‘Syanu Tara Bisalu’: Mamata Banerjee’s 3 mistakes in Darjeeling

The Darjeeling hills, Terai and Dooars are one of the most complex and complicated, cosmopolitan regions in India. This region is a miniature replica of our nation and the complexities surrounding it. Anyone wishing to govern such a complex piece of geography should have a thorough understanding of its history, polity, politics and socio-cultural fabric. My lifelong study (obsession) and understanding of our place, the people who live here, our shared history, culture and traditions, pains and sufferings, permits me to infer that anyone who doesn’t understand the meaning of the local term, ‘syanu tara bisalu’, will never really be able to govern this region.