Shikha Mukerjee

Senior journalist based in Kolkata.

Shikha Mukerjee

The Kolkata Municipal corporation building located at 5, S N Banerjee Road. The delimitation process will significantly expand the number of wards from 144 to 209 under its purview

Delimiting Bengal, limiting choices

Shikha Mukerjee

07 Sep 2026

4 min read

The fight between the bloodline and the outsider is a replay of feudal succession battles. Political parties are not hereditary fiefdoms, even when the parallels are unmistakable

When a rebel faces a mutiny on her own ship

Shikha Mukerjee

04 Jun 2026

4 min read

The victor and the vanquished

The victor and the vanquished

05 May 2026

6 min read

The biggest change in this Assembly election is the reawakening of Bengali bhadralok consciousness

Voting as a reclaiming of the self

Shikha Mukerjee

30 Apr 2026

4 min read

The districts with the most deletions and adjudicated cases are clubbed in the second phase—Murshidabad (11 lakh cases), North and South 24 Parganas

Chopping and changing to deliver

Shikha Mukerjee

17 Mar 2026

4 min read

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's latest letter—the fifth—to the Chief Election Commissioner on the special intensive revision of rolls, released on January 12 challenges the commission’s role as a law-abiding institution

Raid and counter-raid in Kolkata: How Mamata reframed the narrative

Shikha Mukerjee

15 Jan 2026

4 min read

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