Why all these striving, hankering,
when you can see
the clear sign of future shape
of things unfolding
in their allotted places
destined by your waning days?
The journey is now downhill
from all that was youthful,
sagacious, vitally sharp
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20 July 2019 -
The Rise and Rise of Bangladesh
20 July 2019, by M K BhadrakumarBangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s recent visit to China highlights a new template in regional politics—the rise of Bangladesh as a regional power.
Last year, Bangladesh outstripped India as the fastest growing economy in South Asia—at 7.3 (...) -
Epaar Bangla, Opaar Bangla
20 July 2019by Partha S Ghosh
“What Bengal thinks today, India will think tomorrow.” This is how the first generation Indian nationalist, Gopal Krishna Gokhale, had certified the political wisdom of Bengalis a hundred years ago. Today the slogan is better (...) -
What Ails our IITs?
20 July 2019by Ashok Celly
There must be something terribly wrong with our IITs. For after four or five years of seemingly intense engagement with a certain branch of engineering a fairly large number of IIT students simply turn their back on it and switch (...) -
Open Letter to Political Parties
20 July 2019After the results of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections were announced, political parties as well as several political commentators are trying to understand the social and political reasons leading to the 2019 verdict. These analyses have largely (...) -
A Naxalite of a Distinctive Strain
20 July 2019TRIBUTE
by Sankar Ray
“If you set your foot in Gopiballabhpur, you won’t feel you are in Bengal. The Chhotanagpur plateau meets the catchment of Subarnarekha river here. The soil texture around is red and crumbled save a few villages. Both (...) -
Whither Unreasoned Traditions?
20 July 2019by Arup Maharatna
As things stand by now, it would not be an exaggeration to say with hindsight that the entire post-independent India has been reeling increasingly under a stubborn, unquestioned, and endemic reverence for a sentiment-laden (...) -
More Needs to be Done to Revitalise the Chabahar Project
20 July 2019by Gautam Sen
The Government of India’s latest regular Budget of 2019-20, has a meagre allocation of Rs 45 crores for the development and opera-tionalising of the Chabahar Port infrastructure under the Ministry of External Affairs line of credit (...) -
CBI Onslaught on Eminent Lawyers
20 July 2019, by Arup Kumar SenActing on a complaint from the Ministry of Home Affairs, the CBI conducted searches on July 11, 2019, at the residence of senior eminent lawyers, Indira Jaising and her husband Anand Grover, and in the Delhi and Mumbai offices of Lawyers (...) -
Save the Earth Now Campaign and its SED 20-30 Demand
20 July 2019All aims of this campaign are sought to be realised within a framework of justice, peace and democracy at three levels.
• Wider Aim To protect and save the life-nurturing, life-sustaining conditions of planet Earth (within the framework of (...)
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