If democracy is to endure, it must tame capitalism, not merely coexist with it.
In “The Revolutionists,” the Guardian journalist Jason Burke explores how leftist militants gave way to Islamist ones in the ...
There is an interesting phenomenon that has been discussed on various platforms, from social media to research journals, about the fear among young Indonesians to marry.
From a Leftist perspective, Aijaz Ahmad succinctly concluded, “Khomeini’s takeover was one of those rare conjunctures in which the revolution and the counter-revolution were condensed in the same ...
“THE top 10% own three-quarters of global wealth, while the bottom half holds only 2%.” So states the World Inequality Report 2026. Can democracy survive when capitalism concentrates wealth so ...
Rituparno Ghosh, Calcutta’s cinematic genius, transformed Bengali and Indian cinema with stories that celebrated women, ...
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The soul in the machine

The intellectual landscape of Bengal has historically been a dialogue between the "Red Flag" and the "Ochre Robe," a dialectic between Karl Marx’s historical materialism and Swami Vivekananda’s ...
Behind the ‘flexibility’ of food delivery apps lies old exploitation, where workers, not employees, bear all risks, face ...
The pedagogical torture relies on random terror to break the integrity of an entire population and makes it plastic material for the teachings invented by technocrats. The belief that man can do what ...
Kazi Nazrul Islam, the revered poet of Bengalis around the globe must be sulking in his grave at the disregard and insult meted out to his famous poem " (Mora eki brinte duti kusum), meaning "two ...
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How Economists Depoliticized the Economy

It’s the autumn of 1920, and we are in Brussels. Politicians and economists from across Europe sit at worktables, gathered for the first international economic conference in history. Despite the ...
Tensions reached a boiling point under Carney's Liberal predecessor Justin Trudeau, whose anti-fossil fuels policies were a major irritant to the region You can save this article by registering for ...