The SIR Effect: Why Bengali Muslims Fear for Their Voting Rights
The entire SIR process (Special Intensive Revision) is not clear, full of alleged mistakes. And in Bengal its foremost target is a community.
Freevoice
He writes about the invisible—their struggles, their resilience, and the quiet fortitude that keeps them going.
As war in Ukraine enters a 5th year, will the ‘Putin consensus’ among Russians hold?
As the war following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 enters its fifth year, the attitude of the Russian public remains difficult to gauge: Just over half of Russians, according to one recent poll, expect the war to end in 2026; yet a majority say that should negotiations fail, Moscow needs to “escalate” with greater use of force.
Indian Agriculture Trapped in Global Geopolitics
The concept of free trade agreements (FTAs) may appear attractive on the surface, but the political economy and social consequences behind them are often unequal and controversial.
Report on the Commemorative Program: “The Enduring Legacy of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose”
On 21st January 2026, Free Voice successfully organized a commemorative program to mark the 129th birth anniversary of the iconic freedom fighter, Subhas Chandra Bose, fondly revered as Netaji.
Ps in charge of SIR
Ps ranging from the prime to the poor, from the highest to the lowest and many in-between, may not be tyrants. But in the age of empire, Ps must have to be tyrants, if not happily but unwillingly, for their survival.
Inequality, Malnutrition and the Crisis of Democracy in India
The top 10 percent of people in India have concentrated a whopping 65 percent of the country’s total wealth. This means approximately 140 million people control two-thirds of the country’s wealth, while the remaining approximately 1.36 billion people are left with only 35 percent of wealth.
How Hannah Arendt can help us understand this new age of far-right populism
Totalitarianism, she argued, was a radically new form of government distinguished by its ideological conception of history. For the Nazis, history was a clash of races; for Stalinism, it was class war. Either way, totalitarian leaders sought to execute historical “laws” by forcibly reshaping the humans they ruled.
Bhashani’s 145th birth anniv today
A lifelong voice against injustice, Bhashani led many movements against imperialism and oppression during both the British and the Pakistani rules.
Remembering Maulana Bhashani’s 49th death anniversary
On 17 November 2025, Free Voice in collaboration Vinnokatha commemorated the death anniversary of Maulana Abdul Hamid Khan Bhashani (1880–1976).
Book Reading: Irfan Engineer’s Weaponisation of Hindu Festivals
Violence is deeply casteist where high caste Hindus remain behind the curtains while middle castes and even Dalits are used as fodder against the religious minorities, especially, Muslims and Christians.