A history of ordinariness in contemporary times must, therefore, reckon with a landscape where the lines between decent simplicity and quotidian evil are blurred
JAYANTA SENGUPTASetting up a ‘foundation’, an independent legal entity, is perhaps the first step for a university to support various activities through grants coming from the alumni or their associations
GAUTAM BHATTACHARYAThe world is teetering towards nuclear suicide but we, in India, have seated ourselves in a posture of stoic detachment. Arms control is not a subject that occupies even a fraction of our attention
GOPALKRISHNA GANDHISpending on human development stagnated at around 4% of GDP in past 3 decades. According to govt's own admission, spending on health ought to be at 2.5%, and on education 6%
THE EDITORIAL BOARDIt must be remembered that women workers are crippled by a dual burden: employment that involves overwork and underpayment as well as domestic responsibilities that are formidable
THE EDITORIAL BOARDBiswas, a bassist in ‘Fossils’, was found dead in his rented home in Kolkata on Sunday