The Last of the Titans...

I personally feel, despite him being a colossal figure in the political frame of Bengal, death to be the best thing that can happen at his age. He lived a life way too prolonged. Bearing the tallness of a position equally revered and disgraced. And dictating a state well-dominated, then under legends, now under leaders turning grotesque. A life well-frayed, which figuratively concluded with another battle in his residual days. Death probably had received him a little earlier than seventeen days, with the commencement of the medical term of "multi-organ failure", when straining eyesight and a struggling voice had to fight fervidly with age..to give way to the dying flicker of an erstwhile flame. Its often heard, that greats die with the failure of delivering greatness. And perhaps life is not livable enough for some to continue living it as breathing puppets. Not that the former chief minister of Bengal was someone complementary to controversies, but I personally feel him to possess that, which Bengal badly needs today. And that is, transcending all political margins, a Chief minister's voice. But what futher vitiates the aura prevailing today is the commercial computations of losses and gains manoeuvred amid the deceased leader's funeral. For I feel its absolutely savage for some pitiless persons to nudge emotions in helpless people, to evoke them to wish the speedy recovery for a nonagenarian person, which can serve no purpose greater than sufficing a billionaire's bread. I have my father in the press, and its him who taught me to read beyond the printed words deemed as Bible. But I really don't see any ground on why all the muck slung upon a person in his lifetime is tactfully obscured after his death under the blanket covering his corpse, only to drain business out of his cadaver. And after absurdly wasting hours leafing through them, I wish doom for the news channels which fail to refrain from avarice, no matter what, and read nothing cruel in 'selling' a person in his afterlife.