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A Life's Journey with the Constitution of India | Arup Kumar Sen

Arup Kumar Sen — 2026-06-01T03:35:38Z

Very recently, Indira Jaising, the eminent legal practitioner in the Supreme Court, has expressed her thoughts in her conversations with Ritu Menon, the noted feminist writer and publisher. The conversations have been incorporated in the book titled – The Constitution is My Home: Conversations on a Life in Law (Harper Collins Publishers, India, 2026).
In the Author's Note, Indira Jaising stated: “Over the past six decades of my legal career, not a single day has passed without my entering (…)

- 2026

Reading Gandhi

Arup Kumar Sen — 2026-05-22T04:31:24Z

Kumkum Sangari

- 2026

Reading Jadunath Sarkar in Chaotic Times | Arup Kumar Sen

Arup Kumar Sen — 2026-05-12T16:40:39Z

In the current assembly elections, the BJP has come to power in West Bengal with a landslide victory, defeating its nearest rival, the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC). This is the first time that a party which distinctly preaches

- 2026

Reading Noida Workers

Arup Kumar Sen — 2026-05-01T03:25:12Z

The recent workers

- 2026

Rethinking Tribal Life in India | Arup Kumar Sen

Arup Kumar Sen — 2026-04-22T08:55:04Z

More than 50 years ago, the eminent Indian anthropologist and nationalist thinker, Nirmal Kumar Bose, wrote a tract titled

- 2026

What is happening in Assam? | Arup Kumar Sen

Arup Kumar Sen — 2026-04-10T00:40:34Z

On the eve of the assembly elections, the media spotlight is on two non-BJP ruled states

- 2026

SIR and the Great Fear of the Bengali Migrants | Arup Kumar Sen

Arup Kumar Sen — 2026-03-31T02:59:35Z

The special intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list on the eve of the assembly elections in West Bengal has generated great fear among the Bengali migrants. The Telegraph reported (March 22, 2026) in this context:

- 2026

SIR in West Bengal: A Tool of Mass Exclusion | Arup Kumar Sen

Arup Kumar Sen — 2026-02-15T09:33:45Z

Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls has become a contested terrain in West Bengal on the eve of the assembly elections in 2026. Already the names of a large of voters in the State have been deleted in the electoral rolls through this exercise. To put it in the words of The Hindu (February 9, 2026):

- 2026

Metamorphosis of the Rural Job Guarantee Scheme | Arup Kumar Sen

Arup Kumar Sen — 2025-12-21T05:47:41Z

The Union government is set to introduce the Viksit Bharat

- 2025

What is Happening in the Kashmir Valley Now? | Arup Kumar Sen

Arup Kumar Sen — 2025-12-06T03:31:31Z

A few doctors from the Kashmir valley have been arrested for their alleged involvement in the recent Red Fort bomb blast case. The entire doctor community in J&K is now suspect in the eyes of the Indian State. Very recently, The Indian Express reported (November 28, 2025):

- 2025