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If I didn't write, I wouldn't know who I was. Journalist @ThePrintIndia. Formerly @ndtv @indianexpress @moneycontrolcom @ttindia. Calcutta | Delhi.

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As a Bengali, I refuse to watch 'The Bengal Files'. It seeks to inflame, not inform

As a Bengali, I refuse to watch 'The Bengal Files'. It seeks to inflame, not inform

What happened in Bengal in 1946 cannot be reduced to a two-dimensional morality play. It requires honesty, se…

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The pigs are still walking: George Orwell's Animal Farm warning, 80 years on

The pigs are still walking: George Orwell's Animal Farm warning, 80 years on

On its 80th anniversary, Animal Farm remains relevant not because it predicts one political ideology's failin…

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From Vietnam to Ukraine: What US Presidents get wrong about war

From Vietnam to Ukraine: What US Presidents get wrong about war

Trump Ukraine war promise, US foreign policy failures: Donald Trump isn't the first to promise peace. He is j…

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What the silenced, suppressed angst of Durga in Pather Panchali tells us about girlhood

What the silenced, suppressed angst of Durga in Pather Panchali tells us about girlhood

Durga of Pather Panchali: The forgotten girl who shaped Apu's story and broke literary ground for Indian girl…

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Satire died on a Friday night: What Stephen Colbert's silencing tells us about free speech

Satire died on a Friday night: What Stephen Colbert's silencing tells us about free speech

Stephen Colbert's Late Show cancelled: When satire gets too real, power pulls the plug. His exit isn't cancel…

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Fake Birkenstocks bother me, but so does the appropriation of Kolhapuris by Prada

Fake Birkenstocks bother me, but so does the appropriation of Kolhapuris by Prada

Birkenstocks counterfeit to Prada Kohlapuri controversy: From a courtroom battle in Delhi to the runway contr…

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Gloria Steinem and the feminism that refused to behave

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She made women feel that their lives were not small subjects. That someone was standing up for them and repeatedly questioning the supposedly natural arrangement that benefited men disproportionately. For a young woman growing up decades later, Steinem could represent something simpler.
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Hijab doesn’t become progressive just because a woman chose it

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And the language of “choice” has become too convenient in modern times. A choice does not exist in a vacuum. Women choose within families, communities, histories and belief systems. They can’t make entirely genuine choices inside structures that were never designed to treat them equally.
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Indian liberalism wasn’t imported from Britain, says author Rahul Sagar

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Rahul Sagar’s book, The Birth of Indian Liberalism, restores Parmanand’s 1891 Letters to an Indian Raja, which he describes as the first work of …
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What was your first job as a journalist?

The Telegraph Kolkata

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Nah

How is social media changing news?

Better reach. It has its downsides. Most fake, while some videos help a lot with a certain incident