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Anwesha Banerjee

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Vande Mataram, Cow, OBC Reset: With its Orders, Bengal’s New BJP Govt Tests the Limits of Shock Therapy

Listen to this article: Kolkata: The first fortnight of the Suvendu Adhikari-led Bharatiya Janata Party government in West Bengal has unfolded less...

23.05.2026 10

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Anwesha banerjee

Beyond 'Machh Chor': How Songs Shaped the Bengal Elections

Kolkata: With Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee refusing to resign, West Bengal governor R.N. Ravi dissolving the state assembly, and...

12.05.2026 20

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Anwesha banerjee

No Bikes, No Tourists, No Entry to Complexes With Booths: EC Regulations Exhaust Bengal Residents

Listen to this article: Kolkata: Thirty-year-old Jay Acharya lives in Sonarpur, on the outskirts of Kolkata. The sales agent of a paint company, every...

22.04.2026 30

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Is Bengal's Lakshmir Bhandar Scheme a Patriarchal Model? Economists and Beneficiaries Debate

Listen to this article: Lakshmi Das and her daughter Jayanti sell sweets from door to door. At least four days a week, Lakshmi, with two heavily...

21.04.2026 20

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Anwesha banerjee