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A disquieting polemic against academic autonomy
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Prabhat Patnaik's argument that academics are 'accountable to nobody' and
can be made accountable only through increasing parliamentary jurisdiction
over t...
শুভ জন্মদিন গুরু (হুমায়ুন ফরীদি)
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আজ হুমায়ুন ফরীদি এর জন্মদিন, এই লেখাটা লিখেছিলাম যেদিন গুরু পৃথিবী ছেড়ে
গেলেন ওই দিন...
কিছুদিন আগের কথা, আমার এক বন্ধুর সাথে কথা হচ্ছিলো মুভি নিয়ে, কথা ...
The Orwell Prize gets Hitched
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I wrote *this* for *The Guardian* in response to the late Hitchens
receiving a memorial award from the Orwell Prize:
...Yet in his final years, Hitchens re...
Occupy London Global Spring Day
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Inca Stafrace reports that on 12 May 2012, the Occupy, Indignados and Take
the Square movements all over the world called for a global day of action
which ...
Interesting links
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1. This op-ed by Vikram which appeared in yesterday's edition of the Hindu
offers some historical perspectives on the institution of the President of
India...
An Open Letter To Prospective Indian Employer
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NYTimes India Ink carries a lot of nice things. Sometimes though, it does
not. As an example, this hectoring “An Open Letter to India’s Graduate
Classes” d...
Why this Shadow of Vidharbha over West Bengal?
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*How many deaths will it take till he knows that **too many people have
died?*
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*THE lyrics of Bob Dylan reverberate in rural West Bengal these days, ma...
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Supreme Infallibility and the Follies of the Media
The quest for a world free of error
Perhaps because the media touches several lives, everybody feels ent...
বাঁশময় সবুজ জগতে কঞ্চির করণীয়
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জনতা মানে পাবলিক। কথায় বলে জনতা জনার্দন। তাহলে পাবলিক মানে জনার্দন। তার
মানে পাবলিকের নাম জনার্দন। জনার্দন তুমি কি করবে আর কি করবে না তার একটা
ফিরিস্তি ...
EMBRACE US, EUNUCHS
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(Hafiz Saeed's song for India)Embrace us, do, we will hug you too,To make
you forget what we remember;Many tiny cuts we will evermore inflict,To
bleed you ...
পোড়া আলু খেয়ে সংবাদমাধ্যমগুলি এখন গোপালভাঁড়
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বিধায়ক পরেশ পাল একটি অতি সাধারণ অটোচালককে মেরে বসলেন আজ। অন্য আরেকজনকে
মাঝরাস্তায় কান ধরে 'ওঠবোস' করিয়ে নিলেন। কোন এক কাউন্সিলর দোলা সরকার মেরে
বসলেন ...
Elephant in Kerala
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So it’s about 10.45pm, and we’re headed in a tourist taxi to Siena Village,
a resort a few kilometres from Munnar. We’ve already driven about three
hours...
The Secret of Modi’s Success
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The violence which wracked the western Indian state of Gujarat ten years
ago has almost become a metaphor for a particular aspect of India’s
contemporary r...
Bengal CPI (M) 23rd state conference
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BENGAL STATE CONFERENCE CALLS FOR WIDER STRUGGLES, DEEPER MASS CONTACT
Following the important address b the Party general secretary [already
sent], the st...
Why Is Obama Sending 12, 000 U.S. Troops To Libya?
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*By Cynthia McKinney *
It is with great disappointment that I receive the news from foreign media
publications and Libyan sources that our President now has...
Ghosts of Travel – Jhalong-Holong
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The modus operandi is simple. Whenever possible I befriend the person who
happens to drive my vehicle, whether a car, a rickshaw, a truck, a bus or
any oth...
Neo-Liberalization of Egypt Continues
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By Danish Khan The ruling elites of the world have subjugated the average
mind through their propaganda media which feeds manipulated and selected
informat...
