The history of CCP has to be broadly categorized into three phases, which can be identified as Revolution, Reform and now making for a Chinese Rejuvenation.
If left-leaning activists, intellectuals and sympathisers feel that Lourdusamy’s end was suspicious, the Government of Maharashtra would do well to order an enquiry into the circumstances of his death.
Syama Prasad Mukherjee was an unequivocal supporter of the idea that the civilisational identity of India has a continuity which can be best defined in terms of being Hindu.
Any attempt to whitewash the impact of Emergency and tone down its consequences and implications, must be resisted, if we care for our constitutional and democratic wellbeing.