Tomorrow, February 28, the Left-Congress alliance are holding a rally at Brigade Parade Ground. Election drums in the state had sounded long ago, so the rally is hardly a surprise. If Prime Minister Narendra Modi does make it to Kolkata again, the BJP are scheduled
“The submarine started from Kiel (capital of the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein), and the crew were not told (the truth about) where the two men were going; all they knew was that they had to take two machinists to northern Scandinavia. On the eve
India is gearing up to celebrate the 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose in 2022. It is perhaps befitting that one of India’s foremost patriots would have turned 125 the same year as the nation turns 75, a nation whose independence was the
No evidence needed, nor even an attempt to present any. No need to support one’s imagined allegations with concrete examples. No hesitation in passing off one’s personal belief as fact. Talk is cheap, as they say, so all you need do is to go up
For all of us who have stood infront of the Jallianwala Bagh Memorial and paid tribute to the 5,000 plus Indians who had been ruthlessly butchered by the British army under General Dyer, the following story of the Mukherji family from Bengal will come as
Scene 1: 1982 – Only 14 rhinos were found in Jaldapara Forests. Scene 2: 2016 --- Almost 250 rhinos rule the Jaldapara Forests. This jump of rhino population in Jaldapara National Park of Jalpaiguri did not happen in one day. There was a time when poachers from
As the dust and smoke alarm is almost choking Kolkata this winter, residents of this city will probably be surprised to note that Calcutta was the first Indian city and the second of the world, to enact anti-air pollution legislation. By 1870, Calcutta was choking on
“Mr President, Ladies and Gentlemen. I trust that you will accept in advance an apology because I am going to place before you a history of the way in which from a Christian Communalist, I became a Christian Indian Nationalist. It was merely an accident
On January 25, 2011, the Government of India under then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced that henceforth, this day would be observed as National Voters’ Day every year, primarily in order to encourage more young voters to take part in the political process of the
“His romantic saga, coupled with his defiant nationalism, has made Bose a near-mythic figure, not only in his native Bengal, but across India.” So say authors Barbara and Thomas Metcalf in their 2012 book ‘A Concise History of Modern India’, talking, of course, about Netaji