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| A great deal to do |
| The prime minister must seize this chance and speed up reform |
| Though the Left Front’s exit — a good riddance for Manmohan Singh — may save the nuclear deal, it alone will not save the government and country from a drift that has forced India down to the bottom of the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) lea... |
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| Will there be time? |
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Sir — The Metro Railway authorities seem to have decided all of a sudden to run the trains with an ... |
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| Beetle mania |
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Sir — The arrest of the renowned Czech entomologist, Petr Svacha, by forest officials of West Benga ... |
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| Wrong connection |
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Sir — I had applied for a BSNL broadband connection many weeks ago. Four weeks after the applicatio ... |
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| CANNOT BE SPOKEN FOR |
| The urge to be different may become addictive. So potent is the addiction that the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has put...|
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| White mythologies |
| There is a startling moment in Satyajit Ray’s Pikoo that came back to me while viewing Primavere del Bianco/Springs in White, curated by Vittoria Biasi (Rabindra... |
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| Centenary notes |
| A centenary is always a thing to celebrate. Khayal singer Ustad Abdul Rashid Khan, who turned 100 recently, was fêted for his achievement twice in June. First by Sangeet Piyas... |
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| From rain to ragas |
| In Tagore’s songs of the seasons, the great fight is between monsoon and spring. But it seems — and the numbers attest to this — that the poet was more favourably disposed tow... |
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| Bengal through the bioscope |
| The story begins in the summer of 1906 with the inauguration of the new Howrah railway station. The general manager of the Ea... |
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The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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