West Bengal
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Open Thread – Assembly Elections 2026
Open thread for the 2026 assembly election results, expecting Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Assam to be near-certain and treating West Bengal as the key contest.
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Beyond the Bangladeshi basket-case
A quoted report that Bangladesh’s per capita GDP, $1,905 in 2019 on IMF data, now exceeds West Bengal’s $1,566 and most eastern Indian states, with the poster noting Bangladesh is…
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A Clarion Call for Change of Culture of Politics in West Bengal
Reports a protest by Bengalis and other Indians at the Gandhi statue in Parliament Square on 19 June 2019 against alleged political violence in West Bengal, urging the Indian government…
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East Bengal/Pakistan catches up to West Bengal/Pakistan
Noting articles that Bangladesh’s GDP per capita has overtaken Pakistan’s, the author cautions that population estimates and PPP adjustments matter, says infant mortality and life expectancy are better sources of…
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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…
