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BJP has no interest in West Bengal

What one finds unacceptable is the Centre’s failure to throw the rule book before the state government. The political stance of the Narendra Modi-led BJP...

Institutions die in a ‘democratic’ Bengal

The state lives in a post-truth era. Here misinformation abounds, and scientific evidence is often supplanted by alternative facts, pseudoscience, fake news, and conspiracy...

Leaders dissemble for political survival

The public who consume untruths are mostly ignorant. They acquire information on a catastrophe and causes for that from media. People in public life, political...

RG Kar killed faith in Democratic Institutions

NEW DELHI: Are the institutions robust enough to repair the fault lines as observed? The overwhelming feeling of any ordinary citizen does not look...

It’s time Bengal CM faced a Commission of Enquiry in RG Kar case

Such a commission is empowered to summon and to enforce attendance of ‘any person’ from anywhere in India in order to examine the person...

Arrogance must not be the rule in Parliament

The tumultuous debates and pandemonium in Parliament have turned too confrontational. West Bengal’s young Lok Sabha member who also happens to be the de facto...

Unfreedom and the women of West Bengal

NEW DELHI: It is absence of economic opportunities arising out of a distorted democracy that made lives of women miserable in West Bengal. Development, wrote...

Rekha Patra, a subaltern candidate, gets backing from BJP

Even the champions of subalterns, the Left, felt that by selecting her BJP insulted the constitutional process. Subaltern studies cover individuals or groups of inferior...

Sackloads of cash must not replace electoral bonds

Democracies across the world frame rules, create instruments, specify processes for political funding. Politics is not a productive activity. That is because it does not...

Kolkata leads the way in anti-intellectualism

The value of intellectuals is measured in terms of their contribution to the ruling political class. The abysmal poverty of intellect in West Bengal, its...

Pawns of West Bengal’s ‘cracker’ factories

The product manufactured in the ‘cracker’ factories is lethal and does not qualify as firecrackers. An innovative product is called ‘alu bomb’, a cracker...

Bengal’s faulty panchayat election process needs an economic solution

The West Bengal panchayat election 2023 has opened the Pandora’s Box which was carefully hidden by the ruling party Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee....

The three pillars of Mamata Banerjee’s politics

Mamata made New Delhi a convenient scapegoat for channelizing West Bengal’s resentment. The politics of Mamata Banerjee stands on three pillars—use of resentment, spreading falsehoods...

Constitutional breakdown nearing in Bengal, case for Article 356

Inaccuracy is the rule in the state, suppression of information is the system and undermining the Constitutional authorities and processes are prevalent.   A fall into...

Mere rhetoric cannot be a long term policy for toy sector

India is focused on handicrafts, a backward looking policy to make a place in the world’s high-tech toys market. New Delhi: When Indian Prime Minister...

Lure of the lucre comes to haunt TMC in Bengal

President’s Rule may be staring at West Bengal.   When a new government steps in, it has to address three issues—the trappings of yesterday, the interests...

Kolkata HC verdict on DA payment causes heartburn to TMC, CPM

Any embarrassment to the TMC government, which the implementation of the judgement is certain to bring, will benefit the BJP in the state. This...

West Bengal’s rotten potato economy is all about politics

For a farmer not connected politically getting berth in cold storage is not a cakewalk. West Bengal’s isolation from the national mainstream is illustrated by...

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