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Aug

2018

British Raj Revealed

Book Review by : Riaz Quadir Inglorious Empire – What the British did to India Written by : Dr. Shashi Tharoor Long before Winston Churchill had accurately observed that “History is written by the victors”, Hermann Göring had said something far more profound: “We will go down in history either as the world's greatest statesmen or its worst villains”. He had the foresight to know that fortune’s arrow can swing either way depending where on the totem pole you end up. Another way of looking at it is that victors may very well write history but their biased version stands…

Aug

2018

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Modi-magic Faces Challenge, Time for Survival War

Politics & Social

Written by : Sankhadip Das Kolkata, India The faith has died. People reposed, destiny disposed. The faith that Narendra Modi would be the sole rescuer of the nation; the people's trust that Modi was the Messiah who would bless us with achhe din; he was the leader who would put an end to all social and political insecurities, corruption and instabilities, is just no more. What is worse, the trust collapsed not because of failure or inefficient delivery. It collapsed because of lack of political will to deliver on promises. The intention came under doubt. The goalposts were shifted as…

Jul

2018

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Call them Footballers, not just ‘French’

Sports

Written By Somrita Bhattacharyya Illustration: Arghya Manna 15th July 2018. 9 PM. La Défense train station in Paris. A joyously tired crowd is heading back home after the magnificent victory of France in the Football World Cup 2018. ‘Allez Les Bleus’ slogan cascades through the air like a wave. “Why should we shout ‘Allez Les Bleus’? Our slogan should be ‘Allez Les Noirs’! They don’t want us; they don’t include us, why should we celebrate the victory of the Blues then?”- a voice revolts, in the shadowy railway station of a mid-July late evening. It was the voice of an…

Jul

2018

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Say ‘Yes’ to Abortion, Ireland!

Politics & Social

Deboshruti Roychowdhury Illustration: Sagar Mondal ‘If you don't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child?’ - Unknown The Republic of Ireland has voted overwhelmingly to overturn the abortion ban by 66.4% to 33.6% just a month back. A referendum held in May resulted in a landslide win for the repeal side. Previously, abortion in Ireland was only allowed when a woman's life was at risk, but not in cases of rape, incest or fatal foetal abnormality. But why was abortion such a big issue for the Catholic Ireland which had voted on abortion five…

Jul

2018

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Heroes and A Tale of Migration – Part 4

From Director’s Desk Written By: Jayanta Chakrabarty Multidimension Illustration : Avijit Ghosh The island of Lampedusa has an area of 20.2 square kilometers and a population of about 6,000 people. Its main industries are fishing and tourism. By May 2011, as the Arab Spring was in full swing, more than 35,000 immigrants arrived in the island from Tunisia and Libya. By the end of August, 48,000 arrived. Most of them were young males in their 20s and 30s, and the large majority of them were Muslims. Italy had repeatedly requested aid from the EU to manage this large number of…

Jul

2018

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A Quarter Mile Country

Art & Culture

Film Review Written By Senex – Paris, France Have you ever experienced one of those fretful nights when you are drifting from deep sleep to hazy wakefulness, never knowing which is which; from horrific nightmares to brief glimpses of bygone sweetness of tender love; all in a jumbled, incoherent sequence that seems unending… Watching “A Quarter Mile Country” seemed like revisiting one of those nights. All that intensity tightly packed into a 34 minutes package. Noman Robin, the director, takes us to Conrad’s 21st century Heart of Darkness, in the refugee camp in Bangladesh where many hundreds of thousands of…

Jul

2018

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Berlin Wall: The silent Storyteller – part II

Travel

Written by : Kazi Tina Paris , France Photos by Author And the Hero appeared ! I know that the hero of a story doesn’t come at the end of it and we wouldn’t have made the title like this since it would end the curiosity of the readers. The fact is I wasn’t expecting neither a hero nor a story. I went there as an ignorant tourist and all that I was getting was beyond my expectations. So I’ve no right to pretend to be intelligent, by writing an organized story. I’m merely noting down what happened to me,…

Jul

2018

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Heroes and A Tale of Migration – Part 3

From Director’s Desk Written By : Jayanta Chakrabarty Multidimension Illustration : Avijit Ghosh On the other side of Sea, in Europe, another scenario had already unraveled. The overall suicide rate in Greece rose by 35% between 2011 to 2012. The suicide mortality rate for men increased from 5.75 (2003–2010) to 7.43 per 100 000 population during this period, i,e, 2 in a day. Experts attributed the rise to the country's economic crisis. The dream of the Euro as a strong currency was dented. The Greek economy was one of the Eurozone's fastest growing from 2000 to 2007, averaging 4.2% annually,…

Jul

2018

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Berlin Wall: The Silent Storyteller – Part 1

Popular, Travel

Written by : Kazi Tina Paris , France Photos by Author My breakfast: morning tea, coffee and a packet of chips that I’ve eaten because of my anxiety had been completely digested. I could feel the butterflies inside my stomach. Just then a small, round Japanese man answered me with his half-closed eyed smile, “There is the Berlin Wall!” I looked on my right. There was really something that looked like a wall, but is that the Berlin wall? I crossed the road to get a closer look at it. There was a steel plate with, “East Side Gallery” written…

Jun

2018

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Heroes and A Tale of Migration- Part 2

Column, Popular

Written by : Jayanta Chakrabarty Illustration- Arghya Manna On 17th December 2010, at 11:30 am, Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26 years old street vendor, set himself on fire in front of the governor’s office in Sidi Bouzid, a small town in Tunisia, to protest against the confiscation of his cart and the harassment and humiliation inflicted on him by a corrupt municipal officer and her aides. Outraged by the events that led to Bouazizi’s self-immolation, protests began in SidiBouzid within hours. The protest gained momentum in next two weeks, spreading all over the country with the slogan “Work, bread and national…