The Left in India has lost touch

There is the usual frenzy of punditry as India approaches its elections. Almost all of it begins with the expression of a widespread feeling that the Congress has finally petered out of energy, lost its capacity for innovative policymaking as well as the drive of its leadership (of the sort that Sonia Gandhi surprised everyone by unleashing in the 2004 elections), and has revealed, more than ever before, its susceptibility to the lucre of corruption.

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