Partha Banerjee has been inducted into RSS through his father at a very young age. However, in his early youth the ideological conflict between the RSS ideology and the liberal Bengali philosophy had started to bother him. Finally he raised a number of fundamental questions to the RSS leadership - as the answers remained unsatisfactory, he decided to quit the two decade long association and subsequently started to explore the other side of the political spectrum. Nevertheless, his long quest for a sensible political ideology remained highly unsatisfied until much later in his life when he travelled to the US and met Noam Chomsky, with whom he established a long association (Partha interviewed Noam five times and regularly communicates with him via emails). Partha, a PhD in biological science from US, ended up quitting science and spent much of hi ...