Subir Bhaumik

May 2011 - Report
A Trinamool day
It appears certain that Mamata’s party will win the West Bengal assembly elections, but the Left Front will remain a power-in-waiting.

March 2000 - Feature
Coperate Mercenary
Back in December 1995, when a huge load of arms was air-dropped over Purulia district of West Bengal, it created a sensation that reverberated in the Indian media for months. Speculation was rife about who the weapons were meant for and theories floated about who could be seeking to "destabilise" India with the arms. Nothing as dramatic as that, says Subir Bhaumik, whose research into the antecedents of the prime accused in the affair, Jan Christien Neilson alias Kim Davy, has led to a story that seems straight out of Frederick Forsyth´s Dogs of War.

January 1998 - Commentary
INDIA : Hindi , Hindu, Hindustan

December 1997 - Feature
It's Now Bodo vs Druk Yul
"If Bhutan tries to throw out the rebels, it gets involved in what essentially are India´s problems. If it shies away from action, it risks the wrath of Delhi."

May 1997 - Cover
How 'Big' Is Big Brother?
In regional affairs, India must act with the magnanimity that its overpowering presence demands. .

March 1997 - Review
Northeastern Sources
India´s Northeast Resurgent Ethnicity, Insurgency, Governance and Development by B.G. Verghese Konark Publishers, Delhi, 1996 475 pages, INR 450

June 2000 - Cover
Disinvesting loss-making entities
Half a century ago, India was partitioned.. With the Muslim League violently pressing its demand, the Congress saw the inevitability, and agreed. One proposed, the other accepted. Partition, then, became responsible for the tragedies that unfolded in Punjab and Bengal, two of the most vigorous and resourceful provinces of undivided India, as also Sindh.

May 1998 - Commentary
INDIA : By George!

People versus wildlife 17 May 2013
By Nirmal Ghosh
	Reassessing wildlife conservation policies in India.

After the flood 7 May 2013
By Danial Shah
	The new realities of life for villagers in Hunza Valley who lost their homes and lands to a natural lake following a 2010...

Disappearing foods 25 April 2013

	A collection of recipes that are fading from the Southasian palette.

Eat, drink, write 23 April 2013
By Suman Bolar
	A food writer dishes on the ins and outs of her profession.

Brideprice 22 April 2013
By Manik Bandopadhyay
	A new translation of Manik Bandopadhyay's ‘Namuna’ by Madhusree Mukerjee.

Among the believers 19 April 2013
By Abhishek Choudhary
	An account from Varanasi, where bhang and thandai struggle to survive the onslaught of LSD and Coca-Cola.

Behind the crystals 18 April 2013
By Rituparna Banerjee
	Capturing the lives of Marakkanam’s salt pan workers

In search of food sovereignty 17 April 2013
By K Sandeep
	Shifting the debate on the Public Distribution System.

Missing connections 8 April 2013
By Sarandha
	Girja Kumar’s book on the Indus and the cultures tied to it obscures a tremendous wealth of interconnected histories and...

No place for picnics 4 April 2013
By Freny Manecksha
	Kashmiri women tell their stories of the conflict.

'I bowled left-arm chinaman' 28 March 2013
By Jahnavi Barua
	Shehan Karunatilaka speaks about winning awards, spin bowling, italics in fiction, and much more.

Articles by Subir Bhaumik