Romita Datta

A Doctor’s Death and the Maze of Injustice

Months after the horrific crime at Kolkata’s R.G. Kar Medical College, justice for ‘Abhaya’ remains elusive as the system continues to betray her memory. It has been nearly five months...
Social Issue 
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A Tyranny of a Different Kind

Revolutions often promise liberation but sometimes deliver a different kind of oppression. This truth has become painfully evident in Bangladesh, where the streets of Dhaka, once bustling with the fervour...
Global 
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Students who engineered the change feel defeated

Out of 158 coordinators 40 have quit; others looking way around Kolkata: The platform, which led the Anti-Discrimination Students Movement in Bangladesh, culminating to a regime change and end of...
Global 
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Mamata Gets a Dose of Her Own Medicine

In her thoughts and words, Mamata and movement are synonymous. She feels pride in her role in the anti-farmland acquisition protests in Singur and Nandigram, viewing them as political milestones...
Politics 
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History repeating in West Bengal after 17 years

Not very long ago on a scorching mid-October afternoon in 2007 the city was witness to a massive protest rally which had thrown normalcy out of gear. People sweated it...
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Kolkata’s Unified Call for Justice

Never has Kolkata’s conscience been so loud and clear, paying urgent attention to its inner voice. Never before have the sedate Bengali Bhadroloks from all walks of life realised the...
General 
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Why is Mamata Seeing Ghost of Bangladesh?

Mamata is seeing a ghost of Bangladesh behind the massive outrage and waves of protest over rape and murder of the trainee doctor. And the reasons are many. It’s been...
Foreign Affairs 
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Only questions, No answers

No, she did not shame the rape victim this time. No, she did not debunk the incident as “fabricated,” as she did for the Park Street rape victim in 2012....
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