The Goddess and the Owl WHEN briefly in England in 1955 Nirad C Chaudhuri, the no longer- unknown Indian, tried to discover in English homes something corresponding to what he found in every Hindu...
A Calcutta Diary
ly be exploited by Washington, thereby strengthening the U S foothold in Afro-Asia and this by itself would embolden Washington to pressurise the other nonaligned countries more, including both the...
Pradesh Congress Committee has released the list of its candidates for almost all Assembly and Lok Sabha constituencies for the next election. The list itself contains few surprises. Surprising may...
Lessons of a Teach-Out AFTER 26 DAYS on the streets, or in jail, the secondary school teachers of West Bengal went back to school on Monday, October 10. During the agitation for higher pay a large...
After the Bandh, What? DURING the two-day Bandh on September 22-23 this reporter was in cool, distant and happy Addis Ababa; he is not complaining of what he missed although the affair appears to...
Atulya Ghosh recently told reporters in Bombay that he had been “amused” by Humayun Kabir's recent letter to the Congress President, indicating his resignation from the party after about 30 years of...
At this writing, September 4, all trucks, lorries and threewheelers are off the streets in all West Bengal. Transport operators, who are in many ways less taxed here than in most States, are on...
The Corporation of Calcutta is much like a Bombay film. Melodrama is all. Crudity reigns supreme, whether the characters are being funny or pathetic.
Not many will question even today that the Bengalis were the first to fall in love with the idea of Indian origin an imperial idea that for reasons unknown coincided with inarticulate aspirations in...
This most casual of corres pondents is impelled to congratulate Economic and Political Weekly on its rebirth mainly because a phenomenon of this kind could have happened today, only in Bombay, or...
