There’s nothing wrong with any of that, so long as it is recognised for what it is. If this is not checked swiftly, such unrestricted "diplomatic" activity is bound to be counter-productive in the near future. This came through Dipak Biswas, who personally approached the Chinese embassy in Nepal. Now, in Bengal, it is hoping to use Durga Puja and Kali Puja (Diwali in North India) to ease its access to the consumer market of millions of Indians.. If so, one must remember that no superpower thinks of anything except its own interests. In 2018, it appears to be the turn of the Chinese embassy. This is the same China that in its own backyard has declared a virtual war on the Tibetan Buddhists, the Muslims of Xinjiang and hinterland Christians over their religious beliefs, rites and rituals.It happened two years ago as well. What has China failed to do via chaos, confrontation and civil war-type situations in the Northeast and in West Bengal five decades ago will be tried in future through cash, commerce, consumer goods, culture and now Durga Puja!Beijing’s hope is to sow internal dissension and doubts and to create a powerful Chinese lobby deep within India. There will also be a "spread of Chinese cuisines for the peckish", the Chinese consul-general declared at a press conference, flanked by members of puja organising committee, China stretch fabric fabric "to enhance China-India friendship… and to build mutual trust". And then go back to the predecessors of the Hindu Bengali Marxists — the Hindu Bengali Maoists! Remember the havoc they had wrought in West Bengal — destroying culture, education, the social fabric, polity, economy and industry. Things are certainly not as simple as they are often made out to be. New Delhi must ensure we don’t go down that path once again and that Beijing’s representatives in this country remain within their proper boundaries.

The gravity of the Chinese involvement deep inside India was narrated by Naxalite leader Souren Bose, who met Zhou Enlai in Beijing on October 29, 1972 to brief the Chinese leadership on the "Indian revolution".Let’s try to see the bigger picture first. West Bengal has a tradition of self-destruction. Mukherjee. All the more because pre-1947 Bengal and post-independence West Bengal has been a laboratory for political experimentation by many interest groups, ranging from the British to the Muslim League to the Congress Party to Hindu leader-led Communists of various shapes, sizes and strengths. In which Charu Majumdar stated: "In 1968 the Chinese Embassy in Nepal sent a sum of Rs 10,000 in Nepalese currency.But Durga Puja is a Hindu socio-religious festival and Communist China is, officially at least, "anti-religion"!

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