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Jyoti Basu (born Jyotirindra Basu; 8 July 1914 – 17 January 2010) was an Indian Marxist theorist, communist activist, and politician. He was one of the most prominent leaders of Communist movement in India .
Jul 8, 2019 · New Delhi: Jyoti Basu had many achievements to his name, such as being India’s longest-serving chief minister (overtaken by Pawan Kumar Chamling) and a beacon of India’s Communist movement. But in 1996, he came close to adding another feather to his cap — almost becoming India’s first Bengali and Marxist prime minister, eventually ...
4 days ago · Jyoti Basu (born July 8, 1914, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India—died Jan. 17, 2010, Kolkata) was an Indian politician who served as the chief minister of West Bengal state from 1977 to 2000 and was a cofounder of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI[M]).
Jan 17, 2010 · Jyoti Basu: A legend in Indian politics. He was a Marxist to the core who was equally at home with bourgeois democracy and capitalist ideas. If destiny had been on his side, Jyoti Basu would...
Feb 11, 2010 · Jyoti Basu was a colossus that refused to be shackled by regional politics, and rose to be a national leader of international stature.
May 30, 2021 · D IMINUTIVE Jyoti Basu, who outlived most of his contemporaries, was a man of towering political stature, India’s pre-eminent and most charismatic Communist leader at the mass level and one of...
Jan 17, 2010 · Jyoti Basu,the iconic Marxist leader who was India’s longest-serving chief minister ruling West Bengal for an unbroken 23 years and came within a hair’s breadth of becoming Prime Minister in 1996,died after a prolonged illness.
Jan 16, 2024 · My journey with Jyoti Basu took off way back in 1997. And it lasted eight long years, across campaigns and countries, to be relived on celluloid—Jyoti Babur Songe (Travelling with Jyoti Babu) in 2005. I had interviewed him extensively for that documentary and what remains etched on my mind is his incredible memory.
Jan 18, 2010 · NEW DELHI Jyoti Basu, a powerful leftist leader who dominated politics in the state of West Bengal for more than two decades and nearly became India’s first Communist prime minister, died in ...
Jan 19, 2010 · Only two men have qualified for this statesman role in recent years. One is Jyoti Basu of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), who died yesterday aged 95.
