Akhilesh Sinha

From student activism and the Nandigram movement to defeating Mamata Banerjee twice, Suvendu Adhikari emerged as the strategist and mass leader New Delhi: If there is one leader in West Bengal politics who has successfully combined the intensity of grassroots movements, the strength of organizational politics, and the strategy of regime change, it is Suvendu Adhikari. From student activism to emerging as the face of the Nandigram movement, and eventually becoming leader of the BJP’s...

Political and Geopolitical forces behind the killing in West Bengal New Delhi: The 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections have not only signaled a new trajectory in Indian politics but have also stirred ripples in global geopolitics. The unprecedented victory of the BJP in the state brought to light events that reveal how the long-standing cycle of political power struggles and violence is now emerging in a new form. The most alarming manifestation of this shift came late Wednesday night with...

New Delhi: India's Left parties have drifted so far from ground realities that they now appear reduced to instruments in the hands of other political blocs, which were once seen as champions of the working class. Their failure to translate communist ideology into a practical, development-oriented agenda stands exposed. In the years following independence, the Left held 27 seats in Parliament and over the past 75 years, that number has dwindled to just eight. From governing three states at...