How Can I Wish You a Merry Christmas?
My country is heading towards hell for the non-Hindus. Ayodhya is gearing up to fulfill the long-cherished desire of the crores of Hindus on 22 January.
Freevoice
He writes about the invisible—their struggles, their resilience, and the quiet fortitude that keeps them going.
COP28 was just another milestone on the highway to hell.
IT took 28 years of UN-sponsored climate conferences for one of them to even acknowledge the primary source of the planet’s woes. That was enough for the circus that concluded in Dubai a week ago to be hailed as a landmark.
Burning the Midnight Oil
It attests to the trajectory of Indian students who face stiff competition in the shrinking Indian job market.
We are 300 Rohingya Muslims
The world labelled us ‘refugee’,
In Allah’s wide land, and sea and sky
We are pariahs,
Ways of profits for human traffickers
Columnists still relish our survival feats!
Education for Hindu Rashtra: UGC-NCERT’s Rightwing Drive
The UGC and NCERT, guided by the Hindu nationalist agenda, are striking strong contrasts to the values of our Constitution.
Against Forgetting: The need to remember the 6th of December
The business of progressive politics in this precarious time is to remember, not forget, the instrumental and ideological violence of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement.
Cow Dung Collector
It attests to the irony we find in poor Khenti's copying the young girls who are exercising to lose weight and look smart to their bosses.
Hindutva Pop: A Review
Can a song trigger a murder?Can a poem spark a riot?Can a book divide a people? By Binu Mathew These lines are from the back cover of a newly released book by Kunal Purohit called “H-Pop, The Secretive World Of…
Tajuddin Biswas: A Pioneer of Rural History of Murshidabad
Tajuddin Biswas was a son of the soil. He was a genius. He was a poet, storyteller, novelist, essayist, scholar, historian, and authority on land survey, deeds, records, maps, coins, etc. He was a human rights activist and a Naxalite.
Waves of Heat at our Town
It attests to the systematic techniques of exploiting the oppressed, ably used by the babus of our town year after year.