Work Culture in West Bengal

Being a student of anthropology, I know the meaning of culture better than any other graduates. I have studied not only the present culture but also the prehistoric ones of different countries in my days of graduation in Bangabasi College. I have heard the term "Work Culture" first from the mouth of our Chief Minister of West Bengal. We work to make a livelihood and I don't think that there should be a new culture for work. Work should be done so that a city progresses, a state progresses and if a state progresses, it will motivate the country to progress. Do the people of Gujarat talk about work culture? Do the Europeans talk about work culture? They just do their work quietly! I will be talking about more of this later but first let me tell you how a strike made things complicated on October 31.

In early morning I woke up to go to my office. My office is in Gariahat and an arrangement has been made to catch the car arranged by my company which will come at a point close to my house around 5:30 p.m. My sleep in the night was disturbed. I was in tension of how to go to office the next day. The office is a medical transcription company. It was not a normal day especially October 31. Trinomul Congress called a bandh or strike for 12 hours started from 6 a.m. and ending around 6 p.m. So the cars have been arranged to pick up the workers around before six in morning and enter the office around 6. You know this strike is being made by the TMC in protest of the violence of Nandigram but it disrupted the normal life. It does not hamper the government employees who enjoy this strike and the salary without work. But it really affect an employee of private company who has to take the risk and go to the office in a car arranged by the company.