Election watch ‘Corruption first, citizenship later’: Shoaib Daniyal on why CAA is having little impact on the Bengal elections . A new ...
Election watch
- ‘Corruption first, citizenship later’: Shoaib Daniyal on why CAA is having little impact on the Bengal elections.
- A new generation of ‘Miya’ Muslims in Assam may vote for Congress-AIUDF – but only out of compulsion, writes Arunabh Saikia.
- Will MK Stalin’s reshaping of the DMK pay off – and vindicate Karunanidhi’s succession plan, asks Sruthisagar Yamunan.
- Will poor organisation be a roadblock for BJP in its Bengal stronghold of Jungle Mahal, asks Shoaib Daniyal.
- Assam elections: The state with the worst gender-based violence gets a women’s manifesto, writes Sreeparna Chattopadhyay.
- Bengal election: How BJP and TMC are using old census data to fuel identity-based politics, writes
Snigdhendu Bhattacharya.
Weekend Reads
- “One hundred and twenty-three days into the farmers’ protest, as Delhi’s burning summer approaches, one of the few women farm leaders there, Harinder Bindu, describes her 30-year journey in building solidarities across caste, class and gender to Riddhi Dastidar.
- The myth of Congress socialism: Pratinav Anil says Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi were never really on the Left to begin with.
- Aniket Aga, KA Shaji and Chitrangada Choudhury trace the evolution of the Love Jihad myth from Kerala into the rest of the country.
- The Keeladi excavations may alter the world’s ideas about the earliest Indians. But, Sowmiya Ashok writes, progress hasn’t been smooth for one of the country’s most sensational archaeological projects.
- “When I wrote this book [Midnight’s Children] I...
