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The chemistry of the Singur agitation 2008-09-23 07:04:08 Globalization, global capital, farmers’ right, working class, land bank, unorganized sector, agro farming — these are some of the intricate words Mamata Banerjee is using repeatedly in her recent speech and interviews. Any close follower of her political rhetoric will assure that only few years back, these words were excluded from her lexis which mainly used to derive from populist phrases and Read more:chemistry
Mamata Banerjee and friends: the Singur siege 2008-09-22 13:18:06 One of Mamata Banerjee’s greatest achievements in Bengal today is the peculiar beehive she has constructed around herself. This conglomeration comprises virgin Marxists, ultra communists, political opportunists, renegades, NGOs, fundamentalists, right wing and left wing intelligentsia; all fervently anti-CPIM. Each one of them is finding solace under her competent leadership and audacious approa
Street fighters of Bengal and the Vietnam experience 2008-09-22 12:13:13 The unyielding campaigners against land acquisition say that opposing land acquisition is not necessarily an anti industry mind-set. See how our leader Mamata Banerjee always pronounces that she wants to see the cheery face of both the industrialists and farmers. Is it not possible to industrialize without acquiring farmland? Theoretically even the most intangible ideas can be proved as possible. Read more:Bengal
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The dilemma of Mamata Banerjee 2008-09-18 13:06:40 After suspending the Singur siege on 7 September night, Mamata Banerjee will again be on her glorious protest path from the 16th. The much hyped meeting mediated by the WB governor Gopal Gandhi ended with a statement that promised to provide land ‘to the maximum’ from the project site to those who have not accepted compensation.Immediately after coming out from the meeting, Mamata Banerjee ann Read more:dilemma
The beast rider at Singur 2008-08-31 11:44:06 If one closely follows the ongoing intense agitation against the Tata Motors plant at Singur, the most fascinating finding will be that the leader and her associates actually have no convincing standpoint to agitate apart from creating a condition for rampant anarchy. From last Sunday, the leaders of the siege are constantly provoking fury among their supporters for impelling the government to use
Jammu and Kashmir: The Country Without a Post Office* 2008-08-22 02:10:28 Since the dawn of independence, Kashmir
is the main cause of disagreement between India and Pakistan. The only difference today from what it was in 1947 is, that the state seems to be more divided and communalized. Regular attempts by both countries took place to resolve the dispute through various means: from bilateral talks, wars and state sponsored militancy but the crisis sustained as the majo Read more:Country
The truth about Kabir Suman, Mamata and the Maoists 2008-08-16 08:43:28 On 21 July 2008, the ‘progressive and radical’ singer Kabir Suman
made a speech in a public meeting of Mamata Banerjee. Kabir Suman is one of her new found friends after the Singur-Nandigram debacle in West Bengal. After acclaiming the Nandigram resistance in his speech, Kabir Suman declared that West Bengal has turned into a fascist state where the ruling party CPM has muted all democratic vo Read more:Maoists
Tata, Mamata and the future of Bengal 2008-08-12 15:12:58 Nobel laureate Prof. Amartya Sen, speaking recently in a function at Kolkata, has expressed his dismay over the recent developments at the small car project of Tata Motors in Singur: Industrialization is a must for development……It can’t be attained only by agriculture. You will not be able to show me one developed country that has reached there focusing solely on agriculture. If the Tata fac Read more:Bengal
Remembering Ritwik Ghatak: 32 years after his death 2008-08-10 04:11:36 “You are always a partisan, for or against.” Ritwik Ghatak was once diagnosed as a patient suffering from duel personality. This was a time when, because of relentless drinking and eccentric lifestyle he was frequently been admitted to hospitals. An utterly shattered man, he passed away on 6 February 1976 at the age of 51. His admirers recall that he looked thirty years older than his actual a Read more:death
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The terror attack in Ahmedabad 2008-08-03 02:38:29 It is a matter of extreme worry and grief about what happened on Saturday in Ahmedabad
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was another deliberate and brutal attempt against the innocent populace of this ill-fated country. The nation was glum to observed the empty and feeble stares from the swollen eyes of a gravely wounded little child Yash Vyas, his lips quivering in unbearable pain. The blood tainted hospital fl
