Tanmay Chatterjee has spent more than three decades covering regional and national politics, internal security, intelligence, defence and corruption. He also plans and edits special features on subjects ranging from elections to festivals.
Articles by Tanmay Chatterjee
No Left turn in Bengal and Kerala
The Left was emphatically rejected by voters in 10 constituencies in West Bengal and three in Kerala in the Assembly byelections.
Updated on Nov 11, 2009 12:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee and Ramesh Babu, Kolkata/thiruvanthapuram
Trainjack: CPM targets Mamata
The CPI(M) on Wednesday capitalised on the Trinamool Congress’s change of stance on Maoists and alleged that Mamata Banerjee’s party had a hand in Tuesday’s train hijacking.
Updated on Oct 29, 2009 12:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee & Nagendar Sharma, Kolkata
Mamata works out formula for Bengal assembly by-elections
Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee seems to have worked out a seat sharing formula formula with the help of the Congress in the 10 Assembly seats in Bengal where by-elections will be held on November 7, reports Tanmay Chatterjee.
Updated on Oct 09, 2009 10:43 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Let Front Allies of the CPI(M) in Bengal oppose use of UAPA
Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is once again standing in the line of friendly fire from the allies of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on Oct 06, 2009 11:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
3 lakh at Left rally, yet a flop show
About 300,000 people came to the Left Front rally in Kolkata on Monday afternoon. The Front’s target was about 600,000, the figure the Trinamool Congress had posted at its July 21 rally.
Updated on Sep 01, 2009 12:00 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Losing grassroots to Trinamool
After the Left Front’s resounding victory in the West Bengal assembly elections of 2006, its precipitate decline in 2009 will be the subject of many a Ph D thesis in political science.
Updated on Aug 29, 2009 11:08 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
‘I am follower of Marx, won’t join Trinamool’
A day after news of his resignation broke, senior Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) leader Abani Roy, 70, confirmed the development. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on Aug 26, 2009 11:44 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Reds clear Mangalkot of Congressmen
Mangalkot is simmering. Marxist cadres have driven out all Congress supporters from Dhanyarukhi, a village in Bardhaman district’s Mangalkot assembly constituency.
Updated on Jul 24, 2009 12:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Dhanyarukhi (bardhaman)
CPM’s committee raps Bengal Govt
After the humiliation in the 2009 Lok Sabha polls, the Marxists in its 29-page final review have also admitted to decadence, malpractice, bureaucratic trends and arrogance in the rank. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on Jun 29, 2009 12:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Rift in Left out in open
The rift in the ruling Left Front in West Bengal has come out in the open.
Updated on Jun 26, 2009 01:45 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Maoists banned after Buddha’s nod: Jaiswal
Did West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee give his consent to the Centre’s decision to ban the Communist Party of India (Maoist)? Union Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal hinted that he had.
Updated on Jun 25, 2009 01:55 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Buddha treads middle path on Maoist ban
West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee is facing fresh attacks — this time from his own party and other Left Front constituents. Tapan Das and Tanmay Chatterjee report.
Updated on Jun 24, 2009 12:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tapan Das ands Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Why the CPM did not ban Maoists
It is not really surprising that even after the Centre banned the CPI (Maoist) on Monday, the CPI-M — at the receiving end of the rebels’ wrath in Lalgarh in West Midnapore district — seemed reluctant to acknowledge that a ban was the solution to the problem. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on Jun 23, 2009 12:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Use force, risk another Nandigram?
To crack down or not to crack down, that’s West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee’s dilemma, reports Tanmay Chatterjee.
Updated on Jun 17, 2009 11:30 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Finally, Karat admits third front was flop
CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat admitted to his West Bengal comrades on Friday that the Third Front idea had proved a flop.
Updated on Jun 13, 2009 03:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Battle for Bengal intensifies
Stumped by defeat, reformist Buddha goes on backfoot, shelves projects, reports Tanmay Chatterjee.
