After nearly a year’s lull since his whirlwind campaign trail across West Bengal during the 2021 assembly elections, Bollywood star and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty on Saturday again took a plunge into canvassing and appealed to the residents of Asansol to vote for party candidate Agnimitra Paul in the upcoming by-polls to the Lok Sabha … Read more
“Who will buy the sarees I make,” is a question that Haridas Basak (87) repeatedly asks as he works in a dimly lit room with a tin roof and no fan. Lockdown has been difficult on his family which comprises his wife, two sons, their wives and four children. All of them help out with … Read more
China may have split the Communists of Bengal but they never made it to state elections. However, Pakistan and even the Rohingya of Myanmar have surreptitiously crept into Nandigram’s election agenda. “Arrey dada, Pakistan mane Moselman, bujhlen na. Pakistan bolley lokey khaye,” I get my first tutorial on the lay of the land at the … Read more