Author: Tirthankar Mitra
Pratik-ur-Rahman an upcoming CPI(M) leader joining Trinamool Congress less than a week after his resignstion from the party is akin to a strike from a double edged weapon to CPI(M) . The party whose writ ran in West Bengal for more than three decades has lost a young leader with a clean image at a time when it is trying to regain electoral relevance; Rahman post his resignation has opened a can of worms about intra-party affairs landing the Marxist outfit on a sticky wicket before 2026 Assembly elections.
Aung San Suu Kyi has been in detention for two decades. But it has not diminished her political stature, it has only altered its firm. The Nobel Laureate was once the voice of moral resistance. Now she is a silent symbol in a country where silence itself has become a weapon.
William Mark Tully, who passed away recently had become more of an institution than an individual scribe. Credibility was the middle name of the man who reported momentous events from India for the BBC.
Ruling dispensation Trinamool Congress and principal Opposition outfit BJP are shouting of reaping political advantage before Assembly election even though dust is yet to settle on a Enforcement Directorate (ED) raid at two offices of I-PAC in Kolkata recently. With chief minister and TMC supremo, Mamata Banerjee storming into the office of I-PAC, her party’s political consultant and emerging with a green file and a lap top stated to be containing TMC poll game plan, senior TMC leaders are claiming political advantage while her action is being looked upon as an instance of obstructing governmental investigation by the saffron camp.
Often referred to by her initials B. B. , Brigitte Bardot (,91)
one of the best known symbols of sexual revolution is no more. Apart from being an actress, singer and model, she was a well known animal rights activist
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The common factor between the Malayali films Sandesam(1991) and Nadodikkattu(1987) is no more. Sreenivasan who part and parcel of both the films has passed away.
Painted blue and yellow, private buses in Kolkata are often seen racing down the city thoroughfares even as the commuters inside the vehicles send up silent prayers while trying to keep themselves somehow perched on the edges of their seats. These buses are seldom seen as identification markers of the city as trams or yellow taxies.
Kolkata, a city known far and wide for its sports lovers who have a record of going berserk when things do not live up to its expectations saw access taking precedence. when Lionel Messi briefly and chaotically appeared at Yuba Bharati stadium in Salt Lake recently. It was indeed a revealing moment of how not to showcase global icons.
The handsome He man with a vulnerable look, Dharmendra, a top bracket star of Hindi films is no.more. Even as romantic Rajesh Khanna faded away and angry young man Amitabh Bachchan ceased to be the force in the box office that he used to be.
Curaco island in Carribeans is in the news; and it is not for the wron0g reasons. The world is related Curaco’s fairy tale entry into football World Cup.