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Exhuming women’s narratives of decades of brutality in divided Bengal
Politics
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News
Election history, phase-wise details, key seats: All you need to know about this crucial state
Gender
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Photo Essay
Football versus patriarchy in West Bengal
Paromita Chatterjee
Environment
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News
“Never seen anything like this”: How Cyclone Yaas impacted farmers’ livelihoods in Bengal
Rituparna Palit
Health
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News
How the Trinamool government failed to prepare for and respond to the COVID-19 second wave
Arunima Kar
Politics
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News
How the ghost of the Baduria-Basirhat communal riots is polarising polls in West Bengal
Amit Bhardwaj
Politics
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News
Families of Nandigram “martyrs” divided on religious lines, many express anger against TMC
Amit Bhardwaj
Politics
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Reportage
How one-teacher Ekal schools helped the spread of Hindutva in rural West Bengal
Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Environment
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Photo Essay
The aftermath of Cyclone Amphan in Andul and South 24 Parganas
Ranita Roy
Environment
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Commentary
Cyclone Amphan: Why the government cannot afford to repeat its mistakes in the Sundarbans
Nazes Afroz
History
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Essay
Witnesses remember the Bengal famine 77 years later
Kushanava Choudhury
Politics
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Commentary
With federal resistance to the CAA, Article 256 prepares to take centre stage
Shubhankar Dam
Politics
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Essay
The historical roots of Hindu majoritarianism in West Bengal
Ishan Mukherjee
Communities
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The Lede
A Durga Puja celebration across the India-Bangladesh border
Omkar Khandekar
Communities
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Photo Essay
The picnicking subculture in eastern India
Arko Datto
Politics
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Reportage
Voices of Naxalbari across the 50 years since the uprising
Nazes Afroz
Politics
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Commentary
Mamata Banerjee’s simmering confrontation with the BJP
Debaashish Bhattacharya
Agriculture
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Reportage
After the Supreme Court Verdict on Singur, the Fault Lines in the Left Have Become Apparent
Subir Bhaumik
Labour
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News
The Plight of the Tea Plantation Workers of Dooars
Ashutosh Shaktan
Politics
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Reportage
Battling for the future of West Bengal
Monobina Gupta
Politics
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Reportage
The hard-won victories of Mamata Banerjee
Sambuddha Mitra Mustafi
Politics
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Books
Mamata Banerjee’s West Bengal is a cultural wasteland marked by pastiche, nostalgia, blind faith and two broken languages
Sumana Roy
Politics
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Essay
Prakash Karat, the general secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), responds to Ramachandra Guha’s essay about the faltering fortunes of India’s communist parties.
Prakash Karat
Politics
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Essay
The past and future of Indian communism
Ramachandra Guha
Arts
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Reportage
For the Sake of the Song
Deborah Baker
Politics
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Commentary
It’s not that the Trinamool Congress deserves to win in the West Bengal elections in May, it’s that the CPI (M)-led Left Front deserves to lose
Subir Bhaumik
Conflict
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Commentary
With Operation Green Hunt, the collateral damage is the tribal communities caught between the government and the insurgents
Mahasweta Devi
Politics
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Commentary
Jyoti Basu, the architect of the Indian parliamentary Left, has left a complex, and confusing, legacy to his party
Subir Bhaumik
