Dharma Kumar - II

What AM has written in his
Calcutta Diary (March 4) is either a pen-portrait of Dharma Kumar with a touch of malice or a Calcuttan’s curse on Bombay-Delhi liberals, meaning non-Marxists. It’s a revelation that a Calcuttan Marxist (AM) has not outgrown the old-fashioned Indian’s superstitious self. For example, the concluding thought he has is: “But even those born with a silver spoon in their mouth cannot escape destiny...Pardon the shocking parallel, her state of nothingness has an eeric resemblance to the shambles the country is currently in” (emphasis added).

Vivek Sagar Minocha
Vinod Chowdhury
Delhi