The news on 13th April 2012 : West Bengal police on Thursday night arrested a Jadavpur University professor for allegedly spreading “anti-Mamata Banerjee” cartoons on the internet. Prof Mahapatra was arrested for forwarding “derogatory images” of the West Bengal chief…
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Rajiv Gandhi’s 2.5 billion Swiss Franc in secret Swiss Bank Account
Report in the Schweizer Illustrierte Online claims with a photo of Rajiv Gandhi (Bharat Ratna !!) among other corrupt and notorious dictators of the World that “2,5 Milliarden Franken auf indischen Geheim-konten in der Schweiz”, means, 2.5 billion Franc in…
India slips further in global Hunger Index
India promises to achieve the millennium development goals by 2015, but the promise seems futile when one looks at the new 2010 Global Hunger Index. India has been ranked 67, way below neighbouring countries like China, Pakistan and Sri Lanka,…
Assange to NDTV : Cash-for-votes cables are authentic
In this exclusive interview to NDTV’s Prannoy Roy, Julian Assange says that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is wrong to have questioned the authenticity of the WikiLeaks cable that stormed the Indian Parliament last week. Decide to cialis price in canada…
Cash-for-Vote : Mulford says “diplomatic cables mostly accurate”
Karan Thapar in The Last Word with the Editor-in-Chief of The Hindu, N Ram; America’s Ambassador to India at the time when may of these cables were written David Mulford; and India’s former Ambassador to the United States and former…
Congress bought MPs for trust vote over nuclear deal
View the cable as PDF The WikiLeaks cable from a US diplomat in India dated 17th July 2008 suggests that the Congress bought MPs to survive its crucial vote of confidence over the government’s nuclear deal with the US. It…
Wikileaks Mirrors
Wikileaks Mirror I Mirror II Infertility can be caused cialis canada mastercard by a huge number of factors: hormone imbalance, Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, Endometriosis, Anovulatory Cycles, physical blockage, inadequate hormone production, short luteal phase, lack of lutenizing hormone, follicle stimulating…
U.S. worried about possible Third Front Govt formation: WikiLeaks
View the cable as PDF Ahead of the 2009 general elections in India, the United States was worried about a possible Third Front coming to power with the Left parties playing a major role in it. In an assessment on…
Trinamool Congress MLAs ransacking West Bengal Assembly under leadership of Mamata Banerjee, future of WB?
Mamata and Trinamool Congress leaders in WB assembly. Just carefully hear the inferior language they use and specially the slangs from Mamata. All of them in the video are top TMC leaders and would be ministers if TMC comes in…
EU-India Free Trade Agreement draft
Summary This important EU-restricted document establishes the latest “clean text” draft of the EU-India free trade agreement (FTA). The agreement is scheduled to have a profound impact on many laws, industries and prices. This includes patent and copyright laws, the…
Nehru and Mountbattens : The article published in The Daily Mail
This article was published in The Daily Mail on 26.09.09. Although the story is meanwhile well known but still interesting to read. Enjoy … A spicy menage a trois: The shocking love triangle between Lord Mountbatten, his wife and the…
My experience at the Kolkata libraries
I was on a research trip to Kolkata from Feb-Mar 09. It was meant to look for my primary and secondary sources needed for my Ph.D on 19the century Bengali satire currently going on at the University of Heidelberg in…