India, Sept. 29 -- Soon Karl Marx, VI Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, or, for that matter, Prince Anwar Shah, the grandson of Tipu Sultan, would go off Kolkata roads, giving way to Desi exemplars like Debaprasad Ghosh or Michael Madhusudan Dutt and even Ram Kothari, one of the brothers who were killed in Ayodhya police firing.

The 10-member committee constituted by the State Government has already started functioning, with Kartik Maharaj, or Swami Pradiptananda of the Bharat Sevashram Sangha, among its members. Among others on the committee are former Bengal BJP president and ex Tripura Governor Tathagata Roy and Subrata Gupta, the Chief Advisor to Bengal Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari.

The monk, who has already been allocated an office at the Kol...