Maya wants to spread her 'Mayajal'

Mayawati's decision to fight the election on her own has left many amazed. More so with her claim to form a Non-NDA and Non-UPA government on her own. This definitely has to be the boldest statement for the election season. She might have the largest state in India under her c...

Women leaders are more dictatorial

Mayawati is eyeing the post of the Prime Minister in the upcoming General Elections. She is not alone a whole bunch of women leaders promise to make an impact in the upcoming elections. Madam Sonia leads the oldest party in India. Mamata Banerjee is playing pressure politics w...

Nano finally ignites its engines

After lots of hurdles and roadblocks both corporate and political the Tata Nano finally has pushed the fuel into the ignition cylinder. The world's cheapest car and one of modern India's engineering marvel will finally be seen on the roads. Had it not been for some insane poli...

Rain rain go away, IPL players wanna play

This is probably the nursery rhyme that all the players and the fans of Indian Premiere League are rhyming at the moment. Almost half a week after the tournament began the weather god hasn't showered his blessings on the tournament and rain has played a spoilt sport in most of...

Rain rain go away; IPL players wanna playThis is probably the nursery rhyme that all the players and the fans of Indian Premiere League are rhyming at the moment. Almost a half a week after the tournament began the weather god hasn't showered his blessings on the tournament and rain has played a spoilt sport in most of ...

Perfect finish again eludes Dada

If critics still doubted the talent the 'Bengal Tiger' Sourav Ganguly had, yesterday's innings against the Rajasthan Royals was an answer for all of them. Nobody expected the match to go down to the wire once Brendon McCullum and Chris Gayle had shown their back. It was the ma...

Lankan crisis to impact Tamil Nadu polls

The war between the Sri Lankan government and the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) in northern Sri Lanka is likely to have a huge impact on the Lok Sabha polls in in Tamil Nadu. Political parties from Tamil Nadu like the DMK, AIADMK and PMK are trying to draw maximum m...

India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to host cricket World Cup

The International Cricket Council has finally given a go ahead to India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka to jointly host the ICC Cricket World Cup in 2011. ICC's Chief Executive Haroon Lorgat announced in Mumbai that India will now host 29 matches, Sri Lanka will get 12 matches while...

SRK is a brand treating KKR as its subsidiary

Kolkata Knight Riders being at the bottom of the table in the ongoing Indian Premier League may hurt the KKR fans but to a cricket enthusiast it is not surprising. The on field performance of the team has truly been disappointing but Knight Riders seems to have lost the plot w...

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Has the Left Fort been shaken in West Bengal?

West Bengal was one state in India which was always painted red. Many people would have learnt to live with the idea that Left Front couple not be defeated in the Bengali heartland. But for the first time since the polls post Indira Gandhi's death in 1984 Left seems to be on s...

Kolkata Knight Riders hit by racism row

Kolkata Knight Riders cannot win. This seems to be the statement which is the talk of the town in the cultural capital of India. If the multiple captain theory, more than needed media promotion and the fake IPL player blog wasn’t enough now we have the worst thing imaginable...

Has Bengal had enough of Left?

The results of the 15th Lok Sabha polls hasn't been too surprising but in the context of West Bengal 'shocking' is the word. The Left was expected to perform badly but nobody thought they would crumble in the manner they did. Not even the worst of the political critics of the ...

Knight Riders end on a winning note

Comparing cricket and politics is like comparing between cucumber salad and mutton curry in a menu. But with the change of political guard in West Bengal there seems to have been a change of fortune for the team from City of Joy at the IPL. The Kolkata Knight Riders finally st...

Who wants to be a 'Minister'

Just when the people of the country and the markets were breathing a sigh of relief having voted a stable government there are first sign of trouble. The friction has started even before Manmohan Singh assumes office as the 18th Prime Minister of India. The reason well the mos...

Pranab da should bring goodies to Bengal

For the better part of the last three decades politicians from West Bengal have occupied the opposition benches in the Lok Sabha. The Left Front MPs time and again failed to grab developmental projects by the Centre. What that meant was Bengal remained aloof from the national ...

Don't equate Naxalims/Maoism with Terrorism

The recent violence in Lalgarh in West Bengal is another testimony to the threating red terror which is fast spreading across the country. Although the ban imposed by the government on the CPI – M(Maoist) will give the security forces some teeth to fight these outlawed peop...

Red is fading in West BengalThe elections is West Bengal continue to throw surprises. Six months back nobody other than a certain Mamata Banerjee believed that the Red bastion could be shattered in West Bengal. Proving that the Lok Sabha polls were no fluke TMC and Congress won 13 out of 16 municipalities i...

Mamata plays a political master stroke

When Mamata Banerjee chased the Tata Nano project out of Singur she was being seen as a monster standing in the path of West Bengal's re-industrialization. A lot of water has flown down the Hoogly since then and the fearsome lady who single handedly caused one of the biggest p...

Bihar's growth should inspire Bengal

Once termed as the king of 'cow belt' and the 'bimru state' of India, Bihar after decades of being in the news for wrong reasons has something to cheer about. What seems more out of a Bollywood script than reality, the state once regarded as the most backward in the country ha...