by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Feb 17, 2023 | Social
Born and brought up in a completely Hindi speaking environment, my relationship with my mother tongue Bangla remained detached for long. My parents did speak Bangla at home, but they mostly spoke in their village dialect which was quite different from the sweetest...
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Feb 17, 2023 | Social
Though I had the subscription of a prominent ‘streaming video service’ for quite some time, I had never watched any Web-series till one of my younger colleagues asked me to watch ‘पंचायत’. “You would like it for sure” he said. He also claimed that once I start...
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Feb 9, 2023 | Social
Time was changing and so does my life. I started to earn at the age of 21 and incidentally my first day at work was 7th December 1992 – the day after Babri Masjid demolition at Ayodhya. It’s only after my joining that I came to know that the office belonged to a...
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Jan 16, 2023 | Social
After the fall of VP Singh’s coalition Government, the leader of the breakaway faction of Janata Dal, Chandra Shekhar formed a minority Government at the Centre with the outside support of Congress and became the 8th Prime Minister of India. I do not remember much...
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Jan 7, 2023 | Social
After Rajiv Gandhi, Vishwanath Pratap Singh, formed a coalition Government with the support of BJP in 1989. Congress was still the single largest party with 197 seats in the 9th Lok Sabha, but Rajiv Gandhi preferred to sit in the Opposition. I was...