Author: Biswajit Roy
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Challenging the Myth: Debunking Herzl’s ‘Land without People’ Narrative
Glimpses of the history of Zionism Unfortunately, very few Zionist leaders paid heed to anti-colonial and universalist-humanist voices like Tagore and chose to follow the footsteps of their European anti-semitic tormentors. Theodore Herzl an Austro-Hungarian intellectual and journalist of the late 19th Century was the father of Zionism or in today’s parlance, political Judaism, like…
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What was Tagore’s Palestine Dream?
he ongoing genocide in Gaza– aerial bombardment and ground invasion in the 17 sq. miles small strip of besieged land at the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and a smaller part of residual Palestine, long occupied by the Zionist Israeli State led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu– has already surpassed the horrors of Guernica, epitomized…
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खासा जवान की याद में विश्वजीत रॉय की कविता
तारीख का एक बेमिसाल सूरत हाल — गोरे तहजीब का मसीहा अपने दुम छुपा कर भाग रहे, और लाल-हरा-जाफरानी परचम लहराने वाले वीर अपनी-अपनी सरहदें संभाल रहे। तालिबानों से उनके अमन का पैगाम सुनते सुनते दुनिया के तमाम भांड हंसते हंसते दम तोड़ रहे हैं! इसी के दरमियाँ अल्लाह की सिपाहियों ने तुम्हारी पीपली हंसी…
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“We will decide Mamata’s fate this time”
Continue from first two parts… The turncoats Both BJP MP Babul Supriyo and former TMC mayor cum Pandabeswar MLA Jitendra Tiwari drew criticisms for their roles in competitive communal violence in 2018. Tewari has recently joined BJP, apparently after coming under the CBI scanner over illegal coal mining and the saffron inroads in his main…
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Asansol belt: A repeat of 2016 or 2019 depends on Lefts too
Asansol/Kolkata: BJP won’t be able to repeat 2019 results in the Asansol belt in 2021 if TMC and Left Front can retain their bases. TMC bagged five out of seven assembly segments under Asansol parliamentary constituency in 2016. CPM held two. BJP was distant third even two years after its victory in the LS poll…
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Asansol: Will voters cross communal divides to reflect on real issues of their daily lives?
Asansol: Politics of communal polarisation has helped Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to win Asansol parliamentary constituency for successive two terms in 2014 and 2919. Will it be able to wrest the seven assembly segments from its friend-turned-foe Trinamool Congress (TMC) and CPM in 2021 state polls? Though TMC won five and CPM retained two in…
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Singur: Voters differ on aborted Tata factory but soaring fuel prices and falling rates for locally grown potatoes unite them
Singur: Elderly Kakoli Manna and Sameer Kumar Das, neighbours at Mallickpur, a few kilometres away from the ‘Tatar Math’ felt that the Nano car factory could have provided jobs to some unemployed youth including locals. But they admitted that they were not farmers who had sold their land voluntarily or lost it during the hasty…
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Delhi farmer leaders remember Singur martyrs but Tapasi Malik’s father resents denial of justice
Kolkata: The battle for Bengal 2021 has once again catapulted Singur, along with Nandigram as one of the key political flashpoints for all three rival camps; ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), its main challenger BJP and old adversary CPM-led Left Front (LF) and its alliance partners, Congress and Indian Secular Front (ISF). It is here the…
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Medha Patkar and Rakesh Tikait endorse Mamata Banerjee against BJP in Nandigram
Nandigram: West Bengal’s political divide and violence over the turf war is now taking a communal turn before the assembly polls that begin on March 27. A revisit to Nandigram after more than a decade underlines the painful but unmistakable fact. The predominantly agricultural constituency sprawling over two administrative blocks close to Haldia port and…
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From Dandi, India begins another march, this time against Modi’s megalomania and dandaraj, say farmer leaders
Kolkata: On the 91st anniversary of Gandhiji’s historic March from Sabarmati to Dandi in coastal Gujarat for Salt Satyagraha to defy the arbitrary and monopoly salt laws of the British Raj, farmers from Punjab- Haryana and other states of northern India today issued an open letter to their Bengal brethren to defeat Narendra Modi’s BJP…