Rahul Singh
The writer is a veteran journalist
SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE, an icon of our Independence movement, is in the news for all the wrong reasons: the West Bengal Chief Minister and head of the Trinamool Congress, Mamata Banerjee, is invoking his name, as is the Bharatiya Janata Party in the run-up to the state elections. What Netaji would have thought of it is another matter. The Centre’s unilateral decision to celebrate January 23, the birth anniversary of Bose, as ‘Parakram Diwas’ (Day of Valour) seems to have caught the TMC on the back foot. The TMC wants it to be celebrated as ‘Desh Nayak Diwas’ (Day of the National Hero). On a different note, it is also worth reflecting why we, as a people, revere certain individuals so much that any criticism of them can lead to threats, and even violence.
The Top Doctor Who Stories Of The Tom Baker Era
The Top Doctor Who Stories Of The Tom Baker Era BBC
Longtime fans of the BBC institution
Doctor Who all have their favorite actors who have served as the title character. Yet above them all, Tom Baker, who played the fourth Doctor from 1974 to 1981, seems to occupy a space reserved only for the most revered. It is no wonder: Given how the previous Doctor, played by Jon Pertwee, practically saved the series from cancellation with his action-oriented depiction, it was going to take a big personality to fill his shoes. Baker obliged.