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Arup K Chatterjee

Arup K Chatterjee

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Author, 'The Purveyors of Destiny: A Cultural Biography of the Indian Railways,' Founder Editor-in-Chief, Coldnoon (International Journal of Travel Writing & Travelling Cultures), Assistant Professor, English Jindal Global Law School, O.P. Jindal Global University.

By Arup K Chatterjee

How Calcutta kept alive a line of William Shakespeare's family

John Talbot Shakespear's tombstone lies in the South Park Street Cemetery of the city.

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Elphinstone stampede: There's blood on the tracks

The tragedy at railway station took the lives of 22 commuters, while 30 others were grievously wounded.

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Is the Indian Railways the government’s new start-up experiment?

Revamping the Indian Railways may purchase the government a new lease of life.

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Why Teachers' Day in India is a sham

It's not a marker of educational success and has rather become a weapon for exclusion of education and ethics.

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Railway resignations are severely dodging the issue of safety and development

Amid the calls for fixing accountability, one wonders where are the voices that speak of the need for fixing faults.

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India’s train tragedies are derailing lives, economics and common sense

The horror is still understated, and the politics over dead bodies ever so shrill.

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The global culture and politics of India’s bullet trains

China has enough time to plan several steps ahead in this race to infrastructural militarisation.

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GST: Why PM Modi's address to chartered accountants was a flawed rhetoric of nationalism

The modern accountancy profession does not have its origins in India. It does not need this nationalist expression.

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Are India and China heading towards a cold war over railways?

Chinese expansions have shown New Delhi the way to lead into a post-modern war with a 200-year-old technology.

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Cringe politics of Adityanath govt renaming Mughal Sarai railway station

Denouncing a quaint Muslim-sounding name is nothing but a sunk investment driven by a dastardly ideology.

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