Updated on May 22, 2009 12:21 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Murmurs against Karat continue
The CPI(M) went into damage control mode on Monday to contain the increasingly audible murmurs of the West Bengal unit against party general secretary Prakash Karat, 61, and the central leadership, reports HT.
Updated on May 19, 2009 12:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Zia Haq, Nagendar Sharma & Tanmay Chatterjee, New Delhi, Kolkata
Tense state treads in fear of big final fight
A tense and nervous West Bengal will wake up for polling on Wednesday, the final day of the month-long general election. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on May 13, 2009 01:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Elections in West Bengal: A history of violence
Communism may have failed as an ideology in the rest of the world but the culture of violence and social conflict it introduced through the Bolshevik Revolution continues to be a part of Bengal’s political ethos. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on May 11, 2009 01:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Anti-incumbency sentiment runs high in Bengal
As Bengal gears up to cast its mandate for 14 Lok Sabha seats in the third phase of polling on Thursday, the ruling CPI-M and its partners are preparing for their litmus test.
Updated on Apr 30, 2009 01:29 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
WB parties rope in TV prime time to reach out
With Bengali television news channels anxious to raise their prime time ratings before the elections, the Left Front constituents and the Trinamool Congress are losing no opportunity to extract the maximum out of this competition. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on Apr 10, 2009 08:11 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Left manifesto ignores land rows
The biggest concern of the Left Front in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls is to ensure that people do not cast their votes on the basis of burning issues like land acquisition. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on Apr 03, 2009 02:05 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Left drops 13 sitting MPs
The Left Front appeared to have taken lessons from the BJP as it announced its list of candidates for the state’s 42 Lok Sabha seats, changing as many as 13 of its sitting 35 MPs. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on Mar 04, 2009 12:48 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Setback for left at home
Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress wrested the Bishnupur seat from the CPI(M). Madan Mitra defeated his rival by over 30,000 votes, reports Tanmay Chatterjee.
Updated on Mar 01, 2009 11:39 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Left eyes Cong, BJP allies
The Left parties on Friday intensified their efforts to wean away the allies of both the ruling Congress and the Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliances in a bid to shape to its fledgling third alternative.
Updated on Feb 27, 2009 11:50 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Nagendar Sharma & Tanmay Chatterjee, New Delhi/kolkata
Bengal Left seeks third front again
The CPI-M and its allies in West Bengal declared on Sunday that they will work with secular and democratic forces at the national level to form a non-Congress, non-BJP government at the Centre after the coming Lok Sabha elections. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on Feb 09, 2009 12:32 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Women going to pubs is against Indian culture, say many political leaders
People across political divides used the alibi of Indian culture to reflect those same biases. Even Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot said it was not the policy of his Govt to have girls and boys holding hands in public, reports HT.Read what leaders are saying
Updated on Jan 29, 2009 01:18 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Vikas Pathak, K.S. Tomar and Tanmay Chatterjee, New Delhi
Trinamool wins Nandigram bypoll
With the Trinamool having earlier swept the panchayat elections in Nandigram in May 2008, its win was not entirely unexpected, but the wide margin of victory left the Left Front leaders flabbergasted, reports Tanmay Chatterjee.
Updated on Jan 10, 2009 12:53 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Parties not amused by Tata’s letter to Bengal
Tata Motors chief Ratan Tata’s “open letter to the citizens of WB”, carried as an advertisement in some newspapers, has evoked angry reactions from WB’s Marxists, reports T Chatterjee & J Majumdar.
Updated on Oct 18, 2008 12:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee & Jaidev Majumdar, Kolkata
Mamata sees victory in Tata’s exit
Twenty-four hours after Tata Motors announced the pullout from Singur, the Trinamool Cong chief described the development as a victory for the Singur farmer, report HT Correspondents.
Updated on Oct 05, 2008 12:16 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Arindam Sarkar and Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata