A Bengali Émigré Who Disappeared In USSR
“দুয়ার এঁটে ঘুমিয়ে আছে পাড়াকেবল শুনি রাতের কড়ানাড়া‘অবনী বাড়ি আছো?’” – শক্তি চট্টোপাধ্যায় In an October night, 1937, the Soviet Secret Police knocked on the door of a residence in […]
Remembering The Voice Of A Lonely Conscience
The Chinese media outcast him not only during his lifetime, but also after his demise on July 13, 2017. The State-influenced social media platforms, including microblogging site Weibo, banned searches […]
What Lies Beyond The Great Wall
One cannot find pictures of Mao Zedong, slogans on walls, English words and posters of any blockbuster movie anywhere in Beijing! There are only roads go around the capital city […]
Forgotten Story Of An Indian Revolutionary
While roaming on the streets of the Roma District (the hub of bohemian culture in Mexico City), one can find an old house. The nameplate shows that it used to […]
A Pivotal Event In World History
At the end of the Second World War, Germany was divided into four zones of occupation under the control of the US, Britain, France and the erstwhile Soviet Union. Berlin, […]
Civilisation As Centre Of Controversy
Samuel Phillips Huntington (April 18, 1927 – December 24, 2008), an American Political Scientist who had spent more than half a century at Harvard University, triggered a sensation in global […]
The Great Hall Of The ‘Men’
The Politburo of the Communist Party of China (CPC) will not be seeing full women members, for the first time in 25 years! According to the new Politburo roster released […]
The Withering Away Of…
For the world, it seemed that Socialism withered away in the late 1980s. It was not a great time for the Leftists across the globe. Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (March 2, […]
The Collapse
Shankar Das had returned to India in 1983, after spending more than 13 years in the erstwhile Soviet Union, where he earned a Doctoral Degree in Chemistry. Upon his arrival […]
Boundless Ocean Of Politics 