“The Sikyong is tired,” the personal secretary of Lobsang Sangay, the political head or Prime Minister of the Tibetan government in exile, told me as he showed me in. It was a long Parliament session that had ended almost an hour after the scheduled time for our interview (I passed my time soaking in sights…
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I recently attended two political rallies of the candidates from the Jadavpur constituency—Sugata Bose of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Sujan Chakraborty of the Communist Party of India, Marxists (CPM)—while working on a story I did for Mint Lounge. Chakraborty’s was a small padayatra—fewer campaigners and more intimate in feel—on a Tuesday morning in the…
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