Public wrath needed for Naya (realised justice) in Rizwanur case

There are many occassions in life when it really feels nice to be proved wrong. Yesterday [Aug 14, 2008] happens to be one of those days since, during the day, Calcutta High Court, instead of taking the cover-up route, directed the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), India’s premier body of sleuths, to file charge sheets against 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 [...]

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 [...]

Stop being sensible, stop enduring injustice, go crazy to fight this crazy world!

Indiancitizen, a fellow blogger and a leading writer against the kind of blatant injustice that the Rizwanur murder case represents (see the blog rizwanur.com), has posted the following comment against one of my posts, Rizwanur & Nandigram: Minor Points That Can Bring About Major Change!
The comment is extremely significant because it brings to [...]

Confusion will not be my epitaph even as I crawl a cracked and broken path!

Dear Upal,
First, your views:
Dear Arjun,
Much as I enjoy reading your pieces, I cannot but help criticizing your rather Utopian views on a Post-capitalist economic/socal order.
You have muddled up between structure and superstructure. The State character is an example of a basic structure which supports the capitalist economic form. You have called this as the “superstructure”. [...]

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 [...]

Rizwanur Murder: Operation Cover-up Proceeding As Predicted

Operation cover-up in the Rizwanur murder case is proceeding as predicted. One will have to wait till December 16 to get the final verdict from the CBI: Rizwanur committed suicide because his own brother and Pappu betrayed him. An absolutely open and shut case. The victim killed himself because of his own family members.
Who says [...]

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 [...]

Rizwanur Mystery: The Case Of The Crazy Cops & The Loony Lover

A few days back The Telegraph of Kolkata carried an article giving the Ashok Todi family’s version of events that led to the tragic death of Rizwanur Rahman. While The Telegraph must be lauded for publishing the family’s side of the story, the article gives an entirely new twist to the whole incident. If the [...]

Nandigram & The Terrors of Tomorrow

I write these words today with a great sense of apprehension and grief.
As someone who had grown up witnessing the murderous role that the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] played during the Naxalite movement in West Bengal during the late sixties and early seventies, I have always – ever since I have had [...]