India

Bengal’s Descent into Darkness

Jaideep Mazumdar

What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow. If this old saying retains some relevance today, it’s as a way to place the tragedy of the state’s slide in perspective.

India This Week

arindam

Indian citizenship for Sri Lankan refugees; handshake and a boot in West Bengal; Bihar’s bank ban; Kashmir protest; and creating second-class doctors

“We Shall Certainly Defeat the Government”

Rahul Pandita

Somewhere in the impregnable jungles of Dandakaranya, the supreme commander of CPI (Maoist) spoke to Open on issues ranging from the Government’s proposed anti-Naxal offensive to Islamist Jihadist movements

Of Wars and Demons

Open

Indian forces are ready for a big offensive against Naxal insurgents in Dandakaranya and elsewhere. Let’s be clear, India will be at war

Everybody is a Guerilla

Rahul Pandita

Can the Centre’s anti-Naxal offensive really achieve anything?

Vulture in Wait…

Ninad D. Sheth

...for your intervention that could save it from extinction, now that the threat is real indeed.

The Many Perceptions of Rape

Shubhangi Swarup

Doctors are surprised if the victim co-operates with them, for policemen wives cannot be raped by husbands, the defence tries to prove that the victim is a major because anyone over 16 is thought to have given consent, judges worry about marital prospects of victims…everyone expects this crime to fit into their picture