Shakti in Bengal politics: Durga Puja, Nationalism, and Sacred Power
Explore how Shakti traditions, Durga Puja, and tantric culture shape political identity and state power in Bengal, from Bankim Chandra to contemporary leadership.
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Cultural Invasion of Bengal: Hindutva challenge and the Left’s legacy
As BJP’s Hindutva project targets Bengal’s syncretic, Left-influenced political culture, the 2026 Assembly Elections become a battle over Bengali identity itself.
Sacred Stereotypes: How AI turns Faith into Fear
Usage of AI to scale religious propaganda is exaggerated through fabricating evidence by AI-generated videos and photographs. This if further affected by lack of responsiveness of companies to take down hateful content on their platforms.
Power, Poetry, and Protest: Churchill, Tagore, and Gandhi in the Early Twentieth Century
Each of them shaped the politics of their times and continue to stay relevant even today. Comparing and contrasting Tagore, Churchill and Gandhi!
Rebellious women: Whose JNU after all?
As the women of JNU who drove the university’s reputation and success over the years, they now face a twofold adversity: from the internal administration and from the external forces of society, all directed towards JNU. They face this because, first, they are women; second, because they are women of JNU.
Neither Law nor Liberation: Maoism in Adivasi India
Home Minister Amit Shah promised to eliminate Naxalism by 2026, the Communist Party of India (Maoist) appears to be in steep decline. Maoist jan adalats bypassed due process, while the state relied on exceptional legal regimes, vigilante formations like Salwa Judum, and expanded use of the UAPA.
Western democracies on the edge? Polarisation, protests, and the battle for legitimacy
Western democracies have been seeing a crisis of legitimacy as citizens are not trusting institutions and governments anymore. What would this lead to?
Great power rush in melting Arctic: Where does India stand?
Melting ice in the arctic and possibilities of energy resources has led to the US, Russia and China recalibrating their arctic positing. India must play a role too.
Learning in an Unfamiliar Tongue? Reflections from a Delhi School
Most Indian schools have children who have different mother-tongues compared to medium of instruction. This poses unique learning challenges to policymakers.
Coaching Classrooms, Or what do you call a group of parrots?
Under the lure of a good life, coaching centres in India exploit the dreams of parents and put students into cages that can’t dream
Sino-Taiwan tensions and India’s strategic dilemma
Developing tensions in the Taiwan strait have consequences for India and the world as one-fifth of global maritime trade goes through the strait, unlike the crowded Malacca strait. Amidst One China Policy and unofficial relations with Taiwan, India must ensure its tech supply chains are secured.
Free-riders of Freedom: Political parties
Cash transfers are on the rise in India, compromising capital expenditures. Using game theory, political parties can be modelled in an externalities problem.
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