"Debraj, I didn't believe that I would be able to walk this long in this heat" said Uttara Chakrabarty. Senior Citizen. Teacher in the History ...
10:44 PM, Apr 11, 2013
Being termed as West Bengal's Gujarat Summit, which wrapped up after a successful show on Saturday last week, the Trinamool government's 'Bengal Leads' conclave has ...
05:13 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Today is Nobomi, or, as they say in Delhi, Navami. Just before rushing off to the Kashmere Gate pujo, which is in its 103rd year ...
02:02 PM, Oct 23, 2012
I had a friend, let's call her 'B'. She was assaulted outside her home. We were just out of college. Like most assaults, the perpetrators ...
06:31 PM, Oct 16, 2012
Dear Mamata-Di, Let me at the very outset express a sneaking admiration for the manner in which you have proved your critics wrong yet ...
12:01 AM, Sep 21, 2012
The closing of the Bengali mind I returned to north Bengal last week for a short holiday in the Darjeeling hills. I spent my ...
07:34 AM, Jun 13, 2012
New Delhi: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's unbridled joy at the Kolkata Knight Riders winning the fifth season of the Indian Premier League was ...
01:11 PM, May 31, 2012
No one manages a party quite like West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. She proved that again on Tuesday at the Eden Gardens. The city ...
03:15 PM, May 29, 2012
It is exactly a year since Mamata Banerjee created history in Bengal by dislodging the Left Front from power, after 34 long years of uninterrupted ...
10:59 AM, May 16, 2012
It's a terrible disease and it's spreading very fast. The symptoms are pronounced. It is known to make humans contort their faces, sometimes even expose ...
03:07 PM, Apr 18, 2012
The path of self-destruction, that West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has embarked on since May, 2011, has been concrete-reinforced by her government's actions over ...
04:10 PM, Apr 13, 2012
She called her a 'tigress'. The 37-year-old Park street rape victim was grateful to one woman who believed in her and her account when no ...
06:06 PM, Apr 04, 2012
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October is a month of festivities. There is Durga Puja and there is Diwali. But for more than 6000 retired employees of the Calcutta State ...
03:43 PM, Nov 10, 2011
![Rituparna Chatterjee]( "Rituparna Chatterjee")
The baptism of West Bengal was extraordinary in its plainness. From a popular standpoint, the growing clamour for a new name for the state had ...
05:51 PM, Aug 20, 2011
![Sumon K Chakrabarti]( "Sumon K Chakrabarti")
It's actually ironic that I am in China! To understand the enormity of the purpose, you have to be born, bred in West Bengal, my ...
12:45 PM, Jun 17, 2011
![Tathagata Bhattacharya]( "Tathagata Bhattacharya")
West Bengal has seen - and chosen - Mamata Banerjee the inspirational leader. Now what can the state expect from Mamata the Chief Minister? There ...
05:42 PM, May 17, 2011
![Sagarika Ghose]( "Sagarika Ghose")
The last vote has been cast. The surveys are out. EVMs stand at the ready. In 48 hours, the voice of the Indian voter will ...
06:56 AM, May 11, 2011
![Abid Soffi]( "Abid Soffi")
New Delhi: With only two phases left in the West Bengal Assembly elections and the judgment day round the corner, the people of Bengal are ...
11:15 AM, May 06, 2011
![Sagarika Ghose]( "Sagarika Ghose")
Travelling with Mamata Banerjee in North Bengal, in the first phase of polling in early April, reaping an unusual break and a whirlwind. A ...
09:44 AM, Apr 30, 2011
![Pallavi Ghosh]( "Pallavi Ghosh")
Not many noticed when Sonia Gandhi quietly made Digvijaya Singh in-charge of Assam last month. Despite the general perception that Congress has no real opponent ...
12:48 PM, Mar 15, 2011
