The fearful Bengali now epitomises Tagores home state

April 27, 2016 12:59

"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high," wrote Rabindranath Tagore, exemplar par excellence of the Bengal Renaissance. Yet fear is the key in the current assembly elections. Violence has marked almost every phase of the rather insulting six phase assembly poll. So far three CPM activists have died.

Read Sagarika Ghose's column on the Bengal polls here.

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