High drama erupted in the small hours of a suspense-filled January day in Kolkata. Masked officers of the Enforcement Directorate swept into the glossy offices of I-PAC (Indian Political Action Committee), one of the country’s leading political consultancies. They hauled away computers and files as the stunned staff looked on. Mamata Banerjee, then the Bengal chief minister and leader of the state’s governing party, rushed to the scene and walked out with several files. She complained to the reporters at the site that the “politically motivated” raid was being orchestrated by Delhi to steal information on her Trinamool Congress party’s…
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