by Ranjeet Chowdhury | May 22, 2026 | Social
The day Vajpayee Government lost the floor test by a single vote in the Parliament on April 17, 1999 remains vivid in my memory. It was really agonizing to see how the decision to participate in the crucial voting was left to the Congress MP Giridhar Gamang’s...
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Nov 7, 2025 | Social
During the recent retaliatory face-off with Pakistan in the aftermath of the terrorist attack at Pahalgam, a barrage of fake news was unleashed by various news channels. One of them even claimed that Indian forces had captured several cities of the neighboring...
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Oct 1, 2025 | Social
Like most children of our generation, I too was fond of reading comics. In those days, comics were among the very few sources of entertainment available to children – second to television, of course, which wasn’t so common in middle class families back then....
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Sep 8, 2025 | Social
Yesterday, there was a total lunar eclipse, popularly known as the ‘blood moon. Though eclipses are now well understood by science as natural celestial phenomena resulting from the alignment of the Sun, Moon, and Earth, yet these events have long been shrouded...
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Sep 2, 2025 | Spiritual
Everything is an illusion” (सब माया है). We all must have heard this phrase umpteen times from the people with religious bent of mind and, of course, from our spiritual leaders. We often nod in agreement too without having believed a word of it. How could...
