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Whose Bangladesh is it anyway? Ordinary people, Jamaat, or Pakistan?

Today’s Bangladesh must, like Hamlet, confront the question that haunted him. To be, or not to be, the Bangladesh birthed by 75 million dreams in...

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Monideepa Banerjie

Manipur burns, Nagaland simmers—Centre is attending to acne when there’s a tumour in brain

While Nagaland’s autonomy talks move forward, the Centre is sidestepping bigger crises in Manipur and among Naga groups, raising questions about its...

27.01.2025 10

Monideepa Banerjie

Tulip’s resignation in UK is trouble for Hasina. Spotlight on daughter Saima

If the sins of aunts can impact nieces, then can daughters escape their mothers’?

17.01.2025 2

Monideepa Banerjie

Monalisa Changkija put Nagaland on the media map of the country. Her work made many unhappy

Monalisa Changkija stepped down as the editor of Nagaland Page, a prominent newspaper she founded and ran for 25 years. Her determination made the...

14.01.2025 6

Monideepa Banerjie

Major Dalim’s ‘return’ causes churn in Bangladesh. For India, it’s a silver lining

Bangladeshi citizens spoke out against an online interview featuring Major Dalim, a former Bangladesh Army officer convicted in the assassination of...

11.01.2025 8

Monideepa Banerjie

Bengal mustn’t gloat over EAC-PM migration report. Skilled labour still moving to other states

One of the most contentious conclusions the EAC-PM's '400 Million Dreams' report draws is that migration has reduced across the country by 11.8 per...

03.01.2025 3

Monideepa Banerjie

Whose obscenity is it anyway? Kolkata Metro PDA shows it’s time to kiss away outdated morality

Fortunately, one person's obscenity is freedom of expression for another. Remember a time when women emerging from behind the purdah was obscene?

22.12.2024 4

Monideepa Banerjie

Is Mamata setting the cat among pigeons? Her offer to lead INDIA not purely altruistic

For Mamata, the compelling reason to play footsie with the BJP is to ensure that no one in the TMC, definitely not Abhishek Banerjee, is arrested...

14.12.2024 3

Monideepa Banerjie

India & Bangladesh are in a media war. Journalists should be watchdogs, not warriors

Media animosity is impacting ordinary folk. The hostility is prompting hotel owners, hospitals and other service providers in border towns to shut...

06.12.2024 2

Monideepa Banerjie

Abhishek Banerjee is rising in TMC. Mamata still keeping him on a tight leash

Many veteran leaders are miffed with Abhishek for trying to push through two party reforms.

29.11.2024 10

Monideepa Banerjie

What’s stopping the BJP from taking decisive steps in Manipur? Electoral apathy

The BJP-led government at the Centre boasts a double-engine sarkar in Manipur, but it has done little to reassure the state or the country that...

22.11.2024 6

Monideepa Banerjie

Bangladesh staged a revolution for freedom. Now they’re clamping down on journalists

Bangladesh's Editors’ Council said cancellation of accreditation is an obstacle to a democratic environment, which is 'contrary to the spirit of...

15.11.2024 2

Monideepa Banerjie

West Bengal has a child marriage problem. It’s defying its own haloed history

Child marriages in India dropped from 54.2% in 1992-93 to 23.3% in 2019-21, as per the NFHS data. But West Bengal has held steady at around 41%.

09.11.2024 3

Monideepa Banerjie

Bangladesh turbulence is far from over. Doesn’t bode well for India

For a people who had ousted Sheikh Hasina just 80 days ago, President Mohammed Shahbuddin's statement on Sheikh Hasina was the last thing they...

25.10.2024 2

Monideepa Banerjie

Jagdeep Dhankhar is the latest to target ‘demographic disorder’. Census the only solution

If Jadgeep Dhankhar and Mohan Bhagwat are really worried about the way the population of India is growing, they should just ask the government...

18.10.2024 10

Monideepa Banerjie

Kolkata doctors’ protest turning into anti-corruption fight. Mamata must act now

Corruption isn’t limited to West Bengal's health department; it permeates other government departments as well.

11.10.2024 5

Monideepa Banerjie

Support reducing for Kolkata doctors. Mamata is not the only one who has to course correct

West Bengal is ready to welcome its daughter home for Durga Puja, but the family is unable to keep the deep-rooted discord within from spilling...

