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The Caste Question in Bengal: Hindu Demographic Anxieties and Repercussions
In pre-1947 Bengal, lower caste political and social aspirations generally received favourable response from the Hindu Nationalists. After 1990 too, the expansion of the BJP in the Hindi-heartland and beyond was the result of a successful combination of Mandir and Mandal. Will this history be repeated in West Bengal also? Time will tell.
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Fact Finding Report on Repression on Delhi NCR Workers’ Protest by Jan Hastakshep
Civil Rights organization “Jan Hastakshep” decided to send a fact-finding team to Noida and Gurgaon-Manesar to comprehensively study the prevailing situation and all the incidents. For this purpose, two separate investigation teams were formed. One team visited Noida on 24 April 2026, and the other visited Gurgaon-Manesar on 17 May 2026. In addition, several labor activists and leaders from Noida and Gurgaon, who had been in jail due to arrests, met the Jan Hastakshep investigation team after being released on bail and provided information about the facts.
EDITOR’S CHOICE
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Birsa’s Forlorn Children
The 150th birth anniversary this year of the tribal martyred hero, Bhagwan Birsa Munda (1874-1900) has begun to be observed with deserved enthusiasm in Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal and other parts of the country. Many Indians, especially those of tribal stock, would perhaps agree that this is an appropriate time to dwell on the abysmal conditions in which Birsa’s children are forced to live and die.
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On the ‘Rahul Gandhi Question’ : A Rejoinder to Ramachandra Guha
The larger question is not whether Rahul Gandhi deserves criticism. Every political leader does. The question is whether the condition of India’s opposition can be adequately explained by focusing primarily on one individual. It cannot.
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Fact Finding Report on Repression on Delhi NCR Workers’ Protest by Jan Hastakshep
Civil Rights organization “Jan Hastakshep” decided to send a fact-finding team to Noida and Gurgaon-Manesar to comprehensively study the prevailing situation and all the incidents. For this purpose, two separate investigation teams were formed. One team visited Noida on 24 April 2026, and the other visited Gurgaon-Manesar on 17 May 2026. In addition, several labor activists and leaders from Noida and Gurgaon, who had been in jail due to arrests, met the Jan Hastakshep investigation team after being released on bail and provided information about the facts.