Writing On The Wall? The Graffiti Game Of Poll-Bound Bengal

The walls of West Bengal are witnessing their own political theatre as poems, couplets, limericks and a splash of colours define the visual tussle between the camps. Kids throng the corners as buckets of wall paint line the pavement. Political graffiti in Bengal hold their fair share of stories, of artists, electoral promises honoured and broken, caricatures mirroring reality, identity and linguistic issues at the very fore.

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Political wall graffiti at Salt Lake | Photo: ​Sandipan Chatterjee/Outlook
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Political wall graffiti at Rashbehari Kolkata South | Photo: ​Sandipan Chatterjee/Outlook
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Political wall graffiti at Konnagar Kanaipur | Photo: ​Sandipan Chatterjee/Outlook
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Wall Graffiti at Teeljala near Park Circus
Political wall graffiti at Teeljala near Park Circus | Photo: ​Sandipan Chatterjee/Outlook
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Political wall graffiti in Chinese language near China Town | Photo: ​Sandipan Chatterjee/Outlook
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Political wall graffiti at Salt Lake ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections | Photo: ​Sandipan Chatterjee/Outlook
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Political wall graffiti ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections | Photo: ​Sandipan Chatterjee/Outlook
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Political wall graffiti at Uttarpara ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections | Photo: ​Sandipan Chatterjee/Outlook
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