Marxist


  • Human tsunami at Jyoti Basu’s procession
    January 20 2010 | By Our Correspondent

    Central Kolkata came to a standstill on Tuesday as tens of thousands hit the streets to pay homage to former chief minister and CPI(M) patriarch Jyoti Basu.

  • The doctor's of state-run SSKM Hospital are thinking of preserving the brain of late Marxist leader Jyoti Basu, the hospital's anatomy department head said here on Tuesday.

  • The unusual idealist
    January 18 2010 | By Shikha Mukerjee

    Jyoti Basu was unusual in all sorts of ways; he retired, as he said, “when you fall ill, you cannot even attend office and look at things. Then why

  • Marxists pulled PM’s chair from Jyoti Basu
    January 17 2010 | By Our Correspondent

    1996 was a watershed year in Jyoti Basu’s life. Basu, who 50 years of his political life that year. Destiny had lined up a grand gift for him for the golden jubilee of his political career: the prime ministership of India.

  • Countering the CPM's allegation of her party's truck with the Maoists, the Trinamul Congress chief, Ms Mamata Banerjee, on Sunday said the Maoists and the Marxists are both sides of the same coin.