BENGAL’S RESISTER IN CHIEF

• By NANDINI BHATTACHARYA, Professor of English, Texas A&M University, USA and illustration by AMIRUL MOMANIN CHOWDHURY, Professor of Fine Arts, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh • So, is Didi’s victory finally a ray of hope, a typhoon of fresh air? In that other ‘great’ modern democracy, the United States... Read full story

WHO WILL BENGAL INVITE? – VOICES

With political dynamics of an evolved order, the eastern Indian state of West Bengal recently wrapped up its 17th Assembly election. The 8- phase polling, spread over a month, was marked by exchange of vitriolic statements between opponents, violence leading to deaths of four people due to firing by the Central forces, and large scale …

BENGAL SET FOR A HUMDINGER OF A CONTEST

Trinamool Congress's poll strategist, Prashant Kishore is purportedly heard in an audio clip saying that there is anti-incumbency against the TMC and Prime Minister Narendra Modi is as popular as Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal. But the BJP lacks a popular face in the state level, writes ZAFRI MUDASSER NOFIL West Bengal is witnessing its …

BENGAL POLL – 2021: A SAFFRON SURGE

The way the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been positioning itself in this poll is not simply on the strength of an anti-incumbency wave or political rhetoric. It has meticulously planned its strategy. Never before have subaltern Hindus such as namasudras, bagdis, bauris, rajbangshis, matuas, santhals, mundas or upper caste Hindus been the main political …

WHO WILL BENGAL INVITE? – VOICES

With political dynamics of an evolved order, the eastern Indian state of West Bengal moves into its 17th Assembly election. Nationalism and secularism being the mostly focussed themes of this election, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) who is strongly entrenched at the Centre has unleashed all its resources to apparently train it's electoral guns on …