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…with all due respects to Marquez. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

Decline and fall of civilisation can be seen best in West Bengal. In 200 years you move froma Raja Ram Mohan Roy driven enlightenment to Mamata Banerjee driven idiocracy. From arresting cartoonists, to painting the city blue, from moving Pakistan to sharing a border with Bangladesh to inexplicable bitchfits when things don’t go her way, Mamata has been a source of amusement for that part of India that doesn’t have to live or do business in West Bengal.<\/p>\n

Amul, as usual, gets it right<\/p>\n

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There is an online exhbition of Mamata cartoons here <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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