Word: basu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Patricia Lyons Basu...
...KALYAN BASU...
...staked out like turf in gang wars. Hoodlums have hired out as political killers. Even police dare not venture into many of Calcutta's labyrinthine lanes. On any given day, the newspapers may list half a dozen murders. One of the most vicious was that of Hermanta Basu, 75, a veteran leader of the All-India Forward Bloc, who had his throat cut last month as he was getting into a taxi...
Blood All Over. In the countryside, Marxist agitators stirred discontent among landless peasants. In Calcutta, they won big pay increases for 1,000,000 tea, jute, textile and engineering workers. To make sure that no one interfered with the Marxists' tough tactics, Party Boss Jyoti Basu saw to it that Bengali police were deeply infiltrated by the party faithful. The political shenanigans soon led to a breakdown of law and order throughout the state...
...Basu last week warned darkly that if his Marxists are not included, "there will be bloodshed all over the state." No one doubts Basu's potential for mayhem-or the grim appropriateness of Rudyard Kipling's description of Calcutta, written nearly a century...