Synopsis

Leaders are not known to air their differences with comrades in public. In fact, they often do it only within their badly lit rooms.

In a recent interview to The Economic Times, author Salman Rushdie summed up the agony of the global Left movement with a tinge of magical realism: “If they’re given hundred hours, they fight each other for 90 hours, make love for eight hours and fight world capitalism for the remaining two hours.” Except for making love, the rest could be true of any Left party in India, including the biggest constituent, the CPM. Well, its leaders are not known to air their differences with comrades in public. In fact, they often do it only within their badly lit rooms in poorly furnished offices. ..

Of course, the atypical scene of party members smoking beedis and tucking into dal vadas while discussing, for instance, the “Hungarian Question”, among other pressing matters, is history, but whatever they speak is meant to remain within the four walls. There are exceptions though. Former Kerala chief minister and party veteran VS Achuthanandan, who is well past superannuation even by standards in Indian politics, was in his late 80s when he started lashing out openly at his staunch ally-turned ..

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