2025

January 13, 2025
Preventing silicosis demands integrating technological, public health and sustainable livelihood solutions.
Sitting on his haunches in the midst of a massive pile of red sandstone blocks, 45-year-old Hemraj Kishore

An intriguing criminal case (Case No. CRR 2540 of 2024) has come up in Calcutta High Court and is expected to unravel the unholy nexus between corporates, criminals, Govt officials and Police. Notices have been issued to the Govt of West Bengal, a Tata Group company, the insurance regulator IRDAI, the Chaudhary Charan Singh University (erstwhile Meerut University) and an individual by the name of Mr. Tarun Samant.
The original FIR was registered in the year 2020 in the Park Street Police (…)

The recent change in the political regime in Bangladesh has escalated Indo-Bangladesh border surveillance in West Bengal. Reports carried in The Indian Express bear testimony to it:

Excluded, illtreated and left behind
Although disability rights movement has not registered a presence in India, it has undoubtably made significant progress in the lives of persons with disability, pushing a more disabled-friendly policy framework, with accessible to public spaces, rehabilitation programmes, disability support services

A shorter version of this article appeared in The Wire on January 5, 2025. Titled,

US President-elect Donald Trump

The recent news headlines on the display of the book

Abstract
A complex interaction of exceptionalism and status dilemma

A Christmas Carol For Our Times
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer
had a shiny nose,
and in the dark
every one swore it glowed!
All the children made fun of Rudolph
and his nose,
so the story goes;
never included him in their games,
which is an utter shame.
One day, Santa came
and asked Rudolph
if he would drive his very own sleigh.
and the children sang,
Rudolph the reindeer
it

No matter what we say We want violence More violence, more, more, and more, Pile up, please.
We pray to God every day Please, You, almighty Shower us with not peace, but violence. Peace is for the feeble in heart We mighty humans have a stomach for violence.
There is nothing new here We are made in the image of our ancestors, are we not? We grind our teeth in rage If you do not listen, we will tear you apart, Stone you to death like Hypatia, Or burn you alive in a stake, as we did to (…)