In 1983, the Left Front government in West Bengal under Jyoti Basu banned the teaching of English till Class 6, and justified it by citing a recommendation of the Himangshu Bimal Mazumdar Commission.
Basu was the consensus leader of the United Front after Vajpayee’s short-lived 13-day govt, but the CPI(M) did not participate—he called it a 'historic blunder'.
Not much is known about the Marichjhapi massacre that took place under the Jyoti Basu government on a tiny island in the Sundarbans where Hindu refugees had settled.
As general secretary of CPI(M), Sitaram Yechury was expected to steer the party in a fresh direction and help it reinvent itself. But he has proved to be as much a failure as his dogmatic predecessor Prakash Karat.
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American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.
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