WB: Left vs future

For the past 100 years, there have been two sharply conflicting perceptions of Bengalis. The first takes off from Gopal Krishna Gokhale’s astonishingly non-prescient testimonial , “What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow.” The second centres on the Bengali bhadralok as the obvious inspiration for Rudyard Kipling’s chattering, disruptive bandarlog in “Jungle Book”.

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