by P.S. Jayaramu
Of all the Assembly elections this time round, the ongoing polls in West Bengal has attracted extraordinary attention by politicians and analysts from the academia and media. The television channels are giving unusual space to (...)
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West Bengal Assembly Elections: The myth of Bengali Exceptionalism | P S Jayaramu
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What Happened at Sitalkuchi in West Bengal? | Arup Kumar Sen
23 April 2021, by Arup Kumar SenIn the fourth phase of assembly elections in West Bengal on April 10, 2021, Sitalkuchi Block in the district of Cooch Behar witnessed brutal violence unleashed by the Central forces. MASUM, a human rights organization, documented this brutal (...) -
CISF Killings in Sitalkuchi In the Backdrop of an old story, I know | AK Biswas
23 April 2021, by A K BiswasThe Bihar Assembly Elections, 1995 were conducted in various phases to ensure free and fair poll under adequate security cover. The Election Commission of India, converted into a multi-member body in 1989, comprised three retired IAS officers (...) -
Has Traditional Higher Education Been Unduly Elitist? | Arup Maharatna
23 April 2021, by Arup Maharatnaby Arup Maharatna*
It is far from the case that those, who are in the habit of calling our present times in various teleologically smart names such as ‘age of mass media’, ‘knowledge society’, ‘virtual age’, ‘post-truth society’ or ‘age of fake (...) -
Excerpts from Fractured Freedom: A Prison Memoir | Kobad Ghandy
23 April 2021Publisher: Roli Books (Roli Books Pvt Ltd, M-75, Greater Kailash II, Market, New Delhi - 110048) ; First edition (16 March 2021) ; Language: English ; Hardcover: 316 pages ; ISBN-10: 8194969166 ; ISBN-13: 978-8194969167 ; Available here
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Death of a Poet/ Intellectual: Sankha Ghosh (1932-2021) | Arup Kumar Sen
23 April 2021, by Arup Kumar SenSankha Ghosh, the eminent Bengali poet, teacher, critic and public intellectual died on April 21, 2021, after being tested positive for Covid-19 a week ago.
Other than his identity as a legendary Bengali poet, uniqueness of Sankha Ghosh lies in (...) -
Cry, Afghanistan | Apratim Mukarji
23 April 2021, by Apratim MukarjiWho are the happiest people in today’s Afghanistan where the United States has just announced its determination to get out of its “longest war”? No prize for guessing correctly. Barring the Taliban who have only succeeded in tightening up their (...) -
Afghanistan: US exit is with caveats | M K Bhadrakumar
23 April 2021, by M K BhadrakumarApril 22, 2021
The United States and NATO are yet to begin the withdrawal of their forces from Afghanistan but the eyes are cast over the horizon at what lies after the ‘forever war’ formally ends. The US exit strategy in Afghanistan assumes the (...) -
The 73rd Constitutional Amendment in Jammu and Kashmir and Experiences of Functioning of ’Panchayats’ From Other States | Farooq Ahmad Bakloo
23 April 2021by Farooq Ahmad Bakloo*
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During the abrogation of article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir, it was stated that this change will empower the Panchayati Raj in the erstwhile state. However, the question is what about the states that have (...) -
Bangladesh: Looking Back | Sumit Chakravartty
23 April 2021, by Sumit ChakravarttyIn the post-independence history of our sub-continent, 1971 occupies a prominent position. That was the year in which the pernicious two-nation theory which led to the vivisection of our vast landmass in 1947 was given a complete burial with the (...)
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