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Lets get back our Sonar Bangla

If there is anyone out there who still doubts that India is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and govt. buildings in numbers this nation and our state has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different; that their voice could be that difference. It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, leftist and rightist Bengalis who sent a message to the world that we have never been a collection of Red and green people: we are, and always will be, Proud Indian and Bengalis. I still remember the day back at school when a chapter on West Bengal was taught and I was the most proud Bengali in the class of Punjabis. Today once again that pride is back and when no