2026

Kumkum Sangari

False allegations and fabricated narratives capture public imagination due to their emotional charge, often spreading faster than truth, particularly through social media and sensationalized reporting. Often stemming from motives like revenge, intention to malign, to set personal score or attention-seeking, these accusations cause immense, sometimes irreparable, reputational and psychological damage to the wrongly accused.
Saffron ecosystem in league with the nouveau riche and upper middle (…)

The 2026 elections for the West Bengal assembly was unprecedented in two ways. First, it was the first ever violence-free election in the history of the State, Secondly, the voter turnout, was nearly 93%. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in this eastern State by bagging a massive 207 seats out of 293 seats. The ruling All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), facing anti-incumbency at the end of its third term, secured only 80 seats and will now sit in Opposition. The Indian (…)

A Reflection on Cosmopolitan Memory, Coexistence, and the Layered Soul of a Kolkata Street
As Bengal changes politically and socially, the other day I went to Flurys on Park Street, ordered its iconic English breakfast, and sat looking out through its glass fa

Abstract
The evolution of Centrally Sponsored Schemes (CSS) in India reflects continuous efforts by the

Every election season, when trains fill with Bengali workers heading home to vote, the cities like Delhi, Gurgaon, Bengaluru, Kochi, Mumbai and Pune they leave behind briefly halt their fast-paced life-style. All across Kerala, the work in gardens, orchards, orchid farms and cocoanut farms also come to a brief halt. The workers here are from rural Bengal, just like those in the big cities. This happens when elections happen in the north-eastern States, Bihar and Odisha too, and States like (…)

Introduction
The state of Maharashtra continues to witness the persistent agrarian distress and challenges in India. One of the grave agrarian crises is the farmers’ suicides. The state accounts for approximately 38% of all farm-sector suicides, the largest share of farmer suicide, in India. (Mohan, 2025). Historically, the state has witnessed persistent farmer suicides between 2015 and 2024; over 37,000 farmer suicides happened in Maharashtra, which exceeds over 3500 per year. This (…)

In your files village weather is rosy)
But this data is fake, this claim is bookish
— Adam Gondvi
Had Adam Gondvi (1947-2011) been alive, he would say,

AT the heart of the war on Iran is the issue of Palestine. That the BRICS foreign ministers

An overwhelming 70% of seats for the two-year-old Tisza party led by Peter Magyar in the Hungarian parliamentary election 2026 is both momentous and instructive. Besides the drubbing of the 16-year-long entrenched authoritarian Orb