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Mamata's whipping boys: Cops, cartoonists, commissions and ex-CMs
The Calcutta High Court has rapped Mamata Banerjee's government on the knuckles for ignoring its own human rights commission's recommendations. But is Didi listening or too busy filing defamation suits? #Mamata Banerjee #MediaRoundUp #cartoonist arrest #Adhir Chowdhury
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No confidence in Mamata? Her political thappad in Delhi is being felt in Kolkata
Is Mamata's no-confidence motion that went nowhere going to backfire on her? Didi says she stood up for her principles. But one of her own MPs says she got a political thappad. And other MPs are speaking up. #Mamata Banerjee #MediaRoundUp #PoliticalPlay #no-confidence motion
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Anti-Islam film and FDI? Kolkata spots the foreign hand
The foreign hand is alive and well. It's behind the anti-Islam film and it's behind FDI. Or so feel the 25,000 protesters who gathered outside the American Center in Kolkata. #HowThisWorks #Mamata Banerjee #MediaRoundUp #Trinamool Congress #FDI #Anti-Islam Video #Innocence of Muslims
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IRS 2012 Q1: Digital grows at 47% CAGR, print in trouble
While newspaper owners have a lot of thinking to do to arrest the decline, digital publishers have a lot to celebrate in the 47 percent CAGR. #Business/Finance #MediaRoundUp #The Times of India #media consumption
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Finally revealed: The secret message in that Mamata cartoon
Trinamool supporters have finally come up with an explanation about why that cartoon has got them seeing red. It apparently has a secret coded message. #HowThisWorks #Mamata Banerjee #MediaRoundUp #Trinamool Congress #Derek O'Brien #Mamata Cartoon #Time 100
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With a little help from the CPM: Samajwadi Party's extreme makeover
Akhilesh Yadav is being presented as the Prince Charming that turned around the fortunes of the Samajwadi Party. But a lot of silent work happened in the background. And some credit should go to the CPM. #MediaRoundUp #Samajwadi Party #Mulayam Singh Yadav #Akhilesh Yadav #CPM #UP2012
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Supreme Court takes on sex, sex and more sex
The Supreme Court is wading into some unnatural waters. They are talking about sex. Gay sex. Animal sex. Sex by imitating an orifice. The hearings on Sec 377 are getting quite graphic as the court ponders what is the 'order of nature' in 2012. #ChangeTheNow #Supreme Court #MediaRoundUp #SexMatters #Homosexuality #Surrogacy #Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code #Sexual orientation
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The argumentative Bengali: 2G judge and ex-Speaker in public spat
The fallout of the 2G verdict continues. Ashok Ganguly, one of the judges who delivered that verdict, and former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee are duking it out on the front pages of a Kolkata daily. #MediaRoundUp #Somnath Chatterjee #2G Trial #GoodReads #Ashok Kumar Ganguly