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 on!
Panchayat elections!
I am an unabashed running dog of the CPI(M). Despite all their inhumanities! Despite the [...]

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 a fairly active day – writing for money, translating, editing, playing with my children, quarreling [...]

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 and her dramabaji – wow! If only ….
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I have often wondered why is it that [...]

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 have always known, has now become known to the world. The ABP Group has bared [...]

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 suicide, he will not challenge it the way it should be challenged. As to how it [...]

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 sure that we cannot think of anything else – only how to suffer the pain [...]

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 to hit at the nub of the problem rather than beat about the [...]

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 in Kolkata on Wednesday have now confirmed my worst fears. There is now a clear [...]

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 making it understandable to intellectually challenged souls like us introduce even more complexities, more abstractions [...]

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 a comment on my last post from Occam’s Razor which I have lifted from the comment section [...]