Is baar, Vindhya paar? Anti-Hindi wall coming down
Last week, Narendra Modi’s phone call to Rekha Patra, the feisty lady from Sandeshkhali who has been selected as the...
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With opposition vocal for local, BJP should think supra-national
Last week, a Bengali technician based in North Kolkata visited me to undertake a maintenance job. The conversation, predictably, drifted...
Polls loom but old fault lines still haunt Bangladesh
In an ideal world, the announcement by Bangladesh’s Election Commission to hold parliamentary elections on January 7, 2024, should have...
PM don’t preach: Stand on Hamas attack shows change in India’s foreign policy
Swapan Dasgupta Well-known journalist and political commentator Swapan Dasgupta has worked for many leading Indian publications, including The Times of...
US curbs on visas: India should stand by Sheikh Hasina
One of the big challenges that India faces in the subcontinent is asymmetry. Its size and growing economic clout have...