In West Bengal, ruling Trinamool has one undisputed leader – the political party’s fiery founder and the state’s current chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, popularly known as Didi (“Big Sister”). In 2011, when […]
Voters Want to Know: Who Will Lead?
Bay of Bengal: View from Rakhine, Myanmar
Dark clouds gathered in the horizon and over the vast stretch of sea along Myanmar’s western coast of Arakan or “Rakhine” as the locals call it. A storm brewed. High winds swept […]
Graffiti Still Fresh On Walls, The State Gears Up For Another Election
Graffiti from the Indian Parliamentary elections is yet to be washed off the walls. Whether on hamlet huts or town towers, political parties, darting towards the state elections of Bengal, which will […]
Cramming For the Test!
Why politicians scurry around at election time, trying to snag votes they have done nothing to earn. It’s election season again. Which means it’s time for politicians to drag themselves to their […]
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