Footprints of Foot Soldiers: Experiences and Recollections of the Naxalite Movement in Eastern India 1960's and 70's by Abhijit Das, Kolkata: Setu Prakashani, 2015; pp 303, Rs 550.
The birth centenary of Chittaprosad, the radical artist from Bengal, was last year. Born in 1915 at Naihati in present-day North 24 Parganas District, West Bengal, Chittaprosad settled in Chattagram, now in Bangladesh.
On the occasion of the centenary celebration of B R Ambedkar’s birth anniversary, the eminent scholar of jurisprudence, Upendra Baxi, had warned us: “Centenary celebrations are organised political events having distinctive ideologies of recall and distinctive modes of appropriating a historical f
On 7 June 2013, a 20-year-old second-year BA student, while returning home from the college, was dragged to an abandoned factory, gang-raped and killed at Kamduni, a village in North 24-Parganas District in West Bengal.
The Party Plenum of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] held in Kolkata at the end of December 2015 gives an idea of the recent trajectory of its politics. On the eve of the plenum, the party organised a big public rally.
The year 2015 marks the birth centenary of Bijon Bhattacharya, the radical playwright and actor from Bengal. He was born in Faridpur District of eastern Bengal, now in Bangladesh.
The landslide victory of the Lalu Prasad Yadav–Nitish Kumar coalition in the assembly elections in Bihar has posed a big challenge to the Narendra Modi–Amit Shah brand of politics of monolithic Hinduism.
While revisiting the large-scale refugee crisis in Europe, the EPW editorial “Refugees in Europe” (26 September 2015) rightly reminded us that the postcolonial states should “face their own history of tyranny and oppression.” The recent research-based study
The spectre of Emergency has returned to public memory thanks to renewed writings and reminiscences in our media on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the event.
In his personal tribute to Tapan Raychaudhuri (EPW, 21 March 2015), Gyanendra Pandey opines that Raychaudhuri “will be remembered for his extraordinarily wide-ranging contributions to the writing and study of Indian history.” He also appreciated Tapan Raychaudhuri “for his qualities as a warm, fu
