Opinion

The Future of INDIA Depends on Unity, Humility and Struggle

To defeat authoritarianism, the INDIA bloc must look beyond mere electoral math, embrace its diverse ideological roots, and transform political cooperation into a sustained, grassroots movement for constitutional democracy.

Up in Flames: Why 4,000 Burned EVMs Rekindled a Democratic Crisis

A devastating EVM fire in Kolkata highlights a deeper crisis in Indian democracy. More than a physical accident, it reveals how rapidly institutional trust erodes when transparency is compromised.

Sleeping Under an Open Sky on No-Man’s Land: Two Children, Ten Lives, and the Machinery of Exclusion

The Panchagarh (India-Bangladesh) border crisis reveals a global shift: citizenship is no longer a guarantee of rights, but a weaponized spectacle used by states to mask economic failure through human exclusion.

History Changes Governments, Institutions Decide Who Survives: The Challenge Before Bengal’s Muslims

As Bengal enters a new political era under the BJP, Muslims face growing anxieties over rights and representation while confronting a difficult truth: institutional strength matters more than political patronage.

An Eid Like Never Before: The Eid al-Adha Stolen from the Poor

This year's Eid-al-adha brought uncertainty instead of celebration for many Muslims in Bengal. Amid hardship, loss, and disrupted traditions, communities found strength in sacrifice, charity, and solidarity.
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Dead at 33: Twisha Sharma, Narrative Management, and Elite Patriarchy

Twisha Sharma’s suspicious death has triggered disturbing questions about victim-blaming, elite patriarchy, and how public narratives can overshadow forensic concerns and demands for justice

The Sound of Bulldozers and the Making of a New Bengal

BJP's demolition drives across Bengal signal the arrival of a politics where spectacle overtakes due process, and the urban poor increasingly become targets of governance shaped by exclusion, fear, and corporate expansion.

A Seat at the Table? Why Muslims, India’s Largest Minority, Are Fading from the Saffron Project

From zero Muslim candidates to polarising rhetoric, the commentary examines why the BJP struggles to gain Muslim trust and asks whether the party has genuinely attempted inclusive politics

Soil, Dreams, and an Erased Name: A Professor, and the Word ‘Deleted’

From village scholar to Kolkata professor, my life was built on service. Now, Bengal’s SIR process threatens to erase my identity and my son’s future with one word: ‘Deleted.

“My Name Was Deleted”: A Professor Writes on Identity, Dignity and Bengal’s Voter Roll Shock

Aliah University professor's first-person account on West Bengal voter list deletions, SIR process crisis, identity disenfranchisement, democratic rights, constitutional dignity, and the urgent struggle for citizens' recognition on Bengal's soil

The ‘Ghuspetiya’ Hoax and the Arithmetic of Exclusion: Is the ECI Editing the Electorate to Fit the Result?

The unprecedented deletion of 90 lakh voters in West Bengal, disproportionately targeting women and minorities, signals a systemic crisis. This investigation exposes the ECI’s transition from transparency to institutional opacity.
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