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
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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...
The young and the restless: New age election campaigns
By Uttara Gangopadhyay Do you remember the jingles, ‘Surobhito Antiseptic Cream Boroline’ or ‘Washing Powder Nirma’? Jingles that went viral (in the days when the term was used for medical purpose only) and resulted in the coin box jingling for their manufacturers?...
How have Bengal’s women fared under Mamata Banerjee?
By Rina Mukherji “Sobaar kintu maa bon aachhe. Vote-taa bhebe dibi.” (Everyone has a mother and sister. Think before you cast your vote.) These remarks by Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate Kaushani Mukherjee during her campaign trail kicked up a lot of dust....
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...