The state lives in a post-truth era. Here misinformation abounds, and scientific evidence is often supplanted by alternative facts, pseudoscience, fake news, and conspiracy...
The public who consume untruths are mostly ignorant. They acquire information on a catastrophe and causes for that from media.
People in public life, political...
The tumultuous debates and pandemonium in Parliament have turned too confrontational.
West Bengal’s young Lok Sabha member who also happens to be the de facto...
NEW DELHI: It is absence of economic opportunities arising out of a distorted democracy that made lives of women miserable in West Bengal.
Development, wrote...
Even the champions of subalterns, the Left, felt that by selecting her BJP insulted the constitutional process.
Subaltern studies cover individuals or groups of inferior...
Democracies across the world frame rules, create instruments, specify processes for political funding.
Politics is not a productive activity. That is because it does not...
The value of intellectuals is measured in terms of their contribution to the ruling political class.
The abysmal poverty of intellect in West Bengal, its...
The product manufactured in the ‘cracker’ factories is lethal and does not qualify as firecrackers. An innovative product is called ‘alu bomb’, a cracker...
The West Bengal panchayat election 2023 has opened the Pandora’s Box which was carefully hidden by the ruling party Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee....
Mamata made New Delhi a convenient scapegoat for channelizing West Bengal’s resentment.
The politics of Mamata Banerjee stands on three pillars—use of resentment, spreading falsehoods...
Inaccuracy is the rule in the state, suppression of information is the system and undermining the Constitutional authorities and processes are prevalent.
A fall into...
India is focused on handicrafts, a backward looking policy to make a place in the world’s high-tech toys market.
New Delhi: When Indian Prime Minister...
President’s Rule may be staring at West Bengal.
When a new government steps in, it has to address three issues—the trappings of yesterday, the interests...
For a farmer not connected politically getting berth in cold storage is not a cakewalk.
West Bengal’s isolation from the national mainstream is illustrated by...
