Roy is a veteran of letters on corporate affairs to the Centre. This one, he says, was prompted by fears of India’s national security being compromised since MTN is present in Iran, Syria, Sudan, Ivory Coast — all states under US sanctions. That’s either downright inconsistency in someone consistently critical, on record, of US sanctions and policy towards Iran — and even of India’s anti-Iran stand at the IAEA — or unnatural ideological flexibility in one who believes a communist should be rigid. Or maybe, Roy, unwittingly, has graduated to India’s post-ideological politics.