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The writer is a senior journalist in Kolkata.

Shikha Mukerjee | Caste census and quotas: It's a political minefield

The Congress agreed to a caste census and then ended up by substituting it with the Socio-Economic and Caste Census in...

27 Aug 2021 1:20 AM IST

Mamata Banerjee. (PTI Photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | Mamata antidote' to Modi? Khela Hobe strikes a chord

It is not entirely incidental that she has taken possession of the empty slot of Opposition leader

11 Aug 2021 1:21 AM IST

Visual from PM Narendra Modis meet at Lok Kalyan Marg ahead of cabinet expansion. (ANI Photo)

Shikha Mukerjee | Managing expectations after Modi's big shuffle

The cabinet rejig focused on health, labour employment, education and petrol prices

14 July 2021 12:20 AM IST

These are extremely testing times for Ms Banerjee as the TMCs supremo as she has acquired a maturity in the 10 years that has added to the aura of her leadership.

Shikha Mukerjee | Mamata's priorities as TMC sets a new course

The changes that Mamata has made in filling leadership positions in the frontal organisations is her way of...

7 Jun 2021 12:19 AM IST

Amit Shah at a poll rally before the 2021 Assembly elections in West Bengal. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Asymmetry of power & politics of revenge

The BJP's wizards have created a bigger problem for themselves out of the West Bengal defeat

27 May 2021 12:00 AM IST

TMC chief Mamata Banerjee with her nephew Abhisekh Banerjees daughter Azania (R), during interaction with media after trends show her partys wins in the State Assembly Election 2021, in Kolkata. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | After Bengal win, Didi to target BJP across India

The timetable for when and how Mamata Banerjee launches the counter-offensive is unclear, but it will happen

2 May 2021 11:04 PM IST

In the Bengali perception, Ray was an icon; his work was quintessentially Bengali, but his contribution was recognised as Indias gift to world cinema.

Shikha Mukerjee | Revisiting the legend @100: Ray's iconic role to...

Ray did not start out as a filmmaker with an agenda. He was a storyteller. But he responded to the shifts and changes in...

2 May 2021 12:20 AM IST

The Election Commission dismissed the plea by Mamata Banerjee that the eight-phase election was very risky. It seemed to pay more attention to the BJPs jeers that the eight-phase election was necessary to ensure peaceful, free and fair elections. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Mishandling elections in the time of a pandemic

Through super-spreader events and shoddy observance of Covid protocols, Citizens are paying twice over for the EC's...

26 April 2021 12:00 AM IST

Is it realistic that the BJP will get 60 per cent of the 70 per cent Hindu votes in West Bengal? It would appear, as yet, difficult. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Despite Modi's push, BJP yet to reach tipping point

The need for a saturation campaign by Modi is one way of acknowledging that Mamata is a far stronger opponent than the...

12 April 2021 12:35 AM IST

West Bengal has to decide to be its whimsical wayward self or join the gang. (Photo: PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Bengal to trigger domino effect in Indian politics?

It will not be an easy election for any of the three blocs that are competing for the voters' hearts and minds

26 March 2021 4:30 AM IST

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. (PTI)

Shikha Mukerjee | Mamata's long game: Women's status in Bengal is...

If Narendra Modi and his 56-inch chest is the epitome of male power, the barely 60-inch frame of Ms Banerjee is the...

7 March 2021 11:55 PM IST

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee releases a book during 125th birth anniversary of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose, at Victoria Memorial in Kolkata on January 23, 2021. (PTI/Ashok Bhaumik)

Shikha Mukerjee | More than a state battle: BJP strategy on test too

For the BJP, the current round of elections is crucial, and every seat won or lost in West Bengal will affect its future

3 March 2021 7:41 AM IST