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The rush to appropriate icons Updated: Updated: Political parties are trivialising Vivekananda, Tagore and Bose to win the West Bengal elections Share Article Political parties are trivialising Vivekananda, Tagore and Bose to win the West Bengal elections When mainstream politics becomes recklessly instrumental, nothing is spared; even great idols and cultural symbols are trivialised through a process of appropriation in order to manipulate people’s emotions. In the campaign to the Assembly ...

Jibanananda Das: The Loneliest Poet of the Twentieth Century In forging a completely personalised poetic diction, Jibanananda Das blazed the trail for modernism in 20th century Indian poetry. Jibanananda Das. Photo: Unknown artist/Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain In one of his most celebrated poems, Shakti Chattopadhyay happened to link death to ‘the tram tracks of Rashbehari’. He was thinking of the passing of one of his great literary forebears, the poet Jibanananda Das, whom a spee...

CM K Chandrasekhar Rao NALGONDA: Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao compared a group of protesters at a public event to dogs on Wednesday. The comment caused an uproar with the opposition parties who have demanded an apology from the TRS leader. While addressing a public gathering, after laying the foundation stone of a government scheme in the Nagarjun Sagar area of the Nalgonda district, a group of people, including some women, wanted to give a representation to the chief ministe...

Photo Credit: IANS IANSLive Hyderabad, Feb 10 (IANS) The Congress has demanded Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao apologise for allegedly calling a group of people "dogs" during a public meeting in Nalgonda district on Wednesday. To get full access of the story, click here to subscribe to IANS News Service © 2021 IANS India Private Limited. All Rights Reserved. The reproduction of the story/photograph in any form will be liable for legal action. For news, views and gossips, follow ...

A meeting of all 33 District Congress Committees (DCCs) held in Khammam unanimously passed the resolution favouring Rahul Gandhi as the president of All India Congress Committee (AICC).It u

A meeting of all 33 District Congress Committees (DCCs) held in Khammam unanimously passed the resolution favouring Rahul Gandhi as the president of All India Congress Committee (AICC).It u

Podcast: It Is Wrong to Link Rabindranath Tagore With Narrow Nationalism, as Is Being Done Now In conversation with political scientist Sibaji Pratim Basu. Sidharth Bhatia and Sibaji Pratim Basu. Video19/Jan/2021 With the assembly elections in West Bengal later this year, all parties are working full time to win over the electorate. Trinamool Congress, the incumbent in power, is facing a challenge from not just the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Congress but also an aggressive Bhar...

Visva-Bharati’s centenary celebrationsModi addresses function, says Tagore’s vision is essence of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’KOLKATA West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said she was not in.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the centenary celebrations of Visva-Bharati University in Santiniketan, West Bengal on December 24 at 11 am through vi

Skipping the Visva-Bharati centenary celebration, which was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi via videoconferencing on Thursday, Chief Minister Mamata Ba