Amid the torrent of unctuous praise raining on the communist leader Jyoti Basu, Business Standard had a sharp piece by the former Pioneer journalist Kanchan Gupta on Saturday, 16 January, on its op-ed pages. “Had it been Jyoti Banerjee lying unattended in a filthy general ward of SSKM Hospital in Kolkata and not Jyoti Basu…
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How Jyoti Basu saved a journalist’s job
The veteran Indian communist leader Jyoti Basu has passed away at the age of 95. In The Telegraph, Calcutta, special correspondent Barun Ghosh recounts how India’s longest serving chief minister helped him keep his job at the newspaper, 25 years ago. “The rain hadn’t stopped falling that July ’84 morning and I reached Writers’ Buildings…
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