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Sagarika GhoseThe Times of India |
Mamata Banerjee’s words threw her opponents into visible panic. BJP worthies erupted in shrill outrage about Mamata’s failure to ‘respect the...
Why is the Modi-led BJP waiting for a law to start giving more tickets to women?
A relentless, almost monolithic narrative plays out in the mainstream media: Bengal as 'lawless,' Bengal as 'violent,' Bengal as 'unstable.' Every...
Former CEC TN Seshan was feared, formidable & famously outspoken. He was never partisan. In contrast, Gyanesh Kumar has a cavalier disdain, even...
The most telling example of the BJP-Sangh Parivar’s Bengal Virodhi mindset is the grotesquely patriarchal and misogynist language used by its...
The Modi government’s so-called ‘muscular image’ has been dented. India’s foreign policy is in shambles. And the sheen has gone off the...
Sorry, Mr Prime Minister, but you have got this wrong. Bengal is not Bihar and will never be.
Gandhi’s attraction lies in her being seen as a highly polarising figure who attracts strong emotional responses. Even those who loathe her love to...
The Modi government appears unable to shake itself free of X. It is increasingly pandering to social media outrage, a silent enabler of the monster it...
My objective in putting out my BA degree on X was not to boast about my education. It was only to reaffirm the oath that those in public life take: to...
For the last 11 years, Nehru has been constantly blocking my efforts and causing the fiascos that are my many yojanas and abhiyans. He is the reason...
The BJP’s agenda is clear. After successive defeats in the 2021 and 2024 elections, the party is attempting to pigeonhole Bengal as a place of...
RSS wanted to overthrow Indira Gandhi using whatever means it could, and later had no moral compunctions in flattering and pleading with the same...
Modi loves acronyms. But M-O-D-I should become a descriptive term for a non-functional and inefficient government.
What I saw in J&K border towns made me sob and weep. It also gave me hope
A citizenry whipped up by TV war games becomes weakened from within. But a society marked by inclusiveness, empathy, and rule of law stands as an...
The BJP is accustomed to justifying its actions by harking back to the rule of Indira Gandhi when then-Andhra Pradesh Governor Thakur Ram Lal...
A self-deluding BJP has convinced itself that targeting Muslims and pushing sections of the community into insecurity and fear, is for their own good.
There are now far too many complaints, too many troubling incidents, from too many quarters for the Election Commission to keep up a sab-changa-si...
The last thing that the Kumbh is about is celebrities, luxury tents, exclusive access to the Sangam, or the quest for political supremacy.
India's Opposition is being asked to perform the herculean task of not only taking on a resourceful and ruthless BJP but also fending off a battery of...