Opinion

The Cow Politics Paradox: How Identity Narrative Hits Rural Farmers

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.

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.
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The BHU incident is the worst thing to happen to Narendra Modi

The BHU is the worst thing that could have happened to Narendra Modi in the three years of his disastrous regime. The students’ agitations...

A retired IAS and IPS face criminal charges, 33 years later, for helping Union Carbide chief

Bhopal Gas Tragedy: The English idiom ‘asking for trouble’ does not convey the real extent of nuttiness of the person as Hindi saying ‘aa...

Babulal Gaur: The most colourful leader in BJP

When 86-year old Babulal Gaur was told by a top Madhya Pradesh BJP functionary that party’s national president Amit Shah wanted those above 75...

Chandigarh stalking: Making police citizen-friendly! Who is interested?

The Chandigarh stalking incident has once again focussed attention on the working of the police which is still governed by a law enacted by...

With SC stay, Shivraj’s Minister back in form

The Supreme Court stay on Election Commission’s decision to disqualify Narottam Mishra for grave electoral offences has once again underlined the deficiency of our...

Scindia emerges front-runner in leadership race in MP

Though there is no word from the Congress High Command as yet, the buzz in Madhya Pradesh is that Jyotiraditya Scindia will be the...
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