Many years ago, freedom fighter Gopal Krishna Gokhale made a grand pronouncement that made him most beloved of all Bengali people: ‘What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow’. For this, he was “honoured” by being made an honorary Bengali and his name was conveniently changed to Gokhel (easier to pronounce for the average Bengali, don’t tell the Thackeray family).

Poor man must be shuddering in his eternal rest.