Sikh devotees gather at Shahid Minar maidan on the occasion of 550th birth anniversary of Sikh Guru Nanak Dev ji, in Kolkata
Devotees prepare 'Langar' (free meal) to be served on the occasion of 550th birth anniversary of Sikh Guru Nanak Dev Ji, at Shahid Minar Maidan in Kolkata
Devotees offer prayers at Gurudwara on the occasion of 550th birth anniversary of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev ji, in Kolkata
Devotees offer prayers at Gurudwara on the occasion of 550th birth anniversary of Sikhism founder Guru Nanak Dev ji, in Kolkata
A big-size replica of a Movie Camera being installed during 25th Kolkata International Film Festival, in Kolkata
Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan, right, hugs West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during the inauguration of the 25th Kolkata International Film Festival in Kolkata.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee invites BCCI President Sourav Ganguly and Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan to shake hands during 25th Kolkata International Film Festival at...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, BCCI President Sourav Ganguly, Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan, Rakhee Gulzar jointly light the lamp to inaugurate 25th Kolkata Internatio...
Bollywood actor Shahrukh Khan, right, hugs Rakhee Gulzar during the inauguration of the 25th Kolkata International Film Festival in Kolkata. The festival will continue till Nov. 15...
Activists and students cover their mouth with black cloth during a protest against the prevailing conditions in Jammu and Kashmir, in Kolkata
India's Goalkeeper Gurpreet Singh Sandhu interacts with the media during a practice session for FIFA World 2022 Qualifier match against Bangladesh, in Kolkata.
Four persons (covered faced) out of seven persons, who were arrested for allegedly abducting a man, after being produced in a court in Kolkata. The police came to know that the vic...
College students and volunteers participate in a cleanliness drive after immersion of goddess Durga idols following the Durga puja festival, at the bank of River Ganga, in Kolkata
A dance performance during Durga Puja Carnival, in Kolkata
Idols of Goddess Durga during a procession of Durga Puja Carnival to showcase the award-winning idols from the Durga Puja festival 2019 in Kolkata.
Idols of Goddess Durga during a procession of Durga Puja Carnival to showcase the award-winning idols from the Durga Puja festival 2019 in Kolkata.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee during Durga Puja Carnival, in Kolkata
Hindu woman applies vermillion powder on another on the last day of Durga Puja festivities in Calcutta.
Hindu women react during Sindhur Khela on the occasion of Vijayadashmi, in Calcutta
Hindu women react during Sindhur Khela on the occasion of Vijayadashmi, in Calcutta
I think Right and Left have always been a very inadequate description even of political activity.There is a lovely story about PC Joshi too. More here
...The right wing and the left wing, as many will know, were descriptions first defined by the way members sat in the French National Assembly of 1789-91: the nobles in the wing to the right, the common people to the left, of the president of the Assembly. In course of time, as parliamentary democracy unfolded, the left wing came to be referred to as “a group or party favouring radical, reforming or socialist views”, as the Oxford Dictionary succinctly tried to put it...
...But from all I can surmise from a distance, for many among the intelligentsia, the bonding with manush (human being), to use the more modern term for Tagore’s janagana (people), has not been lost.
I cannot make out how exactly today’s manush, in turn, relates to Calcutta’s intelligentsia. But one can see how the state’s political apparatchiki can take on the teachers, the doctors, the poets, the artists on the assumption that connections between such people and Manush have simply vanished.
...the Right-Left dichotomy is old and difficult to dislodge — but why not redefine Right and Wrong from the standpoint of social justice and responsibility, and in that light redefine Crime and Punishment in the Indian Penal Code? That may yet set the cat among the pigeons — of all colours.
