Sumanta Banerjee

Remembering  John  Pilger

When  I  read  the  news  of  the  passing  away  of  John  Pilger  on  December  30  last  year,  I  remembered   a  wonderful  evening  that  I  spent  with  him  some  forty  years …

Rajya  Sabha  Conundrum

Following  the  mimicry  of  the  behavior  of  the  Rajya  Sabha  Chairman  Jagdeep  Dhankar,  carried  out  in  public  by  an  MP  in  the  precincts  of  Parliament,  which  was  video-taped  by  Rahul …

Indian  cops  and  spies  as  (unwitting)  stand-up  comedians

                                                                           “History  repeats  itself -  first  time  as  tragedy/  Second  time  as  farce.”   (Karl  Marx.  1852) Political  commentators,  while  observing  the  present  situation  quite  often   -  and  rightly …

Open  letter  to  the  Prime  Minister

“Dear  Shri  Narendra  Modi ji Please  accept  my  heart  felt  condolences  on the  demise  of  your  party,  the  BJP,  in  Karnataka. But  more  than  that,  I  am  rather  disappointed  by …

Letter to Ranajit Guha

An advance 100th birthday greetings  sent to Ranajit Guha by Sumanta Banerjee. Ranajit Guha breathed his last on 28th April 2023 at Vienna Woods in Austria just before his 100th…

Quirks  of  the  Indian  judicial  system

Way  back  in  1922 ,  the  Bengali  author  of  comic  literature  Sukumar  Ray  (father  of  the  famous  film  maker  Satyajit  Ray),  composed  a   poem  entitled  Act  21,  lampooning  the  system …

BJP  style  of  observing  Bakrid

The  Muslim  religious  practice  of  Bakrid -  being  observed  in  July  this  year  -  is  in  commemoration of  an  event  in   past  history  that  is  shared  by   both  Islam  and …

Remembering  Lenin  when  watching Ukraine  today

 Russia’s  President Putin,  in  a  speech  on  February  21,  2022,  said:  “Modern  Ukraine  was  entirely created  by….Communist  Russia.  The  process  began  immediately after  the  revolution  of  1917.”  He  then  described …

Putin  and Modi  –  Comrades-in-arms

In  the  background  of  the  present  war  in  Ukraine,  much  is  being  written  by  political  commentators  about  the  reasons  why  the  Indian  head  of  state  Narendra  Modi  has  taken  an …

Rights and Duties

Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a rather controversial comment, while addressing a Hindu religious women’s organization called the `Brahmakumaris’ on January 21. He reminded his listeners: “In the last 75…

Tango Dance in Bengal

What we are witnessing in Bengal today reminds us of the saying: `It takes two to tango’, implying that in a dispute it is not one alone, but the other…

Prime  Ministerial  Code  of  Conduct

  In  this  pandemic  season  of  coughs  and  colds,    Prime  Minister  Narendra  Modi  has  shown  exemplary  courage .  With  one  single  sneeze,  he  brought  forth  the  lightening-swift  measure  of  lockdown, …

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