Calcutta Diary

The Ruling Party Romesh Thapar WITH the Soviet Union importing 30 million tons of foodgrains from the USA in the fiftieth anniversary of tin; founding of the Socialist Republic, and Mao's China bidding for five million tons, India's Communists, leftists, radicals, gingerists and what have you are in a state of ideological trauma. The whispered admission is heard : 'Maybe, a mixed economy is not all that absurd'. So far, it's only a whisper