The last ten years saw the gradual ascendancy of new leaders, right from Modi-Amit Shah and Rahul Gandhi to Akhilesh Yadav and Tejashwi Yadav, in their respective parties, as also that of a rank outsider to politics like Arvind Kejriwal—a byproduct of the anti-corruption movement spearheaded by Anna Hazare—who captured Delhi with a brute majority in the assembly polls. Alongside, many battle-scarred veterans such as Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, Mulayam Singh Yadav, Laloo Prasad Yadav, Manik Sarkar retreated into the background. But we also have a few survivors like Nitish Kumar, Naveen Patnaik and Pawan Kumar Chamling, who breezed through the decade of fluctuating fortunes unscathed, holding on to the same vantage position they had in 2009. And then, there is the irrepressible Mamata Banerjee, who captured Bengal by singeing the old Red bastion with Singur-Nandigram fire in 2011. Even as the chief minister, she appears to have lost none of the fighting instincts of an opposition leader, as it was on full display during her recent sit-in against the CBI.