Gangster State: The Rise and Fall of the CPI(M) in West Bengal

Gripping' SHASHI THAROOR 'First-rate' AAKAR PATEL 'Illuminating' RUPAM ISLAM Allured by the unrestricted power of the CPI(M), Presidency College scholar Rajat Lahiri joins its student wing, the Students’ Federation of India, and trains to become one of its foot soldiers. On achieving full-fledged membership, he does not hesitate in getting his hands dirty for a regime inherited by Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee from an ailing Jyoti Basu, and marred by corruption and violence. This change