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Even as the careers of celebrities have crumbled, the fate of a successful show and channel jeopardised, and politicians have got involved because tabloid stories have spilled over onto the desks of foreign ministries, one thing is clear: the murky underbelly of British society stands exposed today because of what happened on (to quote British Labour MP Lord Meghnad Desai from a recent television discussion) “a third rate show watched by third rate people”.

CPI(M) heavyweight glorifies a goddess and calls Jyoti Basu a Krishna reincarnate. Divine revelation or historical blunder?
By Ashish Biswas Kolkata

The people who have the gift of education take many things for granted. The ability to read the written word is one of them. We delve into the world of Rabindranath Tagore and Premchand, Tolstoy and Chekhov, Shakespeare and Thomas Hardy with joy.
By Vandana Kumari Jena