Rajat Roy

Central government’s funds choke jolts Tagore’s Visva Bharati

With governor Jagdeep Dhankar allegedly backing BJP's political moves to usurp Trinamool Congress in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee seems up against a wall

Several Trinamool Congress leaders and IPS officers linked with the various Ponzi schemes have left the West Bengal chief minister on a sticky wicket and is making her defensive

Not only India's North-East, the bifurcation of Jammu and Kashmir has only buoyed the call for a separate Gorkhaland

Given the growing drum beating for war and the jingoism sweeping across India, Ray's iconic movie released in 1969 is resonating in today's turbulent political climate

An air of suspicion, a history of mistrust and BJP's growing popularity is making Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee increasingly restless

In Bengal, Mamata has invoked public wrath against her own party workers to marginalise her foremost adversary, BJP.

BJP's increasing vote share and clinching 18 out of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal is a warning Mamata Banerjee can't ignore for long. BJP's Mission Bengal will test Trinamool Congress in the July 2020 Municipal elections and then the 2021 Assembly polls

Lok Sabha Elections 2019 Analysis: With more than 40 per cent vote share and 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in its pocket in West Bengal, BJP's massive inroads could wreck Trinamool Congress' unity

Actors as election candidates...Bengal’s entertainment industry has never been so political until the Trinamool and BJP emerged as dominant forces in the state

Realising that the outcome of the final list might be counter-productive for them, the BJP in Assam is now changing tracks. Yet, in Bengal, the same party is clamouring for NRC.

Mahua Moitra, in her speech, emphatically pointed out that the ruling party’s "nationalism" was doing nothing but fuelling xenophobia, targeting one community and blaming it for all the shortcomings in our country, adding they were all "early signs of Fascism".

Sankho Ghosh, who translated two of Girish Karnad’s famous plays briefly observes that Karnad was not only a leading playwright and actor of his time, but also undoubtedly one of the foremost leaders of Indian cultural world.

Assembly elections in West Bengal will be held in 2021. But the BJP may not wait till then;their immediate goal is to put an end to Mamata’s rule as soon as possible.

Exit polls show the BJP making huge gains in West Bengal. If these trends hold true, it would mean the end of TMC’s hegemony in the state.

This year’s election in Bengal will also be remembered for the demise of traditional liberal-secular space in the state’s politics.

For the first time in the seven-decade old election history of India, West Bengal has assumed such significant importance in Lok Sabha elections.

At a time when Narendra Modi and Mamata Banerjee are going at each other's jugular, the Bengal Chief Minister's policy of showering BJP top leaders with gifts may anger Muslim voters so crucial to Didi's political survival

Mamata’s continuing tirade against Modi and her effort to bring the opposition together on the singular issue of ‘Oust Modi’ in the coming elections has already started showing some results.

The awardees for the year were announced on the eve of India's 70th Republic Day.