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Open Diary
FOR ME AT LEAST, the 2019 General Election has been very different. In 2004, I accompanied LK Advani on his Bharat Uday Yatra that began in Kanyakumari and, after meandering its way across the length...
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Translator Extraordinary: Manmatha Nath Dutt-I
Sucheta Kriplani (1908-74) was several things – freedom-fighter, member of the Constituent Assembly, first lady Chief Minister. A lot has been written about her. Those biographical sketches typically...
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Manmatha Nath Dutt – II
“The Statesman” newspaper was started in 1875 and soon after, there was a debate that attracted the attention of many educated people in Calcutta. This was triggered by the Reverend William Hastie...
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Manmatha Nath Dutt – III
The longest introduction Manmatha Nath Dutt wrote was in one of the earliest translations, that of the Valmiki Ramayana. After that, the introductions became short and terse, almost non-existent. In...
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The Age of Dissent
‘RARELY HAVE POETRY movements around the world impacted generations of writers, intellectuals and thinkers in the way these two movements have. In that sense, it is also the narrative of an entire...
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Saffron Star Over Bengal
IF AN IDEA FROM BENGAL, even an obnoxious one, sweeps the land, can Bengal be said to have won or lost? Does the triumph of the seed Syama Prasad Mookerjee sowed when he founded the Bharatiya Jana...
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No to the Bungalow
Arun Jaitley might have left the Cabinet because of health reasons but he is still a senior Rajya Sabha member. He was nominated in 2018 and so has five more years. But he made a gesture not usually...
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The Caliphate Files: Inside the Islamic State Modules of India
ON NOVEMBER 30TH, 2018, this message flashed on the mobile phone of 30-year-old Mufti Mohammed Suhail, a resident of Jafrabad in Northeast Delhi. The message came from a handler of the Islamic State...
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Of Mahua Moitra and Plagiarism
WHEN MAHUA MOITRA, first-time Trinamool Member of Parliament (MP) from Krishnanagar, made her debut in the House on June 25th, the whole nation, it would seem, took note. Her impassioned and forceful...
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Keeping All Happy
Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot might be in poor health but for the state Budget he didn’t spare any effort. At his 8 Civil Lines house, he held meetings till midnight with officials. Shrewdly,...
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