Hindustan Times
On 30 March, MGK Menon, president of the India International Centre (IIC), communicated to Dr Karan Singh that the IIC had decided to accept his resignation from the body. Dr Singh, a former president and the longest-serving life trustee had submitted his resignation some months earlier but the Centre had taken a while to convey its formal acceptance. If you are reading
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Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Sunday, September 9, 2007 at 12:55 pm
Filed under Views · Tagged Bombay, bureaucrats, Calcutta, Chandigarh, Dr Karan Singh, India International Centre, MGK Menon, President
It is now over a decade since I moved out of Calcutta. But watching the news last week, I felt I was back. As I saw those terrible shots of policemen beating up women in Nandigram, as I read about the massacre of innocent villagers, and as I noted the cold, commissar-like response of Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to the killings, I remembered what it was like to live in
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(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Vir Sanghvi on Sunday, March 18, 2007 at 11:53 am
Filed under columns · Tagged Bengal, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Calcutta, Mamata Banerjee, news, policemen, TV cameras, villagers
