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CALCUTTA -THE CITY THAT REFUSES TO DIE

Nowhere else in India do people engulf you as they do in Calcutta. From the moment you step off your train or plane, and begin…

INTERVIEW-PRIME MINISTER MORARJI DESAI

‘Is Drinking A Ritual “? Then I Think ‘It Is Better to Close Our Diplomatic Missions!’ The appointment is at I pm at the Prime…

INTERVIEW-PROF. C.N. VAKIL

The Government Is Helping Create A Privileged Class!’ Professor C.N. Vakil, eminent economist, formerly Director, School of Economics and Sociology, University of Bombay, and Director,…

WILL THE EUPHORIA REMAIN ?

Gandhi must have been passing through an extremely clairvoyant phase when he came up with this statement in the Thirties. In the thirty years that…

CALCUTTA’S INDIANS TAKE ELECTIONS IN STRIDE

Sri Lanka’s garment makers want trade, not aid

Woollen blankets, used clothing clog Sri Lanka aid pipeline.

ANALYSIS-Sri Lanka’s economy does not take tsunami lying down

Sri Lankan chronicle of deaths unforetold.

CALCUTTA IS FOEVER

Thirty years ago, a dishevelled man leaned across and shouted at me in the smoke-filled, raucous Olympia bar on Calcutta’s Park Street: “Calcutta is forever!”…

Sri Lanka tsunami aid becomes geopolitical game

King B

“There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one,” said Baltasar Gracian, a 17th Century Spanish Jesuit monk. More of us could…