Did you notice the difference in the tone of the BJP on the Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) before and after the general elections? Well, the party which was vehemently opposed to the exchange of enclaves has now said it is working towards building a “political consensus” on the matter. What a welcome change this is!…
Read more Of all the BJP’s about turns, I like this one best
West Bengal has a very high incidence of under-age marriages. In some districts the prevalence rate of under-age marriage is so high that every second bride is a minor. In its profile of West Bengal state, Unicef points out that almost half of female teens are pregnant by the age of 19 and more than 60 per cent of pregnant women are anaemic. It further says that the number of institutional deliveries is less than half the total; and one third of women do not receive the recommended three antenatal checkups during pregnancy and only two thirds get post-natal care within two weeks of delivery.
It has been the season of bad news from West Bengal for some time now. By now you must be well versed with the names of legends like Tapas Pal. In this post, I share two of my recent pieces that I did on the gruesome murder of a CEO at a jute mill 35…
Read more Of CEO’s murder and jute industry crisis
A limp German flag hangs from a string at Ballygunge Phanri (in South Calcutta) on a rain-soaked day. I ask the taxi-driver to slow down for me to take a picture of it. I wanted to mail it to my friends in Germany. “They will be happy to know their team has supporters here,” I…
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I had a great chance to visit Brazil in 2007. It was a cultural exchange programme–the Rotary Group Study Exchange programme–and I was part of a five-member team to tour the oh-so-fantastic Rio-de-janeiro for a month. I spent a week each with a Brazilian family in different cities of the state. Those who have been…
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