Saturday, Jun 03, 2023
Sep 01, 2008
Jaideep Mazumdar Smoked, baked, steamed, and now scuppered: Bengal's rivers are cleaned out of their hilsas
Aug 25, 2008
Jaideep Mazumdar A sepoy rebelled in 1824. But was it India's first anti-Brit mutiny?
Aug 14, 2008 Jaideep Mazumdar 'Kolkata Korner', with yours truly as the writer, draws to a close with this. It has been exciting and very...
Aug 08, 2008 Jaideep Mazumdar I'm yet to come across a salwar-kameez that can reveal the navel. A saree, to me, is sensuous attire, a...
Aug 01, 2008 Jaideep Mazumdar I knew I was right about my assessment that Kolkatans would panic, over-react and retreat into a shell if any...
Jul 28, 2008
Jaideep Mazumdar A disastrous poll just over, Bengal's comrades are livid with Karat's gung-ho withdrawal
Jul 25, 2008 Jaideep Mazumdar The CITU needs unruly, anti-social and rogue elements in its ranks to enforce its writ on society. It is all...
Jul 21, 2008
Jaideep Mazumdar A centuries-old annual migration must be turned back. On Bengal's Nepal border, man and elephant clash. A...
Jul 18, 2008 Jaideep Mazumdar Do those who criticise Kolkata and Bengalis harbour a bias against the city and the community? Before trying...
Jul 14, 2008
Jaideep Mazumdar Treasures, trifles—Calcutta's auction houses burn with curiosities
Jul 11, 2008 Jaideep Mazumdar "People who flaunt their refugee status even after so many decades deserve no sympathy; they are responsible...
Jul 07, 2008
Jaideep Mazumdar A Calcutta pocket is poised to deck up its slice of Awadhi history
Jun 30, 2008
Jaideep Mazumdar Not all their demands are unjust. A studied resolution is a must.
Jun 27, 2008 Jaideep Mazumdar I know there'll be howls of protest to this, but the fact is that most Bengalis love status quo and are a...
Jun 23, 2008
Jaideep Mazumdar Three Congress bastions in north Bengal show the way. Development, cadre are key factors.
Jun 20, 2008 Jaideep Mazumdar Beneath that veneer of sophistication, the average Bengali is as communal and parochial as Raj Thackeray and...
Jun 02, 2008
Jaideep Mazumdar Post Nandigram firing, the Communists are shooting at another movement: the theatre
May 30, 2008 Jaideep Mazumdar Part II of the review of 31 years of the Left Front. The focus this week is on its utter inability, born out...
May 26, 2008 Jaideep Mazumdar The panchayat results have rattled the Left. The malaise runs deeper than just the symptoms of Singur and...
