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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Balakot revived for Assembly elections

Election process for a couple of State Assemblies has started and Pakistan and its real or presumed intention to send hordes of terrorists to...

Did Amit Shah mislead Lok Sabha on Farooq Abdullah’s detention?

Supreme Court was told on August 16 that National Conference leader and member of Lok Sabha Farooq Abdullah had been detained and was not...

More the things change, more they stay the same

The more the things change, the more they stay the same. Even may get worse. It was in the early 1980s. I was posted in...

Arun Jaitley: Master of manoeuvrings

Arun Jaitley was more of a master of manoeuvrings than a legal wizard or a politician. He was intelligent, of an amiable demeanour, an...

PM Modi’s Independence Day speech: A roadmap to one party- one leader rule

Adaroniyo Pradhan Mantriji, PM Modi Badhai Ho, Sriman! Your Independence Day speech at Red Fort ramp has endeared you to me more since it provided me a...

India at 72, Do We Give It all Up? Or Rise Like The Phoenix Again?

Happy Independence Day India, India stands at 72 a little shaken, a little stirred, yet a warrior still perhaps we are the only generation...
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