PRESIDENT REPUBLIC OF INDIA
August 3, 1990
Dear Smt Chitta Ranjan
I am grieved to learn of the passing away of Sri Chitta Ranjan. We have been close associates in the Journalists’ Union for several decades and hence for me it is a personal loss. (...)
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Our First Editor
8 October 2011, by Nikhil ChakravarttyN.C.
It was in 1960-61 that I came to know Chitta Ranjan who was then working in The Hindustan Times. I had met him earlier in Madras where he was desperately trying to run a daily brought out by a working journalists’ cooperative. When that (...) -
Symbol of Moral Courage
8 October 2011by K.R. SUNDAR RAJAN
I must confess I had serious differences with Chitta Ranjan on national and international issues but these did not in any way undermine my deep regard for him. Indeed, his intellectual and professional honesty was always a (...) -
A Saga of Struggle
8 October 2011, by S.K. PandeIt was Friday, August 3, amidst the cacophony of a variety of sounds in busy Karolbagh, in a small apartment, with a few books, very few belongings and not even a phone, leave alone a car, a small modest man, a common person’s editor lay (...) -
Remembering C.N. Chitta Ranjan on his 90th Birth Anniversary
8 October 2011, by Sumit ChakravarttyThe following was written last week just before C.N. Chitta Ranjan’s 90th birth anniversary on September 29, 2011.
C.N. Chitta Rajan’s ninetieth birth anniversary is being befittingly observed on September 29, 2011. All his relatives, friends, (...) -
Fraud Crusaders
8 October 2011, by C.N. Chitta RanjanFrom C.N. Chitta Ranjan’s Pen
For long years now, the debate on “Freedom of the Press” has been proceeding on the wrong track. This is not fortuitous. The loudest participants, who get the widest publicity, are defenders of the status quo in the (...) -
Bengal Bye-Elections: Message for CPI-M
8 October 2011, by Barun Das GuptaBoth the bye-elections to the West Bengal Assembly held late last month were won by the ruling Trinamul Congress. The TMC wrested the Basirhat (North) constituency from the CPI-M by a margin of 30,941 votes. In the Assembly elections a few (...) -
Western Sahara: No Arab Spring?
8 October 2011, by Apratim MukarjiThe justly-celebrated democracy movements sweeping across North Africa and the Arab peninsula somehow appear to have bypassed the territory of Western Sahara, where one of the oldest independence movements in the region, the fight for freeing (...) -
Imperatives for United Action
8 October 2011, by Nikhil ChakravarttyFROM N.C.’S WRITINGS
The earthquake that has devastated large parts of northern Bihar and adjoining areas of neighbouring States has been characterised as the second worst in the century.
That actually takes us back to the first one, the one in (...) -
Earthquake in Sikkim: Natural Calamity and Potential Manmade Disaster
8 October 2011, by J.J. Roy BurmanOn September 18 an earthquake of the magnitude of 6.8 by the Richter scale struck Sikkim at about 6.18 pm The epicentre of the quake was located about 67 kms north-west of Gangtok—the State capital. The epicenter was located to be precise at (...)
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