The CPM denies it, but out in the wilderness there is evidence that the party is raising a militia armed to the teeth. “No guns in photos,” were the handlers’ orders to us

The crumbling Metro Rail of Kolkata is hurting Mamata Banerjee’s image in the state

Since his college days, Krishnendu Singha has maintained a record of deaths in his district

The story of land reforms and their fate is enough to explain the rise and fall of the Left in West Bengal

The CM has voted 99 times and is mobilising support to ensure a local choir’s victory in a reality show.

And there is nothing contradictory or ironic about it, he would have you believe.

The Catholic church in India is out on a limb to indigenise. Images such as Jesus seated on a lotus in padmasana and the Virgin Mary clad in a sari are now commonplace.

A family feud leads to a dispute between the Assam and Arunachal Pradesh governments.

It sells just 8,000 units a year, but the venerable Ambassador is getting some mouth-to-mouth resuscitation with a redesign that will make it look almost exactly the same.

In what could be the largest family in the world, men live with dozens of wives and scores of children, and all survive in enviable peace.

CELESTIAL HEROISM IS a bestseller, unless it is badly made. In it merges great survivor dramas and the romance of breaching the boundaries of human…