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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.

Opinion

The CPIM’s votes (and policies) are helping the BJP’s rise in Bengal

Swati Sengupta May 11, 2018 0

There is a clear pattern in the way anti-Trinamool Congress votes have gone to BJP from the Left.

Bengal

Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh says party won’t take responsibility of Mukul Roy’s past “sins”,…

Swati Sengupta May 6, 2018 0

The state BJP was not in favour of inducting Roy into the party.

Gender

Woman who was molested and beaten up because she was smoking a cigarette in Kolkata, recalls the…

Swati Sengupta May 6, 2018 0

He tried to snatch the cigarette, slapped her and beat her up

Nation

BJP’s 2019 election campaign has started, thus the attempts to divide people, imposing…

Swati Sengupta May 5, 2018 0

We will continue our peaceful agitation till we get justice, says Mohd. Fahad.

Nation

Ahead of PM Modi’s visit to Nepal, Maoist leader connected with blasts picked up from Delhi by…

Swati Sengupta May 1, 2018 0

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Nepal next week, the Kolkata Police’s Special Task Force has picked up a Maoist leader from Delhi who was involved in a bomb blast in that…

Gender

The Trouble With Being a Woman, and a Journalist

Swati Sengupta May 1, 2018 0

The Tamil Nadu Governor sparked controversy after he patted the cheek of a woman journalist in Chennai. Women journalists are either spoken to condescendingly, or harassed, and it happens…

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