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TopicBuddhadeb Bhattacharjee

Topic: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee

‘Realists working under capitalist framework’ — what Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee of CPI(M) said in 2003

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, CPI(M) veteran and former West Bengal CM, passed away Thursday. In this 2003 interview, he talked about running a leftist government in a capitalist framework.

How would Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee want to be remembered? A politician with the soul of a poet

The two-term chief minister of West Bengal, the poster boy of reform in the Left who didn’t care if the cat was black or white as long as it caught mice, has now passed into history.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Bengal’s forgotten former CM, is old, sick and unappreciated

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has gone from being the ‘liberator’ who planned Bengal’s industrial renaissance to a frail & forgotten former CM.

On Camera

Asiya Andrabi is no women’s rights advocate. She does not speak for Indian Muslims

International news media calling Asiya Andrabi a defender of women’s rights shows how narratives are constructed and what they choose to omit.

Tanker with 600,000 barrels of Iranian crude shifts course from India to China midway

The shipment earlier bound for Gujarat’s Vadinar has changed course amid payment concerns; could still reach India if issues are resolved, according to Kpler.

India commissions its third nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine—INS Aridhaman

INS Arihant was first vessel under SSBN project and was quietly commissioned in 2016. The second indigenous SSBN, INS Arighat, was commissioned in August 2024.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.