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The writer is a Kolkata-based journalist specialising in Left politics and history and the politico-economics of India�??s neighbours

Donald Trump (Photo: AP)

Communists might back Bernie, but he's not one

Mr Sanders, the longest serving Independent senator, joined the Democratic Party last year only.

2 March 2020 9:28 PM

Naxalbari, a remote village in West Bengal, which gave birth to a peoples movemnet in 1967

Naxalbari 1967: The uprising that changed our politics

Political mercury shot up when sharecropper Bigul Kisan was roughed up by hired and armed goons of a local jotedar.

24 May 2017 9:01 PM

The ground realities against the Teesta waters treaty are felt by geoscientists unlike the techies most of whom are over-committed to corporate construction of interests and close to decision-makers.

Let the naturally dancing Teesta flow as it wishes

Mamata Banerjee has a strong logic for her reservations against the bilateral water treaty.

6 April 2017 7:22 PM

Family members and supporters of three suspected Al-Qaeda men who were arrested in Madurai by NIA, gather in front of a court in Family members and supporters on Monday. (Photo: PTI)

NIA nabs 6 Al-Qaeda men who were planning to target PM

The six accused were involved in bomb blasts.

28 Nov 2016 8:05 PM