Author: Tirthankar Mitra

Samajwadi Party (SP) Mahila Sabha have launched a campaign distributing post cards to women across Uttar Pradesh to enable them to directly lodge their concerns. Not taking any chances that it will be gathering dust if sent to another party functionary, these “concern sheets” will be addressed to party chief, Akhilesh Yadav.

Assam presents a prism of exclusion these days. The BJP state government led by Himant Biswa Sarma has kicked off a major eviction drive in this north eastern state in the past month raising troubling questions.

Close circuit television footage at a leading hospital in Patna revealed some men walking in gun in hand and leaving after shooting a convicted criminal on parole. This is the latest incident of violence in Bihar where elections are round the corner and is a reminder to the voters that enough is enough.

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.