Politics

…and Mamata Banerjee enters Writers Building, where she was thrown out once by the Left Front and was humiliated…she stood up and challenged that she will return someday…rest is history… By Pallab Ghosh

Finally the ‘Dee Day’ arrived..

“Agar aapke paas kuch galat samaan hai to apne aap rakh do varna nikal jao, metro ki chinta mat karo, hum pehchan lete hain,” that is what I got to hear from one of the securitymen or rather the only security personal who was in a dizzy mood, grossly.

The Justice Department’s money-laundering probe against banking giant HSBC Holdings Plc is looking at possible prosecution of individual bankers a source close to this major cross border investigation said on Thursday. Some believe that if…

Ever since the 1970s there has been what some term a “democratization” in Islamic jurisprudence. Prior that era, Islamic clerics were nearly all on the state payroll. The national government controlled the religious leaders, imams, clerics and judges,…

As the news of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s love child with his housekeeper broke, a woman said to me that the solution to men’s infidelity is to cut off men’s penis. I can bet you that when we finish perambulating, we will come to that conclusion we…

LUCK ATLAST HAS SMILED ON THE BHONSRI MOSQUE OF CHITPUR IN KOLKATA AFTER DECADES OF NEGLIGENCE. THIS MOSQUE, THE OLDEST OF KOLKATA WAS BUILT AT THE END OF 18th CENTURY BY DEWAN REZA KHAN , NAWAB OF CHITPUR IN THE MEMORY OF PIR BHONSRI SHAH WHOSE TOMB…

Obama has been presenting his credentials as a pro-Israel president ever since he decided to run for president. Alas, the traditional (read: right-wing) pro-Israel groupies are unamused. Obama checks off all the boxes, they do not dispute that and how…

It is midnight and I can’t sleep. Well, I agree there can be a hundred reasons for that, but tonight it is not the stock markets or the symphony of gnats, but a ‘jagrata’ in my neighborhood, and as usual the innocent neighbors like me who detest…