Mamata’s Khela Diwas falls on same day as the one of Hindus’ nightmare in history

Hours after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announced that “Khela Diwas” will be celebrated on August 16, the uncanny evocation of Muslim...

A Sikh girl in Kashmir Valley: Where are you on the two sides of divide?

Let’s say there are two sides to divide on a recent Sikh girl’s marriage to a Muslim in the Kashmir Valley. Let’s define them as individual freedom vs...

How to make money in India: What these two individuals know is invaluable

We had two real neighbours when I was growing up as a child in Defence Colony, New Delhi, in the '60s. On one side was a famous Barrister, as modest and...

Why Mamata can’t stand “Jai Shri Ram”: It’s more than just her anathema to BJP

West Bengal politics is again is in the grips of slogans. While West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is hypersensitized by ‘Jai Shree Ram’ slogan, she and her...

Protesting farmers and a friendly neighbourhood: How deadly is cocktail?

So many Balidan, Shradhanjali and Sadbhavana Diwas etc after, so many talks after, so many rallies after, Republic Day after, things haven’t moved an inch....

If you’re a protesting farmer, please don’t read: You would die out of shame

An MSP Farmer is an endangered entitled species who is resisting every attempt to make it head outside into the real world, removing its addiction to mammary of the...

BJP and 3 hoods of serpent it needs to slay for Mission Bengal

West Bengal is heading towards assembly polls in another few months. While BJP has steadily gained enough ground in last 5 years on the left-TMC-infested State and is...