A new Opposition? This week, Trinamool Congress leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asked an existential question for In...
A new Opposition?
This week, Trinamool Congress leader and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asked an existential question for Indian politics: “What is UPA?” The United Progressive Alliance, led by the Congress, has weathered several storms since it was formed in 2004. It had two terms in power at the Centre but is considerably battered by seven years in opposition, steered inadequately by a waning Congress.
Can it still be the fulcrum of the opposition to the Bharatiya Janata Party? According to Banerjee, it cannot. “There is no UPA,” she said, answering her own question. As the Trinamool leader signals her ambition of leading a revamped Opposition, in the Indian Express, Manoj CG and Ravish Tiwari track the rise and fall of the United Progressive Alliance.
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On the banks of the Brahmaputra
It asylum started life on a picturesque bend of the Brahmaputra in 1876. It survived wars, partitions and epidemics. The Brahmaputra itself changed course. But it endured and exists today as the Lokopriya Gopinath Bordoloi Regional Institute of Mental Health. Alok Sarin and Sanjeev Jain trace a history of the asylum for fiftytwo.in and, through it, a history of how “madness” was perceived and managed.
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Stranger shores
Recently, 27 migrants washed up dead on English shores, leading to...
