Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
The spread of corona virus to the rural areas of India, especially Uttar Pradesh and to some extent Bihar, has raised a serious question as unlike in cities the life-style here is quite different. The population is not very dense…
The message of the recently held elections for Tamil Nadu, Puducherry, Kerala, Assam and West Bengal Assemblies is clear: the communal polarisation card has its limit and is now on some occasions even proving counter-productive; and that in this era…
The 2021 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu and Kerala was perhaps the best opportunity for the Bharatiya Janata Party to make inroads into these two South Indian states. It was initially thought that the decimation of the Left in West…
If a ruling party overcomes all the incumbency factors and wins two-thirds of the seats in a state Assembly election, one cannot now allege that it has rigged the poll as the BJP has repeatedly been charging the Trinamool Congress after…
The photographs/videos of bodies piling up outside crematoriums at various places across India being repeatedly highlighted by the television and YouTube channels threw me back to the memory lane. I recall several natural disasters in which many thousands or even…
The repeated coverage of bodies of the victims of corona virus by the media, especially the television and Youtube channels, has once again raised a question about journalistic ethics. The 21st century journalism is a significant departure from the past as…
After Calcutta High Court cracked the whip and Prime Minister Narendra Modi—having succumbed to pressures from all sides–called off all his four rallies scheduled on April 23 the easiest thing for the ‘ailing’ Election Commission of India was to impose ban…
Though apparently the eight-phase Assembly election in West Bengal is, according to critics, hampering the work to fight the menace of corona virus the truth is that the polling process is far from over in the rest three states—Assam, Tamil…
Notwithstanding poll strategist Prashant Kishor’s detailed clarification in an interview to Rajdeep Sardesai of India Today on April 11 to his club-house chat ‘leaked’ by the Bharatiya Janata Party a day earlier the fact remains that no political pundit is prepared…
When the Election Commission on February 26 announced election schedules for the four states and one Union Territory it failed to convince many independent observers, not only the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal. The issue is not just why…
Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124