Standing on a four-cottah plot in a neighbourhood some 26km north of Calcutta, Amanati Masjid can be a blink-and-miss structure for the uninitiated. In reality, it is a shrine to Bengal’s culture of inclusiveness, especially when the politics of religious polarisation is rearing its ugly head in the state.
Partha’s grandfather shifted to Barasat’s Nabapally in the aftermath of the 1964 riots, swapping his family land in Bangladesh’s Khulna with that of a Muslim family in Barasat’s Nabapally. After shifting base, the Basu family found a “barren and almost desolate” mosque standing in the middle of the land. The property documents had no mention of the structure.
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From slogans to smear campaigns, election pledges to blame games, Bangladesh has featured heavily in the discourse of rival parties in India s ongoing West Bengal assembly polls.
Bangladesh has always been an important factor for the eastern region of India, and West Bengal in particular.
The fourth-most populous Indian state not only shares around 2,216 kilometres of border with Bangladesh, it also shares culture, language, climate and blood bonding with the country.
Against this backdrop, it is natural that Bangladesh comes up in political campaigns during the West Bengal polls.
This time around, however, Bangladesh is coming up more prominently than ever before and many of the political talking points portrayed the neighbouring country negatively, said political analysts.
Born in the pandemic, these libraries in Bengal run with meagre resources but get people reading
One of them is in Kolkata, and the other, in a village. Both were set up to keep schoolchildren amidst books. A class in progress at the Ashina Gramin Library.
The distance between the posh neighbourhood of Patuli in Kolkata and the dusty meandering roads of Ashina village is over 50 kilometres. The villagers of Ashina most likely have never seen the towering housing complexes near the Satyajit Ray Park in Patuli. Similarly, most of the residents of Patuli may have never set foot near Ashina.
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Indiaâs most prolonged assembly election is witnessing a battle of nerves as the psychological warfare intensifies.
BJP MP Ravi Kishan flashes a victory sign during a rally in support of party candidate from Entally constituency Priyanka Tibrewal ahead of the third phase of West Bengal Assembly Polls, in Kolkata, Saturday, April 3, 2021. Photo: PTI
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Kolkata: âThe time has come for you to know/ I’m victim of propaganda war,â say two lines from a track in the Serbian band Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestraâs 2000 album, âDevil In The Business Class’. Pratik Kumar Mandal, a young student who lives in Bandel town within Chinsurah assembly segment in Hooghly district, believes that these lines might perfectly fit himself and many other residents of West Bengal as they prepare to exercise their democratic franchise in a high-voltage electoral
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