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9788194970750- 61ebe9a5efd4031ea8531bda Gangster State https://www.trendypaper.com/s/5b1a00c581a9afd8ff765190/61ebe9a6efd4031ea8531be8/415w9nn94ns-_sx330_bo1-204-203-200_.jpg After reigning supreme in West Bengal for thirty-four years, how did the Communist Party of India (Marxist) end up on the fringes of the political arena? In Gangster State, political journalist Sourjya Bhowmick chronicles the decline of the CPI(M) in Bengal through a compulsive work of creative non-fiction. Allured by the unrestricted power of the party, Presidency College student Rajat Lahiri joins its student wing, the Students Federation of India, and trains to become one of its foot soldiers. Soon achieving full-fledged membership, he does not hesitate in getting his hands dirty for a regime inherited by Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya from an ailing Jyoti Basu, and marred by corruption and violence. This change in leadership, prompted by the arrival of a strong contender in Mamata Banerjee, sustains the existing nexus of crime and politics and paves the way for fervid protests and brutal suppression by the state. 9788194970750-
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Author: Sourjya Bhowmick

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After reigning supreme in West Bengal for thirty-four years, how did the Communist Party of India (Marxist) end up on the fringes of the political arena? In Gangster State, political journalist Sourjya Bhowmick chronicles the decline of the CPI(M) in Bengal through a compulsive work of creative non-fiction. Allured by the unrestricted power of the party, Presidency College student Rajat Lahiri joins its student wing, the Students Federation of India, and trains to become one of its foot soldiers. Soon achieving full-fledged membership, he does not hesitate in getting his hands dirty for a regime inherited by Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya from an ailing Jyoti Basu, and marred by corruption and violence. This change in leadership, prompted by the arrival of a strong contender in Mamata Banerjee, sustains the existing nexus of crime and politics and paves the way for fervid protests and brutal suppression by the state.

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