Ullekh NP
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
Mamata Banerjee is unfazed by the advantage the CPM-Congress combine has in terms of electoral math
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
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
A portrait of JNU where revolution still rages in the minds of the street-fighting class
Sitaram Yechury faces his biggest test so far in deciding whether to tie up with Congress for the Bengal polls
A few thousand women in the hill ranges of Munnar challenge the male dominated trade unions of Kerala
Sitaram Yechury, CPM's new general secretary, meets Open Assistant Editor Kumar Anshuman for a wide-ranging conversation. Excerpts