Since everyone and their grandmother would have analysed UPA II's first year in the course of this week, I have decided to enter the realm of fantasy mixed with reality and speculate about the possibility of a UPA III. If a UPA III does indeed crystallise (which seems likely right now given the state of the BJP) let me take the risk of speculating abut the personalities and equations that could dominate it. You could call this entire piece an exercise in magic realism: