The Cockroach Janta Party, which started off as a joke, is now a major political force threatening the rule of the BJP & Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Will it last and can it bring change to India?
Tag: History
The Politics of Visibility After Electoral Victory
The 2026 BJP electoral victory in West Bengal ushers in a new shift for the Indian border state, but how much of a role did the politics of visibility play here?
The Unfinished Press: Media and Political Resistance from Bengal to Bangladesh
“What has. Changed is not the tremendous power of the media, but who controls it and how power responds to it.”
Bhasha Andolon: Diverging Visions of Bengali Identity
To embrace Bangla as our mother language has always been a battleground for defining national identity. However, what’s the full story?
Stateless Bengalis of Assam: Weaponizing Identity, Migration & Border (In)Security
Recent deportations of Bengalis and Muslims in India to Bangladesh have deep-seated roots to Assamese border tensions from the British colonial period, but why has it gaining national attention now?
“Bengal Memory” – An Interview with Director Fahim Hamid
In this interview with Bangladeshi-American filmmaker, Fahim Hamid, we learn about perhaps the first attempt by a diaspora Bangladeshi to cover the events & legacy of 1971 in a feature documentary.
While We Argue over Cultural Appropriation, South Asian Workers are Still Dying
Twelve years ago, over 1,100 garment workers—mostly young women—were killed in the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh. But fast-forward, and South Asian fashion is trending again…without the reckoning.
The Bengali of the English: Xenophobia in the Colony
How did the English attempt to learn Bangla reflect in the dichotomy of formal & informal Bangla that we know today?
JKLF engages with US Legislators to secure Diplomatic Support for an Independent Kashmir as the Permanent Solution to the Kashmir Conflict
On March 5, 2024, the Jammu & Kashmir Liberation Front engaged Texas state legislators for diplomatic support for an Independent Kashmir
How Martyred Intellectuals’ Day changed the course of Bangladesh’s history
The story of Dr. Mujibur Rahman, a pioneer in cholera research, who survived the December 14 anti-intellectual killings.