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Kolkata

When identity becomes destiny

A few months ago, a cultural event in Kolkata centred on the Bengali word heyro. Loosely translated as “loser,” the programme leaned playfully into a familiar trope: the Bengali as a brilliant but impractical figure—intellectually animated yet economically unproductive.

Paying the price

In the run-up to polling in West Bengal, a constitutional paradox has quietly taken shape, one that exposes the limits of legal remedies when they collide with electoral time.