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Losing the Plot: Political Isolation of West Bengal
Author: Sugato Hazra
Publisher: Niyogi Books
Pages: 428
Price: Rs 795
Even as Mamata Banerjee leads the Trinamool Congress to new pastures far beyond West Bengal, you ask yourself if the author’s somewhat gloomy assessment of the state’s place in Indian politics is justified. West Bengal will, willy-nilly, have a unique position of power in both federal and state politics in the coming days, becoming even more influential than it is at present. This is not to decry the well-researched and deeply thought-through analysis of the state’s position in India’s mind-space in the book — a comprehensive
