Jyoti Basu had everything needed to make West Bengal one of India’s premier states. It is an enduring tragedy that he refused to do it.
CPM General Secretary Prakash Karat on the difficulties his party faces in the 2011 West Bengal Assembly election, the threat from Maoists and his error in allowing the UPA government to negotiate a safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency in November 2007.
What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow. If this old saying retains some relevance today, it’s as a way to place the tragedy of the state’s slide in perspective.
Indian citizenship for Sri Lankan refugees; handshake and a boot in West Bengal; Bihar’s bank ban; Kashmir protest; and creating second-class doctors
Can Bengal’s poet-playwright Chief Minister pull out of his current depression in time for the looming Assembly elections?
Rajarhat New Town is billed as the face of modern Bengal. But it’s a façade for injustices that cancelling an odd infotech park cannot undo
A Ramakrishna Mission school in West Bengal and its outrageous attitude towards its lady teachers
Why violence maintains its currency as a political tool in West Bengal
There’s something tragic about Buddhadeb having to preside over the decline of the Left in West Bengal