A Calcutta Diary
With the Supreme Court's decision approving the execution of Nalini and her husband and two of their accomplices, a cycle of events is completed. What about the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam...
The poll results are a slap in the face of the conspirators who thought they could walk away with the country. A great disorder awaits India. Is that not a lovely prospect?
Between the Congress and the BJP there is really not much of a variation in the theme. Scarcely anything distinguishes, in terms of class lineage, leaders of the one lot from those of the other. The...
Forget Kargil, forget even Jammu and Baramula. The menace of militancy so-described is casting a shadow over the entire north-east, Assam not ecluding. Assigning the credit for the disturbed state of...
THE sequence of events leading to the West Bengal Legislature (both Assembly and Council) on one day, and unanimously, passing the Calcutta Tramways (Taking Over of Management) Bill on Friday last...
The Meaningless Dialogue THE Prime Minister's sudden summoning of the West Bengal Chief Minister to New Delhi was perhaps to the country an indication of uncertainties in West Bengal. To Calcutta it...
management and hard labour and that, unless workers learn to act in a disciplined manner, to maintain law and order and to increase their productivity, the economy of the country cannot improve. "...
Trouble Up North FOR MONTHS PAST there had been sporadic disturbances in the northern, tea-producing districts of Wesl Bengal
date just what led to the creation of zonal councils. Perhaps they were the late Jawaharlal Nehru's non- answer to something or other. The late Govind Ballabh Pant presided over these council...
Palk Strait Crossed Again THIS year's Jnanpeeth Award has gone to Tarashankar Banerjee for His Bengali novel, "Ganadevata". No literary assessment of the choice can, or need, be made here. For one...
The Cost of Being III IN one of his Parisian essays George Orwell wrote of the cost of dying in the French capital and showed it to be excruciatingly high. Things have changed even in France, where...
By Rice Alone ANY GOVERNMENT anywhere in the world stands or falls by its ability or otherwise to feed the people. The United Front Government in West Bengal faces no greater test. Disparate as its...
the late B C Roy negotiated with Belgrade for Yugoslav help in some of his projects for West Bengal. What, a mere State Government talking direct to a foreign Government! Similar suprise and dismay...
The Axe Falleth Softly THE UNITED FRONT Government of West Bengal has not indeed taken too long to take to heart a point repeatedly made in this diary, the point being the simple one that the new...
