OP-ED: Curb your enthusiasm, Bengalis

Any euphoria on part of Modi’s detractors may be ill-advised

Like most ethnic Bengalis, I too take a wicked pleasure in seeing “Didi” Mamata Banerjee dispatch the juggernaut of the BJP-led central machinery in India last week and stop, for now, the relentless march of the saffron combine across India’s length and breadth. As an admirer of pluralist, liberal democracy, the victory of Didi’s TMC at the West Bengal polls heartens me even more.

The erstwhile lecturer of politics in me, however, finds any euphoria on part of Prime Minister Modi’s detractors to be decidedly ill-advised.