As pundits, politicians and public commentators intensely debate the election results, I caution against hyperbole and overinterpretation of what was, in reality, a close race, though the margin of victory looks wider than it actually is, due to the special quirk of the electoral college system.
Justice Sanjiv Khanna assumed office as the 51st Chief Justice of India on Monday, following Justice DY Chandrachud’s tenure. The oath of office was administered by President Droupadi Murmu in a ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan.
The victorious Trump camp is touting its newfound “historic” mandate while the dejected Harris camp accuses the country of being “racist and sexist” for letting them down. Both are untrue. Trump won with 295 electoral votes to Harris’ 226. A solid victory, but hardly a landslide.
As the world focuses on the United Nations’ upcoming Conference of Parties (COP 29) which begins tomorrow, The Statesman looks at environmental issues closer home.
Readers that only know Shinie Antony for her witty, often whimsical, pieces in the national newspapers would be amazed at her expertise in the Old Testament, Septuagint, the Hebrew Bible, the Synoptic Gospels and Apocryphal, Jewish magical and Kabbalistic sources that did not find their way into the Biblical canon, apart from her striking eloquence for female assertion and empowerment. Her learning is combined here with an evocative and vigorous, even uncompromising, writing style.
College Dupleix to Chandernagore College: The Journey from Revolution to Emancipation contains in detail the revolutionary activities and the secret societies that came up in Chandernagore with the sole motto of driving out the British through armed revolution.
Amongst the popularity of other tea-time snacks like phuchka and jhal muri, the humble chana jor garam struggles to make its place.
Kolkata biriyani originates in the royal kitchens of Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh, whose banishment to Kolkata in the 19th century permanently altered the city’s culinary scene.
Globetrotters Lang and Bev Kidby have ventured on a transcontinental adventure in a 1923 Bean Sundowner, retracing the historic expedition of Australian adventurer Francis Birtles from England to Australia between 1927 and 1928.
Sanjukta Dasgupta, an Indian academic, poet, critic and translator, released her book, Ekalavya Speaks, at The Bengal Club on 6 June this year. Her book is a collection of 86 poems shedding light on the lives of subalterns immersed in discrimination and stigma.
