Siddhartha Ray recalls Basu memories

Age is a complex thing. It does strange things to your mind. As you gradually start losing your contemporaries, you start dwelling in the past. On Monday evening, former West Bengal chief minister......

Meera Shankar, India's first woman envoy to US

Key representatives of US and Indian business and industry -- and the Indian-American community -- have hailed Meera Shankar's appointment as India's new ambassador to the United States. Shankar......

Meera Shankar, only India's 2nd lady envoy to US

Key representatives of US and Indian business and industry -- and the Indian-American community -- have hailed Meera Shankar's appointment as India's new ambassador to the United States. Shankar......

50 Years Of Emergency: Banality Of Evil, And A Warning

While India today is vastly different from the India of 1975, the need for vigilance against authoritarianism remains the same, asserts Utkarsh Mishra. IMAGE: National Democratic Alliance MPs......

How the Communists killed Bengal's industry

West Bengal's longest serving chief minister Jyoti Basu once told an industrialist that capitalists were class enemies and he should expect no sympathy.Ishita Ayan Dutt tracks the political......

Mamata's superficial ideas fail to revive Bengal

Mamata Banerjee's triumphal declaration of having attracted investments worth Rs 2.43 lakh crore at the summit, are numbers that no one but she and the enigmatic state finance minister Amit Mitra......

BCCI inducts Sorabjee, Ray for Ganguly case

The Board of Control for Cricket in India has roped in the country's leading legal brains, Soli Sorabjee and Siddhartha Shankar Ray, in its bid to prepare a watertight defence for India skipper......

Ganguly to appeal again

Indian skipper Sourav Ganguly is likely to go for another appeal against the six-match ban slapped on him after ICC Appeal Commissioner Michael Beloff rejected his first appeal to overturn the......