Mamata Banerjee
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West Bengal, TMC wins!!!
Quoting a report that Modi’s BJP fell well short in the West Bengal election while Mamata Banerjee’s TMC won, the author asks whether the TMC has an ideology and whether…
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The price of (right to) protest
An Outlook India report on a tribal girl raped and murdered in Dhupguri, with comment that the poor must use democracy’s tools to claim dignity.
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Shame on you: (fellow) Bongs
Prompted by Taslima Nasrin’s complaint that Kolkata stays silent on her exile, the poster argues Indian secularism is a much-abused concept, with parties tolerating religious fanatics and Congress allying with…
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Did your Ma teach you to say that?
Reacting to a Trinamool leader’s threat that his men would commit rape in the homes of opponents, the post argues that Bengali men’s liberal self-image and Bengal’s cult of mother…
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A secular path to increase minority representation
After an election returning no Muslim MPs from Uttar Pradesh and only 20 nationwide, the poster argues first-past-the-post distorts representation, citing large vote shares that won no seats, and favours…
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The “hospital of death”
An article on infant deaths at Kolkata’s B.C. Roy children’s hospital, which the poster reads as a sign of deep rot in Bengal’s health system, set against the memory of…
