Mamata Banerjee

Open Diary

Swapan Dasgupta

Will the BJP's performance in Tripura rub off on West Bengal?

Band of Beleaguered Brothers

Kumar Anshuman

The struggle for a united opposition to the resurgent BJP falls apart in the absence of a leader or a slogan

BJP Begins the Battle for Tougher States

Ullekh NP

The permanent campaign

Bengal De-Westernised

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

The counter-revolution of Mamata Banerjee

West Bengal: Marx Is Dead, Long Live Mamata

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

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

Reading the Future in the Ashes of Thursday

S Prasannarajan

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

PR Ramesh

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

Ullekh NP

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?

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

Sunanda K Datta-Ray

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