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The tone of the Rubio handout on the Jaishankar call is reminiscent of how the US used to deal with any minor protests Pakistan made during the GWOT. Curt dismissal, as if lives lost there simply didn’t matter.
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As Sudip Bandyopadhyay has now joined the rebel camp, I wanted to reshare this old column of mine for TOI. For one reason.
In the 2004 Lok Sabha elections, Mamata Banerjee denied the sitting MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay a ticket from Calcutta North West (now Kolkata North), the constituency he currently represents as an MP. She reportedly asked him to shift to Raiganj, while the TMC ticket for Calcutta North West went to Subrata Mukherjee.
Sudip chose to rebel. He reached an understanding with the Congress and contested from the same seat as an independent candidate backed by the Congress. The TMC eventually lost the seat. Yet, in time, he returned to the party.
This is what makes the current developments significant. Mamata Banerjee was never unaware of the ambitions, insecurities, and tendencies of many of these leaders. She had seen them up close, often from the party’s most difficult phases. But instead of confronting these contradictions, she repeatedly accommodated them, trusted them, and elevated them to important positions, perhaps believing that responsibility and recognition would bring stability and loyalty.
It did not. The individuals changed their circumstances, but not necessarily their political instincts.
That is why I continue to argue that Mamata’s biggest political crisis has often been of her own making. Not because she failed to identify the problem, but because she chose to manage it through accommodation rather than resolution.
“Mamata’s biggest crisis is Mamata.”
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@cynicoidAlt No, he's not. I think it's alt of Shoaib Chowdhury @Ekattor_71
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NEW | Benin is working to increase counterinsurgency coordination with its neighbors, including joint operations with Nigeria and diplomatic efforts to repair frayed ties with Alliance of Sahel States members Burkina Faso and Niger. 1/5
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Told @CNN:
“The authority, influence, and institutional significance of the presidency have declined considerably since after the Rouhani era...Today, both the president as an individual and the administration as an institution are largely confined to implementing decisions that are made elsewhere – particularly within the Supreme National Security Council.”
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Its just an indictment of India's judiciary, which has failed to deliver justice in many key cases, that's why Modi is still free today
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@cynicoidAlt @AnonDehlvi Is modi accused of actually partaking in riots or massacre. Jamaat top leaders are actually identifying hindus, Awami leaders who are massacred/r@ped then by khan sena .
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Did I not say a few days ago that Sharjeel (and people like him) are genuinely stupid?
WB Muslims felt no consequences of what was happening literally next door, despite state being swamped with Hindu refugees. Wonder why.
CPM as bad as BJP saaarrr
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Sachar C reported that wb had the worst performing index of Muslims in govt jobs & undertakings. Sharjeel imam also wrote on how left had done absolutely nothing for them. It was tmc who got Muslims under obc reservation. So, ei wb left M hitoishi concept ta kotha theke elo.
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@cynicoidAlt @AnonDehlvi Then why are this collaborators are made ministers in 2001 BNP-Jamaat govt . Half a dozen ministers from this govt was accused of r@pe,massacre, genocide. Why did bengali muslims elected them. Did Badu Bajrangi elected as minister in India ?
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@bong123457 @AnonDehlvi Also that Marwari argument is so weak, since Bengali Ms literally did a mini holocaust of Bihari Ms.
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@bong123457 @AnonDehlvi Yea, nobody is denying there was an anti minority component as well, but it is a fact that more Bengali Muslims died.
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@AnonDehlvi Left pretty much shot bullets at everyone. And Marijchapi was 6 yrs later. Left's large base of support was refugees, Marijchapi was an abberation.
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@cynicoidAlt People think riots are trivial, but what goes in preparing for riots is an attack on property riots even when no actual violence takes place. Fwiw left has made political choices where they shot bullets at the incoming refugees, but prorected Muslims. Uske baad yeh bakchodi?
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@AnonDehlvi I think more to do with the fact that GOI had seen what had happened in 1950 and 1964 and were prepared properly this time around.
Post-Babri riots in 1992 in Kolkata and other parts. is an abberation however.
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@cynicoidAlt @AnonDehlvi The fact that no riots happened in west bengal when in every durga puja Bangladesh performed their annual malaun killing festival proved him right. In WB people still believe Pakistani Army conducted genocide against bengalis not bengali hindus proved him right.
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Somewhere at the India Bangladesh Border in West Bengal.
An old Muslim man helplessly sitting near the Border fence, seemingly an Illegal Bangladeshi Immigrant, who could not show his documents.
He was supposed to be pushed across the border but Bangladesh refuses to take him.
Now this man is spending day and night in the open without any solution.
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During the Cold War era, Turkish cinema flourished, yet as Jülide Etem argues in Film Diplomacy, the cinematic story of Turkey-US relations began with educational film productions that furthered both American overseas power and Turkish domestic policy. ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2026/05/etem.h…
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