Bhaswati Chakravorty | | Published 01.05.21, 02:54 AM
On a day almost lost now in the mists of time, I started going to college. One of the memories of that first, disorienting day is my startled amusement at a two-syllable word meaning, approximately, ‘useless’, written on the back of a marble bust of a former principal. The bust was placed with its unfortunate back visible when one turned on the first-floor landing; its position left me wondering for the rest of my life about the acrobat with the perfect lettering. (I prefer that to the simpler explanation of the bust having been brought there from somewhere else.) I did not associate it with the years of violence, statue-breaking and tragedy that preceded our entry into college maybe I should have but it gave me a sense of history happening in spite of the cold whiteness of marble.
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West Bengal is set to vote Thursday in the last phase of state elections, amid skyrocketing coronavirus infections across India that many have blamed on mismanagement by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led central government.
West Bengal is one of two states where the BJP has been shut out for decades, but which the Hindu nationalist party hopes to control after a hard-fought campaign.
If the state legislature election here was crucial for the BJP before, it’s more so now because the party needs a win to affirm that the Indian public is still on its side, political analyst Subhamoy Maitra said.
In Bhima-Koregaon case, new forensic report shows how hacker planted key files on accused’s computer
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Teachers who lost their jobs on 31 March 2020 protesting the arrival of SA Bobde, the chief justice of India, to Tripura on 25 December. Since 7 December 2020, the teachers had been holding a peaceful sit-in protest in front of the City Centre, a shopping mall in Agartala. Abhishek Saha / Dinodia
Teachers who lost their jobs on 31 March 2020 protesting the arrival of SA Bobde, the chief justice of India, to Tripura on 25 December. Since 7 December 2020, the teachers had been holding a peaceful sit-in protest in front of the City Centre, a shopping mall in Agartala.