Bengal’s history of communal politics is fertile ground for BJP’s polarising agenda

Old formula, new laboratory: Hindutva finds fresh ground in Maharashtra

The Sangh Parivar is testing an old playbook in a once reformist State. Hate speech, street violence, and cultural flashpoints signal the sh

The fight for the idea of India

Democracies require both moral imagination and political action. They need people willing to analyse reality and people willing to engage wi

What does Satyajit Ray’s Mahanagar tell us about Bengal’s politics of prejudice?

Fourteen years after West Bengal’s chief minister dismissed a Park Street rape as a conspiracy, a look at how the 1963 film anticipated the

India's BrahMos belt: Encircling China's backyard

Longitudinal Analysis of Affective Polarization in 12 Western Democracies

Abstract. Recent research has mapped levels of affective polarization worldwide. However, our current knowledge of the longitudinal patterns

In Assam, ‘indigenous’ means many things—until it means Muslim

How the RSS, by astutely marrying Assamese nationalism with Hindutva, turned Muslim immigrants into the perfect outsider.