Category: Society
General discussion and review of what’s happening in the society, a place for critical review of socio-economic problems
Mumbai local train services to follow vaccine discrimination violating fundamental rights
Reading Time: 4 minutes Mumbai local train services will only allow fully-vaccinated passengers from August 15th. This decision is discriminatory and violates fundamental rights.
Resuming suburban local train service is important for West Bengal’s survival
Reading Time: 3 minutes The suspension of suburban local train service in West Bengal has not just caused inconvenience to commuters but also affected the economy.
Birendra Chattopadhyay: A poet in a centenary year
Reading Time: 6 minutes September 2nd is gone with the wind and a birth centenary year of a renowned Bengali poet has passed by in the corona-ruled lockdown times. A people’s poet has unfortunately […]
Social distancing: Is this term really what one should use?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Social distancing is a term that’s used 24/7 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. But in our social context, is this the right term to use at this hour?
Accusation, demise and Islamophobia: Social media on the last Wednesday of April
Reading Time: 5 minutes How Irrfan Khan’s death was used to deny the US’s accusation of religious intolerance in India. Can mourning Khan’s death imply there is no Islamophobia?
Distancing bodies, shifting minds: The ambivalence of ‘being together’ during COVID-19
Reading Time: 4 minutes An effort to map the individual physical and psychological transformations that the world is undergoing during the lockdown period due to COVID-19.
Why just rescue students from Kota but not migrant workers?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Yogi Adityanath regime could allocate 250 buses to rescue 7,500 students from Kota but his government and the BJP ignored the plight of migrant workers.
The mass exodus of poor from cities is not caused by the lockdown but Modi’s apathy
Reading Time: 3 minutes The mass exodus of millions of workers from metros to their native villages isn’t merely a result of the COVID19 outbreak but Modi regime’s sheer apathy.
Who is spreading Coronavirus in India?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Who is spreading Coronavirus in India? Which class is responsible for the spread of Coronavirus and why would people pay for this class’s irresponsibility?
Alleged custody killing in Sinthee Police Station and TMC’s similarity with BJP
Reading Time: 4 minutes The death of Rajesh Kumar Shaw in Sinthee Police Station, Kolkata, due to custodial torture, exhibited, once more, the similarity between BJP and TMC.
‘Kill one’s reputation, kill one’s cause’: BJP and the politics of character assassination
Reading Time: 5 minutes How the strategy of character assassination is adopted by the BJP to combat the challenge thrown by Shaheen Bagh.
Kamlesh Tiwari murder case hijacked by the Hindutva camp to score brownies
Reading Time: 3 minutes Kamlesh Tiwari, a notorious Hindutva fascist leader who belonged to the Hindu Mahasabha and later founded a small outfit called the Hindu Samaj Party, was murdered at his house in […]
Inside Murshidabad’s triple murder case and the RSS’s filthy political drama
Reading Time: 5 minutes The gruesome murder of Bandhu Prakash Pal, a school teacher, and his family in Murshidabad’s Jiaganj has sparked a communal controversy. We analyse the case
No to human rights: CRPF’s Khushbu Chauhan’s NHRC diatribe
Reading Time: 3 minutes CRPF woman constable Khushbu Chauhan’s diatribe against dissent in democracy exposed Hindutva state’s contempt for human rights, followed by its forces.
Will Durga Puja of Bengalis succumb to Hindutva’s juggernaut?
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Hindutva fascist camp is frantically attacking Bengal’s Durga Puja celebration in a bid to transform the occasion into a puritan version of Navratri.
Jinnah resurrected in Modi-fied India by the Hindutva fascist rampage
Reading Time: 7 minutes Though Jinnah is a despised name in Indian polity, yet, the actions of PM Modi and his BJP has instigated fresh trouble for the BJP as they seek respite.
Countering Hindutva radicalisation through affirmative actions can prevent teenagers from becoming Richa Bharti
Reading Time: 6 minutes Hindutva radicalisation programme of the RSS is creating an army of bigoted fanatics like Richa Bharti. Deradicalisation is a must to stop this menace.
Not “cheap” tourists Mr Kamat, Goa is threatened by your government-backed corporate aggression
Reading Time: 3 minutes Goa Forward Party leader Durgaprasad Kamat recently made a derogatory statement over “cheap tourist” by citing a photo of people sleeping at Goa airport.
The vexing alarm of water crisis is ringing in India
Reading Time: 6 minutes India is running out of water. It’s not surprising that the Modi regime and its corporate funders are exploiting the situation to profiteer from mass agony.
Malnutrition and broken public healthcare triggering children’s death in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur
Reading Time: 5 minutes The children’s death due to AES in Bihar’s Muzaffarpur, has a malnutrition and poverty angle to it that no one is talking about.