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Proud of a notion

If one can hopefully treat the Kerala chief minister’s remarks as a one-off, the Mumbai tragedy has seen the continuation of the Left’s efforts, including earlier ones by Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, to find a niche in the nationalist narrative. There was a time the Left was at best indifferent to   ....Read more

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Left's shellBy: J.M.Manchanda | Wednesday , 3 Dec '08 20:00:19 PM Reply | Forward The Left got more than its fair share of soundwaves thanks to UPA depending on its support. But once it withdrew, its opinion or the lack of it hardly matters. As the nobel laureate, Sen aptly summed up, it lost its voice. at the time of any national disaster, the Left becomes dumb-founded and withdraws into a shell i.e. Kerala and West Bengal. Almost reminiscent of Satan's lines from Paradise Lost, "better to rule in hell than serve in heaven"!
Patriotism and Left - ??By: oldindian | Wednesday , 3 Dec '08 15:58:36 PM Reply | Forward As good as blowing conch shell into deaf's ears.
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