Mainstream Weekly

India Still Develops Cold Feet when the Matter concerns Britain

Basubrata Roy — 2014-08-02T07:53:06Z

Munkurai was on his way to a northern district town of Tripura, bordering on Bangla-desh, to attend a press programme more than one-and-a-half decade back.
While on his journey through the highway as part of a convoy, escorted by the para-military, he could hardly have anything, not even a glass of water. So, when the escort dropped the convoy at Monu station, crossing through all the hill ranges, the crowd got joyous to have something from the roadside food joints as they had overcome the (…)

- 2014

The Road Not Taken By Tripura's Left

Basubrata Roy — 2013-02-15T21:03:34Z

The tiny North-Eastern hilly State of Tripura is gearing up for the Assembly poll, slated to the held on February 14, 2013. The Left citadel of the region has hardly seen any anti-incumbency factor till now when the regime is on a sticky wicket with its employees getting a raw deal because of the denial of a new Pay Commission.
Within no time the State Government school-teachers and the employees got united, cutting across political affiliations of the unions, to come under the banner of (…)

- 2013

Tripura: Strange Happenings in Red Citadel

Basubrata Roy — 2010-10-06T14:29:13Z

Strange things are happening in Tripura, the red citadel of the North-East.
On August 28, a tribal widow, Baralakshmi Debbarma, of Anandanagar village in Sonamura Subdivision of Tripura, had a quarrel with the ex-CPI-M chairman, Shibcharan Debbarma's sons, Manish and Uttam, over malpractices in the payment of NREGA money due; this infuriated Manish to beat up a pathetic Baralakshmi mercilessly, dragging her in a naked condition. Her younger daughter's protest was met with the threats of (…)

- 2010