Biswajit Roy

is Consultant Editor with eNewsroom India. He reports on major news developments as well as writes political pieces on national and Bengal politics and social-cultural issues.

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Nandigram: the epicenter of the anti-land grab movement suffers from communal politics as Mamata fights her former confidant

Kolkata: Mamata Banerjee has apparently landed herself into the BJP trap of Hindu-Muslim politics as her address to Trinamool Congress workers on Tuesday revealed before filing her nomination for mixedly populated Nandigram on Wednesday. Nandigram in...

Modi attacks both Mamata and Left alliance as Bengal poised for a triangular fight

Kolkata: Prime minister Narendra Modi was visibly perspiring under the March sun during the BJP's poll rally at Brigade Parade ground in Kolkata on Sunday. Bengal is the most bitterly contested political battleground among the...

Caligula cries: PM Modi’s tearful farewell to Ghulam Nabi Azad

Even Caligula cried.  Images of the third Roman emperor popped up in my mind when I watched our prime minister crying on the floor of Rajya Sabha when he bid farewell to Gulam Nabi Azad, the...

Modi promises to Bengal farmers but silent on Annadata’s agitation, mocks its leaders as Andolanjeevi in the parliament

Kolkata: Prime Minister Modi visited Assam and poll-bound Bengal to win over the farmers in these states but did not say a single word on the deadlock over prolonged farmers movement around Delhi demanding the...

India awaits its post-Reichstag moment

Days after the Lal Qila incident on 26 January in Delhi, India is all set to witness a repeat of the aftermath of the infamous Reichstag fire in Hitler's Germany. Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led BJP-RSS...

Jai Hind and Jai Shri Ram: Can the two go together as BJP-RSS appropriates Netaji, Tagore and other Bengal icons before assembly polls?

Kolkata: Jai Hind! Jai Shri Ram! Can the two salutations go together? It depends on which side of the great indian political ring you are now placed, particularly, if you are a Deshi. Right now, the...

Bengal’s farming women criticise SC and PM on Mahila Kisan Diwas

Kolkata: Namita Sarkar, Pratima Haldar and Jahanara Bibi may never land up in the mighty corridors of the Parliament, Prime Minister's Office and Supreme Court in Lutyens' Delhi. Nevertheless, they raised their rugged fists in...

Tractor rally in Bengal in support to the farmers’ siege on Modi government

Kolkata: Tractors are not commonplace in West Bengal's rural landscape like Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh. Nevertheless, Rampurhat in Birbhum district today witnessed an impressive tractor rally in support of the one and half...

Company-Raj is no better than the current middlemen raj for Bengal farmers

Kolkata: Airul Haque, a rural worker and resident of Vangar, an agricultural hub in the suburb of Kolkata, came to Dharamtalla at the heart of the city on Sunday to express his solidarity to the...

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Kamal Nath stuns euphoric BJP: but what next?

Congress Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Kamal Nath had a symbolic victory on July 24 when two BJP members voted along with Congress members...

भारत की साँझा संस्कृति और मुस्लिम दिग्गज

जनसामान्य में यह धारणा घर कर गयी है कि मुसलमान मूलतः और स्वभावतः अलगाववादी हैं और उनके कारण ही भारत विभाजित हुआ. सच यह...

Transgenders are first humans, says Shree Ghatak

Kolkata: Shree Ghatak made it to the national headlines last year, for becoming the first transgender in Eastern India to get legally married. Understanding...