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 17:13 | 9/May/2006 |
| How they voted in Panickanadarkudieruppu | |
| Panickanadarkudieruppu is a small village in Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu.It is a part of the Tiruchendur assembly constituency. There was a festive air in the village in the morning.May 8, 2006, was voting day. You could hear the village ladies calling to each other. "Akka (elder sister) when are you going to vote. Take me with you." None of t...
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| 14:07 | 27/Apr/2006 |
| Mum's the word in Kancheepuram | |
| The first thing I wanted to find out after reaching Kancheepuram was whether the arrest of the Sankaracharya had any effect on the electorate of Kancheepuram. We decided to go inside the Mutt first. After depositing the cameras, mobile phones etc, at the counter, we went inside. The Mutt was totally desolate with not a single visitor. Both the Sank...
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| 12:58 | 26/Apr/2006 |
| 12 buses, 270 km in Tamil Nadu | |
| My village is in Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu, about 35 km from Tuticorin town. I decided to go to Sivakasi to see the assembly election trend there. So I got into a bus (1) to Tuticorin. I reached the old bus-stand and was very happy to see a bus with the board saying Sivakasi. I got in (2) and the conductor asked me where I wanted to go. When...
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| 10:54 | 26/Apr/2006 |
| Bengal CM doesn't have bank account! | |
| West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya is known to be an honest, no frills man. But even then, his affidavit to the Election Commission about assets held, as cited by the Indian Express , is bound to raise a few eyebrows. It says he doesn't have a rupee of cash, no deposits, savings etc. Not even a bank account!
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| 08:34 | 22/Apr/2006 |
| Maoist posters appear in Kolkata | |
| Kolkata woke up to the news that Maoist posters had appeared late in the night on the walls of the famous Coffee House on College Street and the PresidenCy College.The posters said, 'Keep the war alive, boycott the votes.'Four districts of West Bengal are voting today in the second of the five-phase assembly elections.Coffee House was once famous a...
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| 10:59 | 19/Apr/2006 |
| Mithunda versus Election Commission! | |
| With dialogues like "Marbo ekhaney, porbi shoja shoshaney" [I will hit you here, you will fall straight in the crematorium], the trailers of Mithun 'Disco Dancer' Chakraborty’s newest Bengali movie can make you double up with laughter.But the Election Commission, which is leaving no stone unturned to ensure the polls in West Bengal are free and fai...
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| 16:01 | 17/Apr/2006 |
| My brush with a miracle | |
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| Forget Maoists, hail can kill you hereNature has a way of cutting you down to size. Of saying, ‘you might think otherwise, but I am the boss.’There was some time left for West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya’s election rally in Purulia on April 13. And we heard Mamata Banerjee was also addressing a meeting in Hura, 32 km from the distr...
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| 17:56 | 16/Apr/2006 |
| Lenin's voice, and a human snake | |
| A snapshot from from poll-bound Purulia. A CPI-M party old-timer is flaunting his red stripes: "I have Lenin's voice and Netaji Subhas Chandra's voice on tape."Outside his house, in the dirstrict headquarter town of a state ruled for 29 years by his party, a human snake, with stubs for legs and wrapped in a gunny bag, is slithering across the stree...
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| 14:35 | 13/Apr/2006 |
| Buddha's still smiling | |
| The Left will paint Bengal red, says this CNN-IBN- The Hindu pre-poll survey . The survey only proves that the Left knew what it was talking and was not one bit arrogant when it said it will emulate its 1987 sweep !
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| 14:20 | 13/Apr/2006 |
| Where elections are meaningless | |
| An NDTV story on the plight of farmers in Kerala. It says even though these workers have played a major role in strengthening the commies, they continue to remain in a pathetic condition.
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| Baldeo Pandey | 20:35 | 31/Oct/2007 |
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| बांछें खिल गई थी,दरवाजí 5; पर खड़े देवदूत,भë 2;पेट भोजन का निमंत्र...
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| Licensed Pirate | 07:16 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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| It's wise to remember how easily e-mail can be misused, sometimes unintentionally, with serious consequences. Consider the case of the Illinois man who left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his ...
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