The tricolour flew at half mast, state government offices and almost all private establishments remained closed and roads were deserted as a quiet fell over West Bengal Monday, a day after the death of the Communist patriarch Jyoti Basu.
There was a motley crowd before central Kolkata’s Peace Haven, the funeral parlour where Basu’s body is [...]
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Quiet West Bengal mourns Jyoti Basu
January 18th, 2010 |
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India’s veteran Marxist leader Jyoti Basu dies
January 17th, 2010 |
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Jyoti Basu, the charismatic Indian Marxist who headed the world’s most electorally successful communist party for two decades, died on Sunday at the age of 95. Basu, who was the longest serving chief minister in Indian political history, led the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) to