India, April 22 -- The ongoing West Bengal Assembly election campaign has taken a curious and somewhat disturbing turn, where a simple act involving Prime Minister Narendra Modi enjoying jhalmuri has been elevated into a full-scale political and media narrative, overshadowing the very essence of democratic debate in the state. What should have been seen as a routine cultural gesture-an attempt to connect with the people through a local and widely loved snack-has instead been magnified into a symbolic battleground, with television studios, social media platforms, and political actors devoting disproportionate attention to it. In the process, the real issues confronting West Bengal-governance, employment, industrial growth, law and order, a...