The issue of Speaker Somnath Chatterjee 2008-07-26 15:43:56 After being expelled from the party, Mr. Somnath Chatterjee is receiving a lot of sympathetic support from odd quarters and might have turned into a sort of a hero to the Indian middle-class by defying the party line. All the sympathies are but for the time being only. Mr. Somnath Chatterjee has surely established himself as a brilliant Speaker
. The son of Sri Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee, a Hindu-Ma Read more:issue
A year after the Baroda Fine Arts College debacle 2008-07-25 13:13:16 It will not be hard to recall the name of Chandramohan Srilamantula. The master’s degree student of Department of Graphics at the Fine Arts College
in Baroda who was jailed for displaying artworks in the faculty evaluation show which a Methodist pastor and a local BJP man found objectionable. The BJP man with his supporters vandalized the show and later filed a FIR against the student for ‘mi
India and the Nuclear Deal 2008-07-25 13:10:45 The India
n media space is buzzing with the one and only issue: the Indo-US Nuclear
Deal. According to the media pundits, a better way of telling will be the ‘Spoilsport Left and the Indo-US Nuclear deal’! The media is overwhelmed and glad to finally discover a firm and will powered prime minister who recently went aloof from his official and political duties for days. We were told that this wa
The isolated Left 2008-07-25 13:09:02 After the volte-face of Mulayam Singh in the pretext of ‘country’s interest’ and resolving the age-old enmities with the Congress party, the politics in New Delhi has become throbbing again. Mulayam has announced that communalism is far more dangerous than imperialism, Advani is far more dangerous than Bush. What a perceptive politician that he is! This mood is reflecting in the electronic Read more:isolated
How the Left betrayed the Nation! 2008-07-25 13:08:02 Chairman of the Congress media committee Mr. Veerappa Moily is a loudmouthed person. Recently he has charged the Left for “joining with communal forces to destabilize the nation against secular forces”. He has also said that “they have not betrayed the UPA or the Congress. They have betrayed the nation” and “they want their personal prestige to have overriding effect on national prestige
The hoax of the IAEA draft 2008-07-25 13:05:47 After the ‘great performance’ of our steadfast Prime Minister at the G-8 summit and his declaration to the energized nation that “Our relationship with the US has never been in such a good shape,” the mood of the country is euphoric. When political pulsations in the country are running high, no one except the communists seems to be interested about the complex IAEA draft of the “India Sa
Nuclear deal: why America is proactive to ‘help’ India 2008-07-25 13:04:52 The Bush administration is visibly working overtime to finalize the nuclear deal with India
. There are many indications that president George Bush is personally pursuing the deal to get it pass in the September session of the US Congress. However, there are different voices within the US administration about how much America
will benefit from it. There is also the non-proliferation lobby constant Read more:Nuclear
Indian Democracy: beyond the trust vote 2008-07-25 08:16:42 The majority of the people’s representatives of India, better known as members of parliament have kept their trust
on the ability and performance of the Manmohan Singh government. The outcome was broadly expected.For the last couple of days, the Prime Minister, his party, and their allies were exceedingly confident of winning the trust vote. A mysterious uncertainty around the events, created by Read more:beyond
The enemy of the people 2008-07-22 06:59:14 A few hours later, it will be clear whether the present Indian government loses or wins the trust vote on the Indo-US nuclear deal. Whatever the outcome may be, it remains broadly insignificant. The government, if it wins the trust votes, will anyway rule the country for few more months as the scheduled general election is only 7-8 months away. If the government loses, the only difference will be Read more:people
A booming Indian art? 2008-07-13 12:43:23 Let us start with some figures and facts: a) The global art market is worth about US$ 40 billion (Rs 1,70,000 crore).(b) The Indian art market is worth more than US$ 0.24 billion (Rs 1,000 crore).(c) The Indian art market has grown from US$ 2 million to a US$ 400 million market over the last seven years.(d) From the benchmark year 2003, the Indian art market is growing at an average rate of betwee
