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Sayandeb Chowdhury

The writer teaches at Ambedkar University, Delhi. Views are personal.

Recent political violence shows how much TMC is like the Left

Sat, Mar 26, 2022

Sayandeb Chowdhury writes: The party has virtually no opposition in West Bengal. This has led to an entrenchment of violent elements

Narayan Debnath’s comic world was rich, but stuck in stereotype and slapstick

Mon, Jan 24, 2022

🔴 He took to the genre of stilted, repetitive adolescent pranks in the capers of Handa and Bhoda, and repeated the same tricks and clichés when he created Nonte-Fonte

Bengal has an impossible choice to make this election

Sat, Mar 27, 2021

West Bengal must choose between BJP’s tall claims, Left’s cluelessness and TMC’s governance by gamble.

If BJP is to be defeated in Bengal, TMC, Left and Congress must stich a strategic alliance

Wed, Dec 23, 2020

There cannot be a three-way election in 2021. That would mean an advantage for BJP, as it will cannibalise on the factionalism in the former and on the irrelevance of the latter.