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Mamata Banerjee

Bengal De-Westernised

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

The counter-revolution of Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal: Marx Is Dead, Long Live Mamata

Revolution is relentless in West Bengal—but at what cost?

Reading the Future in the Ashes of Thursday

A comrade who defies both biology and ideology in Kerala. The triumph of Kancheepuram kitsch in Tamil Nadu. The compelling subaltern-sandesh socialist in Bengal. A Modi wave on the Brahmaputra. And a Family that couldn't provide the sheltering shadow for a withered party...The summer thriller of 2016

Congress: The Dead Old Party of India

A verdict that magnifies the irrelevance of the Congress and strengthens the modernisation agenda of the Prime Minister

West Bengal: Soaring Sister and Falling Fossils

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

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

Fear and Faith in Dhaka

Caught between the call of jihad and the politics of poverty, Sheikh Hasina is battling alone for Bangladesh. India and the West had better take notice

Remembering Suzette Jordan

The woman who cast off the tag of ‘Park Street victim’ died today—leaving behind a legacy of fortitude for others who choose to battle rapists

A Matter of Good Taste

What is it that unites Mamata, Manjhi and the Sadhvi?

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