Devastatingly symbolic, the raw egg has become the latest vocabulary of public dissent in West Bengal, reviving a centuries-old tradition of shaming those in power. A 1917 cartoon caricaturing the egg-throwing incident at Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes. The price of the humble egg has suddenly increased in cities and districts of West Bengal. No one ever imagined the use of the egg as a political weapon in the hands of the common man and woman before the tumbling down