Felani murder a shame for India: Rights activist Kiriti Ro...
August 14, 2022
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
Kirity Roy is general secretary of Manabadhikar Suraksha Mancha (MASUM), based in West Bengal, India. He talked to Prothom Alo over the state of peopl...
RSS will either destroy India or India will destroy them:...
March 11, 2022
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
Indian author and rights activist Arundhati Roy has been routinely commenting about the rise and the rule of the Hindu right in the country of nearly...
‘BJP will come to power with decreased seats in Uttar Prad...
February 12, 2022
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
Professor Badri Narayan
The North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) is the largest state of India, in terms of population and plays a significan...
South Asia’s largest Islamic seminary anxious, uncertain a...
February 3, 2022
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
The rough and stocky brick and mortar buildings, typical of an Indian small town, do not easily reveal a neat and well spread out campus tucked betwee...
'Vajpayee and Modi's BJP have no similarity': Sudheendra K...
January 19, 2022
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
Sudheendra Kulkarni Prothom Alo
Sudheendra Kulkarni has worn many hats. A leftist in his initial years, Mumbai-based Sudheendra has been a politi...
Is the Maoist rebellion on the brink of defeat in India?
December 20, 2021
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
The seven-decade insurgency is on the wane after a change in New Delhi's military approach has breached several Maoist strongholds, entrapping or...
US abandonment of Afghanistan could lead to Sino-Indian de...
September 17, 2021
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
Afghan’s trying to get into Kabul airport.
After America withdrew its troops from Afghanistan in a frightful hurry, callously disregard...
Unrest in India's northeastern frontier may morph into a b...
August 13, 2021
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
The Indian authorities are 'reasonably worried' about the inter-state border disputes, cow trade and other unresolved issues.
When Masena Raltek, 47,...
India: BJP’s rise in former communist bastion has Muslims...
February 27, 2021
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
The rally in Chandannagar in 2017 with arms to mark the birthday of Lord Ram [File: Suvojit bagchi/Al Jazeera]
In November 2019, India’s Su...
‘Bengal sees a fight between ‘Baro Bhuiyan’ and the Hindu...
January 24, 2021
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
Ranabir Samaddar
West Bengal is set to witness perhaps the most communally polarised election in 2021 since India’s partition and independe...
Rise of Muslim politics in West Bengal
November 11, 2020
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
Mamata Banerjee at a function with Muslim leaders. Photo: File image
In the run-up to the crucial 2021 elections to the West Bengal State Assembl...
India’s crackdown on cow smuggling adds to Bangladesh's GD...
October 30, 2020
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
The Indian government’s crackdown on cattle smuggling through the intermittently porous India-Bangladesh border, has hugely boosted the industry...
Government was uncomfortable with my Supreme Court petitio...
October 27, 2020
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
The office of one of Kashmir’s well-known newspapers Kashmir Times was sealed earlier this week for reasons not known to the Editor of the paper...
Disarray and disorder in Indian National Congress
September 10, 2020
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
Congress president Sonia Gandhi with her son and former president Rahul Gandhi at 'Gandhi Sandesh Padyatra' on October 2, 2019
The Indian Natio...
Pranabda rose to be Indian President but the Premiership h...
September 1, 2020
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
Former Indian President Pranab Mukherjee died on Monday in a Delhi hospital, where he had undergone brain surgery. He was 84. With the death...
Is Kashmir emerging as a bigger geopolitical flashpoint a...
August 7, 2020
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
The worried faces of Kashmir. Photo: Suvojit Bagchi
Exactly a year after the abrogation of Article 370, the article which had ensured Jammu and K...
Electoral odds are stacked against Mamata, but she might r...
July 20, 2020
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
The All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) is one of the very few Indian political parties to keep combating the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in power at...
Delhi Minorities Commission holds BJP and police responsib...
July 17, 2020
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By: Suvojit Bagchi, Kolkata
Fellow Muslims mourn Muddasir Khan, who died in the Delhi riots
A report published by the Delhi Minorities Commission (DMC) has blamed stat...
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