New Delhi, Nov. 24 -- The buoyant and confident reassertion of the red flag in Bihar in the recent assembly polls has come as a moment of both collective revelation and political life-affirmation for the united Left parties in India. It has triggered a wave of optimism among the party cadre and its supporters, and the larger progressive, liberal and secular spectrum of the Indian society, reeling under a relentless fascist onslaught since 2014, especially in the Hindi heartland.
Undoubtedly, the rising Red Star over Bihar, and especially the huge victory margins of the Left candidates, especially from the CPI-ML (Liberation), a majority of them coming from incredibly humble backgrounds and representing the poorest and working classes in t...