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TopicBuddhadeb Bhattacharya

Topic: Buddhadeb Bhattacharya

‘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.

Towering CPI(M) leader & Bengal’s last Left CM, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee passes away at 80

Tributes pour in from party leaders & political rivals. His mortal remains will be taken to CPI(M) office in Kolkata Friday morning for leaders and workers to pay their last respects.

Padma Awards 2022 brought back controversies, politics and the question of its relevance

Buddhadeb Bhattacharya declined Padma Bhushan and Ghulam Nabi Azad drew jibes from Congress leaders for accepting the award from Modi govt. But such controversies are not new.

From Soviet Union in Alimuddin Street to a watch repair shop in Singur

The Revolution stands still while people yearn for change.

Buddhadeb Bhattacharya, the last Left chief minister of West Bengal

On his 75th birthday, ThePrint recalls the achievements and setbacks faced by the CPM leader.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.