Mohammad Ali Jinnah was the original practitioner of the politics of religious polarisation, a destructive strategy of mass mobilisation that the BJP has pursued since 2014, with telling results.

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After major Assembly election setbacks, Opposition parties have rallied around the NEET-UG 2026 leak controversy. Can exam reform sustain INDIA bloc unity?

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Novelist Rahul Bhattacharya reflects on cricket, class, travel, reading culture and the decade-long making of "Railsong".

The West Bengal election raises questions about voter deletions, electoral integrity, and the future of democracy in India.

Pather Panchali—arguably the best-known novel in the Bengali language—was written by my grandfather Bibhutibhushan ...

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The NSA arrests of Satyam Verma and others expose how worker solidarity, labour rights activism, and constitutional ...

The image, vivid in memory as if based on a scene I had witnessed in real life, is actually from the pages of a book— Aranyak ...

Trump announced that President Xi Jinping has accepted an invitation to visit the US on September 21, 2026. Later meetings ...