The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) emerged as a moral force and put its signature of legitimacy in the public mind by winning the confidence of different classes and communities.
The landslide victory of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Delhi assembly elections poses serious questions to our notion of politics. The most important implication of this victory is that there is now a big challenge to the Narendra Modi–Amit Shah brand of politics.
Bernard D’Mello’s intervention “Where Is the Magazine? Indian Semi-Fascism and the Left” (EPW, 11 October 2014) testifies that passions and dreams are still alive in our political imagination.
An estimated 30,000 Kolkatans, mostly students, participated in a protest march in Kolkata on 20 September against late-night police atrocities and the alleged molestation of girl students in the Jadavpur University campus.
EPW is to be commended for posting on its website K N Raj’s “The Politics and Economics of Intermediate Regimes” which was first published in the journal almost four decades ago (EPW, 7 July 1973).
Suniti Kumar Ghosh was born in Shibpur in Howrah district, West Bengal. He studied English literature at Saint Paul’s College and did his MA in the same subject from the University of Calcutta. He taught in different colleges of East and West Bengal during his academic career.
In the recently held parliamentary elections, West Bengal witnessed many incidents of violence. On the eve of the last round of elections, some spectacular violent incidents took place in Kolkata and its neighbourhood.
On the eve of the parliamentary elections in West Bengal, the residents on the Indo-Bangladesh border have started getting the attention of political leaders of different colours.
Narendra Modi’s address in a leadership summit held in 2007 highlights different threads of his “liberalism”. He talked about Mahatma Gandhi’s contribution to our struggle for Independence and noted that Gandhi converted this struggle into a people’s movement.
Narendra Modi’s recent rise as the new icon of “development” is really alarming. The big media is projecting him as the future Prime Minister of India and praising his so-called Gujarat model as the ideal model of “development”.
Suchitra Sen adorned the Bengali screen for about three decades with her glamour, beauty and charisma. She was not the most gifted Bengali actress of her time, yet she was the “darling of the masses”.
