The thin red line; West Bengal.(West Bengal's reformed Communists)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: May 8, 2004 | Copyright information

A bastion of Indian communism rebrands itself

COUNTLESS hammers and sickles are still daubed on the crumbling colonial facades of what used to be Calcutta, now named Kolkata. And when the state of which it is capital, West Bengal, goes to the polls on May 10th, in the last stage of India's protracted national election, the parties of the Communist-dominated government seem sure to trounce the opposition. The state has enjoyed a baffling political continuity that has surv...

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