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PAYAL MOHANKA

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Is the BJP inching closer to Bengal?
Rediff.com17 Mar 2021

'With sufficient gaps between polling dates, the BJP will have time to convert the...

Appeasement politics boomeranged on Mamata
Rediff.com27 May 2019

'A hugely dangerous game which she thought she had mastered has now found a stronger...

An encounter with Priyanka Gandhi!
Rediff.com29 Dec 2018

In 1998, the Congress asked her mother to campaign. 'We had a family discussion. We...

Partition: Lest We Forget
Rediff.com14 Feb 2018

For Aanchal Malhotra, the stories of Partition were stories that needed to be told;...

Has Mamata's politics of appeasement backfired?
Rediff.com7 Jul 2017

Has Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee created a situation with dangerous overtones in...

'Koi Sardar hai? Goli se maar dalenge'
Rediff.com31 Oct 2016

Jasmit Singh, 85, recalls a horrific train journey to New Delhi on the day Indira...

'Mother said her work was just a drop in the ocean'
Rediff.com4 Sep 2016

'It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we...

For Kolkata, Mother Teresa was always a saint
Rediff.com3 Sep 2016

When Pope Francis canonizes the late Mother Teresa at the Vatican on September 4, she...

Mamata transfers police officers for following EC's orders
Rediff.com8 Jun 2016

Several police officers who followed the Election Commission's orders during the recent...

'We need to plant trees in our head'
Rediff.com31 May 2016

'Today it is not about seeking blessings, but seeking selfies.' Payal Mohanka listens...

Mamata is more Left than the Left!
Rediff.com25 May 2016

With her trademark cotton sari and rubber slippers and her generous doles in rural...

Why did the EC axe Bengal's biased babus?
Rediff.com28 Apr 2016

Did the CPI-M and Congress' shrill campaign against 'tainted' officers prompt the...

Once a boxing champ, he now cleans drains for a living
Rediff.com17 Aug 2015

Once a boxing champion, life has dealt Krishna Routh a severe blow.

'Sister Nirmala was a truly loving soul'
Rediff.com24 Jun 2015

Kolkata-based artist and co-worker of the Missionaries of Charity, Ritu Singh, who has...

#VisitMorocco! You won't regret it
Rediff.com9 Jun 2015

Payal Mohanka travelled to Morocco, that magical place where the past and the present...

'Scaling Everest was like a pilgrimage'
Rediff.com29 May 2015

Exactly 50 years ago, the first Indian team, led by Manmohan Singh Kohli, reached the...

The king who made his own calendar
Rediff.com29 Apr 2015

Wajid Ali Shah, the last Nawab of Awadh, was not just a poet, playwright, dancer and...