00:00Whoever has sat in a college street coffee house through the evening, overhearing loud
00:05arguments about Sarthar and Satyajit Ray, heard temple bells, mingled with the morning sounds
00:11at dawn, or been hugged by perfect strangers after a talk, knows that Kolkata loves the
00:16sublime.
00:18On my last day, as the participants of my Geetha Samagam wisdom program burst into a spontaneous
00:24uproar of Ekala Chalo Ray.
00:34And the auditorium reverberated with hundreds of voices of consciousness demanding one liberation.
00:41I found myself dissolving in the moment.
00:45If the gifted youth of Bengal now reclaim their individuality, it will not be by rejecting
00:50their collective memory, but by adding to it a new chapter written not in the shadow of
00:56ideology, but in the light of direct seeing.
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