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Doesn’t Maa Durga bleed? Asks Bengal-origin artist, faces FIR, threats and gets trolled

Kolkata: Visual artist Aniket Mitra, who happens to be a gold medallist from Kolkata’s prestigious Art College, was in for a rude shock when he uploaded his latest artwork on his Facebook wall-- Goddess Durga...

As election approaches, saffron groups smell love jihad in Bengal’s air

Kolkata: West Bengal has been a focal point for the right-wing ideologues for some time now. Reports of foot soldiers of the saffron brigade making inroads into Bengal are now frequent in Bengal. The news...

I am traumatized, and living in fear. Anytime, I can be killed: Prof Sanjay Kumar

Delhi/Kolkata: Sanjay Kumar, assistant professor of sociology, at Mahatma Gandhi Central University, Motihari (Bihar) who was dragged from his residence and nearly torched by a group of men for having spoken against the Vice-Chancellor of...

Did a sting operation help avert communal violence during Janmashtami in Bengal?

Kolkata: Social activist Soibal Dasgupta, had delved deep into the saffron brigade’s IT cell and interacted with a number of its torch bearers to leak out details of an impending communal clashes which he claims...

Bengal, sitting on a tinder box? A sting operation blows the lid off riots plan

Kolkata: Babri Masjid and Ram Mandir nirmaan has always been a big tool for electoral gains for the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) ever since the demolition of Babri Masjid took place in 1992. With election...

Gauri Vrat, a festival in which even 3-year-old girl fast for good future husband, activists raise concern

Baroda: Seven-years-old Khushi Dholakia, dressed in her fineries is patiently waiting for her friends at a Shiva Temple, in their neighbourhood. Both she and her friend are part of a bigger entourage of girls assembling...

Food For Thought: Are Traditional Bengali Dishes No Longer The Craze?

Kolkata: Bongs are big foodies. In fact, cinema and food are the twin obsession of this community not to mention literature and Robindro songeet. They can hold forth on any of these subjects with a...

Kolkatans Raise Voice Against The Trend of Child Abuse and Gender Violence

Kolkata: Kolkatans, comprising, theatre activists, painters, cartoonists and common men gathered at the entrance of Academy of Fine Arts on Friday to protest against the current trend of children as young as two-year-old being sexually...

It’s not 22, but 2+2 or 2-2 result for BJP in 2019 Lok Sabha polls in Bengal, predict analysts

Kolkata: It seems Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP's) national president Amit Shah is over confident about his party’s progress in Bengal in recent times. Because, for 2019 election, he claimed, BJP will win around 22 seats...

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Ranchi: It’s not just Motilal Baske’s family, villagers and political parties demanding justice in the controversial encounter. Now, CPI-Maoist has also demanded judicial inquiry...

Why eight phase election in Bengal, ask Left and TMC

Kolkata: After the announcement of longest ever polls dates in West Bengal by election commission of India, opposition Left parties including CPIM and CPIML...

A work of fiction that combines a murder mystery with ideas and characters taken from Hindu mythology

If you want a work of fiction that combines a murder mystery with ideas and characters taken from Hindu mythology, then Mayank Mahajan’s Balan...

Protests made Modi pause on NRC but adamant on CAA

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday accused the opposition parties of doublespeak on newly passed Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and proposed National Register of...

No medical aid in case of emergency for Quest Mall visitors and working professionals

Kolkata: A week after the death of Md. Shabbir, a 34-year-old employee of Samsonite India, the Quest Mall authorities could only come up with...