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West Bengal
Bengal’s Descent into Darkness
Jaideep Mazumdar
What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow. If this old saying retains some relevance today, it’s as a way to place the tragedy of the state’s slide in perspective.
India This Week
Indian citizenship for Sri Lankan refugees; handshake and a boot in West Bengal; Bihar’s bank ban; Kashmir protest; and creating second-class doctors
The Loneliness of Buddhadeb
Can Bengal’s poet-playwright Chief Minister pull out of his current depression in time for the looming Assembly elections?
India’s Worst Land Grab
Rajarhat New Town is billed as the face of modern Bengal. But it’s a façade for injustices that cancelling an odd infotech park cannot undo
Talibanesque Code
A Ramakrishna Mission school in West Bengal and its outrageous attitude towards its lady teachers
Bloodied Bengal and Its Bhadralok
Why violence maintains its currency as a political tool in West Bengal
The Next Gorbachev?
There’s something tragic about Buddhadeb having to preside over the decline of the Left in West Bengal
Red Zone
As the Maoists assert control in this adivasi region, the West Bengal government faces a dilemma: to storm Lalgarh or not
Honey, I Shrunk the Left!
As chief of the CPM’s central command, Prakash Karat finds himself presiding over an electoral rout and party disgruntlement
Spare Us Crocodile Tears
Angry comrades, embittered by the violence wraught by industrial displacement, will now vote against communist parties
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