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The writer is a senior journalist in Kolkata.

Congress President Sonia Gandhi, during Congress Working Committee meeting at 10 Janpath in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Photo: PTI)

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)

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 Banerjee

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 Banerjee

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)

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)

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

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee addressing an election rally at Churavander in Jalpaiguri district on Sunday. (Photo: Asian age)

Saffron tide overtakes Bengal

The BJP's success was in the countryside; its voteshare of close to 40 per cent is perilously close to the TMC's 45 per...

24 May 2019 7:32 AM IST

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has written to Oil Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, complaining about Gujarat government firm GSPC.

Chandrababu Naidu's alliance hunt: Mayawati, Mamata, Congress

The timing of the run, before the results are declared and the veracity of numerous exit polls is tested, is also for a...

22 May 2019 2:11 AM IST

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee at Basanti in South 24 Parganas on Sunday. (Photo: Asian Age)

A paralysis of thought is marginalising Left

The other memory that may remain is a sub-plot the rise of the BJP and the decline of the Left in West Bengal. T

15 May 2019 12:04 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election rally in support of BJP candidates in Nizamabad. (Photo: PTI )

BJP looks east as going gets tough in Hindi belt

The only problem with the defections that the BJP expects is that it will not reduce Mamata Banerjee's government to a...

2 May 2019 1:24 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets supporters during a campaign rally in Cooch Behar, West Bengal, on Sunday. (Photo: AFP)

BJP's Mission Bengal: Defending faith for votes

In the BJP's reconstruction, the only political legacy that seems to matter in West Bengal is that of Partition.

9 April 2019 12:25 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday made an indirect reference to the air strikes carried out by the Indian Air Force. (File Photo)

Promises, calculations: It's blind man's buff!

Promises do serve a political purpose; of grabbing attention and amplifying appeal.

28 March 2019 12:22 AM IST