In the weeks after Mamata Banerjee’s resounding victory over the Left Front, a roving writer finds a state reeling from the effects of three decades of left rule.

Mamata Banerjee claims she’s the leader for change. Now is her opportunity to prove the point.

The agreement between the Trinamool and the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha on a new administrative set-up for the Darjeeling Hills seems to be the prelude to the replay of a drama that will once again cheat the people of Darjeeling and the Nepali-speaking Gorkhalis all over India.

The intelligentsia and political change in West Bengal.

From the ashes of the CPI (M)’s electoral defeat in West Bengal, a ‘New Indian Left’ can be born.

A trip to an ancient capital of Bengal.

The cultural and economic synergies between West Bengal and Bangladesh can usher in a new chapter in relations between the latter and all of India.

Serious obstacles remain in moving forward on the peace process in Nepal. Will the impossibility of extending the Constituent Assembly beyond six months force the Maoists and the other parties to a compromise?

The Bangladesh government’s continued failure to protect its indigenous peoples has forced the latter to seek international help.

Why has the Bangladesh government rejected a USD 33 million aid package from the UN?

Pakistan’s Taliban takes to propaganda videos to counter the ‘war on terror’.

The guru-politico comes with an idiom that the powerbrokers of New Delhi fail to understand, but which could yet change the contours of politics.

New Delhi’s policy on the continent needs to go beyond celebration, resource exploitation and wariness of Chinese designs.

The new Jana Sabha system of government looks set to gut the powers of local-level state structures in Sri Lanka, strengthening the hands of the Colombo regime.

Seeking answers to the mysterious, near-complete disappearance of Buddhism from India.

A thorn in the side of the colonisers of the Chittagong Hill Tracts continues to offer inspiration today.

How Satyajit Ray borrowed from the poet's world – and transformed it.

Confusion over the relationship between religion and the government in the newly secular Nepal has allowed for a strengthening of an aggressive Hindu far-right.