Mandela, Moloise, Nicaragua and our days of innocence 2008-07-13 01:21:42 Nelson Mandela
was behind the bars in Robben Islands. There was a huge march in Kolkata demanding his release. Thousands were marching on the streets, hand on hand, carrying placards and banners, chanting anti-apartheid songs. At the front, leading the march was veteran and young communist party leaders and prominent intellectuals. The mood was upbeat. Nelson Mandela must be free at any cause. ‘ Read more:Nicaragua
Remembering Che Guevara 2008-07-13 01:10:37 On October 1967, the Bolivian army, assisted by the CIA agent Félix Rodríguez murdered Che Guevara
in the remote Bolivian mountains. After the murder, they dismembered his two hands from the body and preserved them in formaldehyde. The reason was to maintain a CIA style proof for the disbelievers about his death. On 1997, thirty years later, in the Bolivian town of Vallegrande, a team of Cuban a Read more:Remembering
Nirad Majumdar: a devalued genius of modern Indian art 2008-07-13 01:08:32 Nirad Majumdar first went to Paris when he received a French government scholarship in 1946. In Kolkata, he was a founder member of the Calcutta Group, the first progressive art group of India. Calcutta Group artists were trying to break away from the tradition of the dominating style of the Bengal School, instigated by the patriarch Abanindranath Tagore. By that time information about new develop Read more:genius
The future of CPI(M)! 2008-06-24 14:41:30 Much is being discussed on the recently declared West Bengal Panchayat election results. The main topic is whether it is a debacle for the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or not. The debate is obvious due to the fact that after 1977, CPI(M) never faced a situation like the present one. There were various critical problems and multifaceted attacks on the party and LF government before but ultima
Bleak days 2008-06-11 02:05:11 There are times when all things around you look bleak. Every happening in your surroundings, your home and your work place, culture, society and politics will make you gloomy. Your mental kingdom will feel empty. You will wander around fruitlessly in search of the required stimulation, to keep you able and stable on the path, but will not find it. The pale morning will obviously start with the hea Read more:Bleak
An elegy for Singur 2008-10-05 04:55:49 After Mr. Ratan Tata's pullout of the Nano project from Singur was announced, the industry minister of Bengal expressed in a glum voice that he doesn’t feel like living in Bengal anymore. The chief minister is in acute pain and distress, has turned mute and preferred to stay aloof from the rest of the world. The industry bigwigs have said that the decision is the most regrettable incidence which
The BJP and the ‘Hindu Terrorist’ 2008-10-30 15:20:46 One of the most virulent forms of terrorism in our times seeks the cover of Islam. It calls its murderous campaign ‘jihad’, thereby trying to justify itself in the eyes of pious God-fearing Muslims. – L. K. Advani, My Country, My Life The biggest threat the country is facing today is ‘jihadi terrorism’ – Rajnath SinghIt is our adversaries, and not us, who are misrepresenting that the f Read more:Hindu
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Crisis of Capitalism 2008-10-27 07:22:48 America is the anchor of global economy in the era of globalization. The American financial collapse has therefore spread like a thermonuclear chain reaction throughout the globe with far-reaching implications. Government experts of the effected countries are sitting together and scratching their worthy heads to bail out the crisis. To calm down the turmoil, the United States Federal Reserve and T Read more:Capitalism
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Indian Muslims and terrorism: a short discourse 2008-10-17 14:22:18 The majority section of Indian society, the ‘concerned’ Hindu citizens are demanding that the Indian Muslims
must immediately start to speak out and take counteractive steps against the terrorist attacks instigated by fundamentalist and anti-national Muslim groups. They are outright critical about the attitude of common Muslims and Muslim organizations of the country for not doing enough to vo
The tragedy called Assam 2008-11-21 07:20:21 On October 30, Assam was trounced by another atrocious serial blast that has killed at least 77 innocent civilians. The media termed it as the ‘worst-ever’ terrorist strike. Once again the Prime Minister and Home Minister delivered their recorded cliché statement; bigwig leaders visited the affected area like tourists and merrily played politics. Minutes after the blasts, Hindu nationalist le
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