Towards an Indian Agenda for the Indian Left Yogendra Yadav THIS note is addressed to all those who identify with one or another form of the Indian left today: the communist parties, 'naxalites', various 'socialist' groups or oth ers of independent left/socialist inclination It raises a question of common and currently pressing concern: what is to he done? What direction should socialist politics take in today'' India? The note is not so much an answer to this question as a preliminary statement of some general observations relevant to such an answer. Beginning with a very brief assessment and diagnosis of what ails the Indian left today, it goes on to spell out something of a new agenda for the politics of socialism in India. The purpose is to begin a non-polemical and meaningful debate on what may be some fundamental questions relevant to the present political and ideological dilemma of the Indian left.