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
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Follow the leader: West Bengal’s 11 women MPs ready for battle
By Shikha Mukerjee West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s handpicked contingent of newly elected women Members of Parliament (MPs), inspired by her, are ready to take the fight into the enemy camp. Of course, it will be easier in the 18th Lok Sabha, in which the...
A price on her head – How men value women in West Bengal
By Shikha Mukerjee Between hype and reality, the status of women is an expanse of hypocrisy in West Bengal. Abhijit Gangopadhyay, the newly hatched politician who is the Bharatiya Janata Party’s candidate from Tamluk in East Medinipur, was asked by the Election...
Mamata Banerjee: More than India’s only woman chief minister
By Shikha Mukerjee For the BJP in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee is unidimensional—a failure as a woman chief minister. But evaluating a woman’s performance solely on the basis of her gender is discriminatory and disingenuous. The deliberate reduction of Mamata Banerjee...
Women on Top
By Sushmita Goswami Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress party (TMC) is all set to retain power in West Bengal, for the third consecutive time. The chances are that India will therefore continue to have at least one female chief minister. The country had started the...
Regarding the Pain of Women
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...
Mamata Banerjee and the battle for Bengal
By Manjira Majumdar Every five years, the Assembly elections in West Bengal (WB) turn very critical. This year it is all the more so due to the fact that communal politics, which Bengal has never seen nor accepted – despite the experience of Partition based on...