A R KAMAT 59 Bengal, drawing attention to issues and problems, and what in his opinion, would be the proper Marxist approach to each of them. This he would do in his remarkably individual style, without imposing himself, as a comrade, a comrade who is a scholar, as a comrade who is a scholar but whose scholarship .does not intrude upon you; one would, on each occasion, almost visualise the self-deprecatory twinkle in the eye, and feel the touch of an adiding affection which would leave its impress all over: we call this self-criticism, comrades. Here was a complete social scientist. From now on, those of us who laid a claim to his affection will have to proceed without his comradely guidance. But his example will be there: we must cultivate scholarship, we must cultivate the scientific attitude, but above all, we must cultivate the Marxist humility which is the synonym of Marxist pilde. ASHOK MITRA Finance Minister, West Bengal