The shackled tiger?
The well known 'Golden Bengal' was one of the richest regions on earth, famous for 'Muslin'-- the luxurious fabric, precious jewellery, silk, spices, jute and tea. It was the goose that laid golden eggs which lured 'traders' from all around the world who turned into 'rulers'. It had far greater economic, intellectual and cultural excellence than the rest of India which gave birth to the 'Bengal Renaissance' starting with Raja Ram Mohan Roy in the 18th century. Bengal was the birthplace of numerous notable intellectuals including Tagore, the first Asian Nobel laureate in 1913 for 'Geetanjali', Physicist Sir J.C. Bose, pioneer of radio and microwave optics investigation in 1895 and Chemist P. C. Roy, founder of 'Bengal Chemicals' and discoverer of medicinal compounds using cattle bones in 1896.
India was a very bitter pill to swallow for the British. In 'partition and destruction of India' in 1947, the final product of the 'British Empire', the foundation was laid not for two but three countries: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. This event of 'independence' was justly described by Mahatma Gandhi, once dismissed by Churchill as a 'half-naked fakir' as 'nothing to celebrate'.
Today the 'Bengal tiger', after painful reincarnations as East Bengal, East Pakistan and finally Bangladesh, 'shackled by poverty', is exploited as a breeding ground for 'bonded labour' to feed the 'fashion hungry Westerners'!
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