From From critical, very critical, very very critical, extremely critical to dead - Jyoti Basu RIP

Finally, the CPI(M) patriarch is dead at the age of 95!


It might be churlish to crticise him on the day of his death, but his horrendous legacy in West Bengal cannot (and should not) be brushed under the carpet just to preserve the niceties. I don't know what Marx originally had in mind when he propounded his theories of Communism, but his followers have in most part left a legacy of bloodshed, violence, mass poverty, and corruption. Basu was no different. From a fairly well to do state, he took Bengal into the depths of poverty and despair that it is in today. So, like Kanchan Gupta, I cannot mourn his passing.