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Calcutta, Partha Chatterjee, disqualified candidates, graduate examination

World-class campus~I

The Prime Minister’s recent announcement that Rs 10,000 crore would be allocated to the country’s top 20 universities for their…

Bolsheviks, Lenin, Lassalle-Kautsky tradition, Marx, socialism, Communism

Revolution or coup~II

Lenin had trampled upon internal democracy and advanced a message to non-proletarian Bolsheviks ~ “To wait for the Congress of…

Nalin Satyakam Kohli, BJP spokeperson, MVA, M

‘Opposition has no answers’

Forty-eight year old Nalin Satyakam Kohli is among the BJP’s Gen-x leaders ~ vocal, erudite and outspoken ~ who have…

Japan, surveillance satellite, North Korea, Japan surveillance satellite

Scandals in plain sight

In feudal Japan there was harakiri, or ritual suicide, whenever a grave wrongdoing was uncovered. The bloodless, modern day form…

Bolshevik revolution, CPI-M, Sitaram Yechury, Karl Marx

Revolution or coup~I

“The Bolshevik revolution is based more on ideology than actual events. Therefore, at the end of the day, we really…

Karni Sena, Padmavat, CBFC,

Battling a literary phantom

Is there any reason for the hysterical reactions that the film Padmavati has evoked in the past few weeks? The…

South Asia Economic Summit, North American Free Trade Agreement, European Union

So close and yet so far

The Tenth South Asia Economic Summit was concluded in Kathmandu this month and underscored deepening economic integration for inclusive and…

Former French President Hollande says Indian govt proposed Reliance Defence for Rafale

Fighters in the sky

One is convinced that as a citizen, like millions of our countrymen, we have virtually reached a stage of “now…

Tej Pratap Yadav

Crassness must be culled

We were recently served up the utterly crass and crude rant by Tej Pratap Yadav, till recently a Cabinet Minister…