New Delhi, May 8 -- As the long-winded election campaign plods on, a lot has already changed on the Indian political scene. For one, the main opposition Congress party for the first time in more than a decade can clearly and in sharp relief articulate its political position before the electorate. This is the Indian National Congress firmly to the left of centre, less a question of degree and more a question of direction and position and the quadrant in which the party sits in the current political landscape. What is emerging from the party of liberalisation and privatisation is now no more a tentativeness with the agenda of social justice, wealth/income inequality, or workers' rights; it is a clear placing of the flag, a sharp turn to the...