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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.

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If you try to portray ‘real’ women in Indian advertising, the consumer rejects it: Sumanto…

Swati Sengupta Jun 27, 2018 0

I won’t ask questions only a niche group of people who follow advertising, awards and achievements will be able to relate to. I’ll ask you about those aspects of advertising that involve all…

India’s first sports university is to come up in Manipur. Why then was faculty recruitment for an…

Swati Sengupta Jun 14, 2018 0

Walk-in interview for faculty positions in Lucknow was announced, and eventually "postponed".

Surrendered Maoist Bengal-Jharkhand-Odisha border commander Ranjit Pal is now a father, wants to…

Swati Sengupta Jun 12, 2018 0

Ranjit Pal says he didn’t surrender in order to live a “peaceful family life or because I wanted to have a child”.

CITU, the CPM’s trade union wing, is organising workers in Kolkata from among food and parcel…

Swati Sengupta Jun 6, 2018 0

The approach is to discuss and guide them about their rights, not asking them directly to join CITU

No CPM member would have accepted an invitation to an RSS meet, says CPM politburo member Md Salim

Swati Sengupta Jun 5, 2018 0

It is important what he says at the RSS event.

I did not leak information to get Kishanji killed: surrendered Maoist Suchitra Mahato

Swati Sengupta May 29, 2018 0

Even after I die, people will go on accusing me for Kishanji's death, Suchitra says.

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Thoothukudi firing reminds me of Nandigram, Kalinganagar; vested interest of big companies is…

Swati Sengupta May 28, 2018 0

"The lady who surrendered... in front of Mamata Banerjee, might have caused the arrest and encounter killing of Kishanji"

We are doing little to prevent the creation of toxic masculinity, our focus is more on how to fight…

Swati Sengupta May 22, 2018 0

Aggression and violence are not the answers to fighting sexual harassment and rape. We need inspiring words and discussions.

Why the panchayat elections will indicate the outcome of 2019 Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal

Swati Sengupta May 13, 2018 0

This is not just a rural poll but a glimpse of 2019 Lok Sabha election results.

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Sharp Hindu-Muslim divide in Aligarh over May 2 campus gate trouble, situation tense as both…

Swati Sengupta May 12, 2018 0

The stalemate at Aligarh Muslim University continues.