05.10.2024 5

Monideepa Banerjie

Dear Bengal govt, don’t steal our memories, land, and clean air by removing trams

Nostalgia, romance, and a love of heritage alone cannot make the beloved trams of Kolkata sustainable. Simple science can. Transport Minister, are...

27.09.2024 5

Monideepa Banerjie

Mamata’s brush with protesting doctors serves a lesson. She’s now a failed Chief Minister

In the last 42 days of cease work, the junior doctors achieved unprecedented support from the people of Kolkata and beyond. And very little...

20.09.2024 2

Monideepa Banerjie

Round 1 goes to Mamata in face-off with doctors. And it’s not over yet

Master politician Mamata Banerjee has outmanoeuvred agitating doctors, leaving them stunned, dumbfounded, and looking somewhat foolish. While she...

13.09.2024 2

Monideepa Banerjie

What would you do in Mamata’s place? Not what she did at RG Kar, say Bengal’s people

I asked the protestors at a vigil for the RG Kar doctor this question. Many had a one-word answer: resign. But there were more considered replies,...

06.09.2024 2

Monideepa Banerjie

Patriarchy spills out of Mamata’s solution to rapes—she’s advocating return to Middle Ages

There is more to safety for women doctors than just brick-and-mortar or CISF personnel patrolling the hospitals.

23.08.2024 3

Monideepa Banerjie

Kolkata has a Trust Deficit Disorder. RG Kar rape shows it’s reaching tipping point

The disorder following the RG Kar rape-murder is casting a long, dark shadow on Mamata Banerjee’s chief ministership, perhaps longer and darker...

16.08.2024 2

Monideepa Banerjie

How would Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee want to be remembered? A politician with the soul of a poet

The two-term chief minister of West Bengal, the poster boy of reform in the Left who didn’t care if the cat was black or white as long as it caught...

08.08.2024 8

Monideepa Banerjie

BJP wants to partition Bengal again. It’s a distortion of Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s Hindu Bengal

BJP plan seems to be to cut up West Bengal in a way that splinters Mamata Banerjee's so-called Muslim vote bank and helps it win an election. Good...

02.08.2024 2

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Whose Bangladesh is it anyway? Ordinary people, Jamaat, or Pakistan?

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Manipur burns, Nagaland simmers—Centre is attending to acne when there’s a tumour in brain

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Tulip’s resignation in UK is trouble for Hasina. Spotlight on daughter Saima

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Monalisa Changkija put Nagaland on the media map of the country. Her work made many unhappy

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Major Dalim’s ‘return’ causes churn in Bangladesh. For India, it’s a silver lining

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Bengal mustn’t gloat over EAC-PM migration report. Skilled labour still moving to other states

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Whose obscenity is it anyway? Kolkata Metro PDA shows it’s time to kiss away outdated morality

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Is Mamata setting the cat among pigeons? Her offer to lead INDIA not purely altruistic

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India & Bangladesh are in a media war. Journalists should be watchdogs, not warriors

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Abhishek Banerjee is rising in TMC. Mamata still keeping him on a tight leash

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What’s stopping the BJP from taking decisive steps in Manipur? Electoral apathy

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Bangladesh staged a revolution for freedom. Now they’re clamping down on journalists

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West Bengal has a child marriage problem. It’s defying its own haloed history

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Kolkata doctors’ protest turning into anti-corruption fight. Mamata must act now

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Support reducing for Kolkata doctors. Mamata is not the only one who has to course correct

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Dear Bengal govt, don’t steal our memories, land, and clean air by removing trams

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Mamata’s brush with protesting doctors serves a lesson. She’s now a failed Chief Minister

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Round 1 goes to Mamata in face-off with doctors. And it’s not over yet

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What would you do in Mamata’s place? Not what she did at RG Kar, say Bengal’s people

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Patriarchy spills out of Mamata’s solution to rapes—she’s advocating return to Middle Ages

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Kolkata has a Trust Deficit Disorder. RG Kar rape shows it’s reaching tipping point

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BJP wants to partition Bengal again. It’s a distortion of Syama Prasad Mookerjee’s Hindu Bengal

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