by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Jun 15, 2026 | Social
In early 2001, a devastating 7.6 magnitude earthquake struck western Gujarat on 26th January – the Republic Day of India. This was one of the worst natural disasters in country’s history which left more than 20,000 people dead; about 1,67,000 injured and over...
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 | Feb 19, 2025 | Social
A few months back a case of misappropriation of funds by an employee of our organization came to light. Keeping in view the gravity of the offence, the disciplinary authority decided to terminate the services of the delinquent official, who had already confessed to...
