Biswajit Roy

is Consultant Editor with eNewsroom India. He reports on major news developments as well as writes political pieces on national and Bengal politics and social-cultural issues.

Opinion

Biswajit RoyApril 5, 2020
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Will Modi’s ‘diya’ light up the poor neighborhoods and riot-hit homes during lockdown?

As most Indians are undergoing a difficult three weeks-long total lockdown in the wake of the corona pandemic, our prime…
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Corona Corner

Biswajit RoyApril 2, 2020
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Modi’s Man Ki Baat on migrants and poor a pure Jumla, GoI orders reveal

Corona virus apparently has globally punctured the inflated egos of many megalomaniacs. Otherwise, did we ever expect that our Prime…
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Corona Corner

Biswajit RoyMarch 29, 2020
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Lakhsman Rekha is no substitute for targeted public health initiative, says WHO

This is a queer time when both doomsday alarmists and apologists for control-freaks are making hay. They are exploiting our…
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Corona Corner

Biswajit RoyMarch 27, 2020
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India fights Corona: Who bothers for WHO?

World Health Organization (WHO), the UN agency for global monitoring and supervision for diseases control, particularly, pandemics like current Coronavirus…
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Corona Corner

Biswajit RoyMarch 25, 2020
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How pathogens help the powerful

Kolkata: Pandemics and politics have been shaping each other since the times of Moses to the Modi regime. The Hebrew…
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Let There Be Light

Biswajit RoyMarch 14, 2020
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Love In the Time of Corona and Hate Virus

At least, for a brief period, the global pandemic would force them to believe that ‘we the people’ breathe same…
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Bengal

Biswajit RoyMarch 11, 2020
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Mamata uses police and party to deny space to anti-CAA rivals and civil society

Bengal’s big sis (Didi) Mamata Banerjee was at the receiving end of police brutalities as I had witnessed it closely…
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Freshly Brewed

Biswajit RoyMarch 8, 2020
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Delhi mayhem pointed to the absence of ideo-political initiatives for unity among Hindu and Muslim toilers

Community Control-freak Palestinian thinker Edward Said, the author of the seminal book, Orientalism has exposed the European colonial-era construct of…
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Opinion

Biswajit RoyMarch 6, 2020
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Celebration of separate identities in a pluralist movement: Is it an Oxymoron?

The ongoing people’s movement against BJP government’s RSS-inspired citizenship matrix has rekindled many old ideas of our freedom struggle, reclaimed…
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Bengal

Biswajit RoyMarch 2, 2020
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Mamata returns Shah’s volley: ‘Apologize for Delhi Genocide’

Kolkata: “Delhi has suffered a planned genocide which was later camouflaged as a communal riot,” Bengal chief minister and Trinamool…
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