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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Feeling unhappy? Don’t despair, you are not alone

Once I was afflicted with extreme sadness. I was young, just out of my juvenile years. I felt as if I were the unhappiest...

Digitalisation is a Double-edged Weapon

Digitalisation, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi is touting as the panacea for the country's ills, is a double-edged weapon. If it can help solve...
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