A dame who won Kachan Janga, but `lost’ her way into Himalayan frosts
KOLKATA: It was May 18th when Chanda Gayen climbed Kanchan Janga with her friend Tushi Das and walked back to their base camp. But next...
Mamata’s silence to BJP invitation, sets Jyoti Basu’s line revisiting
KOLKATA: It was in a little more than mid-`90s, when Jyoti Basu, former Bengal chief minister Jyoti Basu greeted Atal Behari Vajpayee with no greetings...
Economic reforms, Stalinist organizational monotony seal up CPI(M)’s fate in India
KOLKATA: As CPI(M) leadership begins probing into electoral disasters and shifts taking personal responsibilities using Lenin’s rather archaic term `collective responsibility,’ party overlooks the socio-economic...
BJP’s getting edgy in Bengal keeps TMC worried as it threatens to replace Left, Cong
KOLKATA: If Modi-Mamata duels in the last phases crushed CPI(M)-Left more and to an extent restricted Congress to Malda and Murshidabad, helping Trinamool Congress with...
Huge Modi victory, two BJP seats in Bengal script Mamata’s look smaller
KOLKATA: A huge BJP-Modi victory in Delhi and two BJP seats in Bengal set to script Mamata Banerjee’s look smaller.Though a grim-faced Mamata Banerjee while...
Bengal’s national majors get looked up in grim post-poll calculations
KOLKATA: As Naveen’s BJD and Jayalalitha send quick signals to BJP-led NDA following results of exit polls, indicating BJP entering seat of power in Delhi,...