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Jyoti Basu

Indian politician
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Melissa Albert
Melissa Albert was a research editor at Encyclopædia Britannica. Her first novel, The Hazel Wood (2018), was a New York Times bestseller.
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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]). Basu was the son of a physician, and he enjoyed an affluent childhood. He began his studies in Calcutta, at St. Xavier’s School and Presidency College, before traveling to London in...

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