Wednesday, December 2, 2015

A Message for all

We are part time college lecturers; an educated & at the same time exploited section of this society. This may be witnessed by all who follow our blog regularly. They are well aware of the role we play in the higher education scenario of the society, & the painful ways we are being treated by the government. Millions of students have established themselves in life, through our guidance & training. We light others' lives but ourselves remain in utter darkness. We are starving, tortured & humiliated intellectuals & believe firmly that by following a democratic way of moving to the streets, time and again we can attain our rights. We have advanced till date, through several symbolic movements, the implications of which, wise men will surely understand. We have abstained from traditional movements using satire as a means of conveying our pain & suffering to the general people. We have several friends of the media beside us who have let the world know about our misfortunes. The Govt is not unaware of our situation. They can well read the message conveyed through our movements but have shown abject disinterestedness in solving our problems. To solve our financial scarcity (a college lecturer is paid less than a school teacher!!) the Govt has withdrawn half the amount from every college fund, but that amount is being spent on other matters and not for the teachers. Money is misused at random in a society where the teachers are starving! Ill paid teachers are looked down upon, they suffer immensely, the general election is close at hand & the state government turns a deaf ear to all cries of assistance.

These unbearable situations have compelled us to move to the streets once again. like several times before. People from all walks of life who really feel for us may come & stand beside us, in our fight against oppression & injustice. Fight with us for a noble cause, walk with us a few steps to make us realize that this society really thinks teachers to be its backbone. Underfed teachers can never present us with a better society for our future generations. We invite the general mass to join our movement on 4th Dec, '15 at 10 am, in our protest march from Raja Subodh Mullick Squire to Esplanade Y Channel, Kolkata. Be not only the general reader of our chronicles of pain & sufferings, but also our real friend.


-Elora Biswas (9433931599)