Siliguri, April 14: A centre to treat tuberculosis patients from 9 am to 2 pm, a den for drug addicts and criminals after that. Stifled by three acres of wilderness and parthenium bushes, the rundown single-storied structure of the chest clinic of Siliguri subdivisional hospital on Sevoke Road today looks more like a haunted house…
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Hatighisa (Naxalbari), April 9: Sixty-year-old Lumbhi Munda puckers her forehead when you tell her you want an interview with her. The shy smile, which causes the face to wrinkle up, seemed incoherent with the image of a woman who was a firebrand leader of the seventies Naxalite movement. One hour into the conversation, the words…
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