Like the rituals that usher in the goddess, the politics of protest had developed its own order of things.

The one time chief minister of west Bengal was widely respected but he failed to read the changing winds of politics.

Most of them are dynasts, but they have a finger on the pulse of the younger voter.

Mamata Banerjee, when she attacked Kartik Maharaj’s credentials, knew exactly how ambivalent her audience was to the idea of the sanyasi meddling in politics. Narendra Modi, didn't.

There seems to be no logic behind breaking down the present structure and shifting the nearly two lakh artefacts to North and South Blocks.

The grandnephew of the freedom fighter, a former BJP MP, calls it vote bank politics to capitalise on the leader’s image.

The Congress will still have to finally convert its parliamentary point-scoring and the goodwill of the Bharat Jodo Yatra into a mandate.

What was once the nerve centre of cultural life in Kolkata has turned into a cash-strapped institution where only those unable to get space in newer galleries showcase their work.

The EC has failed on many fronts, especially in curbing spending by candidates and it should concentrate on that.

But for that to be achieved, he will have to carry the hidebound party with him.

Jayanta Ghoshal’s 'Mamata: Beyond 2021', translated by Arunava Sinha, argues that after the 2021 West Bengal elections, the TMC chief has transformed into a national icon. 

The ease and room to make separate state-wise calculations of contingencies is clearly being seen as a new formula in opposition politics.

By making a foray in other states, such as Goa and Tripura, she hopes to unsettle the BJP and build a national profile.

Despite recent defections, the BJP has not managed to get a credible, popular leader from the Trinamool Congress.

Chatterjee was unlike any other actor for the craft and the consistency with which he worked for 62 years.

There are obvious parallels to be drawn, but also dissimilarities. The BJP lacks a regional leader with sufficient weight to challenge Mamata Banerjee.

Communists believe that despite sharing a troubled history with the Congress, they have no option but to join hands in the 2021 assembly elections to prevent its eroding political significance.

Some Bengalis seem to have run out of intellectual ideas.

For Mitra, defending the ideology of the secular Congress was as important as rebuilding the crumbling party or rather salvaging the bits and pieces of the party from the ruins to which it had been reduced over the years.