As cow politics and communal polarisation intensify in West Bengal, food habits, cattle trade, and minority anxieties reveal the deep social and economic consequences of identity-driven politics in contemporary India.
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
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.
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
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.
The Electoral Bonds scheme, notified by the Union Government on January 2, is a clever step towards emaciating the opposition parties. Neither will it...
Few people know that hing (asafoetida) that constitutes an important ingredient for preparing lentil curry or dal and other numerous vegetables dishes based on...
She is one politician from Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) who is everything the party mouthpieces would label as un-sanskari. She married an already married...
Bijan Rai (45), a rickshaw puller, came to Phagwara (Punjab) from Patna in June 2016—nearly two months after the Nitish Kumar Government clamped prohibition...
Our Hindi textbook for class ninth had the extract from Malik Muhammad Jayasi’s epic, Padmavat from which I first learned about the beautiful princess...