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West Bengal

Recollections of the Poush Mela

Dear reader, have you ever had sweet and sour chicken? You did right? Good! Let me also narrate one such sweet and sour story.

Helming varsities

The West Bengal government has played to the party gallery by announcing yet another change in the matrix for the appointment of Chancellors of universities and Visitors for private entities that have mushroomed on certain campuses, notably technological institutions, over the past few years.

The Rot Within

Government control resulted in the recruitment of CPI-M cadres in the schools, who, in turn, became the backbone of the party's support base.

Present continuous

It is a measure of the general resentment against the eleven-day extension of summer vacation in schools that the West Bengal government’s decision has caused a flutter in the roost.