Reporter's Diary
Docs on stage, CM in boat
Political return
When filmmaker Muzaffar Ali decided to join the Congress last week, the development raised as many questions as guffaws.
Gatecrashing for votes
Staying away from davos
Modi charms, Didi chafes
Happening dos
Fuming Didi, sulking Maya
Audacity of hope
Patience and restraint have never been West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s virtues. It was because of her volatile personality, temper and sharp tongue that the Trinamul Congress leader earned the sobriquet of “stormy petrel of Bengal’s polity”. She had never in the past taken kindly to any kind of criticism.
Didi’s difficult December
Mamata slams news brake
It was not exactly West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s baptism by fire because the AMRI Hospital catastrophe in which over 93 hapless patients were choked to death following a fire in its basement took place six months after she took up the reins of the state in her hands.
Maya shocks, Anna mocks
A saffron divide
Rival sections of the BJP in Udaipur went their separate ways while celebrating former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee’s birthday on December 25.
