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 […]
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, […]
(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.) […]
আন্দোলন ছিল অনিবার্য। স্বতঃস্ফূর্ত বিক্ষোভই ছিল নিয়তি। কোনও পার্টি/সংগঠন/ইউনিয়নের অনুপস্থিতিতে আন্দোলনের মুখ্য চরিত্র এমনটাই হওয়া স্বাভাবিক। প্রতিবাদ/প্রতিরোধহীন শোষনে ছিবড়ে হয়ে যাওয়া শ্রমিকদের পক্ষে কোনও না কোনও সময়ে প্রত্যাঘাত করাই ছিল অত্যন্ত স্বাভাবিক ঘটনা। কৌশিক দেশে চলমান শ্রমিক আন্দোলন বা বিক্ষোভ এক ঐতিহাসিক ঘটনা। ভারতবর্ষে উত্তাল চল্লিশের দশকেও এমন বিস্তৃত ভূখন্ডে শ্রমিকদের আন্দোলন দেখা […]
(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.) […]