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Corona Corner
The Hindutva fake-news factories spreading hate-virus at the time of Corona
The first casualty of war is truth, goes the saying. However, the current war against corona pandemic was supposed to be an exception since it involves us and our mortal enemy altogether. It is true...
Corona Corner
Modi extends Lockdown but offers no food to confined and stranded
The extension of the Corona- Lockdown for another 18 days till 3 May on the morning of Baisakhi/Bihu/Poila Baisakh festival would have made us less gloomy had the Prime Minister Narendra Modi cared to assure...
Opinion
Tablighi Jamaat messed up corona containment but ‘Godi’ media stoking fire for riots
Choosing between the devil and deep blue sea is itself a devilish business that we can hardly afford in the current situation. Therefore, I refuse to take side on the controversy over the irresponsible stupidities...
Opinion
Will Modi’s ‘diya’ light up the poor neighborhoods and riot-hit homes during lockdown?
As most Indians are undergoing a difficult three weeks-long total lockdown in the wake of the corona pandemic, our prime minister is increasingly preaching like a TV Messiah, far removed from our mundane but real...
Corona Corner
Modi’s Man Ki Baat on migrants and poor a pure Jumla, GoI orders reveal
Corona virus apparently has globally punctured the inflated egos of many megalomaniacs. Otherwise, did we ever expect that our Prime Minister to seek kshama (pardon), particularly, from the poor for imposing 21-day-long Lockdown, which has...
Corona Corner
Lakhsman Rekha is no substitute for targeted public health initiative, says WHO
This is a queer time when both doomsday alarmists and apologists for control-freaks are making hay. They are exploiting our dread of an invisible mass killer to manufacture public consent for coercive measures by gods...
Corona Corner
India fights Corona: Who bothers for WHO?
World Health Organization (WHO), the UN agency for global monitoring and supervision for diseases control, particularly, pandemics like current Coronavirus or COVID-19 outbreak is not exactly impressed with India’s total lockdown for 21 days as...
Corona Corner
How pathogens help the powerful
Kolkata: Pandemics and politics have been shaping each other since the times of Moses to the Modi regime. The Hebrew God helped the Messiah on Sinai with plagues to tame Pharaoh Ramses II. A cosmopolitan...
Let There Be Light
Love In the Time of Corona and Hate Virus
At least, for a brief period, the global pandemic would force them to believe that ‘we the people’ breathe same air irrespective of our mortal identity markers and will die the same death if the viruses, ‘natural’ and man-made are allowed to spread more
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Video Story: Is Jharkhand a failed state or having a Jungle Raj? 22nd Mob Lynching cases in Raghubar government
Ranchi: Mubarak Ansari, 48, becomes 22nd mob lynching victims in Jharkhand. While Akhtar Ansari, 26, has managed to live on, despite receiving serious injuries...
By fighting over temple and mosques BJP cannot provide employment to the youth of India: Left Front
Kolkata: Shataf Balsar, a teenager took part in the rally organised by the Left Front from Esplanade to Rajabazar demanding immediate punishment of the...
Protests by the students are the strongest in the country: Aishe Ghosh
Kolkata: Amidst the slogans in favour of Hindu- Muslim brotherhood, Student Federation of India (SFI) leader of Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU), Aishe Ghosh...
No takers for Amit Shah brand of politics in Bengal, vandalism to cost dearly for BJP in last phase
Kolkata: Calcutta University’s College Street Campus and Vidyasagar College turned into political war zones when BJP supporters accompanying Amit Shah’s roadshow broke into a...