Category Archives: nandigram
I Have To Write – III
Trilogies are treacherous – this one is certainly one – I have no idea whether I can link this one with the other two that have gone before! But I have to write! So, I write! Too much is going … Continue reading
I Have To Write – II
As far as writing is concerned I am going through some kind of depression – I just can’t get down to writing – I mean writing the rantings of a gagged journalist. I seem to be otherwise normal – spending … Continue reading
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I Have To Write!
When you write it is difficult not to get immersed in yourself and your thoughts and become conceited in one way or another, but you still have to write. So much is happening – the Panchyat Elections – Aparna Sen … Continue reading
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Notes From The Book Fair’s Underground
The well-known villains of Bangla publishing – the monopoly seekers – Ananda Bazar Patrika Group – has now come out in the open with its ugly and disgusting ways. What something that book lovers, lovers of literature, language and culture … Continue reading
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Rizwanur & Nandigram: Minor Points That Can Bring About Major Change!
Some more predictions about the Rizwanur murder case: 1. Rizwanur’s own brother, Rukbanur, will finally accept the CBI’s report which will say it was a case of suicide. Despite some initial show of being unhappy with the CBI’s verdict of … Continue reading
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Nandigram: At Least Let Our Dead Be Our Collective Property, Don’t Make Them Your Private Or State Property!
Nandigram! Being poor, illiterate and uneducated we can ask only questions that deal with our stomachs, our livelihoods, our existence, or our dead. We cannot think beyond because the rich and you, politicians, the running dogs of the rich, make … Continue reading
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Marxism/Leftism sans any clue of structural change is as reactionary as Rightist parties
My good friend Life’s Elsewhere has been doing a brilliant job (and I suspect wittingly and consciously rather than unwittingly) in bringing to the fore the major issues of the day in the sharpest possible manner and thereby helping me … Continue reading
Rich Bare Fangs, Show Real Face of Nandigram Politics
A very satisfying and also terrifying day of politics on Wednesday. The real face of Nandigram politics is now being laid bare and the rich have begun to bare their ugly fangs instead of hiding behind “civil society”. The events … Continue reading
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How Left Are We Leftists? How Left Is The Left Front?
I am a stupid person. I try to understand the complexities of reality by trying to break it down into simpler categories that I can understand. I get impatient with intellectuals who instead of simplifying the reality around us and … Continue reading
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In Defense of Democracy & Thanks Occam’s Razor!!
I think it is the season for self-criticisms! I have done it once one way (see earlier post on Nandigram: What movement? Why?) and now I have to do it again – this time the other way. I have received … Continue reading
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