I’ll miss Tapan’s voice and hearty laughter when he used to ring up greeting me: “Sumanta da, how are you ?” 

The long turbulent history of post-1971 Bangladesh, had been marked by the frequent emergence of elected democratic regimes soon to be overthrown by military coups, which again were defeated by mass upsurges.

As the iconic Statesman House in Kolkata gets turned into a mall, a veteran journalist remembers his journey through those walls.

However much the Sangh parivar may try now to impose its intolerant religious diktats by using her name, Kali in Bengal had been traditionally worshipped as a goddess of rebellion against all such repressive orders.

They should – if they have any iota of self-respect – resign from the trust and make way for new members who have more guts than them to resist the aggression of corporate billionaires on EPW.

In refusing to compensate people who were incarcerated on false charges, the Indian judiciary displays a worrying lack of responsibility.