- Where are the comrades when one needs them?

September 08, 2014 12:10

Where's the Left when you need it? Time was when you didn't have to be a party member or a fellow traveller to admire its virtues.

After Indira Gandhi's assassination, when Sikhs were being attacked and killed in their thousands at the Congress's prompting, Jyoti Basu's steely peace-keeping in Calcutta was the stuff of urban legend.

This was 1984; the Left Front government's great experiment in land reform, Operation Barga, was yet to run its course. The Communist Party of India (Marxist) was a redistributionist, social democratic party, committed to secularism: every parliamentary system ought to have one.

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