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In 2011, after his government’s defeat, veteran CPI(M) leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee walked out of Writers Building in a simple dhoti and kurta, head bowed, he showed his class. After losing, he quietly left without looking back.
But today, after losing to the BJP, the behavior that TMC leader Mamata Banerjee is displaying reflects her own sense of class. Shame on her.
A tale of two very different political exits.

https://www.opindia.com/2026/04/read-how-kolkatas-gulshan-colony-became-a-hotbed-of-crime-illegal-rohingyas-bangladeshis-and-anti-social-elements/

East Kolkata Wetlands (EKW), one of India’s most important Ramsar sites since 2002, is being systematically destroyed. What was once a vast natural sewage treatment system, flood buffer, and lifeline for Kolkata is now rapidly turning into concrete.

Over 505 illegal structures— including warehouses, godowns, sheds, and residential buildings — have come up by illegally filling water bodies (bheris).
In several pockets like Gulshan Colony (Kasba area), locals allege that a large number of structures have been built by infiltrators from across the border. Satellite images from 2011 to 2024 show how thriving wetlands have been converted into dense settlements where reportedly not a single house is legal and Bengali is barely spoken. This raises serious questions about demographic change, vote-bank politics, and complete disregard for environmental laws.