<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed><author name="Debaroopa Bhattacharyya"><item><title>BATTLE FOR BENGAL: A REPORT ON FIRST FOUR PHASES OF ELECTIONS</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/battle-for-bengal-a-report-on-first-four-phases-of-elections/</link><pubDate>April 20, 2021, 3:03 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ee184df9_2377_P_5_mr-1.jpg</image><category>India</category><excerpt>After the provocative campaigns and speeches which have been a staple this election season in West Bengal, the contest between CM Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party is heating up. Here is an overview on the progres...</excerpt></item><item><title>FROM A MARGINAL PLAYER TO THE CUSP OF POWER: BJP’S BIG RISE IN BENGAL</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/from-a-marginal-player-to-the-cusp-of-power-bjps-big-rise-in-bengal/</link><pubDate>March 3, 2021, 1:57 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/bjp.png</image><category>India</category><excerpt>The BJP, which had a vote share of 0.58% in the 1982 Bengal Assembly elections, is now all set to take part in a neck-to-neck battle with the current ruling party in the state. Despite facing violent attacks, the party has seen a meteoric rise tha...</excerpt></item><item><title>WHY HOLDING A VIOLENCE-FREE POLL IN BENGAL IS A HERCULEAN TASK</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/others/why-holding-a-violence-free-poll-in-bengal-is-a-herculean-task/</link><pubDate>January 29, 2021, 8:49 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/ac2cd9fd_1479_P_3_mr-1.jpg</image><category>Others</category><excerpt>Violence has been wielded as an instrument of intimidation and domination by political regimes in West Bengal since time immemorial. What started with the Left and the Congress has now passed over to the Trinamool Congress.</excerpt></item><item><title>Corporatisation and education: Are children turning into robots?</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/battle-for-bengal-a-report-on-first-four-phases-of-elections/</link><pubDate>April 20, 2021, 3:03 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ee184df9_2377_P_5_mr-1.jpg</image><category>India</category><excerpt>In the two decades of my teaching and consultation career, whenever I have counselled parents or conducted seminars and workshops with them, I have invariably begun with: “Where do you see your children ten years from now?” And I have always been ...</excerpt></item><item><title>A CASE FOR IMPLEMENTING CAA AND NRC IN BESIEGED ASSAM</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/india/a-case-for-implementing-caa-and-nrc-in-besieged-assam/</link><pubDate>November 5, 2020, 5:31 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/11ece6ef_555_P_5_mr.jpg</image><category>India</category><excerpt>The CAA and NRC, framed in a way that reflects the wishes of the nation, its people and its inherent socio-political soul, would perhaps be our best foot forward to deal with the cancer of illegal immigration in the Northeast, especially Assam.
</excerpt></item><item><title>Time to shatter the glass ceilings in our minds</title><link>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/opinion/time-to-shatter-the-glass-ceilings-in-our-minds/</link><pubDate>October 23, 2020, 5:46 am</pubDate><image>https://latest.thedailyguardian.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Opinionlead3.jpg</image><category>Opinion</category><excerpt>The emancipation of woman is not possible without the emancipation of man. As women aim to shatter the glass ceilings outside in professional spaces, men need to look inwards and shatter the glass ceilings of prejudice, regressive conventions and ...</excerpt></item></author></feed>