Antics, myths and idealsMamata Banerjee has been the chief minister of West Bengal since 2011. Was the February 4 Supreme Court appearance an idealist politician’s overture for her harassed people or the myth-making machinery at work? He tells The Telegraph, “Before the Bihar polls we approached the Supreme Court in good faith. I wrote in my book that she could beprime minister one day if she could invert the social pyramid... Manusher bhalobasha is an irrational thing.”PostscriptIn October 2025, The New Yorker ran a piece called What Zohran Mamdani Knows About Power.

Source: The Telegraph February 15, 2026 10:00 UTC