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Vivek Gumaste
‘What this incident must do is provide a renewed impetus to urgently bring in police reforms; changes that will ensure that political patronage and extraneous pressure are reduced to a minimum and allow the police to function independently and honestly,’ argues Vivek Gumaste.
Former Mumbai police commissioner Param Bir Singh’s shocking and sensational allegations against then Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh has set the cat among the pigeons and brings to the fore the complex, precarious and sometimes Faustian nature of the interplay between the political class and the police; a relationship that can swing either way depending on the personalities involved.
Bengal 2021: On the brink of a religio-political twist?
Bengal 2021: On the brink of a religio-political twist?
The TMC in West Bengal has to fight against the deeply rooted religious vengeance among many Namasudras, especially the ones who came after 1964 riot following the alleged theft of Hazratbal Shrine. Mamata s government has not failed to acknowledge the identity politics of Namasudra leaders and this has resulted in the formations of Dalit Sahitya Academy or educational institutions at Thakurnagar. But, has it been too late?
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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. (Photo Credits- PTI) None of us should have got back to Bangladesh since we had already seen the genocide in 1971. We should have gone to Indira Gandhi to secure our citizenship in India. But we were not pragmatic enough to do this. Hence, many of these refugees went back. I was in Class-VIII then. My father decided to go back and since then we have been living as subservient to a particular religious c