India, Sept. 30 -- Only a very naive observer of Indian politics will believe that a first-time turncoat MLA is independently leading a rebellion that has stripped one of India's tallest regional politicians of the party she founded nearly three decades ago and the election symbol she once famously sketched to announce her break from the Congress. The existential crisis in the Trinamool Congress (TMC) - till six months ago the third-largest Opposition force in Parliament - is at once familiar and unprecedented. Other Opposition parties have haemorrhaged support after a string of losses, and shrunk into shadows of their former selves, but the TMC's poly-crisis is farcical on a whole new level. A majority of its Lok Sabha members overnight ...