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The writer is a senior journalist in Kolkata.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. (PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Mamata's damage control bid to revalidate mandate

Regaining control in a ramshackle organisation, where discipline is low and control is loose and sporadic, is definitely...

31 March 2022 12:53 AM IST

Congress President Sonia Gandhi and party leader Rahul Gandhi during the partys Mehangai Hatao Rally against the Central government, in Jaipur, Sunday, Dec 12, 2021. (PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Either the Congress will survive, or the Gandhis

The existence of the Congress is at stake: the party with the same name as the one that belongs to the nation

23 March 2022 12:25 AM IST

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves during a road show in Ahmedabad, India, Friday, March 11, 2022. (AP Photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | New dynamic as politics in India reshapes itself

In Uttar Pradesh, the BJP has won, while the Congress has become a virtual presence, as has the BSP

12 March 2022 2:00 AM IST

Women walk along a street near a bus stand in New Delhi. (Photo: AFP)

Shikha Mukerjee | India's women must move on from hijabs, kitchens

Women's participation as workers has declined, though more girls complete school education and enter colleges and...

8 March 2022 3:59 AM IST

In the run-up to 2024, state elections will be fought by regional parties in defence of a multi-party, multi-location system of democratic politics. Representational Image. (AP)

Shikha Mukerjee | An election without a wave: Canny voters & canny...

It is noticeable that Mr Modi's UP campaign has been low key till now

17 Feb 2022 6:48 AM IST

Many of these institutions have worked in India for decades on difficult problems where government services were either inadequate or unavailable, such as leprosy and tuberculosis, healthcare and emergency relief. (Twitter)

Shikha Mukerjee | What's suspicious about overseas contributions?

For the MHA to tersely state that these institutions have been denied permission because of 'violations' is not...

7 Jan 2022 1:30 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (AFP)

Shikha Mukerjee | How the BJP has to fight harder to remain on top

Even the 11 Lok Sabha seats from the seven states in the Northeast plus the 14 Lok Sabha seats from Assam have begun to...

29 Dec 2021 2:23 AM IST

The Sharad Pawar-Mamata Banerjee meeting in Mumbai recently signalled a closing of ranks between two successful parties, both offshoots from the Congress and its formidable legacy. (PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | As Indian polity matures, new politics is on the...

For both the smaller regional parties and the Congress, the BJP is the common enemy

6 Dec 2021 2:31 AM IST

More intriguing is how Mamata Banerjee has used the BSFs territorial expansion to make common cause with Punjab. (PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Crossing the line: Mamata transforms national role?

By pilfering the BJP's polished spiel rationalising defections as a necessary political move, the TMC is certainly being...

26 Nov 2021 2:30 AM IST

In the run-up to 2024, state elections will be fought by regional parties in defence of a multi-party, multi-location system of democratic politics. Representational Image. (AP)

Shikha Mukerjee | Clash of political cultures lies ahead as 2024 looms

Each election between now and 2024 will challenge the old federal design of authority, power, responsibility and...

11 Nov 2021 3:48 AM IST

Shikha Mukerjee | In democratic parties, why dissent equals...

Respecting the right of party functionaries to speak out, without incurring punishment ought to be the norm rather than...

28 Oct 2021 1:01 AM IST

The fact that a probe has been ordered itself brings into focus the widely held view that the ruling party at the Centre had been playing toppling games through which non-BJP governments were targeted and brought down. (Representational image: PTI file photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | As Cong crumbles, India's politics shifting to...

The 2019 Lok Sabha elections was high noon for the BJP

8 Oct 2021 2:55 AM IST