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Mamata Banerjee

Why it’s a Win-Win Situation for Mamata

Sometimes making noise is all that counts. But history, that brilliantly time-tested tool, tells us that on most occasions, it’s all about making the right noise at the opportune time…. Read more »

Mamata Banerjee

Is Mamata Banerjee the Best Communicator in the Whole World?

Derek O’Brien recently commented on NDTV that Mamata Banerjee was the best communicator in the world. My first reaction was he must be kidding. Poor Derek! What all he had… Read more »

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Game Over Didi: It’s Check and Check-Mate

The Congress high command ended all speculations about the presidential candidature on Friday, when they swiftly announced Dada’s (read Mr Pranab Mukherjee) name much to the chagrin of Didi, who… Read more »

Mamata Banerjee

Are Thoughts Being Ambushed in Bengal?

For the last couple of days every news channel and newspaper worth its salt in Kolkata is discussing/writing about how academicians are under attack by the Ma Maati Manush government…. Read more »

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In Didi’s Wonderland, where Words Come Out from the Depth of Truth

Our honourable chief minister Ms Mamata Banerjee has, without a doubt, done a great service to the cartoonist tribe. Can you think of another time when so much newsprint was… Read more »

Mamata Banerjee

Cartoon Conspiracy: In Defence of Didi and how Politics is not a Funny Game

(This a letter we received from a reader who calls him/herself a TMC supporter and wishes to remain anonymous. Since we have no way of verifying his claims, we are… Read more »

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Mad Cow Disease in Maa-Maati Land

Cow is a good animal. Cows give milk and yummy steak. Cows live in herds and masticate newspapers, if given. Cows moo “Maa Maa”, wallow in the “Maati” (soil) and… Read more »

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Cartoon Network in Mamata Land: How Many of Us Face Arrest for the Same Crime?

I had read Soumya Datta’s article (Facebook Users Beware: Every Post you Make, Didi’s Watching) a few months ago. The article talked about Mamata Banerjee looking over Facebook posts against… Read more »

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Cartoon Network in Mamata Land: It isn’t Funny Madam Chief Minister

Ambikesh Mahapatra might have preferred to lie low, being a professor of Chemistry in Kolkata’s renowned Jadavpur University. But for the overtly proactive police in his city, and an overtly… Read more »

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Of the Railway Budget Farce: Is the Indian Democracy Working?

All hell broke loose after the Railway Budget for 2012-13 was presented by Dinesh Trivedi. The Trinamool Congress supremo, Ms Mamata Banerjee, wanted an immediate rollback of the hiked fares…. Read more »