Amita Shah
As Tripura, Meghalaya and Nagaland go to the polls, these five shape the strategies from the war rooms and the frontlines
Amita Shah in conversation with Manik Sarkar
It’s a direct fight between CPM and BJP in Tripura. Amita Shah reports from the last Marxist bastion under threat
The bold proposal of holding Lok Sabha and Assembly elections together confounds the opposition
Pinarayi Vijayan, the strongman of the Kerala CPM, puts the Congress-friendly Sitaram Yechury in his place
While the CPM admonishes Sitaram Yechury for the Congress tie-up in West Bengal, sympathetic comrades worry about staring at oblivion
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan of Kerala, a communist feared as well as admired, is a market-friendly pragmatist in power
The UDF has suffered a humiliating setback after a no-holds-barred campaign in which it was seen as aligning with communalists of all hues
Mamata Banerjee’s victory is a major embarrassment for Yechury who jostled for CPM’s poll pact with the Congress
The oldest warhorse, the crafty red don, a damaged chief minister and the spoiler in the fray. It’s between the predictable and the historical in Kerala