West Bengal

On 6th May, Mamata Banerjee was sworn as Chief Minister of West Bengal for a third term after leading her party to a landslide victory in the State elections against India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In this episode of World Review from the New Statesman, Jeremy Cliffe and Emily Tamkin are joined by Dr. Mukulika Banerjee of the London School of Economics to explore what the BJP's defeat in West Bengal means for Indian politics. They also discuss India's ongoing Covid-19 crisis, and take a listener question looking ahead to India's national elections in 2024. World Review publishes a new episode every Friday, and is available on all major podcast platforms. Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Acast and more. Or, if you’d rather, you can access the RSS feed directly here: https://rss.acast.com/world-review. Further reading Emily explores why the BJP wanted to win in West Bengal so badly, and what their defeat means. Jeremy writes that India’s nightmare shows Covid is becoming a primarily Global South pandemic. Patralekha Chatterjee writes from Delhi on the Covid-19 surge in India. How to listen to the World Review podcast 1. In your browser You can use the player above to listen in your browser right now. The World Review podcast publishes weekly, on Fridays. All episodes are published to newstatesman.com/podcasts on the day of release. 2. In a podcast app World Review is available on all major podcast apps including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Acast, Google Podcasts, and more. Search 'World Review' in your favourite podcast app, and subscribe or follow to make sure you receive episodes as soon as they publish. While you're there, please leave a review for the podcast - it helps others find the show, which in turn makes it possible for us to keep making it. 3. On your smart speaker If you have an Amazon Echo, Google Home or Apple HomePod smart speaker, ask it to "play the latest episode of World Review". The same command also works with virtual assistants on mobile devices.