By Girish Nikam
‘Freedom of the press is the cornerstone of any democracy’ is a well worn-out cliché though it has stood the test of time as a universal truth. No one in a functional democracy like ours can deny the importance of the freedom of the press. It is also a fact that this freedom [...]

Politics, they say makes strange bedfellows. And we thought we had seen enough of this in this country during the last decade. But the last week’s spectacle in West Bengal seemed stranger than fiction, where people and parties holding extreme and conflicting political views, seemed to have converged.