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By Editors On October 4, 2024, Loksatta editor Girish Kuber in a conversation with senior journalist Nirupama Subramanian looked at why regional parties were finding it difficult to dominate in Maharashtra, unlike their counterparts in other parts of the country, such...
By Rajashri Dasgupta Nandigram is no ordinary village in West Bengal. Located about 150 kms from Kolkata, it was the epicentre of the agitation by farmers against land acquisition in 2007. Today it is once again in the eye of the storm: the state’s Chief Minister,...
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...