Durgaprasad Bhattacharya Why is it that the Left Front government has sponsored a tercentenary celebration when even the British did not celebrate the centenary or bicentenary of Calcutta? The answer is clear: the British did not consider Char nock a founder whereas the state government has been misled by a myth inspired by the falsified and motivated interpretation of records as practised by some British colonial scholars.
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