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It was Pete Seeger who, on learning from me that I wished to visit Nicaragua to write a book in

Maya Angelou was like a mother for me. On learning that I wanted to write a book on the anti-establishment

I prepared for my dream trip to Nicaragua by reading books on Latin American history, politics and literature and by

Work at the VOA was arduous and boring. But I profited a lot from mixing with all sorts of people

My job in VOA was permanent, but spending my life in the USA was not my intention because by 1979

In 1976, I started to send articles to the Desh Patrika and owing to the benevolent and liberal attitude of

In 1973, I went to France for three months on an exchange program. There I heard Bob Dylan sing A

I have always felt quite uneasy about dogmas. Bertrand Russell’s writings addressed my intellect more than Marx’s writings did. For

I became aware of the political world only after leaving school and entering the undergraduate course in English Literature, Jadavpur

I find it curious that all these people found only a “singer” in me. In 2003, I started anchoring a

When Sm. Mamata Banerjee, the leader of the Trinamool Congress, announced my name as a TMC candidate for the Jadavpur

Kabir Suman speaks to Dr Sthabir Dasgupta, his long time friend SDG: Can you tell me in just one sentence,