Smoked, baked, steamed, and now scuppered: Bengal's rivers are cleaned out of their hilsas
A sepoy rebelled in 1824. But was it India's first anti-Brit mutiny?
'Kolkata Korner', with yours truly as the writer, draws to a close with this. It has been exciting and very...
I'm yet to come across a salwar-kameez that can reveal the navel. A saree, to me, is sensuous attire, a...
I knew I was right about my assessment that Kolkatans would panic, over-react and retreat into a shell if any...
A disastrous poll just over, Bengal's comrades are livid with Karat's gung-ho withdrawal
The CITU needs unruly, anti-social and rogue elements in its ranks to enforce its writ on society. It is all...
A centuries-old annual migration must be turned back. On Bengal's Nepal border, man and elephant clash. A...
Do those who criticise Kolkata and Bengalis harbour a bias against the city and the community? Before trying...
Treasures, trifles—Calcutta's auction houses burn with curiosities
"People who flaunt their refugee status even after so many decades deserve no sympathy; they are responsible...
A Calcutta pocket is poised to deck up its slice of Awadhi history
Not all their demands are unjust. A studied resolution is a must.
I know there'll be howls of protest to this, but the fact is that most Bengalis love status quo and are a...
Three Congress bastions in north Bengal show the way. Development, cadre are key factors.
Beneath that veneer of sophistication, the average Bengali is as communal and parochial as Raj Thackeray and...
Post Nandigram firing, the Communists are shooting at another movement: the theatre
Part II of the review of 31 years of the Left Front. The focus this week is on its utter inability, born out...
The panchayat results have rattled the Left. The malaise runs deeper than just the symptoms of Singur and...
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Union Budget 2020: What FM Nirmala Sitharaman Can Do To Pull Economy Out Of The Rut
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