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21st death anniversary of Nikhil Chakravartty - Select tributes from the Past / Writings on the Emergency Fortyfour years on
29 June 2019June 27 this year marks the 21st death anniversary of the founder of this journal, Nikhil Chakravartty. On this occasion we are reproducing the following article published in Mainstream (June 28, 2008). We we are also reproducing a letter from (...) -
Day One in Calcutta (August 24, 1947) / The Story of a Gadfly (Jan. 3, 1959)
29 June 2019, by Nikhil ChakravarttyThe following report by Nikhil Chakravartty, the Calcutta correspondent of People’s Age (published from Bombay), appeared in the weekly’s August 24, 1947 issue (it was wired from Calcutta on August 17, 1947) under the following headlines: ‘End of (...) -
Fortysixth death anniversary of Mohan Kumaramangalam
29 June 2019, by Nikhil ChakravarttyOn May 31 this year it was the fortysixth death anniversary of Mohan Kumaramangalam. On N.C.’s twentyfirst death anniversary (June 27, 2019) we reproduce the following tribute that the founder of this journal penned under the pseudonym ‘An Old (...) -
Girish Karnad — A Tribute
29 June 2019by Sagari Chhabra
Girish Karnad (1938—2019) playwright, actor, film-director, administrator and public intellectual, passed away recently at a time when he was needed the most. Karnad was an incredibly talented, multi-dimensional artiste; his (...) -
Expect New Levels of Patriotism
29 June 2019, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
No Parliament got off to a more disgraceful start than the one in session now. The Prime Minister struck a high note when he said that the Opposition should not worry about numbers, that their viewpoints would be honoured. (...) -
Arvind Kejriwal’s Landmark Move
29 June 2019by Ayushi Golwara
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal recently announced that women will be allowed to travel for free on the Delhi Metro, Delhi Transport Corporation buses which sparked a lot of discussion and debate. The Chief Minister said (...) -
Major Threat in West Asia
29 June 2019by Harish Chandola
India has so far not commented on the danger or possibility of a nuclear war erupting in its neighbourhood, in West Asia, where a very dangerous development is taking shape in the Persian Gulf, to which an American (...) -
On the Medicos’ Strike in Bengal
24 June 2019POLITICAL NOTEBOOK
The week-long strike of the junior doctors in West Bengal, which brought the entire public health care system to a grinding halt, causing untold misery to the suffering public, was called off after Chief Minister Mamata (...) -
Who Cares for Bengal?
24 June 2019by Apoorvanand
The following article was first published in a different form in The Wire (https://thewire.in/communalism/bengal-violence-tmc-bjp) on June 14, 2018. This is its revised and updated version. Since this piece was written things have (...) -
Democracy can Die in Daylight Too
24 June 2019by Krishna Prasad
Modesty is not a virtue of the media in the pixel age, in which preening is a 24x7 pastime. There is neither a demand for it from consumers, nor a supply of it from the practitioners. Equili-brium has been achieved in the (...)
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