The long dark tea time of the soul

APJ Abdul Kalam’s tenure as the president of India ends in july next year, and a search has already started to find India’s next head of state. The political temperature is already heating up, with names being propped up from left (Somenath Chatterjee), right (B.S. Shekhawat) and center (Karan Singh). And somebody actually [...]

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Today is Shankar Guha Niyogi’s 15th death anniversary, Shahadat Divas. My friends who are not from Chhattisgarh will ask Niyogi who? To classify Niyogi as just a ‘trade union leader‘ would be an understatement of his achievements in the short life that he led. But that is where we can begin. Shankar Guha Niyogi was [...]

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