Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Fall of the Left and Buddhadeb
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During a press briefing in May 2006, CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose made a prophetic comment. While speaking on the role of media whic...
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Chaos to Creation: the enigma of Bob Dylan (Part: Three)
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In 1968, Dylan came out from his eighteen-month long self-imposed exile, once more picked up his acoustic guitar and recorded John Wesley Ha...
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
To the Comrades in Bengal
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The 2011 Bengal assembly election is now over. A synthetically manufactured socio-political commotion that had embarked on a plotted journe...
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Media hyperbole and Bengal assembly elections
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If we go through the standard news reports, analysis, editorials and opinion pieces been published daily in the national and local mainst...
Monday, February 21, 2011
Looking at the Egyptian uprising
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It all began in a rural Tunisian town. Mohamed Bouazizi, who sold fruits and vegetables on the streets to make a living for himself and h...
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Who are the Harmads of Bengal?
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When a joint forces team raided and arrested two suspected Maoists – Amiya and Asim Mahato from the Municipal Guest House in Midnapore town,...
Sunday, January 9, 2011
Chaos to Creation: the enigma of Bob Dylan (Part: Two)
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Dylan’s radical spell lasted for a brief period – between January 1962 and November 1963. While his music was been considered as the definit...
Chaos to Creation: the enigma of Bob Dylan (Part: One)
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John Bucklen, the son of a miner, was Robert Allen Zimmerman’s closest high school friend and partner in his teenage musical adventures. ...
Monday, October 25, 2010
Ayodhya verdict & our secular conscience: Part Two
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The three members Bench of Justice D.V. Sharma, Justice S.U. Khan and Justice S. Agarwal has ruled by a 2-1 majority that all the parties in...
Thursday, October 21, 2010
Ayodhya verdict & our secular conscience: Part One
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In a large and diverse country like India, there is never a dearth of issues that stimulate the citizens to talk, argue and fight. But the c...
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