Far removed from the tsunami of the political churn in Indian politics today, the winds of the Baltic Sea brush across my face on the quiet island of Gotland, Sweden. Yet my thoughts reflect on the winds of change in my beloved state of West Bengal. There is, once again, the faint stir of possibility. A possibility that Bengal, after more than five decades of drift, may finally begin the long journey back to where it once stood: as India’s intellectual, cultural, and economic nerve centre.