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He greets his patients with loud curses as they stagger in — sick or drunken — to his chamber. He reserves his choicest expletives for those who visit him close to death. He ministers to them tenderly, gruffly waiving his doctor’s fees, often buying them their medication from his own pocket, and making arrangements for them to reach home safely. Dr Samir Biswas, 68, carries his years lightly. Stories about him have become the stuff of legend in the collieries of Asansol, West Bengal.

Narendra Modi appears to be confronting the BJP’s ’Old Guard’ just as Indira Gandhi fought the ’Syndicate’ within the Congress

General Elections 2014 poses a plethora of possibilities as well as challenges. While it holds the fortunes of the people of the country with regard to who could become the next Prime Minister and under what rule you might have to spend the next five years of your life, it equally holds forth the threat of a ‘Modi regime’, which could unsettle and dismantle a lot of achievements of progressive politics and movements in the country – and push the country back by several decades, in our battles against global capitalism/ imperialism, feudalism, communalism, caste discrimination, patriarchy, jingoistic nationalism and Brahmanism. This is indeed the most challenging elections for these very reasons for all those progressive forces, which have mobilised people in the country under the Red, Blue and Green flags!

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CRIMINAL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION WRIT PETITION (CRIMINAL) NO. 155 OF 2013
Mohd. Haroon & Ors. Versus
Union of India & Anr.
.... Petitioner (s)
.... Respondent(s)
WITH
WRIT PETITION (CRL.) NOS. 158, 165, 170, 171, 179, 181 196, 206 OF 2013,
WRIT PETITION (CRL.) NO. 11 OF 2014 CONTEMPT PETITION (CRL.) NO..............OF 2014
(D1372) IN
WRIT PETITION (CRL.) NO. 155 OF 2013
TRANSFERRED CASE (CIVIL) NOS. 123, 124 AND 125 OF 2013,
TRANSFER PETITION (…)