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Friday, March 19, 2010

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Antara Dev Sen
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The forest of languages and hope

The Bhasha Van is an attempt to counter this dreadful cultural erosion. An initiative of the Bhasha Research and Publication Centre at Vadodara.
March 10, 2010

Amnesty’s illiberal knee-jerk response

Recently, Amnesty International suspended Gita Sahgal, a senior officer in London who had gone public with her criticism of the organisation.
February 25, 2010

Anti-Indian but pro-Marathi!

It’s easy to feel alienated on your home turf when crowded by outsiders. That’s the way they feel in England about us, for example.
February 11, 2010

Not just the right, the left too is at it

And why are we horrified that Paul Zacharia, influential author and candid critic of reactionary forces, has been roughed up in Kerala by CPM hooligans for speaking out against their moral policing?
January 13, 2010

10 reasons why Rathore should be jailed

We desperately need police reform. Cops ought to be accountable, even when following orders.
December 30, 2009

A versatile genius who loved to communicate

Death is no news but it is always a bad surprise for the living,” wrote Dilip Chitre, who passed away on December 10.
December 17, 2009

A quarter century of unnatural gas

Exactly 25 years ago, about 8,000 people died in Bhopal of the immediate effects of the poison gas that had leaked from Union Carbide’s pesticide factory through the night.
December 3, 2009

The world outside the box

The discomfort about pigeonholing identities has perhaps come to a head with a cult figure like Tendulkar taking a stand against the xenophobia.
November 19, 2009

Maoist, tribals and the idea of progress

I have just heard two very different bits of news today. One, that Manmohan Singh has announced that 'tribals must be the primary beneficiaries of the development process.'
November 4, 2009

A cuppa can defuse Indo-China tension

As an astoundingly insightful Bengali myself, I propose that if we pay a little more attention to cha we may manage to keep the Chinese at bay.
October 21, 2009

Where do our literary awards fail?

Hilary Mantel has won the Man Booker Prize. Of course you knew that. It is in all the papers today and anyway, you knew she was the bookies’ favourite.
October 7, 2009

No uncleji, a tweet is not a sweet nothing

When it comes to certain leaders, the party doesn’t need to use its head — bended knees would do.
September 23, 2009

For a long life nurture your thunder thighs

With all due sympathy for the skinny lot, I must say that such findings will make a lot of us, men and women of substance, happy.
September 9, 2009
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