West Bengal

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

Greater Yesterday

Shreevatsa Nevatia

The open borders of Bengali literature come alive in this collection of short stories

Princeling Stars in a Bengal Ghost Story

S Prasannarajan

The illicit alliance against Mamata in West Bengal

Sahapedia: Click for Chhau

Sneha Bhura

Sahapedia is all set to become the most authentic online encyclopaedia for India’s heritage

Mamata Banerjee: What, Me Worry?

Ullekh NP

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

Assembly Elections 2016: Backlash or Backslap?

Ullekh NP

How the minority vote will make the most decisive difference in the coming Assembly polls

Disparately, Desperately

Siddharth Singh

What is it that unites the four states? It’s more than the changing idea of welfarism

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