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Shikha Mukerjee Page-5
How will one card solve any of India’s problems?
The BJP may have been right when it laid down the law — one man-one post.
27 Sep 2019 1:46 AM
As BJP flounders, is the best still to come?
Consider that Bangladesh started out as a devastated nation when it fought and parted company with Pakistan.
11 Sep 2019 1:37 AM
Who is a citizen? Going down a dangerous path
The publication of the list of citizens on August 31 was the day when India arrived at the crossroads.
05 Sep 2019 12:53 AM
What citizenship means: IAS man’s wake-up call
It is significant that Mr Gopinathan has not opposed the decision to abrogate Article 370 and Article 35A.
29 Aug 2019 12:05 AM
A Greek tragedy: Is that how the Congress ends?
It is, today, a disaster as it has no clue of what it should do next, under the present political circumstances.
14 Aug 2019 1:22 AM
In party defections, voters are being cheated
When 34 per cent of the panchayat seats in West Bengal went unopposed to the Trinamul Congress, Mr Shah described the situation as “misrule”.
16 Jul 2019 12:36 AM
Article 356 to backfire, BJP keeps Bengal pot boiling
The sentiment quotient in politics has zoomed in the past five years, across the country and in Bengal.
10 Jul 2019 2:24 AM
Clutching at straws in Bengal as BJP on rise
The Trinamul Congress grew and grew, with people who joined in droves.
03 Jul 2019 1:02 AM
Doctors vs Mamata: Tribal confrontation?
The problem with this demand is that it is the craving of the injured ego as well as injured bodies of the doctors on strike.
17 Jun 2019 1:12 AM
Diverse visions of India: Bigger battles lie ahead
Language embodies the culture of the place and even then it fails, at least in India.
05 Jun 2019 2:45 AM
Saffron tide overtakes Bengal
The BJP’s success was in the countryside; its voteshare of close to 40 per cent is perilously close to the TMC’s 45 per cent voteshare.
24 May 2019 7:32 AM
Chandrababu Naidu’s alliance hunt: Mayawati, Mamata, Congress
The timing of the run, before the results are declared and the veracity of numerous exit polls is tested, is also for a reason.
22 May 2019 2:11 AM
A paralysis of thought is marginalising Left
The other memory that may remain is a sub-plot — the rise of the BJP and the decline of the Left in West Bengal. T
15 May 2019 12:04 AM
BJP looks east as going gets tough in Hindi belt
The only problem with the defections that the BJP expects is that it will not reduce Mamata Banerjee’s government to a minority.
02 May 2019 1:24 AM
BJP’s Mission Bengal: Defending faith for votes
In the BJP’s reconstruction, the only political “legacy” that seems to matter in West Bengal is that of Partition.
09 Apr 2019 12:25 AM
Promises, calculations: It’s blind man’s buff!
Promises do serve a political purpose; of grabbing attention and amplifying appeal.
28 Mar 2019 12:22 AM
Oppn ‘Grand Alliance’ faces bigger challenge
The Congress and the CPI(M) have been co-opted in February as part of the coalition of regional parties against the BJP.
05 Mar 2019 12:00 AM
A street fighter battles to ‘save’ Constitution
The next Opposition leaders’ meeting in New Delhi in mid-February will confirm this.
07 Feb 2019 12:25 AM
Alliance fully imagined, with states in lead role
The purpose was to announce the alliance as a nearly formed fighting machine against the BJP.
21 Jan 2019 5:41 AM
Regional satraps have the last laugh
Not all voters are comfortable with the idea of one party one nation.
06 Jan 2019 7:58 AM
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