In 'The Tree Within', Indranil Chakravarty offers the story of Octavio Paz’s passionate love-affair with India, where he served as Mexico’s ambassador in the 1960s.
Joint statement issued by India and the US Friday highlights broad contours of the interim agreement to the trade deal. US to eliminate tariffs to zero in pharmaceuticals and gems and diamonds.
By next weekend, Bangladesh will have an elected government. This is India’s moment to reboot broken ties by moderating the ‘ghuspethiya’ rhetoric in poll-bound West Bengal and Assam.
Ms. Banerjie’s priorities are grossly misplaced. Ever since the election results were declared, Bengal has been ravaged with political violence, Taliban style kangaroo courts, extortions/hooliganism and widespread protests against TMC’s anti-hawker drive. Lumpen elements like Tejamul (JCB), Jayant Singh, Jamal-ud-din Sardar, etc. have hogged the limelight and for all the wrong reasons.
Yet, Ms. Banerjie chooses to focus on some random art gallery organizing a Frida Kahlo exhibition – a typical case of the Bengali “intellectual” bhadralok whose head is in the clouds and the feet so far above the ground that it just cannot feel the ground burning.
Ms. Banerjie’s priorities are grossly misplaced. Ever since the election results were declared, Bengal has been ravaged with political violence, Taliban style kangaroo courts, extortions/hooliganism and widespread protests against TMC’s anti-hawker drive. Lumpen elements like Tejamul (JCB), Jayant Singh, Jamal-ud-din Sardar, etc. have hogged the limelight and for all the wrong reasons.
Yet, Ms. Banerjie chooses to focus on some random art gallery organizing a Frida Kahlo exhibition – a typical case of the Bengali “intellectual” bhadralok whose head is in the clouds and the feet so far above the ground that it just cannot feel the ground burning.