Category: West Bengal

  • CPI(M) & the Presidential election

    With the Presidential elections set to occupy central space in the coming days and the most likely victory of Pranab Mukherjee (the well known Congress party leader), as expected there was the usual political bickering orchestrated by the oppositions and rivals alike. All in all, Congress seems to have managed to gain a few brownie…

  • Mamata Banerjee and her ten months of maverick politics

    10 months completed at the Writer’s Building and the people in Bengal who once came out in huge numbers to elect Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) in hope of some relief from the 34 years of CPI(M) misrule, are already relenting this change. It’s a pity that the youth who campaigned for the TMC some…

  • AMRI Tragedy: Playing with Fire

    Two incidents late last year shook the conscience of many people in West Bengal. On December 9th, 2011, major fire claimed 93 lives in the Advanced Medical Research Institute (AMRI) Hospital, Kolkata. Most of them were patients admitted to the hospital for treatment. In another incident, 173 people died after consuming spurious hooch (locally manufactured…

  • The five State elections of 2011: The Democracy Drill-Stagnancy is the Change!

    After month long arduous process of much trumpeted “Indian Electoral Democracy” the results for the just concluded elections for five state assemblies arrived a fortnight ago with a mixed bag. Though much of the results have gone on the expected lines, the verdict in Kerala is a bit of a surprise. The rejection of the…

  • West Bengal Elections: Changelessness for a Change!!

    The progress of every second draws us closer to the D day in the hard fought state elections in West Bengal where the Trinamool Congress (TMC) is trying to consolidate its power in the soil of Bengal by displacing the Communist Party of India (Marxist) -CPI(M) led  Left Front govt. which has been ruling the…

  • Peasants massacred in West Bengal

    Killings are ultimately the responsibility of the ‘Communist’ led state government. The Communist Party (Marxist) has had majority support in West Bengal and has run the state for 30 years. Much of its support has come from the landless peasantry who were granted what they thought were permanent land rights under a popular but very…

  • State elections portrayed as success for Communist Parties

    ‘Communists’ garner the votes of poor but policies are increasingly pro-business The much awaited results of five state elections in India – in West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry – have gone more or less along predicted lines. Except for the fact that the competing shower of promises of goodies and freebies in…