The Pale Fire of Politics EMS NAMBOODIRIPAD, Chief Minister of Kerala, was in Calcutta last week and had intended to visit Gemini's Circus in Howrah across the river. He could not make it His...
A Calcutta Diary
What happened in Calcutta last week when a part of the city lost its head? Whether or not there is a judicial inquiry, we may never know the whole truth which was either knocked down by a bus, cut...
The industrial scene in West Bengal today seems the murkier for affected understatements by both the Government and the industrialists. On his return from Delhi the Chief Minister, Ajoy Mukherjee,...
"Fellow-Workers and Friends!" SOMETHING unprecedented, unique almost, happened in Calcutta on Saturday (March 18) when the new Government (17-day-old, as the newspapers pointed out) addressed a...
Prafulla Sen Slept Here THAT Ajoy Mukherjee, West Bengal's brave new Chief Minister, has so far declined to move into his predecessor's premises inside what used to be Government House and is now...
to accept responsibility seems out of favour. The Ins and the Outs IN SPITE OF many reverses, the Congress still emerged as the largest single party after the election and could perhaps have...
Thus couples desiring less than 4 children would seek to limit births. However, where couples desire more than 4 children, expending funds on contraception would be futile. If 'd' is negative and...
The Unrevolution Called Election INDIFFERENCE may be the most fundamental birthright of a citizen in a democracy, a right most jealously to be preserved, and Calcutta displayed this great democratic...
ABOUT a quarter of a century ago Arthur Koestler held it against political parties that they either ignored or exaggerated the importance of the irrational in politics. We in India, the land of...
This Matchless City THE NEW YEAR opened in Calcutta in very characteristic and symbolic fashion. The whole world knows about the cricket test match that wasn't at Eden Gardens on January 1. (The...
A Strike Struck Down IN less than forty-eight hours the strike of the workers of the Calcutta State Transport Corporation collapsed, and nobody seems to know why. The unions were indeed assorted...
bad effect forecast by some internal Jeremiahs. All my Indian friends who visit me in Tokyo are always struck by one special feature of Japanese society, which is the enormous energy of the people...
members on behalf of some of his turncoat colleagues who had walked over from the PSP to the Congress with him. And he seems to have made his contribution in bringing about Morarji-Patil cordiality...
position. Without this the movement itself might get disrupted. Role of District Towns A notable feature of the stormy days in Andhra was the considerable role of the numerous district and mofussil...
ago under conditions radically different from those that exist today should still be favoured so strongly and adhered to as zealously. First, Keynesian pragmatism is well adapted to the American...
