Summers in West Bengal are traditionally all about mangoes and lychees. But this has turned out to be the Summer of the Egg and not even the most hard-boiled political observer could have seen that coming.After the Trinamool Congress (TMC) was ousted from power in West Bengal this May, almost every other day, there comes news of yet another party leader being pelted with eggs. The targets have included Abhishek Banerjee, Mamata Banerjee’s nephew and TMC national general secretary, all the way down to local councillors and neighbourhood dadas. Meanwhile, keeping with the egg theme, TMC’s existing MPs and MLAs are being poached by rival factions while the rest scramble for cover.Observers call this the pent-up anger of ordinary people fed up with corruption and extortion. The revenge of the petit-bhurjee as it were. Apparently, there is a thriving market for rotten eggs now, hitherto destined to become fish feed. Some wonder why the TMC leaders who hurriedly deserted the mothership and swore allegiance to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seem to have escaped the egg barrage. And who might be egging on the aam aadmi since eggs aren’t cheap?Meanwhile, while politicians face eggs aplenty, they might vanish from mid-day meals under the ISCKON pilot programme the government wants to roll out. But the general consensus in Bengal seems to be that you cannot make a new omelette without cracking a few eggs.