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If I didn't write, I wouldn't know who I was. Journalist @ThePrintIndia. Formerly @ndtv @indianexpress @moneycontrolcom @ttindia. Calcutta | Delhi.

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As a Bengali, I refuse to watch 'The Bengal Files'. It seeks to inflame, not inform

As a Bengali, I refuse to watch 'The Bengal Files'. It seeks to inflame, not inform

What happened in Bengal in 1946 cannot be reduced to a two-dimensional morality play. It requires honesty, se…

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The pigs are still walking: George Orwell's Animal Farm warning, 80 years on

The pigs are still walking: George Orwell's Animal Farm warning, 80 years on

On its 80th anniversary, Animal Farm remains relevant not because it predicts one political ideology's failin…

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From Vietnam to Ukraine: What US Presidents get wrong about war

From Vietnam to Ukraine: What US Presidents get wrong about war

Trump Ukraine war promise, US foreign policy failures: Donald Trump isn't the first to promise peace. He is j…

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What the silenced, suppressed angst of Durga in Pather Panchali tells us about girlhood

What the silenced, suppressed angst of Durga in Pather Panchali tells us about girlhood

Durga of Pather Panchali: The forgotten girl who shaped Apu's story and broke literary ground for Indian girl…

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Satire died on a Friday night: What Stephen Colbert's silencing tells us about free speech

Satire died on a Friday night: What Stephen Colbert's silencing tells us about free speech

Stephen Colbert's Late Show cancelled: When satire gets too real, power pulls the plug. His exit isn't cancel…

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Fake Birkenstocks bother me, but so does the appropriation of Kolhapuris by Prada

Fake Birkenstocks bother me, but so does the appropriation of Kolhapuris by Prada

Birkenstocks counterfeit to Prada Kohlapuri controversy: From a courtroom battle in Delhi to the runway contr…

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How Siya Goyal case has shaken Pune's Marwaris

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A community elder traced the roots of the case to the shrinking joint family and the erosion of the everyday social oversight that used to come with …
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How Siya Goyal case has shaken Pune’s Marwaris

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By Stela Dey Verified
| ThePrint Verified
Every person seems to have a new theory or another forwarded video to share. The case has spilled across dinner tables in Koregaon Park and Kothrud, and in the drawing rooms of business families trying to make sense of a case many describe as “beyond imagination.” It has also found its way into the pages of a weekly community supplement ‘Agra Bhushan’ circulated among Pune’s Agarwal Samaj. Last week’s edition ran the headline “Siya, ye tune kya kiya?
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Fish for votes, eggs for ideology in BJP's Bengal. Children pay the price

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| MSN India Verified
Stela Dey T he egg has become the first casualty of the BJP's promise to respect Bengal's food culture. During the election season, the BJP read the room — and the fish market. Leaders flaunted fish and devoured mutton before television cameras. They assured Bengalis that nobody was coming for their plates. Once the kursi was secured, however, performance yielded to policy and the new government decided that school mid-day meals will no longer include eggs.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

The Telegraph Kolkata

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Nah

How is social media changing news?

Better reach. It has its downsides. Most fake, while some videos help a lot with a certain incident
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