দিল্লি বড় রুক্ষ। তার মাঝে আজ এই সবুজ, অবুঝ, কাঁচাদের সমারোহে এক অন্য ভারতকে দেখলাম। বর্ণালী বসু “তোমার কি কখনো এ কথা মনে হয়নি আসলে মুখোশ মোটেই বাইরের নয়। বরং ভিতর যাকে আমরা সত্যিকারের মুখ ভাবি,তেমন কিছুই মানুষের নেই। চেষ্টা করো মুখোশ ছিঁড়তে। তোমারই আঙুল বেঁকে যাবে তবু দৃশ্য বদলাবে না।” – মুখোশ, বীরেন্দ্র চট্টোপাধ্যায় […]
The Argentine national football team does not belong to Javier Milei. Nor does it belong to Benjamin Netanyahu. Argentina does not speak with one voice. By Nafisa Nipun Tanjeem Via Common Dreams One day before the FIFA Men’s World Cup final between Argentina and Spain, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his support for Argentina. In […]
The road to fascism, as Ece Temelkuran writes in “Nation of Strangers,” was constructed over the last six decades of neoliberal assault. We have arrived at the terminus. CHRIS HEDGES JULY 20 We are becoming strangers. Strangers in our own countries. Strangers in the world. The values we cherish, the liberties we once […]
ইসরো থেকে বিজ্ঞানীদের পাইকারি হারে পদত্যাগ ভারতীয় মহাকাশ ক্ষেত্রের বেসরকারিকরণের অনিবার্য পরিণতি। সুমন কল্যাণ মৌলিক স্বাধীন ভারতে যে সমস্ত সরকারি প্রতিষ্ঠানগুলো তাদের কর্মদক্ষতা,পরিকল্পনা ও সাফল্যের কারণে সারা পৃথিবীর সম্ভ্রম আদায় করেছিল তাদের মধ্যে ইন্ডিয়ান স্পেস রিসার্চ অর্গানাইজেশন (ইসরো) অগ্রগন্য।একের পর এক সফল মহাকাশ অভিযান, মহাকাশ বিজ্ঞানের উপযোগিতা সাধারণ মানুষকে প্রদান করা এবং বিভিন্ন […]
পশ্চিমবঙ্গের ইতিহাসে পুলিশি হেফাজতে মৃত্যু নতুন নয় — লক-আপে পিটিয়ে মারা, আত্মহত্যা, অসুস্থতার গল্প, এসব এ রাজ্য বহু দেখেছে। কিন্তু ঘোষিত, প্রকাশ্য, প্রায় উদ্যাপিত “এনকাউন্টার” — যেখানে রাষ্ট্র নিজেই গর্ব ভরে জানায় যে সে ‘বিচারের আগেই দণ্ড’ কার্যকর করেছে — এই প্রথম। এবং এইখানেই বিপদের শুরু। টিংকু খান্না ৮ জুলাই, ২০২৬। বারুইপুর। এগারো […]
Rape culture and its critique from the educated middle classes remains restricted to urban contexts rendering the marginalized cases of non-urban, non-dominant sections outside the framework of rape culture and so outside the realm of protests. By Sohini Saha Groundxero | July 14, 2026 Incidences of rape and the protests that have followed from them have […]
The stories of football migrants in my study do not so much capture headline-grabbing instances of a modern slave trade, and certainly not the self-congratulatory narratives of diversity and inclusion. They reveal a much more common story – of ambition and resilience in an unequal and unjust world. By Uroš Kovač, University of Groningen […]
The con of neoliberalism has gutted our democracy and paved the way for fascism. Chris Hedges Jul 03, 2026 Neoliberalism, better understood by its less sanitized term cutthroat capitalism, is the poison that destroyed our democracy. It gave the billionaire class and corporations the ideological cover to impoverish the working class, impose crippling austerity, […]
The death of renowned Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg on 17 June 2026, at the age of 87, marks the loss of one of the most original intellectual voices of the last half-century. Best known for pioneering microhistory and recovering forgotten lives from the margins of the archive, Ginzburg also offered profound reflections on citizenship, memory, […]
Israel is turning on its last important ally in an act of suicidal hubris. CHRIS HEDGES June 22, 2026 Israel is sabotaging the negotiations with Iran and alienating its last important ally by refusing to halt its attacks on Lebanon and withdraw from its occupation of the south. It is determined to reignite a regional […]
That is not investigation; it is intimidation wearing an investigation’s clothes — a counter-terror agency turned into a tool against dissent. Groundxero | June 22, 2026 At 4.30 in the morning on 18 June, a dozen National Investigation Agency (NIA) officers walked into the south Kolkata flat of Jhelum Roy — a scholar, […]
A viral comedy show clip with the “₹370 biryani” remarks has now turned into a police case. What followed was called a “controversy.” It actually should be called a revelation. It is not coincidental that we are living through this biryani moment in a political climate where rape threats are a standard tool of silencing […]
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 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 […]
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 […]