Large sections of Left/Communist Party of India-Marxist supporters are voting for the BJP, just to teach Mamata Banerjee a lesson.

By successfully undertaking such a campaign, the TMC could project the BJP as a party of cultural outsiders.

The ongoing contestation over which representation of Kaali is authentic is puerile at one end and points to deep roots of Hindu nationalism in Bengali culture on the other.

Chhattisgarh Mukti Morcha, the organisation Sudha Bharadwaj has worked with for decades, built a unique model of trade unionism combining class struggle with welfarism.

The party’s failure to win Bengal should have prompted a review of its poll strategy. Instead, the BJP has chosen to mount a retributive backlash against the party that clearly won the elections.

In blithely placing the blame for religious polarisation on Mamata Banerjee, CPI-M has refused to consider its own failure in fighting Hindu Right tendencies that have long existed in Bengal.

When citizens become enemies, such an episode cannot be cannot be pushed to the recesses of public memory.

The famous sense of "enlightened Bengali exceptionalism" did not quite extend to people with darker skin complexion.

The refusal to grant bail to Zargar has yet again reminded us that not all motherhoods are equal. Not in the eyes of the state, the political classes, or society.

Kolkata police's decision to summon the ABP’s editor for a story smacks of government high-handedness.

The COVID-19 crisis has utterly exposed the lack of a cohesive agenda of governance, and the absence of a broader political and social vision to steer India forward beyond lockdowns.

In each of Ray’s works we discover the difficulties and pleasures of life, portrayed through tangled human relationships, capturing shifts in politics and society.

Abhijit Banerjee’s outright rejection of the strongman theory puts a question mark over the manner in which some prominent leaders choose to craft themselves and their images in popular perception.

Confined within walls, as we clock the hours of this interminable lockdown, J.M. Coetzee’s 'Waiting for the Barbarians' unlocks windows of the imagination.

Ranabir Samaddar, director of the Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, speaks about the factors behind the migrants’ desperation to reach home and the dynamics of the visibility and invisibility of migrant labour.

If authoritarian regimes see a political advantage in the crisis, large-scale interventions by civil society groups and individuals have pushed forward a new kind of politics.

At few other times in recent history have we been forced to confront a reality as starkly as the one facing us now. But where will we go from here?

Cohen’s lyrics speak to us not only about the sheer despair of the situation at hand, but of the small chinks in that seemingly impregnable armour of darkness.

As PM Modi plans to hand over his social media accounts to 'inspiring women', one may remind him that these women are fighting for their right to exist.