Could he or couldn't he? The Telegraph tells us that people in the Left Front are busy with historical what-if analyses. I was too small to know this Great Helmsman's name, forget his politics, when I was in Calcutta. And by the time I was old enough to understand and be interested in these things I left for Pilani. And for the next six years knew nothing about the developments in the political landscape of Bengal. When I came back in 2006 to study at Presidency, I did hear my friends in SFI talking about him with great respect and admiration that Mamata could never have pulled off a moral victory, of sorts in Singur had he been alive. That he was also responsible for the rot that Bengal is today was news to me.
And India is an amazing country: where else do you think Amartya Sen's advice in policy affairs would be rejected so casually, even if he hadn't won a Nobel then? Today he gives lectures in seminars organised by the very same state government.
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