He was the senior-most minister with the longest experience who had helped manoeuvre the party in the beleaguered post-1996 years. He had guided Sonia Gandhi most sincerely when she finally joined politics in 1998

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One of the earliest accounts of the celebrations of Durga Puja that we get is from James Mitchell, a clerk to a Sea Captain, who visited Calcutta in 1748...

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