The 2019 Lok Sabha election result in West Bengal is not the real problem for the Trinamool Congress. The bigger worry is that it is grappling to check the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) rise in the eastern state. That the […]
My dear fellow Muslims, I write this letter to you in the hope that you will realise how important it is to take charge of your lives, to step out of the age-old ‘we are oppressed’ narrative and start fixing […]
Eminent Muslim citizens of Kolkata have written to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee expressing deep concern over the crimes committed by their community members and at the same time demanding strict action to address the allegations of minority appeasement. […]
Kolkata : Al Ameen Mission the West Bengal based Muslim NGO in recent years has produced numerous professionals including 2500 doctors, 4000 engineers and 65 civil servants. This year too Al-Ameen Mission has broken all its previous records as 422 […]
In the recently concluded Indian elections the Right-wing forces led by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have recaptured power with a massive electoral mandate. The BJP won 303 seats out of the 543 seats with a 38 per cent vote-share. Series […]
New Delhi: Among the ministers who took oath in PM Modi’s new cabinet, 6 women are included. The name of Debhashree Chaudhary of West Bengal is also named among these 6 women. Debashree Chaudhary, who made her position in PM […]
A postgraduate student at Jadavpur University has accused a professor of frequently taunting him in class A postgraduate student at Jadavpur University has accused a professor of frequently taunting him in class and linking everything from his academic performance to […]
The decades after the partition saw nation and religion dominating politics in Bengal. For those like Mohanto who fled from East Pakistan to return to India, politics was no longer a priority — the immediate need was survival. The Dalits […]
The following is Deep Halder’s interview with author-activist Manoranjan Byapari in the former’s book ‘Blood Island: An Oral History of the Marichjhapi Massacre’, and has been excerpted with permission from the author and the publisher, Harper Collins India. Manoranjan Byapari […]
Derek O’Brien also showed an image of a WhatsApp message asking people to come to Amit Shah’s roadshow with rods and arms to fight the TMC and police. Amid a blame game between TMC and BJP over the destruction of […]
