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All the world’s a classroom

Edit The Hindu 12 Jun 2016
The underlying point that stands out is the instrumental role that travel played, in widening horizons, broadening perspectives and adding to a student’s academic repertoire ... Students who sign up for the ‘battlefield historians’, an eight-day package, get to visit Palashi or Plassey where knowledgeable guides will bring people and places to life with stories and events that shaped the course of history ... Keywords....

West Bengal polls: Left-Congress alliance may give a tough fight to Mamata’s TMC

Edit Yahoo Daily News 26 Apr 2016
It’s almost as if the rest of India has turned its back on Plassey, a nondescript village in deep Bengal, embedded in the undifferentiated green of paddy, coconut and bamboo. Much better to bury the past than suffer the mortification of remembrance ... Returning to Plassey — or Palashi, as the Bengalis have it — and confronting our worst fears, including those of defeat and failure, may finally allow us to move on. ....

Then and now in Plassey

Edit Indian Express 26 Apr 2016
Voters and security at a Booth in Salt lake. (Source. Express photo by Partha Paul) ... It’s almost as if the rest of India has turned its back on Plassey, a nondescript village in deep Bengal, embedded in the undifferentiated green of paddy, coconut and bamboo ... Returning to Plassey — or Palashi, as the Bengalis have it — and confronting our worst fears, including those of defeat and failure, may finally allow us to move on. ....

Hard bargain drives wedge in Cong-CPM arrangement

Edit The Times of India 03 Mar 2016
KOLKATA ... CPM has no problem parting with the majority of the 76 seats from Cooch Behar to Murshidabad, but is not ready to give away 50 of the 218 seats in south Bengal where Congress commands only a 3% vote share ... Even as the bargain continues, Congress and CPM activists have come together at the grassroots to foil Trinamool's bid to wrest control of panchayats at Palashi in Nadia, Murshidabad and Birbhum ... ....

Subhashree`heckled' at Falakata show

Edit The Times of India 20 Dec 2015
JALPAIGURI. Tollywood actor Subhashree was allegedly heckled and molested during a college fest at Falakata on Saturday . Recently, Bollywood singer Akriti Ka kar was also allegedly harassed during her per formance in Cooch Behar ... From the airport itself, I will be leaving for a show at Palashi." ... ....

Not Batra's crackdown

Edit The Times of India 09 Jun 2014
Inderjeet looked at the thermometer in his hand. Then he looked at the reflection in the mirror of the seat of his pants — if he had been wearing any pants ... Frankly, anyone who still referred to Palashi as 'Plassey' deserved in Inderjeet's opinion to face the bite of Batra, who charged the book as being 'defamatory and derogatory' to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh — even as he forgot to lambast it for being boring ... ....
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