From Gandhi's fast to global resistance: why hunger still moves politics?

Ganesh Chaturthi 2026: The celebrations conclude with emotional immersions that generate severe waste-management and environmental challenges for Indian cities. Municipal corporations are increasingly utilizing artificial ponds and floral waste separation to balance traditional festivities with aquatic ecosystem preservation.

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But why Tucker? What did he do to make millions of people globally collectively grieve? He was, after all, ‘just a dog’ on the internet. But was he?

Medhasree Talapatra

Umar Khalid examines colonial statecraft, subaltern political mobilization, and the tribal life of Singhbhum. He shows how British indirect rule co-opted Manki-Munda customary governance to enforce revenue extraction, codify elite representation, and alter indigenous agrarian relations. Tracking this institutional legacy from Chota Nagpur land settlements to Fifth Schedule governance, the book shapes a critical historic framework for debates on Adivasi rights and development in India.

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More than five decades later, it took another two years to save what remained of the film. From Meena Kumari’s failing health and the death of its creators to a camera negative that had almost melted, Pakeezah has survived not once, but twice—first as a film, and then as a piece of India film history.

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The Kolkata Book Fair celebrates the circulation of books, ideas and cultural memory. Gaza has witnessed the destruction of the very institutions that preserve them. If Israel becomes the fair’s theme country, can the Boi Mela celebrate Israeli culture without making Palestinian suffering invisible?

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Why do we forget the lesson, but remember the teacher? Beyond red ink and examinations, popular culture repeatedly returns to figures like Keating, Nikumbh Sir, and Braithwaite to challenge what education ought to be. An insightful reflection on critical pedagogy, the paradox of good teaching, and the fictional icons who teach us to navigate reality.

Sneha Pan

Harry Potter once offered a generation a world of friendship, belonging and resistance to prejudice. But as HBO revives the franchise, Rowling’s politics have complicated that nostalgia, forcing readers to reconsider what the story means when its author becomes part of the controversy.

Medhasree Talapatra

Uttam Kumar was more than Bengali cinema’s Mahanayak: he was the cinematic construction of th ideal Bengali man. From romantic heroism to the psychological disquiet, his screen persona mapped Bengal’s evolving ideas of masculinity, cultural capital, respectability and aspiration.

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