Jyoti Basu`s successes and failures
Jyoti Basu`s life encompasses the entire period of the Left`s rise and fall in India.
When he first became a legislator in the West Bengal assembly in the late 1940s, there were only two of them in the house. His death six decades later has taken place at a time when the ideology itself is dying out not only in India, but worldwide.
His admirers - and they are a legion - are bound to derive no little satisfaction, therefore, from the fact that he was associated almost solely with the ascent of the party and that he was spared the sorrow of seeing its decline and fall.
Image: Indian veteran communist leader Jyoti Basu greets well-wishers on his 96th birthday at his residence in Kolkata on July 8, 2009.
Text: IANS
Images: AFP
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