Kolkata’s own Tahrir Square moment: City of joy turns into city of righteous anger
Seeing the doctors' protests, I wanted to thank the Kolkata Police and the Trinamool Congress government for fanning Kolkata's revolutionary fire in the belly.
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Benodebehari Mukherjee: Blind Indian painter’s forgotten scroll found after 100 years
A 44 foot-long Japanese style handscroll painted by a famous Indian blind artist nearly 100 years ago has resurfaced and gone on public display for the first time in the city of his birth, Kolkata.
Manipur Violence | Essay: Reasons behind the Manipur Violence
১৯৪৯ সালে মণিপুর রাজত্ব স্বাধীন ভারতের অঙ্গরাজ্য হিসাবে যোগ দেওয়ার পরে এই প্রথম এমন হিংস্র আক্রমণের ঘটনা দেখা গেল।
Manipur smoke signals were ignored by Delhi
Geography, they say, is everything, even destiny. Nothing could be truer for Manipur today, where since May 3 a section of the state’s minority tribal and majority Meitei populations have clashed with a bitterness that is unremembered and…
Mizoram is helping Myanmar refugees and Suu Kyi’s MPs. But it is running out of money
The refugees arrived to a mixed welcome: A warm one from Mizoram and a chilly one from Delhi. They're worried about economic tensions triggering refugee-Mizo friction.