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
Post-poll, CPM takes stock
With the party in a shambles following the most disastrous election results in three decades under his stewardship, CPM general secretary Prakash Karat is a beleaguered man. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on Jun 10, 2011 11:55 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Hyderabad
Results put a stop to Buddha’s smile
Jyoti Basu called it quits in September 2000. This brought Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee to the scene. At that time, he was CPI(M)'s poster boy. Everybody was convinced that a change was in the offing. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on May 14, 2011 05:07 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
People listened to call for change: Left
Mediapersons outnumbered CPI(M) supporters and leaders on Friday at Muzaffar Ahmad Bhawan, the CPI(M) headquarters at Kolkata’s Alimuddin Street.
Updated on May 14, 2011 05:03 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Singur, Nandigram leave poster boy a tragic hero
In September 2000, when CPI(M) patriarch Jyoti Basu took the bow from his cabinet colleagues, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee appeared to be a poster boy who would change the face of archaic bureaucracy in the corridors of power and character of the arrogant CPI(M) cadre on the street. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on May 14, 2011 01:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
‘Poll result was not expected’
A day after Left Front chairman Biman Bose ebulliently predicted that the Front would win a comfortable majority in the assembly elections, the state CPI(M) headquarters at Alimuddin Street was a picture of woe. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on May 14, 2011 01:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
People listened to call for change: Left
Mediapersons outnumbered CPI(M) supporters and leaders on Friday at Muzaffar Ahmad Bhawan, the CPI(M) headquarters at Kolkata’s Alimuddin Street. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on May 13, 2011 11:23 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Babu takes on ex-boss
Unlike his predecessors, legendary physician Bidhan Chandra Roy, renowned barrister Siddhartha Shankar Ray and Marxist icon Jyoti Basu, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee needed time to build an identity for himself when he became the chief minister in 2000. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on Apr 27, 2011 03:35 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee
Left now eyes 62 'marginal' seats from south Bengal
The outcome of the Battle for Bengal now rests on the results of not more than 62 of the 294 assembly constituencies. At least, this is what the CPI(M) strategists at Alimuddin Street believe. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on Apr 22, 2011 02:10 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
'Party workers have not delivered across Bengal'
CPI(M) state secretary Biman Bose admits to the anti-incumbency factor, but says the Left will return to power in West Bengal. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on Apr 09, 2011 05:01 PM IST
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We made mistakes
Days ahead of the watershed assembly elections in West Bengal, Tanmay Chatterjee catches Biman Bose in an introspective mood at Alimuddin Street as he speaks about the highs and lows of the Left government.
Updated on Apr 07, 2011 03:15 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
That ’70s town
Life in the sleepy town has changed drastically in the last three decades. A centre for culture and heritage has turned into a trade hub. But residents are clearly divided on whether there has been any real progress. Tanmay Chatterjee & Surojit Ghosh Hazra report.
Updated on Apr 01, 2011 05:56 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee & Surojit Ghosh Hazra, Suri
Mamata has not done anything for people
A member of the CPI(M) central committee, the Bengal secretariat and the Rajya Sabha, Shyamal Chakraborty has always been much more than a leader of the CITU. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on Apr 03, 2011 03:51 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee
91 sitting MLAs get Left boot
The ruling Left Front on Sunday dropped 91 sitting MLAs, including nine ministers, from the list of candidates for the assembly elections, in an attempt to beat the anti-incumbency wave.
Updated on Mar 13, 2011 11:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
50 new faces in CPM draft list, 3 ministers dropped
The CPI(M) has dropped three sitting ministers from the draft list of candidates, and included 50 new faces, in a bid to counter its first formidable foe in 33 years —Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on Apr 01, 2011 05:18 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
We have realised our mistakes: Buddha
"Those who have left us in anger have to be brought back. We have realised our mistakes," said CPI(M) leader and West Bengal CM Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee at a rally in the heart of Kolkata today.
Updated on Feb 13, 2011 11:02 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Why Prakash Karat climbed down
The recent CPI(M) conclave in Vijayawada will be remembered as one in which the central leadership conceded major ground to the regional satraps.
