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Shikha Mukerjee
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The writer is a senior journalist in Kolkata.
    Incumbent Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar being offered sweets by Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad after he was elected as the leader of BJP Legislature party in Chandigarh. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    Maha, Haryana signals: Lesson of half-full glass

    If the BJP really meant to do what it had declared one nation, one vote the best time to get started would have been...

    29 Oct 2019 12:09 AM IST

    West Bengal chief minister Mamata BanerjeeOpinion
    BJP plays puja politics, tramples on tradition

    The tradition in West Bengal is that in the festival season there is no politics.

    7 Oct 2019 2:17 AM IST

    Replying to a debate on the amendment, Home Minister Amit Shah said a four-level scrutiny has been provided in the amendment and no human rights will be violated. (Photo: Twitter/ ANI)Opinion
    How will one card solve any of India's problems?

    The BJP may have been right when it laid down the law one man-one post.

    27 Sept 2019 1:46 AM IST

    Finance Minister Nirmala SitharamanOpinion
    As BJP flounders, is the best still to come?

    Consider that Bangladesh started out as a devastated nation when it fought and parted company with Pakistan.

    11 Sept 2019 1:37 AM IST

    The National Register of Citizenship phenomena, therefore, looks different, smells different and feels different.Opinion
    Who is a citizen? Going down a dangerous path

    The publication of the list of citizens on August 31 was the day when India arrived at the crossroads.

    5 Sept 2019 12:53 AM IST

    Kannan GopinathanOpinion
    What citizenship means: IAS man's wake-up call

    It is significant that Mr Gopinathan has not opposed the decision to abrogate Article 370 and Article 35A.

    29 Aug 2019 12:05 AM IST

    Congress President Sonia Gandhi, during Congress Working Committee meeting at 10 Janpath in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    A Greek tragedy: Is that how the Congress ends?

    It is, today, a disaster as it has no clue of what it should do next, under the present political circumstances.

    14 Aug 2019 1:22 AM IST

    BJP leader Mukul Roy interacts with media people during a press conference, in Kolkata on Saturday. (Photo: PTI)Opinion
    In party defections, voters are being cheated

    When 34 per cent of the panchayat seats in West Bengal went unopposed to the Trinamul Congress, Mr Shah described the...

    16 July 2019 12:36 AM IST

    West Bengal, chief minister Mamata BanerjeeOpinion
    Article 356 to backfire, BJP keeps Bengal pot boiling

    The sentiment quotient in politics has zoomed in the past five years, across the country and in Bengal.

    10 July 2019 2:24 AM IST

    West Bengal chief minister Mamata BanerjeeOpinion
    Clutching at straws in Bengal as BJP on rise

    The Trinamul Congress grew and grew, with people who joined in droves.

    3 July 2019 1:02 AM IST

    West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday directed the agitating doctors to resume work within four hours and also threatened to take action if the order not followed. (Photo: ANI)Opinion
    Doctors vs Mamata: Tribal confrontation?

    The problem with this demand is that it is the craving of the injured ego as well as injured bodies of the doctors on...

    17 Jun 2019 1:12 AM IST

    Young students may wish to learn a language besides their own, but not when they have no choice except to mandatorily pick Hindi. (Representational image)Opinion
    Diverse visions of India: Bigger battles lie ahead

    Language embodies the culture of the place and even then it fails, at least in India.

    5 Jun 2019 2:45 AM IST

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