Modi factor propels rise of BJP, RSS in Bengal

The Narendra Modi wave seems to have reached the Bengal shores, indicated by the more than two-fold increase in the membership of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s state unit.  A BJP leader......

Another controversy over Taslima, TV serial postponed

Exiled Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen ran into another controversy when protest by Muslim fundamentalists forced a Bengali channel to postpone the broadcast of a TV serial based on a story......

These young girls just wanna study

In what is a shot-in-the-arm for young girls facing similar pressure, two Muslim girls have turned to the courts for ensuring that they are not prevented from attending college in the name of......

The lamb that roared

Wing Commander (retd) R V Parasnis, who so chivalrously defended me in the message board, points out that "The Pakistani invasion began on the 22nd of October 1947 and not in 1948 as you have......