In May 2004, Basu would explain why he had called his party’s decision a historic blunder. “Yes, I still think it was a historic blunder,” he said while speaking to Shekhar Gupta, th...

Her performance in a West Bengal government programme had led to a widespread debate on sanskriti vs apasanskriti (culture vs decadent culture), forcing her to file a defamation suit against a mi...

Out of tune Sir — The prospect of losing billions of dollars is not music to the ears. Spotify, a music streaming app, is facing an exodus of both subscribers and artists owing to a controversy...

The actor, Raj Ghatak, has a leading role in the West End stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s Booker Prize winning novel, Life of Pi, which I am looking forward to seeing. It speaks of Pi Pat...

Land has finally been allotted for a research facility named after Jyoti Basu in New Town. A signboard was unveiled on July 8, the former chief minister’s 108th birth anniversary, in Action Area...

If there is one thing you would change in current New Town, what would it be? The location of Eco Park. It is a disaster. It will have to be dismantled in future. Can you imagine an entertainment par...

As the absolute defeat of the Left Front (LF) in the Bengal elections became clear on May 2, 63-year-old Tanmay Bhattacharya, sometime DYFI president, retired bank employee, former MLA from Dum Dum No...

So unpredictable was Maradona that the 2017 trip almost did not happen. “The day he signed the contract my son was born and I named him Diego.  Maradona was delighted to know that. Yet he c...

When Purnendu Chatterjee joined hands with the Bengal government to build Haldia Petrochemicals Ltd (HPL), the then chief minister Jyoti Basu asked the NRI businessman if he had a home in Calcutta. &...

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