Interestingly, though not surprisingly, at a time when West Bengal is grappling with real issues of communal violence, a section of Delhi-based national media chose to invent imaginary demons of communal politics in the state around the Ramnavami procession. Such script had a narrative that the English media had woven in the wake of the unprecedented Ramnavami celebrations seen in West Bengal this year. The obvious naivete and hypocrisy of such an alarm were something I addressed in a different piece for this site. Clearly, the media had learnt something about how common such pomp in Ramnavami celebrations is if they had an idea about processions in the neighbouring states of Bihar and Jharkhand.