The mood in the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Trinamul Congress in Bengal cannot be more contrasting at the moment. Despondency seems to have given way to dissension in the state unit of the BJP. The...

Like countless others, I, too, am utterly delighted that the West Bengal electorate has halted the fascist juggernaut of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah although, naturally, disappointed at the decline in...

March, April and May were awful, stressful months for most of us in West Bengal. We are still not out of the woods yet with the ongoing pandemic and the damage caused by Cyclone Yaas. But the three pr...

Sir — Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has accused the Narendra Modi-led government of scaling up oxygen exports in the midst of the pandemic, without bolstering India’s capacity to meet its own oxyg...

The resounding victory of the Trinamul Congress in the assembly elections can be attributed to the overwhelming support of women voters across social and economic groups. Unlike many states, West Beng...

With the victory of the Trinamul Congress in West Bengal, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu and the Left Democratic Front in Kerala, a familiar question has again cropped up: can an alliance...

Even schoolchildren are better losers than the Bharatiya Janata Party. But schoolchildren do not have the machinery of the State to wield as they will. Just a fortnight after the assembly election res...

The overwhelming response to Mamata Banerjee’s remarkable victory in Bengal seems to have overshadowed the triumphs of M.K. Stalin in Tamil Nadu and Pinarayi Vijayan in Kerala. However, the retu...

Numbers tell tales. Bengal’s comrades would concede that the tale of this assembly election has been a rather sorry one for the Communist Party of India (Marxist). The CPI(M), once a formidable ...

The outcome of the West Bengal assembly election led to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee beating off a sustained challenge from the Bharatiya Janata Party and securing a third term. The verdict in favou...