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Monideepa Banerjie

Monideepa Banerjie

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TMC should’ve steered clear of Ram Navami. Competitive communal politics do no good

Today Mamata Banerjee is silent, signalling, it seems, that if the slogan and the festival garner Hindu votes, then, fine, we will live with it.

19.04.2024 10

ThePrint

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TMC is making the most of BJP’s faux pas in West Bengal. That’s no campaign strategy

TMC asking the Election Commission to remove heads of NIA, CBI, and ED is an unrealistic demand. It seems like the party is only seeking the media’s...

12.04.2024 20

ThePrint

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Mamata and Modi opened north Bengal campaign. What they didn’t say matters more

Modi scored a big minus on the Jalapaiguri tornado issue. He didn’t say a word about it despite the tornado hitting barely 125 km from the site of...

05.04.2024 10

ThePrint

Monideepa Banerjie

Sheikh Hasina battling ‘India Out’ campaign with Indian saree. But has she made it worse?

Hasina is unabashedly India’s best friend in the neighbourhood. But Delhi is hard put to match China’s deep pockets and big investments in Dhaka.

29.03.2024 30

ThePrint

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West Bengal has a history of chit fund scams. No wonder Kolkata rules electoral bonds chart

As a native of Kolkata, I don’t know what I am more embarrassed about: that Kolkata is such a big buyer of electoral bonds? Or that Kolkata’s...

22.03.2024 10

ThePrint

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Uttam Kumar is every Bengali woman’s romantic crush. Can AI bring him back to life?

Srijit Mukherji studied 87 films of Uttam Kumar to pick shots and dialogues for his upcoming movie Oti Uttam. It took him two years to get the legal...

15.03.2024 30

ThePrint

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Mamata Banerjee goes on hit Didi No. 1 show. Finds the glamour quotient lacking in TMC

That neither Nusrat Jahan nor Mimi Chatterjee, TMC’s two glamourous filmstar MPs, have gotten re-nominated this time shows how discerning voters...

11.03.2024 20

ThePrint

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Mamata’s 2011 paribartan friends are deserting her one by one. It is now a BJP slogan

Bengal’s ‘buddhijibis’ collectively protested against the BJP when the CM most needed it. But 2021 was the last time they showed support for...

08.03.2024 8

ThePrint

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Sheikh Shahjahan’s arrogance is worrying. He can return before you say Jack Robinson

The election campaign in the next few months will demonstrate if the man whose body language reeked of arrogance and inexplicable confidence just...

01.03.2024 9

ThePrint

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BJP leaders lacking coordination in Sandeshkhali. No wonder Modi has to rush in

Perhaps an arrest could take place before PM Modi lands in Bengal, which would certainly take much wind out of his sails. The one-man show cannot...

23.02.2024 30

ThePrint

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Sandeshkhali is Mamata Banerjee’s most dangerous quicksand in 12 years

Sandeshkhali takes us back 17 years to Nandigram when women full of rage marched with raised lathis. And Mamata Banerjee has echoed the CPI-M’s...

16.02.2024 10

ThePrint

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Fighting over Tangail saree GI tag won’t do India-Bangladesh any good. It’s a shared legacy

The Tangail saree is not some esoteric piece of handicraft for display in a glass showcase. It is a living, breathing article of daily wear for lakhs...

09.02.2024 5

ThePrint

Monideepa Banerjie

With every outburst, Mamata Banerjee is encouraging a CPM-Congress deal minus TMC

After Rahul Gandhi's arrival in West Bengal, for the last few days, Mamata Banerjee's fury has been directed more at his MP from Bengal, Adhir...

02.02.2024 8

ThePrint

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Last word on INDIA hasn’t been said yet. But the dictionary is running out of words

Mamata Banerjee’s lose-lose game in 2024 ensures that 2026 is a win-win. If she breaks ranks, there will be nothing left of INDIA.

26.01.2024 10

ThePrint

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Kolkata was more polluted than Delhi on some days. But where’s the noise?

