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: Ashi Chouksey and Swapnil Kusale beat Daria Tykhova and Serhiy Kulish of Ukraine 16-12 for the gold medal in the 50-metre rifle mixed team event in the shooting World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was the second gold for India, and the third medal for Swapnil, who had won the individual silver behind Kulish apart from the team silver. After staying close to the Ukraine team in two stages of qualification, the Indian pair did well to strike its best in the gold match. The first Indian team of Anjum Moudgil and Deepak Kumar finished seventh and missed qualifying for a medal match by two points. With two gold and three silver, India is in the second spot in the medals table behind Korea which has three gold and three bronze. Ukraine, France, and Serbia were the other teams to win two gold medals each, while Australia, Poland, Croatia, Bulgaria, Denmark, Kuwait, US, Finland, Czech Republic, Greece, Iran and Norway won at least one gold medal. The results: 50m rifle … [Read more...] about Ashi-Swapnil combine strikes gold

Olympian Anjum Moudgil won the rifle 3-position silver, behind Rikke Maeng Ibsen of Denmark, in the shooting World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan, on Friday. The 29-year-old Anjum had shot 587 in qualification and followed that up with a 406.5 in the second stage that led to the medal round. Anjum was 4.9 point behind the Dane who went on prevail in the gold medal match 16-12. It was the second individual silver medal in the event at the World Cup for Anjum, who had won silver in the World Championship in air rifle, after the one at World Cup in Guadalajara in 2018. The Indian men’s rifle 3-position team of Swapnil Kussale, Deepak Kumar and Goldi Gurjar also bagged the silver as it got beaten 17-7 by Croatia, much in contrast to the close duel in the earlier two stages of qualification. In the women’s rifle 3-position team event, Ashi Chouksey, Anjum and Ayushi Podder shot 867 in the second stage, and missed the chance for a medal by one point. It was a disappointing turn as the team … [Read more...] about Anjum Moudgil bags rifle 3-position silver

Mother tongue and Bangladesh: you can’t talk of one without talking about the other. So, as I write on International Language Day, which in a way celebrates mother tongues, let me begin at the beginning. Historians may cringe if I suggest that the seed of Bangladesh — and of International Language Day — was planted by Mohammad Ali Jinnah way back in 1948, but on that sultry September morning last year, that’s what I realised acutely. We were driving down High Court Street in Dhaka. Shaikh Jameerul Rahman asked the driver to stop and pointed at an impressive red building within a sprawling campus. Jameer bhai is touching 70 with the youthfulness of a teen. He has been a ‘Mukti Yodhya’, a freedom fighter in Bangladesh, and right then, for reasons I did not yet understand, his hands were shaking with excitement. “That is the famous Curzon Hall of Dhaka University,” Jameer bhai said. I looked up at the building, ornate even from outside, an interesting mix of colonial and Mughal … [Read more...] about The language of other people

​ It has been a year since unprecedented violence took place in West Bengal after the Assembly election results were announced. Why has Bengal been suffering violence (both West Bengal and Bangladesh)? What was the original demographic composition of Bengal and how has it changed; and how this has affected the socio-political milieu in this region? This multi-part series would attempt to trace the origin of socio-political trends in the larger Bengal region (state of West Bengal and Bangladesh) over the last several decades. These trends are related to the evolution of Bengal over the last 4000 years. It’s a long journey and unfortunately most part of it has been forgotten. In 1946, two major riots happened in West Bengal. The first one took place in August 1946 in Calcutta known as ‘The Great Calcutta Killings’ while the second one happened in Noakhali in October, often called ‘The Noakhali Genocide’. Both these riots are significant case studies as the Calcutta riots seem to … [Read more...] about The Bengal Conundrum: Understanding State’s Communal Violence Through the 1946 Great Calcutta Killings

It has been a year since unprecedented violence took place in West Bengal after the Assembly election results were announced. Why has Bengal been suffering violence (both West Bengal and Bangladesh)? What was the original demographic composition of Bengal and how has it changed; and how this has affected the socio-political milieu in this region? This multi-part series would attempt to trace the origin of socio-political trends in the larger Bengal region (state of West Bengal and Bangladesh) over the last several decades. These trends are related to the evolution of Bengal over the last 4000 years. It’s a long journey and unfortunately most part of it has been forgotten. In the last part of The Bengal Conundrum series, we would take a look at the anatomy of Noakhali riots of 1946. The template of anti-Hindu violence set up during these riots had grave implications for the future of Hindus in East Bengal, presently known as Bangladesh. These implications continue to get manifested … [Read more...] about The Bengal Conundrum: How Noakhali Riots Set Template for Anti-Hindu Violence in East Bengal

Amid the hectic campaign before the June 23 bypolls to four Assembly seats, Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha said on Monday that he has not been made the Chief Minister by the central leaders for three months, or seven months, and he will be in the leading position in the Assembly elections in early next year. The statement of Saha, who assumed office on May 15, a day after Biplab Kumar Deb’s resignation from the top post, is very significant as the elections to the Tripura Assembly are expected to be held in around eight months from now (February 2023). “Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President J.P. Nadda have extended their trust in me. This is not the right platform to disclose everything,” Saha said in a party meeting as part of his byelection campaign. The 69-year-old Congress-turned-BJP leader, who is contesting from the Town Bordowali Assembly constituency against five other candidates, is also the state party President and a Rajya Sabha member. Saha, who is … [Read more...] about Not a CM for 3-7 Months, Will be in Leading Position in 2023 Polls, Says Tripura CM Manik Saha