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...
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Jul 15, 2021 | Social
Despite rated not-so-well on several counts, Rajiv Gandhi was still popular with the masses and his reputation as ‘Mr. Clean’ was still intact. However, all this was going to be challenged very soon with the rise of another ‘Mr. Clean’ Vishwanath Pratap Singh, Finance...
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Jun 25, 2021 | Social
Hindsight is always 20/20. It’s easier to look back, judge people, their actions and point fingers. We all do that in some way or the other and I would be doing no different in the instant part of my work. As I said, I’ll be recalling certain events which had...
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Jan 7, 2021 | Social
Although the quality of being sensible has very little to do with the age of a person, still as we grow up we are supposed to behave in a more understanding and levelheaded manner. Quite often though, we see the opposite of it. Instead of ‘growing up’ with age, we...
by Ranjeet Chowdhury | Dec 31, 2020 | Social
As I recollect the events of those days of 1984, I hardly remember anyone condemning the riots at that time, not even our elders. Rather I heard a few of them (persons, who generally claim to have ‘seen the world’ and supposed to be acting in a more responsible...
