The CPM denies it, but out in the wilderness there is evidence that the party is raising a militia armed to the teeth. “No guns in photos,” were the handlers’ orders to us
04 November 2010The crumbling Metro Rail of Kolkata is hurting Mamata Banerjee’s image in the state
28 October 2010Since his college days, Krishnendu Singha has maintained a record of deaths in his district
28 October 2010The story of land reforms and their fate is enough to explain the rise and fall of the Left in West Bengal
21 October 2010The CM has voted 99 times and is mobilising support to ensure a local choir’s victory in a reality show.
30 September 2010And there is nothing contradictory or ironic about it, he would have you believe.
16 September 2010The Catholic church in India is out on a limb to indigenise. Images such as Jesus seated on a lotus in padmasana and the Virgin Mary clad in a sari are now commonplace.
16 September 2010A family feud leads to a dispute between the Assam and Arunachal Pradesh governments.
09 September 2010It sells just 8,000 units a year, but the venerable Ambassador is getting some mouth-to-mouth resuscitation with a redesign that will make it look almost exactly the same.
08 September 2010In what could be the largest family in the world, men live with dozens of wives and scores of children, and all survive in enviable peace.
03 September 2010Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and the author of two award-winning books on water: Water, Peace, and War and Water: Asia’s New Battleground
MJ Akbar is the author of, among several titles, Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan. His latest book is Gandhi: A Life in Three Campaigns
TCA Raghavan is a former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan and Singapore. His first book, Attendant Lords: Abdur Rahim and Bairam Khan: Courtiers and Poets in Mughal India, was awarded the Mohammad Habib Prize by the Indian History Congress. He is also the author of The People Next Door: The Curious History of India’s Relations with Pakistan and History Men: Jadunath Sarkar, G S Sardesai, Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India’s Past. His latest book is Circles of Freedom: Love, Friendship and Loyalty in the Indian National Struggle
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