Since the legal framework for protection of sex workers has come, how is society perceiving them now?

The locals decided to first demand that the school, shut due to the pandemic, should reopen the school. If that doesn’t happen, they decided to use the school infrastructure to run it themselves.

It was a task for director Prasun Chatterjee to explain to Arif Shaikh that his performance in the film had indeed earned him the best young actor award in the Child’s Performance (Boy) category at the 24th Olympia International Film Festival in Greece.

Set in a West Bengal village on the border with Bangladesh in the aftermath of the Babri Masjid demolition, Prasun Chatterjee's film explores the changing dynamics of everyday interactions as the country comes to terms with a fast-spreading communal divide.

For residents of Khwaabgaon, located a few kilometres away from Jangalmahal town at Bengal's western end, art is life, and it even influences local politics.

As the headmistress of Dhonopoti Toto Memorial High School, Misha Ghoshal has overseen a complete overhaul of the way students are taught and was recognised with a national award.

In Ashina, a village 50 km from Kolkata, residents have pulled together to ensure that students do not fall behind because of their lack of access to computers or phones.

In an interview to The Wire, N.C. Debbarma speaks of the growing discontent in the ranks of the Tripura government.

In a state affected by a cyclone and a health crisis, the CPI(M) and other Left parties have climbed up several notches on the popularity scale thanks to their relief work.