On
the morning of May Day, former finance minister of West
Bengal, member of parliament, prolific writer, bureaucrat,
economist and Marxist thinker Ashok Mitra passed away
in a Kolkata nursing home. He was born in 1928 and had
turned 90 on April 10 this year. He was not just an
academic, an administrator, a politician and an activist,
but also a writer of amazing eloquence and insight in
both Bengali and English.
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This
article was originally published in The Wire on May
1, 2018.
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