Born With The Left, Living With Trinamool, Change Eludes Bengal Voters | Read
The only thing Mridul Nandi was told about June 21, 1977, the day he was born, was that Kolkata bore a new red glow. "My father says the street lights were covered with red paper that night," he says. As Mridul came into the world, CPM leader Jyoti Basu was forming the Left government which would then go on to rule Bengal for 34 years.
