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West Bengal: Soaring Sister and Falling Fossils

Ullekh NP

Mamata Banerjee’s victory is a major embarrassment for Yechury who jostled for CPM’s poll pact with the Congress

Kerala Assembly Elections 2016: Down the Beaten Path

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

Princeling Stars in a Bengal Ghost Story

The illicit alliance against Mamata in West Bengal

Mamata Banerjee: What, Me Worry?

Mamata Banerjee is unfazed by the advantage the CPM-Congress combine has in terms of electoral math

Mamata Banerjee: I’m the Change

In a Bengal that has shed ideals and ideology for pragmatism, politics still swirls around Mamata Banerjee, loved by the bustees and dismissed by the bhadralok. The Didi paradox

VS Achuthanandan: Comrade VSOP

What is it that makes VS Achuthanandan, Kerala’s most youthful politician at 92, the most popular Indian communist? Open  catches up with the relentless fighter as he prepares for another battle

JNU: The Last Outpost

A portrait of JNU where revolution still rages in the minds of the street-fighting class

Sitaram Yechury: The Terminator

Sitaram Yechury faces his biggest test so far in deciding whether to tie up with Congress for the Bengal polls

Two Leaves and A Rebellion

A few thousand women in the hill ranges of Munnar challenge the male dominated trade unions of Kerala

“Arresting the party’s decline is my biggest challenge”

Sitaram Yechury, CPM's new general secretary, meets Open Assistant Editor Kumar Anshuman for a wide-ranging conversation. Excerpts

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