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Swapan Dasgupta
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Swapan Dasgupta is a senior journalist.
    Right Angle: Let it pour down on Bharat MataOpinion
    Right Angle: Let it pour down on Bharat Mata

    Now it awaits at least two years of “normal” monsoons for the yields to seep in.

    14 April 2016 7:44 PM

    Right Angle: No match for DidiOpinion
    Right Angle: No match for Didi

    Corruption remains petty but the pace of delivery is slow.

    31 March 2016 7:06 PM

    The audacious vs the entrenchedOpinion
    The audacious vs the entrenched

    A responsible' Donald Trump would be a non-starter. He cannot beat Hillary Clinton on her terms.

    16 March 2016 7:21 PM

    JNU teachers and students form a human chain inside the campus in protest against arrest of JNUSU President Kanhaiya Kumar in New Delhi. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Right Angle: JNU, then and now

    The political fare offered at JNU was both more varied and limited.

    18 Feb 2016 7:02 PM

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    Right Angle: Out with the Left

    The national influence of the Left is at its lowest point since 1947.

    4 Feb 2016 7:40 PM

    Protest over Rohith Vemulas suicide continues at Hyderabad Central University. (Phtoo: PTI)Opinion
    Right Angle: Campus turbulence

    The themes of student unrest very rarely find reflection outside the campus.

    21 Jan 2016 8:45 PM

    Right Angle: Why the ‘nation’ fell silent on KaliachakOpinion
    Right Angle: Why the ‘nation’ fell silent on Kaliachak

    Last Sunday morning, even as the country’s attention was focused on the terror attack on the Indian Air Force base...

    7 Jan 2016 8:32 PM

    Right Angle: Christmas is for everyoneOpinion
    Right Angle: Christmas is for everyone

    Having spent the first 16 years of my life in Calcutta — as it was then called — Christmas has always been...

    25 Dec 2015 1:44 AM

    Sonia’s swaggerOpinion
    Sonia’s swagger

    Unlike many political leaders who are inclined to shoot from the hip, Congress president Sonia Gandhi takes caution to...

    11 Dec 2015 6:34 AM

    Right Angle: Reading the Bihar voteOpinion
    Right Angle: Reading the Bihar vote

    The first-past-the-post electoral system that India borrowed from Westminster and retained after Independence is...

    11 Nov 2015 1:19 AM

    Right Angle: Media & Modi Sarkar: Observer or partisan?Opinion
    Right Angle: Media & Modi Sarkar: Observer or partisan?

    Last Friday, in case some of you didn’t notice, the executive board of the Sahitya Akademi, an institution that...

    30 Oct 2015 2:25 AM

    Right Angle: Shiv Sena needs a crash course in PROpinion
    Right Angle: Shiv Sena needs a crash course in PR

    There are many tricks of the trade that Sudheendra Kulkarni must have learnt in the course of his fruitful association...

    16 Oct 2015 6:49 AM

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