KOLKATA: Shefali Roy, a sex worker from Kolkata‘s red light area, Sonagachi, will not cast her vote for any candidate this Lok Sabha elections. Instead, she will press the NOTA (none of the above) button. But Shefali isn’t the only one in her community who… Continue Reading →
Death sentences for drinking and adultery, public flogging for petty theft, forced to eat one’s own excreta to ward off ‘evil spirits’, paraded naked for whistling, exiled for challenging village elders and stifling social boycotts for minor misdemeanors. All this… Continue Reading →
Monday, Dec 2, 2013, 17:04 IST | Place: Kolkata | DNA The resolution, moved by Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee, mentioned that only 15 per cent people of the state had got the Aadhar cards. The West Bengal Assembly… Continue Reading →
Protests outside Mamata‘s house over report that claims Bengal is unsafest for women Edited by Surabhi Malik (With Inputs from IANS) | Updated: June 13, 2013 Kolkata: Women activists demonstrated outside Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee‘s residence in Kolkata this morning to protest against… Continue Reading →
Dailybhaskar.com | Jun 12, 2013, Nadia (west Bengal): If you think we have learned a lesson from the Delhi-gang rape of a student in moving bus, then think again. Crime against girls has shown no sign of abetting. Now, a… Continue Reading →
In times of displacement, do we leave our former selves behind and create new identities? In this moving personal history, Garga Chatterjee profiles his Bengali grandmother whose true self was unmasked only by a tragic stroke . http://www.thefridaytimes.com/ I have crossed… Continue Reading →
GARGA CHATTERJEE, The Hindu It is worrying that West Bengal’s political class remained tactical spectators to the Kolkata rally organised by Muslim groups in support of Bangladeshi war criminals West Bengal looked to the Shahbag protests in Dhaka with… Continue Reading →
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