Citizen Mukherjee's Nagpur speech makes everyone a winner, for now

Political pundits and historians to come will decide what meaning will be ascribed to Mukherjee's meeting with RSS leaders

Czech-born novelist Milan Kundera begins ‘The Book of Laughter and Forgetting’ with the story of a photograph clicked in Prague. The story goes that when communist leader Klement Gottwald stepped on to the balcony of a palace for a speech in 1948, comrade Vladimir Clementis gave his fur hat to the bareheaded leader on that cold day. The propaganda division of the communists made hundreds of thousands of copies of the snap that showed the fur hat on Gottwald, who was flanked by aides. After Clementis was hanged on treason charges, he vanished from the photograph, leaving Gottwald and the