Alleged Death of Netaji: A Humble Challenge – II
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It appears that Professor Sugata Bose has not read the Report, and
expressed only malice against Mukherjee. This is the most disgraceful part
of Sugata’s p...
Largesse to Private Explorers
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An audit of production-sharing contracts reveals violations that have hurt
the interests of the public.
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The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG)’s...
ব্রিগেডে মুক্তির সুর, সাক্ষী বাংলা
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মানুষ। আর মানুষ। অসংখ্য মানুষের ভিড়ে ঢেকে গেলো কলকাতা। রথের মেলার ভিড়ে
হারিয়ে যাওয়ার গল্প লিখেছিলেন বঙ্কিম, তার লেখনীতে বাঙালি খুঁজে পেয়েছিল
গলে যাও...
Fall of the Left and Buddhadeb
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During a press briefing in May 2006, CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose made
a prophetic comment. While speaking on the role of media which was then
projec...
NSG ends India's 'clean' waiver
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New guidelines bar ‘sensitive' nuclear exports to countries outside the NPT
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25 June 2011
The Hindu
*NSG ends India's 'clean' waiver*
Siddharth V...
Importance of Learning English as Second Language
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*Early days *
According to the census of 1971 the literacy rate of West Bengal was 38.86
percent (Office of the Registrar General, India). Children living...
The Story of a Traitor
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It has been close to thirty years now. But I still remember his face. His
eyes. Manuda, a local Congress activist would come to meet my uncle and
wait pa...
How to Make Friends and Influence People…
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Got this list some years ago on email and found it again while searching
for something else today. While its a bit American in its cultural setting,
many o...
Taking over land, and women are strong
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We were pretty annoyed when we found out someone had occupied the land that
we’ve been struggling for for over year.
It’s a piece of land that is within...
Long Live Comrade Jyoti Basu
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After a prolonged struggle of 17 days, our leader, our guardian Comrade
Jyoti Basu passed away on January 17, 2010 at 11.47am at a private nursing
hom...
SONIA GANDHI ON FOOT TO DISINTEGRATE THE COUNTRY
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*The Congress Party has inherited all the vices of the British Rulers as to
how to “divide and rule” the country. The former ruled this vast country
for mo...
Nepal update
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In defence of Civilian Supremacy over the military and the democratic “New
Nepal” process the revolutionary movement of Nepal, led by the Unified
Communi...
Delivering the insufficient?
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G20 finance ministers issue another bland statement Bretton Woods Project,
10 September 2009 Despite spin doctoring that called it a triumph for
cracking d...
টুকরো স্মৃতি – ৬
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আর বলবেন না, কি যে হচ্ছে কিছুই বুঝতে পারছিনা। জুলাই এর শেষ। গড়িমসি করে হলেও
শেষমেষ মাথার ওপর ঘন কালো মেঘ ঘুর ঘুর করছে। মনটা উড়ু উড়ু। কিন্তু গড়ের মাঠে
এখ...
স্মৃতির সাথে ছাড়াছাড়ি
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দেখতে দেখতে সাত বছর চলে গেলো। অথবা অনেক লম্বা সময় পাড়ি দেবার পর মনে হলো,
সাত বছর পেরিয়েছে। ঘর ছাড়ার, বাড়ি ছাড়ার। মানে, জীবনকে পেছনে ফেলে আসার।
এখনকার দাড়িয়...
A Marxist Critique of Raymond Williams
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One of the most influential ideas that came with the rise of modern art
(dadaism in particular) is that one can be a complete novice in terms of
skill or c...
বাংলা ইউনিকোড ব্লগ হাজির নতুন রুপে!
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আমরা যারা ইউনিকোডে ব্লগিং করি, তাঁদের সবাইকে একটি প্ল্যাটফর্মে আনার জন্যে
এই উদ্যোগ।
যত বেশি সম্ভব বাংলা ব্লগের rss ফিড এখানে যুক্ত করা হবে।
এ ছাড়াও ডান পাশ...
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