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‘Industry will surely come from Gujarat, Maharashtra’ In Amit Shah’s to-do list for Calcutta is the rejuvenation of Adi Ganga and a plea to UNESCO for Heritage City tag Aveek Sarkar | | Published 19.04.21, 02:22 AM TTOnline: You once said that Didi was a successful mass leader, but a failed chief minister. Why do you see her as a failure? She has failed in all respects. Take law...
The bereaved families of four CISF firing victims at Jorpatki village in Cooch Behar district have said only the chief minister could give them justice as they are eagerly waiting to meet Mamata Banerjee at Mathabhanga on Wednesday. Mamata will reach Mathabhanga on Wednesday morning and meet the families at a ground next to the subdivisional hospital at the town, 20km from the village. “It seems the Election Commission has forgotten us.... Only Didi can give us justice,” Jobed Ali, the father of Nur Alam Mian — one of the four deceased youths — said on Tuesday evening as local Trinamu...
Sanjeev Ahluwalia | Indian subnationalism past its expiry date? Published Apr 11, 2021, 12:00 am IST Updated Apr 11, 2021, 12:00 am IST Kerala, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal, represent exemplar benchmarks for regionalism with deep political, social, linguistic and cultural roots News Bengal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu — all awaiting new governments in early May this year — are the last bastions of strong linguistic and cultural regionalism which have resisted the mainstreaming of politics under BJPs “one country one party” theology. Assam capitulated in 2016 and is expected to remain w...
April 9, 2021 ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.’ Charles Dickens in Tale of Two Cities. The author may have been reflecting on Britain in the mid nineteenth century but 21 st century India seems trapped in its own Dickensian moment. If 2020 was the year of doom and gloom, 2021 seems to be the year when hope alternate...
Sheikh Yasin, 29, chokes with rage as Suvendu Adhikari’s voice carries to his Asadtala home in Nandigram from a ground around 1km away on Monday evening. The BJP candidate, who is contesting against his former leader Mamata Banerjee, is delivering a speech pockmarked with innuendoes aimed at polarisation that have typified his campaign. In his 25-minute address to a gathering of 1,500 three days before polling in Nandigram, Suvendu refers to Mamata as “begum” and declares that “a small Pakistan” has been created at some gram panchayats in Nandigram. Yasin, a tailor, could hear Suven...