Kamal Ghorui- Bloggs
- May 5, 2026
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Solitude as a teacher and discipline of silence
By Venerable Gyaltsen Samten There was a time when life began to draw me away from worldly concerns, and i recognised this shift clearly. It was this inner orientation that…
- Kamal Ghorui
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- May 5, 2026
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Opposition’s stale mates… all fall down
Minus key satraps, INDIA bloc is all but done This round’s poll results underline much more than BJP’s durable structural dominance. They also signal implosion of an organised opposition to…
- Kamal Ghorui
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- May 5, 2026
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End this free-dom
Results are out, and they reveal a season of discontent. When three of four large states dislodge incumbents with firm mandates, something’s broken on the ground, from east to south,…
- Kamal Ghorui
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- May 5, 2026
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Big Bong theory
Bengal, a habitual contrarian, has finally succumbed to the attractions of being one of the crowd of BJP-governed states in north India. Apart from Punjab, Himachal and Jharkhand, political geography…
- Kamal Ghorui
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- May 5, 2026
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Chennai’s super king
Vijay has been handed something Tamil Nadu has never given a debutant before: a 100-plus-seat mandate, and a likely shot at CM’s chair. Voters have been more than kind. Question…
- Kamal Ghorui
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- May 5, 2026
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The big tent of Indian politics is now Hindutva
Yesterday’s assembly election results are a shot in the arm for BJP. In West Bengal particularly, having thrown everything and the kitchen sink into the fight to oust Mamata Banerjee,…
- Kamal Ghorui
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- May 4, 2026
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May the 4th be with BJP: Vijay’s Tamil blockbuster, Didi’s Bengal meltdown and the return of Congress
On this May 4, the force in Indian politics is not with the regional satraps. In Tamil Nadu, Joseph Vijay Chandrasekhar – simply Vijay to his supporters – has just…
- Kamal Ghorui
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- May 4, 2026
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Bengal’s Anand Math moment
“We would have been forced to Kolkata like Kashmiri pandits if Modi and Amit Shah had not deployed so many forces to de-tox the atmosphere and ensured fearless voting”- A…
- Kamal Ghorui
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- May 4, 2026
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Bengal: When fear recedes, the voter returns
Although elections were held across five states and Union Territories, the nation’s—indeed the world’s—eyes were fixated on West Bengal. Some were hopeful, some were worried, but everyone was watching. A…
- Kamal Ghorui
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- May 4, 2026
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When the machine asks ‘who am I’
By Partha Sinha We have long been comfortable with tools. The hammer did not disturb us. The wheel did not provoke metaphysics. Even the computer, in its early obedient years,…