Ankush Pal

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cultural theorist Sumanta Banerjee draws on folklore and social history in his book to trace connections betw…

The Left's problem today is not one of branding or messaging. It is that the social constituency it historica…

Public money is flowing towards big-ticket projects that are visible, and can be inaugurated and photographed…

He is best known as the author of 'Devdas', but it is in his anti-colonial novel 'Pather Dabi' that readers w…

He is best known as the author of 'Devdas', but it is in his anti-colonial novel 'Pather Dabi' that readers w…

Queues at hospitals, ration shops, and offices reveal a hidden inequality: India's poor lose time as a form o…

The Supreme Court's stay on the UGC's 2026 equity regulations reveals deep institutional discomfort with reco…

The enhanced clarity shows the environmental damage and social violence that form the backdrop to middle-clas…

Tees, a controversial film by Dibakar Banerjee, tackles censorship, displacement, and authoritarianism in con…

Tithi Bhattacharya's book uses supernatural beliefs as an unexpected window into the profound transformations…

The three original tales of Kidderpore, a colonial port which is now a dockyard, tell one story about communi…

Across India, the presence of livestock in urban areas highlights failures in city planning, infrastructure, …

The Delhi Metro is yet another large-scale project termed as "development" but which seldom aids most of the …

Through Udayan, Lahiri offers a complex meditation on the relationship between individual conviction and the …

The India bloc splits over caste-based vs economic reservations. Sule and Gandhi's clash exposes ideological …

Badruddin Umar's death marks the end of an intellectual trajectory. His Marxist analysis of Bangladeshi histo…

His death removes one of the few voices capable of connecting contemporary crises to their roots in the failu…

The ambitious Shabdakalpa project, launching in 2028, aims to map the history of every Bengali word in digita…