Updated on Aug 11, 2010 12:12 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Vijayawada
Stand on N-deal was faulty: CPM
The CPI(M) central leadership overestimated its own strength when it made a failed bid to block the civilian nuclear deal between India and the United States in 2008, according to the party’s confidential review report that was adopted on Tuesday.
Updated on Aug 11, 2010 12:30 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Nagendar Sharma & Tanmay Chatterjee, New Delhi
CPM works at Cong, Trinamool break-up
On Day 3 of the CPI(M)'s central committee meeting here, Mamata Banerjee seemed to have captured the maximum mind space of party leaders. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on Aug 10, 2010 12:07 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Vijaywada
Cong as ally? Never say never: Karat
In an effort to reduce the growing irrelevance of the Left, CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat on Sunday did not discount the possibility of support to a Congress-led government in future, reports Tanmay Chatterjee.
Updated on Aug 09, 2010 12:35 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Vijaywada
Tension clouds CPM core committee meet
The schisms and subterranean factionalism in the CPI(M) reared their head in Vijaywada where the party is holding an extended meeting of its central committee.
Updated on Aug 08, 2010 12:46 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Vijayawada
Bureaucratic centralism
The central leadership of the CPI(M) does not have a single mass leader, and its lower rungs are impossibly corrupt. Result: a party in a permanent state of drift. Tanmay Chatterjee writes.
Updated on Jul 13, 2010 12:42 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Biman cautions party ranks
The CPI(M) has failed to douse class consciousness within a section of its ranks and steer it towards people’s movement, Biman Bose, state secretary of CPI(M), has admitted in a recent document being circulated by the party.
Updated on Apr 11, 2010 07:58 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Left breaks mould, tries hand at mass contact
A crowd of nearly four lakh people, giant cutouts of Jyoti Basu, attacks on Mamata Banerjee for “helping Maoists”, criticisms of the UPA government for failing to control inflation and Sunday traffic going haywire.
Updated on Feb 07, 2010 11:49 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Rethink ties with Mamata: Karat to Cong
The CPI(M) central leadership on Saturday urged the Congress to have a rethink on its United Progressive Alliance partner Trinamool Congress, “which spearheads violence in co-ordination with Maoists”. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on Feb 07, 2010 12:27 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Kolkata streams out as nation bids farewell to Basu
If Kolkata seemed to show little grief for its most famous resident Jyoti Basu on Sunday when his body was taken to a mortuary from the hospital he died in, the city witnessed an outpouring of emotion on Tuesday. Tanmay Chatterjee reports.
Updated on Jan 20, 2010 12:23 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
End of an era for CPM
In Jyoti Basu’s demise at the age of 95, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) has lost a veteran who was not only a leader with phenomenal mass appeal but also a sophisticated master of coalition politics and a leading pragmatist in his party, reports Tanmay Chatterjee.
Updated on Jan 18, 2010 01:20 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
When he almost became PM
The time: April and May, 1996. Jyoti Basu, then a few months short of his 82nd birthday, came within a whisker of becoming Prime Minister after Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s first term as premier had ended after 13 days.
Updated on Jan 18, 2010 01:14 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
First politburo’s last member
Jyoti Basu was the last of the founder-politburo members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was part of the so-called “gang of nine” senior leaders who walked out of the undivided Communist Party of India (CPI) to form the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 1964, write Avijit Ghosal & Tanmay Chatterjee.
Updated on Jan 18, 2010 01:06 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal & Tanmay Chatterjee
CPI(M)’s first politburo loses last member
Jyoti Basu was the last of the founder-members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). He was part of the so-called “gang of nine” senior leaders who walked out of the undivided Communist Party of India (CPI) to form the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 1964.
Updated on Jan 17, 2010 03:12 PM IST
Hindustan Times | Avijit Ghosal & Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata
Greed ruining CPM in Bengal: Karat
Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Prakash Karat said on Sunday the “glorious history” of the party in West Bengal had been tarnished by the greed for power and money of some, reports Tanmay Chatterjee.
Updated on Nov 30, 2009 02:08 AM IST
Hindustan Times | Tanmay Chatterjee, Kolkata