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Sona Pappu, Jay Kamdar, Merlin Group: Decoding muscle-money-TMC nexus behind Kolkata’s notorious syndicate

Sona Pappu, Jay Kamdar, Merlin Group: Decoding muscle-money-TMC nexus behind Kolkata’s notorious syndicate

Since time immemorial, West Bengal politics has been synonymous with violence backed by a syndicate. While the Left governments created this...

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‘Don’t cry wolf, when you are the wolf’: The said, the unsaid, and the implied in Amit Shah’s announcement of the end of Naxalism in India

Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s speech in Lok Sabha, just a day before the RSS-BJP juggernaut had set the date for the official deletion and...

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