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The last helmsman : Jyoti Basu 1914-2010

Creator of history, cheated in history’s blunder

Jyoti Basu, who ruled Bengal for a record 23 years but was stopped by his party from becoming Prime Minister, died today minutes before noon after a 17-day battle with pneumonia. ... | Read..

Mamata homage with last-chapter jab at Left

Mamata Banerjee today paid tributes to Jyoti Basu but packed in a punch at his party, saying he was “the last chapter of the Left movement” in Bengal. ... | Read..

Basu backed me on trust vote: Somnath

The day Jyoti Basu died, Somnath Chatterjee, the former Lok Sabha Speaker, rekindled the debate on his expulsion from the CPM. ... | Read..

Controversies that dogged the pragmatic chief minister

Unlike Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Jyoti Basu was never known as a politician who would court controversy. ... | Read..

Leaders remember Basu

His advice was statesman-like but always pragmatic and based on unshakable values ... | Read..

Lungs that survived many a battle finally give in

Jyoti Basu lost his last medical battle because his lungs, virtually the only organs that had never given him trouble, failed him. ... | Read..

The last helmsman : Jyoti Basu 1914-2010

Jyoti Basu is no more with us. He has left us. I can’t speak any more
BIMAN BOSE

Sonia showers rich praise
If some eyebrows were raised by the decision of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh not to be present ... | Read..

Echo of blunder thunder
One word assailed the CPM today from every direction. ... | Read..

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THE DECADES
Tracking Jyoti Basu and the world that was \| Read..

Calcutta	More..
Home they brought the leader dead
Sunday, 3.03pm. The hearse carrying Jyoti Basu's body, draped in a red flag bearing the hammer and s... \| Read..

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Born to charm
Manmohan Singh once adapted a famous comment about Britain's R.A. Butler to say that \| Read..

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Bangladesh prove a point
The Indian cricket team's best move on a truncated day came off the field, when senior-most pro Sac... \| Read..

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Being Bachchan
firstly, the great joy of coming back to Calcutta and secondly the opportunity to come to the Netaj... \| Read..