WikiLeaks: Prakash Karat, Sitaram Yechury charmed US officials in 2007

The latest WikiLeaks exposé of secret cables sent from Delhi and other embassies almost turns the infamous American misgiving about Indian communists on its head. Contrary to popular perception that capitalist US looks at Indian communists with suspicion, the embassy staff in Delhi was charmed by their two frontline leaders - Prakash Karat and Sitaram Yechury. Karat was described as "skillful" and adept at interpreting nuanced political affairs, while Yechury was dubbed by the fawning Americans as the "thinking man's Marxist".

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