You are absolutely right -- Infact Bengal is the Intellectual capital of India. Communism was once -- 50 years ago very intellectual stuff. Now it's only STUFF. What Bengal needs is a Visionary leader who can channel the energies of Bengalis constructively -- that leader is neither Buddhadeb nor Mamta Bannerji. Infact that leader may have to come from a non-political profession like the first CM, Dr B C Roy who led the state thru its most difficult period after partition and freedom