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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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The Cockroach Janata Party’s caste blindspot

The Cockroach Janata Party’s caste blindspot

Himal Southasian — The emergence of the reactionary Reservation Hatao Andolan in the wake of the CJP protests is bringing questions about caste and inequality in Indian education to the forefront
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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...

Scroll.in — Alan Johnson's book complements environmental histories and anthropological studies with a literary-critical focus.
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The turnstile state

The turnstile state

Frontline India — Delhi Metro station closures during protests reveal how urban infrastructure, surveillance, and crowd management intersect with class and state power. Read the analysis.
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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

Scroll.in — The essays in the book remind the reader that castelessness myths represent particularly insidious caste politics by rendering domination invisible.
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Ramayana, Hindutva and the Battle Over Myth in India

Ramayana, Hindutva and the Battle Over Myth in India

Frontline India — As a ₹835-crore Ramayana nears release, the struggle over mythology, caste, culture, and political power raises questions about who defines India.
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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

Himal Southasian — THERE WAS A particular kind of grief performed by English-speaking Bengali liberals on social media in the aftermath of the recent West Bengal election results,
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'Logic in a Popular Form': When Bengal's syncretic traditions countered orthodox religious practi...

'Logic in a Popular Form': When Bengal's syncretic traditions countered orthodox religious practi...

Scroll.in — Cultural theorist Sumanta Banerjee draws on folklore and social history in his book to trace connections between religious practice and social change.
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Spectre of Left in West Bengal : Why CPIM's revival talk misreads its collapse - Maktoob

Spectre of Left in West Bengal : Why CPIM's revival talk misreads its collapse - Maktoob

Maktoob — The Left's problem today is not one of branding or messaging. It is that the social constituency it historically organised has been structurally transformed.
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As governments chase spectacle over governance, India's cities are crumbling

As governments chase spectacle over governance, India's cities are crumbling

Scroll.in — Public money is flowing towards big-ticket projects that are visible, and can be inaugurated and photographed, rather than those that keep cities functional.
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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay at 150: The rebel novelist whose words can still ignite fires

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay at 150: The rebel novelist whose words can still ignite fires

Scroll.in — He is best known as the author of 'Devdas', but it is in his anti-colonial novel 'Pather Dabi' that readers witness an unwavering belief in human dignity.
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Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay at 150: The rebel novelist whose words can still ignite fires

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay at 150: The rebel novelist whose words can still ignite fires

Scroll.in — He is best known as the author of 'Devdas', but it is in his anti-colonial novel 'Pather Dabi' that readers witness an unwavering belief in human dignity.
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How India's Poor Lose Years Waiting in Queues (2026)

How India's Poor Lose Years Waiting in Queues (2026)

Frontline India — Queues at hospitals, ration shops, and offices reveal a hidden inequality: India's poor lose time as a form of structural violence.
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Caste, courts, and the myth of neutrality in higher education

Caste, courts, and the myth of neutrality in higher education

Frontline India — The Supreme Court's stay on the UGC's 2026 equity regulations reveals deep institutional discomfort with recognising caste discrimination and enforcing accountability in higher education.
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The 4k Restoration of Aranyer Din Ratri Offers A Precise Critique of Socio-Ecological Violence in...

The 4k Restoration of Aranyer Din Ratri Offers A Precise Critique of Socio-Ecological Violence in...

Frontline India — The enhanced clarity shows the environmental damage and social violence that form the backdrop to middle-class leisure.
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Tees: Dibakar Banerjee's Shelved Film on Censorship, Resistance & Kashmir's Legacy

Tees: Dibakar Banerjee's Shelved Film on Censorship, Resistance & Kashmir's Legacy

Frontline India — Tees, a controversial film by Dibakar Banerjee, tackles censorship, displacement, and authoritarianism in contemporary India. Explore its cultural and political relevance today.
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'Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence': How colonial Bengal's ghosts tell the story of modern India

'Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence': How colonial Bengal's ghosts tell the story of modern India

Scroll.in — Tithi Bhattacharya's book uses supernatural beliefs as an unexpected window into the profound transformations of 19th-century Bengali society.
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The wandering al-Khidr or English mispronunciation? Stories behind the name of a Kolkata locality

The wandering al-Khidr or English mispronunciation? Stories behind the name of a Kolkata locality

Scroll.in — The three original tales of Kidderpore, a colonial port which is now a dockyard, tell one story about communities make sense of their place in the world.
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When Cities Ignore Cattle: India's Urban Infrastructure Crisis

When Cities Ignore Cattle: India's Urban Infrastructure Crisis

Frontline India — Across India, the presence of livestock in urban areas highlights failures in city planning, infrastructure, and the gap between design and reality.
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The Delhi Metro Is Just A Prestige Project

The Delhi Metro Is Just A Prestige Project

The Polis Project — The Delhi Metro is yet another large-scale project termed as "development" but which seldom aids most of the population.
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Jhumpa Lahiri's Revolutionary as Romantic

Jhumpa Lahiri's Revolutionary as Romantic

Alal O Dulal — Through Udayan, Lahiri offers a complex meditation on the relationship between individual conviction and the structural possibilities for social transformation. Udayan represents the fate of an entire generation of middle-class radicals whose political awakening, however sincere, occurred in conditions that made meaningful change impossible.
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Sule vs Gandhi: Caste vs economic reservation debate

Sule vs Gandhi: Caste vs economic reservation debate

Frontline India — The India bloc splits over caste-based vs economic reservations. Sule and Gandhi's clash exposes ideological fissures and threatens opposition credibility against BJP's social justice narrative.
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Badruddin Umar: A Marxist Historian of Revolutionary Possibility

Badruddin Umar: A Marxist Historian of Revolutionary Possibility

alalodulal.org — Badruddin Umar's death marks the end of an intellectual trajectory. His Marxist analysis of Bangladeshi history, class struggle, and political co-optation remains crucial for understanding contemporary challenges and future revolutionary possibilities.
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Badruddin Umar (1931-2025): Bangladesh's unread revolutionary

Badruddin Umar (1931-2025): Bangladesh's unread revolutionary

Scroll.in — His death removes one of the few voices capable of connecting contemporary crises to their roots in the failures of postcolonial development.
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The making of Shabdakalpa, a pioneering historical dictionary of Bengali

The making of Shabdakalpa, a pioneering historical dictionary of Bengali

Himal Southasian — The ambitious Shabdakalpa project, launching in 2028, aims to map the history of every Bengali word in digital form, preserving cultural memory and inspiring future Southasian language initiatives.
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