West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has been accused of appeasing Muslims at the cost of enraging the Hindus. Her “appeasement politics”, it is said, has helped the Bharatiya Janata Party to further its communal agenda in the state. The Hindu right does not like the “special treatment” given to Muslims, be it in holding…
A tin can tied to a dog’s tail. An overwhelmed Rabindranath Tagore thus described the euphoria surrounding his Nobel Prize in Literature 103 years ago. “The perfect whirlwind of public excitement it has given rise to is frightful,” he wrote in a letter to close friend William Rothenstein, the English painter and intellectual who played…
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Anuradha Sharma 