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.
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
