The Tagore and the Ray that Bengal encashes so very often as evidence of its “riches,” would have lived and died nameless if they subscribed to the ideologies fueling the state since 2011. After a recent visit to the state where I spent the first 21 years of my life and which is currently heading… Continue reading Bengal’s Lose-Lose Election
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Secular, The Most Dreaded ‘S’ Word in India
‘Secularism’ has officially become a dirty word in India. In a country that is lost and aching, people are slipping deeper and deeper into a bottomless pit of hate and division. Robbed of our aspirations and opportunities or maybe just stoking our deep-seated bigotry, we have become so engrossed in our recreational hate that we… Continue reading Secular, The Most Dreaded ‘S’ Word in India
The Human Cost of a Pandemic
An economy can do without a writer like myself, or a software engineer and such, but it just cannot do without industrial labourers, manufacturers, farmers, construction workers, etc.
Elections 2019, What Happened?
BJP's divisive formula was so powerful that it managed to send a terror-accused extreme rightwinger to the Parliament, while an Oxford scholar who had single-handedly revolutionized public schools in Delhi lost out.
Trump: The Dumbest Supervillain
US President Donald Trump is being packaged and sold as an evil genius by the nation’s crafty media and entertainment industry.
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