“My son was killed by police while he was asleep… I won’t accept the body” fumes the aggrieved father of Sidhu Soren

Click here to read the news in Bengali. ——————— Abhijit Chakraborty from Karkata, Ramgarh. Anandabazar Patrika, 28 July, 2010 The “fight” of his son is all over. The fight, however, isn’t over as yet. Bhuto Baskey (more than 60 years old) alias Jamadar Baskey, the father of Sidhu Soren, is determined to take up bow [...]

Prabir Ghosh’s name among the All Time Greatest Bengali literary figures

Check WIKIPEDIA – Prabir Ghosh’s name among the All Time Greatest Bengali literary figures. List includes ancient to modern- from Rabindranath Tagore, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Kazi Nazrul Islam to Samaresh Majumdar, Prabir Ghosh etc.  

The army chief cannot say what will be done with the AFSPA

Ashok Mitra Our army chief of staff is obviously head over heels in love with the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act. He has his own reasons to be. The act, a Central legislation, was put in the statute book more than 50 years ago in the wake of large-scale insurgency in the north-eastern parts of [...]

Old woman suspected as witch, burnt with acid

By Santosh Sharma Click here to read the news. Courtesy: Dainik Vishwamitra, 24 June 2010

Prabir Ghosh on Star News regarding Octopus PAUL

Courtesy:  Star News, AFP (photo)

Kashmir Issue and Wrong Idea

Courtesy: Anandabazar Patrika

Man killed with Azad a journalist

G.S. RADHAKRISHNA AND TAPAS CHAKRABORTY July 3: The man killed with Maoist leader Azad in an encounter yesterday was a freelance Hindi journalist who was interviewing him, Andhra Pradesh police have said a day after wrongly identifying the second victim as a guerrilla named Sahdev. The family of Maoist sympathiser and Uttarakhand-based journalist Hemachandra Pandey, [...]

Indian army…the gravest internal security threat of Kashmir

Kashmir is in news again…protests, firing by the army, encounter, deaths…it’s all back again caring a damn for the “nationwide” world cup frenzy. Blazing past various news threads…let me attempt a brief round up on the issue Rogues in uniform shielded by the Indian Government The allegation of murder by the army in Kashmir is [...]

A artical related to Bhopal from a Bengali Newspaper

আসুন ভূপালের জন্য একটু মাথা নিচু করি লিখেছেন জয়া মিত্র। পুরো লেখাটি পড়ার জন্য লেখাটির উপর Click করুন। Courtesy: I-Core Akdin Dated on: 22/06/2010

A news from I-core Akdin related to Bhopal Gas Tragedy

An appeal to bring Anderson and increase compensation for effected people of Bhopal. এই লেখাটি ২২ জুন ২০১০ বাংলা আইকোর একদিন পত্রিকা তে বেরিয়েছিল। লেখাটিতে ভোপাল গ্যাস দূর্ঘটনা্র পরবর্তী সময়ে সরকার এর অবস্থান সম্পর্কে কিছু তথ্য থাকায় লেখাটি এখানে তুলে দিলাম। পুরো লেখাটি পড়ার জন্য লেখাটির উপর Click করুন। Courtesy: I-Core Akdin Dated on: 22/06/2010

BHOPAL ’84 GAS TRAGEDY: For a few pieces of silver

From Tehelka Magazine Vol 7, Issue 25, Dated June 26, 2010 Sometimes the breaking news is not as important as the old record. In a small, box-shaped room in the shanty colony of JP Nagar in Bhopal, Leelabai, a tiny sparrow of a woman, sits crying. She doesn’t care about Warren Anderson. She lost her [...]

Mentally challenged boy labelled Maoist

Cops ‘rebel’ is an epilepsy patient TNN, Jun 19, 2010, 05.47am IST KOLKATA: Police are convinced that 20-year-old Rameshwar Murmu of Duli village near Salboni is a hard-core Maoist. But the youth’s medical documents, copies of which are with TOI, tell a different story. An electroencephalogram (EEG) test that he underwent on June 6, 2006, [...]

Challenge to all ‘supernatural’ and ‘paranormal’ power holders/ astrologers etc

I, Prabir Ghosh, son of late Prabhat Chandra Ghosh & late Suhasini Ghosh, of 72/8, Debinibash Road, Kolkata-700074 hereby pledge to pay an amount of 2.5 million INR (around 54,188 USD) to any person of this world who can demonstrate his/her supernormal power by performing any one of the following activities without taking help of [...]

Letters in Reply to the Essay on Astrology at ‘icore Ekdin’, Dated 6 June 2010

৬ জুন আইকোর একদিন-এ একটি জ্যোতিষ বিরোধী রম্যরচনা প্রকাশিত হয়েছিল। রচনাটি আমাদের খুব ভালই লেগেছে। কিন্তূ রচনার একটি অংশে ভূল তথ্য ছিল। ভূল তথ্যটি যুক্তিবাদী সমিতি বিষয়ে। এই প্রসঙ্গে কিছু চিঠি ও Email আইকোর একদিন এ পাঠানো হয়। এর কোনোটিই আজ অবধি প্রকাশিত না হওয়ায় আমরা মুল রচনাটি এবং সঙ্গে দুটি নমুনা উত্তর প্রকাশ করলাম। [...]

BHOPAL ’84 GAS TRAGEDY: Signals From Above

by DEBARSHI DASGUPTA, K.S.SHAINI Dow is pressurising the PMO to let it enter India. The circus continues. Justice With Brakes The gas leak on Dec 2, 1984, kills about 4,000 instantly Some estimate the toll rose to 25,000 dead, several incapacitated Union Carbide deposits $470 m for relief in 1989. Only part of it (Rs [...]