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The writer is a senior journalist in Kolkata.

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee addresses the media in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

A street fighter battles to 'save' ...

The next Opposition leaders' meeting in New Delhi in mid-February will confirm this.

7 Feb 2019 12:25 AM IST

West Bengal CM and Trinamul Congress chief Mamata Banerjee speaks during the Opposition parties mega United India rally at the historic Brigade Ground in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

Alliance fully imagined, with states in lead role

The purpose was to announce the alliance as a nearly formed fighting machine against the BJP.

21 Jan 2019 5:41 AM IST

Regional leaders, caste and state parties represent a constituency of voters who have participated in fleshing out the vision of the federal structure in the Constitution.

Regional satraps have the last laugh

Not all voters are comfortable with the idea of one party one nation.

6 Jan 2019 7:58 AM IST

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee addresses the TMC Chhatra Parisad foundation day rally at Mayo Road in Kolkata on Tuesday. (Photo:Asian Age)

Front-making for 2019: Difficulties are growing

The task is horribly difficult as cross-cutting interests intervene to tweak and change the shape the elegant simplicity...

4 Jan 2019 12:00 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that the first priority is to bring all opposition parties together to take on the BJP in the coming Lok Sabha elections. (Photo: File | PTI)

Hiccups on crafting a new compact for 2019

The alliances and adjustments within the front are crucial to the looming battle against the BJP in 2019.

22 Dec 2018 12:59 AM IST

Gujarat, the home state of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah, goes to polls on December 9 and 14. (Photo: PTI/File)

Lotus pond is shrinking: Regional parties must rework 2019 strategy

Miscalculating the power of parochial sentiments, couched in the idiom of Telangana nationalism, has cost the Congress.

12 Dec 2018 1:53 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is leaving for Delhi on Monday, said she would seek time from Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to discuss the issue. (Photo: Twitter | ANI)

As 'new aliens' emerge in Assam, Mamata vs BJP tussle expands

The Supreme Court has asked for a revision and the politics around this has grown heated.

7 Nov 2018 12:49 AM IST

Chief minister Mamata Banerjee addresses the TMC Chhatra Parisad foundation day rally at Mayo Road in Kolkata on Tuesday. (Photo:Asian Age)

Is benevolent mother' Mamata's new avatar?

Identity politics, of legitimising the assertion of the majority in terms of its religion, is the BJP's most effective...

25 Oct 2018 12:34 AM IST

Security agencies apprehend trouble in certain pockets of the state as verification of family trees brought to light that suspected foreigners are trying to get their names enrolled in the NRC.

'Bengal NRC' gives Didi a new front to fight BJP

By contesting the basis of identity and citizenship, Banerjee is tapping into a deep pool of Bengali sentiment as well...

21 Aug 2018 12:46 AM IST

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee

Why Mamata has a new strategy to take on BJP

The confrontation between Mr Modi and Ms Banerjee is one of hope versus positive and purposeful action.

26 July 2018 6:02 AM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina share a laugh after a signing of agreements in New Delhi. (Photo: AP)

Modi, Hasina & Didi: Teesta on their mind

It is significant that Sheikh Hasina made the time to meet Mamata Banerjee separately and alone.

29 May 2018 2:55 AM IST

Marx still relevant, but India's Left flounders

The CPI(M)'s problem is that it's stuck over the ethics of political economy that is acquisition, work, thrift,...

7 May 2018 1:13 AM IST