Angshukanta Chakraborty

While the Congress MP was laughing at PM’s ‘experiments with truth’, his rebuke was about patriarchy unsuccessfully silencing women who laugh.

In five months, India’s first full-time woman defence minister has gone from being a transparency crusader to be part of something highly unsettling.

It will erode both the value of the vote and governmental accountability.

Why is Yogi government in UP mulling action against Raghvendra Vikkram Singh?

Through their daily incantations of violence against the minorities and seculars, the Hindutva apparatchiks are replaying the 70-year-old assassination.

Oxfam’s devastating report is released as World Economic Forum is held in Davos, but who’s listening?

The annual winter meet in praise of global capital faces several challenges, despite the yogic icing on the top.

With Aadhaar hearing ongoing in the Supreme Court, how is this inter-governmental agreement preparing for the issues that are being debated?

Orphaned in Mumbai 26/11 terror attacks, he shouldn’t have to relive his pain over and over again.

This would impact millions of Indian migrant workers working in the 18 ECR countries.

Shekhar Gupta, Manu Joseph and Tom Friedman seem to have accepted state surveillance as integral part of civic life.

Apex court not only needs to undo the grave error of Koushal versus Naz judgment of 2013, but also bring the country out of a majoritarian pit.

BJP, in its attempt to wrest the poll-bound state from Congress' rule, has fielded its most controversial Hindutva mascot.

Every era must see its representatives reinterpret the pioneers of the past, while espousing the spirit of the Indian Constitution.

Have one billion Indians been ‘biometricked’ by being forced to link most of their digital data with the shaky and leaky UID?

The hashtags and the headlines in most of the TV and print media betray a deep antipathy towards Dalit self-respect and self-assertion.

How can uttering a string of words that have no legal standing be a crime in the eyes of law?

The Union minister of skill development and the five-time Lok Sabha MP from Karnataka is mouthing what RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat has said a long time back.

The prime minister getting emotional over Gujarat shows both apprehension and anxiety in the BJP bastion.

From delaying announcement of the poll dates to unseeing the brazen disrespect of law by the ruling BJP leaders, the EC has damaged democracy forever.

It’s unbelievable how the Election Commission didn’t bat an eyelid when BJP flouted model code of conduct multiple times.

Faux-nationalism brigade, including PM Modi, would want us to forget why the country’s highest legislative body matters at all.

His re-energised version now must help his party recover its lost cadre base and local-meets-national narrative.

Prime minister's slanderous allegations against his predecessor and his routine half-truths are turning political opponents into anti-nationals.

Who's responsible for brainwashing people like Shambhulal Raigar?

Aparna Sen's first directorial venture was a Kapoor-Kendal family affair.

The 44th President of the United States reiterated his advice from his 2015 Republic Day speech, but things have worsened since then.

The ruling party can no longer hide behind the fig leaf of 'fringe elements' sending out grave threats to artists and seculars.

Those airing the clip and trending it on social media with dollops of moral policing are pathological hypocrites.

That the highest legislative body must keep on working irrespective of Assembly polls is a cornerstone of cooperative federalism.