The Other COVID Warriors
Fighting the COVID battle shoulder-to-shoulder with the doctors and nurses is an army of sanitation workers. Four million of the Safai Karmacharis are the…
Why is George Floyd’s death making the World rally against the police force?
Thousands of Americans are protesting police brutality against people of colour in more than 350 American cities. It started on Tuesday, May 26th a…
Innovation in education led by Budget Private School
Innovation in regular times falls in the bucket of “nice to have” and has to face stiff competition from the “must-haves” bucket for attention…
Suraj Yengde’s ‘Caste Matters’, a bold addition to the anti-caste arsenal
Last year in October, I visited Harvard’s Kennedy School on a rainy morning to meet Suraj Yengde. The tall and lanky scholar greeted me…
Meet the ‘Banglar Ghalib’
The narrative unfolding in India is that of fear, distrust, and polarisation. But does it represent the entire country? Since December of last year,…
The Deep and Often Denied Culture of Bengal’s Identity Politics
Born in Kolkata, then called Calcutta, in the year the Communist Party of India–Marxist [CPI(M)] came to power, I grew a political consciousness later…