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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.

Politics

In politics too, women with same qualities and qualifications are treated as inferior than men:…

Swati Sengupta Mar 23, 2019

Nandini Mukhopadhyay is professor, department of computer science & engineering, Jadavpur University. She has contested from the South Kolkata Lok Sabha constituency (2014) and from the…

Bengal

Why were these Trinamool Congress MPs dropped from the candidate list this time?

Swati Sengupta Mar 12, 2019

Need to check the BJP's growing support in the state's tribal areas has been an important reason.

Bengal

Who should be your candidate this time? Trinamool Congress conducts door-to-door survey to find out

Swati Sengupta Mar 7, 2019

Some changes are being made on the basis of the survey findings.

Bengal

Kolkata Police Commissioner likely to move court alleging CBI “wilfully gave false information” to…

Swati Sengupta Feb 6, 2019

Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar is likely to move court against the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) alleging the investigating agency “wilfully gave false information” to the…

Editor’s Choice

EXCLUSIVE: Kolkata Police had recently raided office of firm linked to ex-CBI interim chief…

Swati Sengupta Feb 4, 2019

M Nageswara Rao – the ex interim chief of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) under whose instruction officers of the central investigating agency landed at the doorstep of the Kolkata…

Books

Young people have a lot of empathy and willingness to consider other perspectives than most…

Swati Sengupta Jan 1, 2019

Siddhartha Sarma’s Year of the Weeds is one of the best books of 2018. Set in a village called Deogan in Balangir area of Odisha, the place is inhabited by Gond adivasis. The story is…

Editor’s Choice

EXCLUSIVE: Kolkata Police arrests Bihar fodder scam accused-turned-approver Dipesh Chandak who had…

Swati Sengupta Dec 7, 2018

In a major breakthrough, Kolkata-based businessman Dipesh Chandak – who had mysteriously vanished from Howrah in August this year by apparently tricking an officer of the Central Bureau of…

Gender

Kolkata woman not allowed to breastfeed publicly inside South City Mall, Kolkata mothers plan…

Swati Sengupta Nov 28, 2018

A young woman in Kolkata faced humiliation and agony at a city mall on Sunday evening when she was denied a suitable place to breastfeed her hungry, wailing seven-month-old child. She was…

Bengal

BJP rath-yatra in December and RSS foundation day rallies on Bijoya Dashami major worry for the…

Swati Sengupta Oct 9, 2018

Three massive rath-yatras to be taken out by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in December and January 2019 for 35-40 days all over West Bengal is giving the Mamata Banerjee government…

Bengal

Bengal BJP man who hails from Varanasi and lives mostly in UP played important role on Bengal bandh…

Swati Sengupta Sep 28, 2018

Thirty-year-old Sanjeev Singh, a resident of West Bengal’s Naihati in North 24 Parganas, hails from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh and mostly lives in Uttar Pradesh, sources said. On September…

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