West Bengal: A progressive coalition emerges
If the Left Front manages to clinch victory in West Bengal then a viable political alternative to the BJP might emerge
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
West Bengal
West Bengal: An invigorated Left seeks to make a comeback
A resurgent Left in West Bengal has managed to revive its grassroots base and regain the confidence of the voting public
Hardnews Bureau Delhi
The Left: Rising from the Ashes
The Left is no longer left behind. A new radical rainbow coalition of Left assertion is shining like a red star in India. New barricades, alliances and scaffoldings are being enacted. The times they are changing
Amit Sengupta Delhi
West Bengal: Ma, Maati, Manush,once again?
The Left-Congress alliance in West Bengal poses a new political headache for Mamata Banerjee
Hardnews Bureau Kolkata
Malda Violence: Not a front-page news
Arshia Dhar Kolkata
Saradha shows no Mamata
With the CBI investigation, more skeletons are tumbling from the TMC’s closet than the party or its leader can handle
Hardnews Bureau Delhi
Something Sinister about it
There’s more to Operation Lalgarh than ‘flushing out’ Maoists Amit Sengupta Delhi
At the Epicentre: Neither Spring, nor Thunder
So, whatever happened to the peasant revolt led by Naxalite legend Charu Majumdar in the original birth place of the revolution 42 years after? Chaman Lal Naxalbari (West Bengal
Injustice is LAAL
The peaceful struggle of the poor people of Lalgarh retells a history of abysmal poverty and pain, total absence of good governance, and the corrupt regime of armed CPM goons Aritra Bhattacharya Lalgarh
All’s not LOST for CPM
Given the strong traditions of anti-Congress, anti-BJP ideology of Bengal, it is theoretically possible for the CPM to recover lost ground if they make some course corrections Nilanjana Gupta Kolkata