Deep Halder

In his latest book, Bengal 2021: An Election Diary, journalist and author Deep Halder explores the factor of religious identity and gauges the mood of the people across Bengal ahead of the electrifying Assembly elections of 2021.

A saffron wave crashed on the Coffee House and washed away the last remaining doubt that Bengal has changed.

When acting legend Soumitra Chatterjee died on November 15 last year, my Feluda died with him.

The induction of cricket legend Sourav Ganguly may not necessarily be the answer for the BJP in Bengal for 2021.

What is one small train accident? Just another piece of news. Just another day in the life of India. Those poor sods are already becoming a distant memory.

Being in bed with Sharad Pawar and the Congress is a difficult threesome even for a deft political acrobat. And Uddhav has no administrative experience.

Post MeToo, the rules have changed and a philanderer is no more a charmer even when he is Brad Pitt.

Could Prashant Kishor’s advice to the West Bengal chief minister reverse BJP’s recent gains in the state?

Communism, the legendary Bangla defence mechanism or the gutkhakhor non-Bengali; who is to blame for Kolkata's rot?

The 'angry Hanuman' raging against liberal voices, or the distraught and economically backward farmer with a blistered foot — your vote on one of these two images will decide who will rule India for the next five years.

Has Mamata Banerjee inherited this fine tradition from the Left Front government before her? It has certainly served political dispensations in Bengal very well.

Will Fan redeem the Baadshah of Bollywood?

Like in Mamata's West Bengal, this argument is conveniently forgotten when it comes to hearing out the other side.

Rosalyn D'Mello's first book, 'A Handbook for My Lover', brought great relief to me.

Any observer of caste and the political Left’s disturbing ambiguity towards it will tell you the Dalit scholar was right.

A Gujarati-Muslim bootlegger openly flaunting his religion and his disregard for the law in Modi land - King Khan proves he can be politically incorrect.

While good citizens of Bombay have bowed down to fate, a punk rock band in the Indonesian city has picked up the big fight against reclamation.

If the Hindu right wants to keep its flock together, it needs to address its problems rather than blame the likes of Teresa.

Remembering Nabarunda on this fateful day.

The real Ghar Wapsi desires of a fictional school headmaster in West Bengal.

Godmen like Rampal feed on followers’ miseries as Shining India looks the other way.

One can only hope when the party’s over, Bengal will hold up better than IIPM.