Come on Sahadevan, don't be so petulant. Any writer has got to be a paid writer, otherwise how can they survive without remuneration? Anyway, it is a known fact that the Leftists have infiltrated into the media far in excess of their popular support base, and it is how we see any number of tendentious write-ups, reports and articles - heavily weighed in favour of the Leftist point of view. Yes, Left makes policies for 'people'- its own party people, and for their Chinese masters. Well, if the Left has not committed suicide, it is bound to decay on its own, suffering as it is from chronic and congenital consumption.