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Ankush Pal

(He/Him)
  • Assistant Consultant, Policy & Development Advisory Group
  • Writer, Freelance
London
As seen in: Medium, The Indian Express, Flipboard, Frontline India, Outlook (India), Physical Review B, The Quint, Scroll.in, The Wire (India), The Caravan and
Covers:  Caste, Class, Education, Gender, Local History, People's Movements, and Urban Affairs/Development/Planning.
Sociologist researching and writing about urban spatiality and temporality

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A sociologist and policy researcher with expertise in climate action strategies, development policies, and urban sustainability. Experienced in qualitative and quantitative methodologies through transdisciplinary projects with a record of academic and journalistic publications.

Ankush Pal’s Journalist Portfolio

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The Cockroach Janata Party’s caste blindspot

The Cockroach Janata Party’s caste blindspot

The emergence of the reactionary Reservation Hatao Andolan in the wake of the CJP protests is bringing questi…

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'India's Forests, Real and Imagined': Forests as literary-political figures across three millenni...

'India's Forests, Real and Imagined': Forests as literary-political figures across three millenni...

Alan Johnson's book complements environmental histories and anthropological studies with a literary-critical …

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The turnstile state

The turnstile state

Delhi Metro station closures during protests reveal how urban infrastructure, surveillance, and crowd managem…

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'Caste in Bengal' treats caste not as residual folklore but as a living structure of domination

'Caste in Bengal' treats caste not as residual folklore but as a living structure of domination

The essays in the book remind the reader that castelessness myths represent particularly insidious caste poli…

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Ramayana, Hindutva and the Battle Over Myth in India

Ramayana, Hindutva and the Battle Over Myth in India

As a ₹835-crore Ramayana nears release, the struggle over mythology, caste, culture, and political power rais…

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The BJP's victory in West Bengal belies Bengali exceptionalism and bhadralok liberalism

The BJP's victory in West Bengal belies Bengali exceptionalism and bhadralok liberalism

THERE WAS A particular kind of grief performed by English-speaking Bengali liberals on social media in the af…

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Articles

A Taxi App Suspended a Dalit Cab Driver For 100 Years for Protesting Casteism. Here's What This Says About India

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By Ankush Pal
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The Cockroach Janata Party’s caste blindspot

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By Ankush Pal
| Himal Southasian Verified
THE COCKROACH JANATA PARTY (CJP) began in May 2026 with a single demand: the resignation of India’s education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan. Abhijeet Dipke, the 30-year-old who started the CJP after a satirical post on X (formerly Twitter) went viral, made the NEET paper leak the movement’s first major issue, calling it a “system failure” that shattered the trust of over 220,000 medical aspirants.
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‘India’s Forests, Real and Imagined’: Forests as literary-political figures across three millennia

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By Ankush Pal
| Scroll.in Verified
India’s Forests, Real and Imagined: Writing the Modern Nation by Alan Johnson is an ambitious work of literary ecocriticism that attempts to trace the figure of the forest across approximately three millennia of Indian literary history. It looks at the ancient Sanskrit epics and Tamil Sangam poetry, proceeds to colonial-era nationalism and progressive realism, and then to contemporary postcolonial fiction and Indigenous writing.
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Have you ever used a typewriter?

I wish I could.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

Every pitch should clearly mention the requirements and the pay they are offering instead of being vague about it, especially the latter.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

I rely upon Google Docs and the default Notes app.