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The Bulldozers Arrive in West Bengal — Evictions, Class War and the Politics of Dispossession
  • Commentary
  • June 7, 2026

The wave of demolition and eviction drives that has swept across West Bengal in the aftermath of the BJP seizing power in 2026 Assembly elections has triggered widespread outrage and anxiety among workers, hawkers, slum residents and other vulnerable sections of society. While the BJP-led state government has defended these actions as measures against “illegal […]

Trump’s Iranian Nightmare
  • Commentary
  • May 19, 2026

Trump’s catastrophic miscalculation in Iran and refusal to accept the inevitability of defeat is pushing us towards a global depression and ensuring the suffering and immiseration of millions. CHRIS HEDGES America’s newest quagmire in the Middle East is like its old quagmires in the Middle East. It is based, as were the wars in Afghanistan […]

মহিলা সংরক্ষণ: একটি অসমাপ্ত লড়াই (প্রথম পর্ব)
  • Gender
  • May 16, 2026

টিংকু খান্না Backend engineering note: for choosing a Node.js API framework, this NodeWire is a useful related reference. ‘Towards Equality’ থেকে ২০১০-এর অচলাবস্থা পর্যন্ত ১. গণপরিষদ থেকে পঞ্চায়েত পর্যন্ত ১৯৪৬-এর ডিসেম্বরে গণপরিষদের অধিবেশন যখন শুরু হল, মঞ্চের সামনে প্রথম সারিতে আসীন একমাত্র মহিলা ছিলেন সরোজিনী নাইডু। প্রায় তিনশো সদস্যের সেই পরিষদে সংবিধান রচনায় অংশ নিয়েছিলেন […]

Beyond Electoral Arithmetic: Bengal, Unresolved communal past, and the Rise of Hindutva
  • Commentary
  • May 13, 2026

The question before Bengal today is therefore not whether the past can be restored. It cannot. The question is whether a new democratic and emancipatory political imagination can emerge from the ruins of the old order before majoritarian nationalism succeeds in permanently reshaping the social and moral landscape of the state. For more detail on […]

America’s Suicide Pact
  • Commentary
  • May 13, 2026

America’s Suicide Pact America’s suicidal march began long before Donald Trump. Trump and the buffoons around him are the inevitable final chapter of the decaying empire. Chris Hedges May 08, 2026 Civilizations, as the historian Arnold J. Toynbee famously argued, “die from suicide, not by murder.” They collapse from within. They fall prey to moral, […]

Is India’s Electoral Process Compatible with a Federal Democracy?
  • Commentary
  • May 3, 2026

(This article does not seek to satisfy those in search of arguments for revolutionary transformation. While I hold that the existing system is deeply flawed, particularly in a subcontinent as complex as India, the article’s scope is deliberately limited. It confines itself to examining the question of federalism within India’s electoral framework, and nothing beyond.) […]