With all due respect to Che, this is a ridiculous article from him

[pranabjyoti]

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This is the Bengali translation of an article written by Che Guevara about India in "Verde Olivo" magazine on 12th October, 1959. The view expressed by Che in this article about is jut "ridiculous" and that is the least I can say.
Sorry to say, this kind of articles can not add respect to Che at all. Well, it may be said that it is some kind of diplomacy, but the worst level of diplomacy in my opinion.

[Adi Shankara]

I would be glad to respond...but alas, I do not read Bengali :D can you translate for us?

[Wanted Man]

I'd also love to see a translation or summary or something like that. I have many skills, but Bengali is not one of them.

[Honggweilo]

the only think i can read is "CYMK" :D

[¿Que?]

Perhaps if there was some archives of "Verde Olivio" on the internet, we might have it in Spanish. :cool:

[Rakshas]

The english translation of the above article can be read here:

http://www.frontlineonnet.com/fl2708/stories/20100423270805900.htm

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Che described his trip to India for the readers of Verde Olivo (Olive Green--the weekly publication of the armed forces) in Cuba. What's the big deal?

[pranabjyoti]

Che described his trip to India for the readers of Verde Olivo (Olive Green--the weekly publication of the armed forces) in Cuba. What's the big deal?
The irritating deal is how he described his vision about India. It's completely worthless, that's the least I can say. This article reflects IGNORANCE (sorry to say) of Che about the reality of India and history of India of 20th century.

[Blackscare]

Well explain what your problem with the article is in a few key points, or something. All you're telling us is it's worthless, but not why in any concrete way.

[pranabjyoti]

Well explain what your problem with the article is in a few key points, or something. All you're telling us is it's worthless, but not why in any concrete way.

Excerpts from Che
We have the same political and economic system, a similar past of opprobrium and colonisation, the same direction in our line of progress; yet, the solutions – very similar and geared towards the same objective – differ like day from night; while the hurricane of agrarian reform sweeps away the big land holdings of Camaguey in one grand wave and advances unstoppable through the entire country giving free land to the farmers, the great Indian nation treads cautiously with oriental parsimony, convincing the big landlords of the justice of giving the land to the tiller and the farmers of paying a price for this land, thus making almost imperceptible the transition of one of the most noble, sensible and pauperised masses of entire humanity from misery to poverty. Cuba and India have SAME political and economic system! OMG! If that's true, I will like Cuba to be colonized by US.

In India, the word War is so distant from the spirit of people that they did not use it even in the tensest moments of their struggle for independence. The huge concentrations of peaceful discontent forced English colonialism to leave forever the land that they had ruled for 150 years.Che just repeated here the "official" version of Indian freedom struggle. He had no idea about the armed struggles during the British period.

We visited an agricultural cooperative in a place close to the capital, New Delhi. After about 40 km of passage through arid landscapes, in which greenery and trees stood out through their absence, while cows and buffaloes demonstrated their almost singular presence in the plains, we reached a small hutment with mud walls and desperate poverty. The school, a pride for the cooperative, was being run on the extraordinary effort of two teachers who looked after the five classes which it consisted of. Emaciated children with frequent signs of illnesses, sitting on the floor on their haunches, heard the explanations of the teacher.Such things, which can be called as "agricultural cooperative" is just non-existent in India even today. Perhaps he had visited a panchayat (autonomous village council) and he marked it as "agricultural cooperatives". In the state of Maharashtra and some other parts of India, kulak groups exist, but that can be called as "agricultural cooperatives" of poor farmers.

It is interesting to note that in this country of contrasts, where misery coexists with the highest refinements of civilised life and state-of-the-art technical know-how, women occupy a preponderant role in social relations and even in politics. The graceful and sweet Indian woman occupies positions such as those of the Congress president and the Vice-Minister of External Affairs, to cite just a few examples. In short, Che have NO idea about the real condition of women in India. He had no idea about bridal killings for dowry, honor killings lack of literacy, killing of female child and other such phenomenons in India. He just saw some creamy layer of city dwelling women and concluded totally wrong about the condition of women in India.

This enormous and extraordinary country has a series of institutions and customs that do not respond to any concept that we may form about the social problems of the times we live in.He doesn't have any idea about Asian feudalism? Strange!
This article clearly shows that Che have no idea how the first elected Communist Government in the state of Kerela is undemocratically destroyed by Nehru in 1946 by using Article 356 of Indian constitution (one of the blackest part of Indian constitution), how Nehru demolished the Telengana peasants movements. He had no idea about how Nehru, as an act of treachery, just introduced British Colonial repressive acts to the constitution of FREE AND SOVEREIGN India. The India of today, run by Chidambaram and Singh, is just bearing the legacy of Nehru whom Che praised so much in his article.
It was Stalin and later Mao, who had properly understood the real character of Indian rulers.