,sisters. I had seen my father's struggle and mother's endurance. I also found my wife here.

We had a big house at Siliguri. We alongwith my brothers and sisters once lived there. Now by the time flew, we were  separated by Flats.Still we have,  had very strong bond among brothers.

During Summer we visited Siliguri and  enjoyed winter there.

Now Siliguri has one fly over. It was built very casually, no plan, no fore look It did not make any big  advantage rather it made the city dirty. The big and old market of Siliguri now become shabby, no free walk, making huge disadvantage to the people of the city. It gave advantage to Left party to win election. As a matter of fact the left had no positive outlook. If you see critically this left oriented party did nothing radical to the people of Bengal. They did not understand even that they betrayed the people with so much of majority in the Govt. So Siliguri was the perennial sufferer.

Siliguri has  a peculiar people base,  Bengali's are disseminating . There is huge increase Nepalis, Marwariees, Punjabi, Biharis and some ethnic group of  people. The villages surrounding Siliguri are infested with Bengali Mulims(trespassers). Left allowed them to live there and helped them to get official papers in order to enroll them in their party. Rajbansis sold their land and went interior of the villages who are actual sufferers.

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