Samajwadi Party activists raise slogans during a protest over the death of a 19-year-old Dalit woman after an alleged gangrape in UP's Hathras, in Varanasi.
Police personnel keep a watch as farmers under the banner of Bhartiya Kisan Union (Asli) stage a protest march over various farmers' issues including new farm laws, in Moradabad.
Victoria Memorial, Calcutta
Mother Teresa in Calcutta, 1970
West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar gestures as he speaks to the media persons after his motorcade was stopped by protesters at a gate of Jadavpur University, as he arrived to at...
Ashok Acharjee, 69, arrived in Calcutta in 1950 from Khulna district of Bangladesh. He has a certificate of the East Bengal Relief Committee, but no land deed
Indian cricket team captain Virat Kohli at Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport ahead of India's first-ever Day/Night Test against Bangladesh, in Kolkata. Vice-captain...
Bollywood actor Rani Mukerji shakes hand with BCCI President Sourav Ganguly at a promotional event for her upcoming movie 'Mardani 2' during a TV show 'Dadagiri', at Rajarhat outsk...
School students participate in a rally to raise awareness on Diabetes, in Kolkata
Bangladesh High Commission officials visit Club House of Eden Garden ahead of the first day-night Test match between India and Bangladesh, in Kolkata
Police detain Congress workers during their march toward the State BJP office to protest against the BJP-led Union government, in Kolkata.
Vinit KUmar (L), Chairman, Kolkata Port Trust with N Sivasallam, Special Secretary-Logistics, Ministry of Commerce during the plenary session of 12th CII Logistics Colloquium in Ko...
A Member of the film 'La Liorona' (The Weeping Woman) holds the trophy after the film wins Golden Royal Bengal Tiger award for Best film for International Competition in the presen...
Bollywood actor Shabana Azmi with noted film director Gautam Ghosh during the closing ceremony of the 25th Kolkata International Film Festival, in Kolkata
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee with Bollywood actor Shabana Azmi during the closing ceremony of the 25th Kolkata International Film Festival, in Kolkata.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee speaks during the closing ceremony of the 25th Kolkata International Film Festival, in Kolkata.
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
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.
