Tomorrow is Rabindranath Tagore’s birthday. 

And on this day, West Bengal gets a new government with a new ideology and a new vision.

This is an especially fitting day for the ruling party to have made their choice.

It marks the end of a dictator’s rule. 

Why women politicians turn out to be dictators is a question I couldn’t find an answer to. Some notable names are Indira Gandhi, Mayawati, Mamta Banerjee, and, not to forget, a super prime minister, Sonia Gandhi. 

Where do women’s instincts vanish?

Let us remember Tagore’s poem, “Where the mind is without fear,” because the fear in people’s minds has disappeared and they feel free after 15 years.

Where the mind is without fear, and the head is held high
 Where knowledge is free
 Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
 By narrow domestic walls
 Where words come out from the depth of truth
 Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
 Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
 Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
 Where the mind is led forward by thee
 Into ever-widening thought and action
 Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.