by Shikha Mukerjee | Jun 15, 2026 | 2026 Assembly Elections, Features, Gender, Media & Elections
The BJP came to power with a host of promises to women voters, but women are the biggest casualty of its new policies, including the drive to clear Kolkata footpaths of vendors and kiosks
by Shikha Mukerjee | May 13, 2026 | 2026 Assembly Elections, Features, Gender, Media & Elections
While a large number of women voters were struck off the rolls, the R.G. Kar rape case and the teachers’ recruitment scam created an outpouring of public opinion against Mamata Banerjee
by Shikha Mukerjee | May 15, 2021 | 2021 Assembly Elections, Gender, Media & Elections
By Shikha Mukerjee The 2021 West Bengal election was an assertion and affirmation of the empowered woman, as leader and voter. Backed by the support of women voters, who independently decided who would get their votes, India’s only woman chief minister, Mamata...
by Shikha Mukerjee | Apr 12, 2021 | 2021 Assembly Elections, Gender, Media & Elections
By Shikha Mukerjee Following the examples set by their elders and betters, would-be Romeos on the streets of Kolkata have begun harassing women with catcalls that mimic Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent routine of calling out to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee...
by Shikha Mukerjee | Mar 27, 2021 | 2021 Assembly Elections, Features, Gender, Media & Elections
By Shikha Mukerjee “Indecent, politically irrelevant and gender illiterate,” is the succinct assessment of a distinguished feminist scholar in Kolkata about the reaction of the political opposition and the media to the injury suffered by Trinamool Congress founder and...
