Author: Tirthankar Mitra

Dilip Ghosh, former chief of West Bengal unit of BJP gave Prime Minister, Narendra Modi’s rally in Durgapur today a miss.

Ahead of the monsoon session in the Lok Sabha on 21 July, INDIA allies are scheduled to hold an online meeting tomorrow. One may read between the lines that Trinamool Congress and Aam Aadmi Party are giving it a miss.

Fauja Singh had weak legs as a child and could not walk properly till he was five years old. He discovered the joys in running later in life. 

Bihar has one of the greatest concentration of working people and marginalised communities within the country.

Leela Sahu(22) from Sidhi in Madhya Pradesh says she has no interest in politics. Yet she found herself in the crosshairs of the local BJP leadership when lack of basic infrastructure like a bad road appeared in her posts.

These range from ministerial visits to revival of direct flights and pilgrimages.  To call a spade by no other name, necessity rather than mutual goodwill seems to be at work. 

Talk of organising a retrospective of films Vasantkumar Shivshankar Padukone and it would fall on deaf ears. But the audience would be all ears, at a proposal to make a show of films of Guru Dutt.

And there is good reason for it as here was a man who turned melancholia into art. He turned his camera to the painful realities of life.

Shubman Gill’s double hundred and a century in two innings of Edgbaston test marks a new high in his career after he took over from Virat Kohli as the captain Indian test team.

Indian cricket team is in uncharted territory as the first Test against England starts today. The new look team is led by Shubhman Gill is both a leap of faith by selectors as well as a big generational jump.

srael and Iran can hardly said to have an amicable relation. But  one needs to take a close look into the  recent belligerence to pin down its cause.