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Swati Sengupta is an author and journalist. Her published books are Out of War, Half the Field Is Mine, Guns on My Red Earth and The Talking Bird. She has worked for various newspapers in Kolkata for 18 years, and runs a gender workshop series. Swati lives in a brave and beautiful world in which girls and boys do not carry out gender-specific roles.

How women and religious minorities together will impact the 2021 Bengal’s Assembly elections:…

Swati Sengupta Mar 31, 2021

The Nandigram constituency in West Bengal’s East Midnapore district – 130 km from Kolkata – has become a focal point of the state’s Assembly election. The ruling party Trinamool Congress’…

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Surrendered Maoist squad leader Suchitra Mahato is now a mother

Swati Sengupta Oct 12, 2020

She was with politburo member Kishenji when he was shot dead.

COVID-19 & online classes: Why this letter from Kolkata’s Patha Bhavan High School to its…

Swati Sengupta Apr 30, 2020

This is an opportunity to look closely at the simple things in our daily life that we may never have looked at before, the letter mentioned.

Nirbhaya Case Hanging: How will four convicts be hanged in Tihar Jail simultaneously for the first…

Swati Sengupta Mar 2, 2020

The time leading to the actual hanging is horrific and disturbing, recalls Sunil Gupta, former Tihar Jail legal advisor.

The top three environmental concerns for India now, according to Sunita Narain, environmentalist…

Swati Sengupta Feb 23, 2020

Sunita Narain is director, Centre for Science and Environment & Editor of the magazine "Down To Earth".

Kanhaiya Kumar asks BJP leader, “were you wearing bangles?” Not cool, say gender activists, netizens

Swati Sengupta Jan 14, 2020

Many felt it was insensitive and demanded apology from Kanhaiya Kumar.

“I have been loved by people from all over India, but the bhadralok in Bengal didn’t read my books”:…

Swati Sengupta Dec 2, 2019

"I know that Mahasweta Devi had helped many, but she didn’t talk to the chief minister about a job for me," Byapari said.

“You cannot make people love the country at gunpoint”: Kannan Gopinathan, who quit the IAS over…

Swati Sengupta Nov 15, 2019

Why are people are so protective of an elected government?

What is poll strategist Prashant Kishor’s Bengal 2021 blueprint for Mamata Banerjee?

Swati Sengupta Jun 8, 2019

Here is a quick look at how the poll strategist works out his successful plans.

BJP worker in “Central force uniform” accompanying party’s Bengal chief Dilip Ghosh:…

Swati Sengupta May 14, 2019

BJP confirmed it was Sonkar, but said he was not in CRPF uniform.