Booming Bengal beckons
On January 8 and 9, Kolkata will host the Bengal Global Business Summit, an annual event. West Bengal...
By Derek O’Brien January 17, 2016
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Liberty vs entitlements
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Derek O’Brien
Derek O’Brien, a renowned quizmaster, is chief whip of the Trinamool Congress in Rajya Sabha and its national spokesperson. He won the award for Best Anchor in 2003.
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Where liberty and equality intersect
I have been in Parliament for close to four years now, but participating in the deliberations on...
By Derek O’Brien December 20, 2015
Meat and hot potatoes
Anybody who has visited Kolkata would tell you few other cities have such a taste and flavour for food....
By Derek O’Brien November 01, 2015
Our family club, my second home
My first experience of electoral politics came 15 years ago, when I was voted in as president of The...
By Derek O’Brien September 20, 2015
Stranger in the mirror
This summer, I took a short break and visited New York. Since then, it is back to the nitty-gritty of...
By Derek O’Brien July 12, 2015
Let's be fair on fare
In the 1890s, my mother’s grandfather joined the Bengal Nagpur Railway. For my family, this began a...
By Derek O’Brien March 18, 2015
Bullet points
One of the blockbuster announcements of this year’s railway budget was the bullet train. To be...
By Derek O’Brien March 18, 2015
Knowing Kolkata, via satellite
Did the writer spend a significant time of his or her formative years in Kolkata?Was the writer...
By Derek O’Brien March 18, 2015
The Big Apple's barometer
My wife lives in New York, and, over the years, I have got to know the city well. It is a useful...
By Derek O’Brien March 18, 2015
House games
While in school, my sport of choice was football. I was a goalkeeper of some reckoning in local and...
By Derek O’Brien March 18, 2015
Bullying the houses
After President Pranab Mukherjee, it is now Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan who has cautioned against...
By Derek O’Brien March 16, 2015
Rooting for the Muffler Man
Watching Arvind Kejriwal’s speech at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan shortly after he was sworn in as chief...
By Derek O’Brien May 03, 2015