My confidence comes from my adivasi DNA
THE WEEK India|May 26, 2024
A heat wave is sweeping across the rocky terrain of Giridih, situated in the North Chotanagpur region of Jharkhand. The mango trees outside the guest house where Kalpana Soren is staying are laden with unripe fruit, their branches swaying and swooshing, and some small mangoes fall to the ground, wrested by the winds.
- SONI MISHRA
My confidence comes from my adivasi DNA

INTERVIEW

KALPANA SOREN JMM LEADER

Undeterred by the heat, Kalpana is set to leave for campaigning in Gandey assembly seat, a predominantly rural constituency in Giridih district. As she steps out of her room, party workers rush to meet her. Dressed in a pastel pink sari, she is understated in her style, but warm and cheerful in her demeanour. She greets party workers with folded hands, listens to them patiently, passes on their concerns to her aides for redress, and seeks their support in the election campaign.

Kalpana sat down for her first ever interview on April 30, a day after filing her nomination papers. She speaks about the day her husband, former chief minister Hemant Soren, was arrested, her entry into politics, her husband’s pep talk from behind the bars and the upcoming challenges. She says she will continue to be in politics. Edited excerpts from the interview:

Q/ Did you ever think that you will make a political speech or fight an election someday?

A/ Not really. I was living in a political atmosphere—my husband and my father-in-law are there, my whole family is in it. But I was busy taking care of the family, my kids, my husband. Because my husband was very busy, I thought one person should be at the forefront in the political arena, and one person should look after the family because both my in-laws are getting old.

Q/ Did Hemant Soren’s arrest come as a shock or were you mentally prepared?

この蚘事は THE WEEK India の May 26, 2024 版に掲茉されおいたす。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トラむアルを開始しお、䜕千もの厳遞されたプレミアム ストヌリヌ、9,000 以䞊の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしおください。

この蚘事は THE WEEK India の May 26, 2024 版に掲茉されおいたす。

7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トラむアルを開始しお、䜕千もの厳遞されたプレミアム ストヌリヌ、9,000 以䞊の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしおください。

THE WEEK INDIAのその他の蚘事すべお衚瀺
The female act
THE WEEK India

The female act

The 19th edition of the Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Festival was of the women and by the women

time-read
4 分  |
November 24, 2024
A SHOT OF ARCHER
THE WEEK India

A SHOT OF ARCHER

An excerpt from the prologue of An Eye for an Eye

time-read
2 分  |
November 24, 2024
MASTER OF MAKE-BELIEVE
THE WEEK India

MASTER OF MAKE-BELIEVE

50 years. after his first book, Jeffrey*Archer refuses to put down his'felt-tip Pilot pen

time-read
4 分  |
November 24, 2024
Smart and sassy Passi
THE WEEK India

Smart and sassy Passi

Pop culture works according to its own unpredictable, crazy logic. An unlikely, overnight celebrity has become the talk of India. Everyone, especially on social media, is discussing, dissing, hissing and mimicking just one person—Shalini Passi.

time-read
2 分  |
November 24, 2024
Energy transition and AI are reshaping shipping
THE WEEK India

Energy transition and AI are reshaping shipping

PORTS AND ALLIED infrastructure development are at the heart of India's ambitions to become a maritime heavyweight.

time-read
5 分  |
November 24, 2024
MADE FOR EACH OTHER
THE WEEK India

MADE FOR EACH OTHER

Trump’s preferred transactional approach to foreign policy meshes well with Modi’s bent towards strategic autonomy

time-read
4 分  |
November 24, 2024
DOOM AND GLOOM
THE WEEK India

DOOM AND GLOOM

Democrats’ message came across as vague, preachy and hopelessly removed from reality. And voters believed Trump’s depiction of illegal immigrants as a source of their economic woes

time-read
4 分  |
November 24, 2024
WOES TO WOWS
THE WEEK India

WOES TO WOWS

The fundamental reason behind Trump’s success was his ability to convert average Americans’ feelings of grievance into votes for him

time-read
3 分  |
November 24, 2024
POWER HOUSE
THE WEEK India

POWER HOUSE

Trump International Hotel was the only place outside the White House where Trump ever dined during his four years as president

time-read
2 分  |
November 24, 2024
DON 2.0
THE WEEK India

DON 2.0

Trump returns to presidency stronger than before, but just as unpredictable

time-read
5 分  |
November 24, 2024