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In Didi’s Wonderland, where Words Come Out from the Depth of Truth

Our honourable chief minister Ms Mamata Banerjee has, without a doubt, done a great service to the cartoonist tribe. Can you think of another time when so much newsprint was… Read more »

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Cartoon Conspiracy: In Defence of Didi and how Politics is not a Funny Game

(This a letter we received from a reader who calls him/herself a TMC supporter and wishes to remain anonymous. Since we have no way of verifying his claims, we are… Read more »

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Mad Cow Disease in Maa-Maati Land

Cow is a good animal. Cows give milk and yummy steak. Cows live in herds and masticate newspapers, if given. Cows moo “Maa Maa”, wallow in the “Maati” (soil) and… Read more »

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Cartoon Network in Mamata Land: How Many of Us Face Arrest for the Same Crime?

I had read Soumya Datta’s article (Facebook Users Beware: Every Post you Make, Didi’s Watching) a few months ago. The article talked about Mamata Banerjee looking over Facebook posts against… Read more »

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Cartoon Network in Mamata Land: It isn’t Funny Madam Chief Minister

Ambikesh Mahapatra might have preferred to lie low, being a professor of Chemistry in Kolkata’s renowned Jadavpur University. But for the overtly proactive police in his city, and an overtly… Read more »

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Railway Rollbacks, Increased Freight Rates, and Didi’s Crocodile Tears

As the new hiked railway fares (for the privileged classes) come into force from today, I am again reminded of the melodrama over the railway budget. And while much of… Read more »

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Is Mamata’s Bengal Trying to Muzzle Free Media?

How many newspapers does Mamata Banerjee read? While uncharitable skeptics might raise an eyebrow at the question and brush it aside with a one-word, “none”, the number can now safely… Read more »

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Of the Railway Budget Farce: Is the Indian Democracy Working?

All hell broke loose after the Railway Budget for 2012-13 was presented by Dinesh Trivedi. The Trinamool Congress supremo, Ms Mamata Banerjee, wanted an immediate rollback of the hiked fares…. Read more »

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Railways, Rollbacks and Roy, and a Hue and Cry for Nothing

I recently watched a few of Dinesh Trivedi’s interviews on several new channels. In all of them he was asked the question which everyone wants to know — did Mamata… Read more »

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The Rail Budget Farce: Of Mamata, Manush, Melodrama and Manmohan

What could be a perfect foil to the farce that has been playing in our Parliament for some time now? Two railway accidents that killed over 15 people greeted the… Read more »