What happens when Pranab Mukherjee, UPA's leading crisis manager, becomes embroiled in the heart of a crisis? Does it point to what one analyst calls 'a government in anarchy'? And doesn't it ironically reinforce the question as to why Mukherjee has been denied the top job. From his ancestral village in Birbhum in West Bengal, an intimate portrait of the man many say is the eternal bridesmaid of Indian politics.
