In your face

“This was perhaps the most memorable year in Indian politics, thanks to CPI (M) General Secretary Prakash Karat (56). He swayed the government in the direction he wished—from stalling the Indo-US nuke deal, to keeping the NDA government on tenterhooks, and then, overruling the Congress’ choice of the Presidential candidate four times before agreeing to Pratibha Patil for the position— undoubtedly, he had the things his way. The last has not been heard from this Marxist veteran.