Delhi government at least seems to be trying to deal with air pollution. In Kolkata, little is being done to control the menace. Guidelines are...

19.01.2024 10

ThePrint

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Mamata Banerjee has rushed into election mode. TMC must put its house in order first

Alliance politics also promises to be thorny for TMC. Mamata Banerjee attacked CPI(M) and BJP at her soft-launch but said not a word about Congress.

12.01.2024 10

ThePrint

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The Left wants to comeback with its own yatra in West Bengal

Any success for CPI-M hurts the BJP directly. TMC, aiming for a divided opposition vote rather than a united one behind the BJP, will gain from this.

05.01.2024 10

ThePrint

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‘Dummies’ to help Hasina in BNP-mukt Jan. 7 polls?

12.12.2023 5

Deccan Chronicle

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Giriraj Singh’s thumka is Modi’s Didi oh Didi moment. TMC has something to play with now

Mamata Banerjee has been much more gracious about the Congress rout in three north Indian states than her party TMC, which accused it of suffering...

08.12.2023 6

ThePrint

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Where was the headline point in Amit Shah’s Kolkata rally? Half a km away

The punchline was missing on Wednesday. Amit Shah checked all the boxes as he attacked the Trinamool Congress, but the power of conviction was...

01.12.2023 9

ThePrint

Monideepa Banerjie

Is Sourav Ganguly becoming West Bengal’s Rajinikanth? He is Mamata’s chosen one for 2024

The former BCCI president's 'will he, won’t he' has West Bengal politics on its toes.

24.11.2023 9

ThePrint

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As Gaza weeps, Kolkata sleeps. What happened to the ‘city of protests’?

Kolkata, it now seems, is a city without thought. A far cry from the city that roared for Vietnam, Nandigram, it has now misplaced its conscience.

17.11.2023 10

ThePrint

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Mahua Moitra case decided in just 27 days. Speed kills

The Ethics Committee curiously found no need to quiz Darshan Hiranandani, the man accused of bribing Moitra with gifts.

10.11.2023 5

ThePrint

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Mamata Banerjee’s knee, arrests, Mahua Moitra—everything going wrong for TMC

Mamata Banerjee blamed her long absence on Bengal’s doctors who administered the ‘wrong treatment’. But she’s the health minister too

04.11.2023 9

ThePrint

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West Bengal isn’t casteless as Bengali Bhadralok thinks. Only caste census will bust the myth

TMC is reluctant to conduct caste census in West Bengal because Mamata Banerjee knows it can cause a tectonic shift in how people view caste and...

13.10.2023 10

ThePrint

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Sikkim Tsunami in a River: A Man-Made Tragedy Long in the Making

07.10.2023 9

Deccan Chronicle

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What turned Teesta into a killer? Here’s proof Sikkim flash floods are a man-made disaster

In 2013, the National Remote Sensing Centre in Hyderabad alerted authorities that some of the glacial lakes in the upper reaches of Sikkim were...

06.10.2023 10

ThePrint

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In Bengal, ED, CBI ‘helping the TMC’ as justice in scams get delayed

There are at least 3 scams central agencies are probing in West Bengal. But barring then education minister Partha Chatterjee, there have been no...

29.09.2023 10

ThePrint

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Bengalis are using Sourav Ganguly as punching bag. But what’s his steel magnate story anyway

Ganguly’s investments and his politics are his own business and had he not been the cricket icon he is, he wouldn’t face this kind of inquisition....

22.09.2023 4

ThePrint

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How free is the press in West Bengal? Debmalya Bagchi arrest isn’t a pretty picture

Bagchi, who was scheduled to appear in court today, has been granted bail in a dramatic turn of events Thursday

15.09.2023 4

ThePrint

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Bose vs Banerjee fight over West Bengal’s universities has a clear loser — the students

Mamata Banerjee warned Anand Bose that if he kept overstepping his authority, then she would financially cripple the state universities he was trying...

08.09.2023 10

ThePrint

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