Sumanta Banerjee

Sumanta Banerjee is a journalist and author specialising in the politics of the Indian left, as well as the social history of Bengali popular culture. He is based in Dehradun.

An India at odds with itself

The ingredients are burning inside the melting pot. India’s people need plural rather than homogenous co-existence

By Sumanta Banerjee

/ 14 Jan 2013

Beyond the debacle

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

By Sumanta Banerjee

/ 27 Jul 2011

Communists in denial

There is a popular saying in Southasia: 'Your closest kin is your worst enemy.' The fratricidal war between the Kauravas and the Pandavas in the Mahabharata bears testimony

By Sumanta Banerjee

/ 1 Aug 2010

Naxalbari and the continuous rebellion

In May 1967, an abortive peasant uprising in an obscure place called Naxalbari, on the northern tip of West Bengal, gave rise to the present Naxalite movement, now also referred

By Sumanta Banerjee

/ 10 Dec 2008