- Through the third eye
As Mamata Banerjee gets ready to take command of Writers Building, there could some impact on the delicate distribution of ministerial bert...
- Indian politics: Metamorphosis of a general and a veteran
These are interesting times for Left-watchers, provided one gets beyond those easy sound-bytes meant more to divert the gaze from the real ...
- Whither the Prakash Karat line?
A rising political tide gives a leader a chance to ride it to fortune or, with great difficulty, to squander the opportunity.
- Basu pushed land reforms but left Bengal as industrial wasteland
Despite hailing from a party seeped in dogmatism, he was credited with running a coalition through consensus politics.
- CPIM sought Article 356 to remove Kalyan Singh govt
CPIM wanted imposition of Article 356 to remove the then Kalyan Singh government in UP to protect the Babri Masjid.
- PM, Sonia mourn Surjeet's death
Congress chief Sonia Gandhi paid tributes to former CPM general secretary H K S Surjeet, who played a leading role along with her in proppi...
- Cong asks Karat to learn from blunders
The Congress on Friday said the CPIM general secretary Prakash Karat’s statement that his party will not support the Congress in future wil...
- The pragmatic comrade is dead
Harkishan Singh Surjeet, the pragmatic Marxist leader, who played a key role in keeping BJP out of power in 1996, and helped Congress form ...
- Learn a lesson from Vajpayee, Left tells Singh
After admiring BJP’s coalition skills, Left now sings paean for saffron PM.