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The reclamation of Bengal

West Bengal is not merely a state. It is, in the telling of those who sought to win it back from the Trinamool Congress, a civilisational citadel - the cradle of the Bengal Renaissance, the land of Ramakrishna and Vivekananda, Bankimchandra and Tagore , Shyamaprasad Mookerjee and Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

Credibility Crisis

India's temporary restriction on Telegram ahead of the NEET-UG re-examination has dominated headlines.

Dancing girl

There is something profoundly ironic about a civilisation becoming embarrassed by one of its oldest mirrors.

Fragile Pause

The latest development in the Trump-Putin talks over Ukraine reveals just how tenuous and conditional any path toward peace remains.

Sectarian Inevitability

While Muslims describe themselves as the followers of Prophet Muhammad, the holy Quran describes a Muslim as someone who submits themselves to the will of the one Lord who created the heavens and earth and is the master of the day of the judgement.

Assault on our ears must be combated

It was the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Robert Koch who, as early as 1910, foresaw that 'One day man will have to fight noise as fiercely as cholera and pest'.

Pragmatic shift

Kerala’s Left government appears to be standing at an ideological crossroads. After decades of championing the public sector and resisting privatisation, it is now cautiously opening the door to private investment in state-run enterprises.

Postal reforms

Perhaps no other sector in the world was affected so adversely after the communication revolution in the last three decades as the postal sector.