In this book the author, who was born and brought up in West Bengal/India during the Left Front era, ponders over the question, ‘How did I become interested in Marxist politics and what do I still believe in?’ As a student of History, the author had learnt that one should maintain distance and analyse the object of study as if the analyst is a judge trying to find the truth about a place and a period of time. Such a method, according to the author, ...