In a bold editorial tribute to Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee, in July 1953, shortly after his death in detention in Kashmir, the iconic journal Modern Review best described Syama Prasad and best evoked the collective of sense of loss felt by a shocked nation. The people of Syama Prasad’s own state, the …

Amid India’s fight for freedom, a shadowy alliance of communists, colonialists, and the Muslim League unfolded vis-à-vis a prospective meeting between Doctorji and Subhas Bose that never materialised Referring to the communists’ collaboration with the British and the Muslim League throughout the decade of 1940s, HV Sheshadri calls it a …

Rabindranath Tagore’s association with East Bengal was a deeply intertwined one and it can hardly be eradicated The vandalisation of the historic Rabindra Kachharibari in Shahjadpur, Sirajganj, last week proves that Mohammed Yunus’s interim regime and its functioning has entrapped Bangladesh like a curse. Since August 2024, there has been …