CPM
Mamata Banerjee: What, Me Worry?
Ullekh NP
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
What’s Left, Comrade Yechury?
A new general secretary for the shrinking CPM. Can he make it relevant?
Sitaram Yechury and the last ghost story
Make CPM a social democratic party or dump it for the sake of political hygiene
Miffed VS Achuthanandan leaves party meet in a huff
The nonagenarian communist went out of the conference hall bidding farewell to the general secretary Prakash Karat who unsuccessfully tried to pacify him
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