west bengal | Youth Ki Awaaz

Mamata Banerjee’s Intolerant Side

By Vishakh Unnikrishnan: ‘Didi’, as they call her, might be the first woman to enter the Chief Minister’s office of West Bengal, but cannot quite be called an inspiration for many who seek to embark on a similar venture. It can be said, without doubt,

Society

When Doctors Turn into Profiteers: Cribs in West Bengal Bleed Death

By Anannya Roy Chowdhury: Today, almost two months after the fateful incidence of infant deaths, the silent corridors of the Malda District hospital, the purposeful chaos in the B.C Roy Memorial Children’s Hospital and many other regional health care centers and hospitals across West Bengal

Politics

Kolkata’s Beautification Project: Something We Must Welcome

By Sapan Parekh: Next time you want to visit London, there is no need to catch an international flight. Just hop on a train to the “City of Joy”, Kolkata. If Mamata Banerjee has her way, Kolkata will be soon be transformed into London with

Politics

Of Mamata’s Policies: RIP Paribarthan?

By Neelima Ravindran: Change is inevitable, change is arduous. Change is mostly viewed with fear, suspicion and scepticism, yet at times uncertainty and sheer desperation force people to welcome revolutions with open arms. President Obama ran his fruitful election campaign on the slogan - "Yes, we

Politics,YKA Editorials

Post-CPM Bengal A Dud; Mamata A Letdown

By Abhirup Bhunia: Mamata has behaved in every possible way she said she would not in the pre-poll days. She has repeated every mistake that she mercilessly accused the Left of committing when she frequented TV studios those days. It all started with her storming

Politics

Quintessentially Paschimbanga?

By Waled Aadnan: A move delayed since 1974, a time when the government of SS Ray initiated procedures to rename the state of West Bengal. This was followed up in 1999, but it took a historic change of government in 2011 to finally retire a

Art and Culture

Bengal and Kerala: Two States One Heart

By Anirudh Madhavan: United by their common history of communism are Kerala and Bengal and being open to the sea, these states have experienced various foreign invaders. Lying diagonally opposite on the map of our country, landmass couldn’t possibly have separated these sisters more. Yet,

Politics

The Rise and Rise of the Bengal Tigeress

Trishla Gupta: “There is a silent revolution taking place in West Bengal. The people are on the verge of writing history ... A new epoch will start from May 12.” This prophecy was made by Bengal’s favorite ‘didi’, the rebel without a pause taking on

Travel

West Bengal a “Mini-India” is an absolute tourist destination

Chandramohan Garg: West Bengal is empowered with a majestic natural beauty. Adorned and engraved with all shades of nature bestowing on it a harmony of colour and exotic features as an advent of excellent expanse of scenery, endowing a soothing effect on mind, body and