In the sixties in Custom Houses all over the country, particularly in Calcutta (as it then was), there were two Red Books: Mao's Red Book and the Import Policy Book. With the change in the political equation between the Chinese Communist Party and that section of communists in India, import of Mao's Red Book died a natural death. And now, with the demise of quantitative restrictions and other import controls, the other Red Book too has met with a similar fate. No tears need be shed for it.
