In a Bengali avant-garde movie of the 1960s-70s, an unemployed young man, low on resources, asks another, "How many stovetops cook in this city every day?" If there was widespread unemployment and thereby resentment in Kolkata of the 1960s-70, it didn't seem that Sogo Shosha/Japanese trading houses had learnt to use Nagasaki to the Orient's advantage, two decades after the outrage.
Why didn't we find out why Nagasaki happened and thereby put an end to Sogo Shosha/Japanese trading houses' advantage in Washington DC?
Radhaballavi-alur dom at Antara's wedding reception, 2006, Asansol.
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