Abhik Bhattacharya

The saffron party, for the first time, tried its best to address Adivasis, but nothing seems to have worked

The young Mahato leader in his late 20s became a household name after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections when he stood third from Giridih. He belongs to the Kudmi Mahato community which constitutes 15 per cent of the total electorates.

What is about the Adivasis of Jharkhand that prevents the saffron lotus from blooming or even taking root, unlike in the Adivasi-majority seats of Chhattisgarh and Odisha where the BJP did exceedingly well in the past few years?

PM Modi's criticism of Jawaharlal Nehru's position on reservation is based on incomplete information.

The way Ambedkar conceived the concept of ‘hell’ is antithetical to the framework of Hindutva politics, which wants to assimilate Dalits into their fold as ‘backward Hindus’. For the father of the Indian Constitution, ‘hell’ was the place where Dalits were being pushed to through centuries of deprivation and marginalisation

The way Ambedkar conceived the concept of ‘hell' is antithetical to the framework of Hindutva politics, which wants to assimilate Dalits into their fold as ‘backward Hindus'. For the father of the Indian Constitution, ‘hell' was the place where Dalits were being pushed to through centuries of deprivation and marginalisation

As Jharkhand turns 25 this year, those who invested their youth to get ‘independence' for the state deserve a mention. Sitarani Jain is one such andolankari.

Colour speaks a lot about politics, be it the conventional “red” salute of the left parties or the saffron robe worn by the right-wing leaders. Colours also lend themselves to spectacle. In 2018, former Union finance minister Arun Jaitley presented a pink economic survey report to underline the gender-related concerns of the then government. In […]

With their new album Talobasha, the millennials whose secrets they know best, find a space to fall back on

Success of AAP had catalysed narratives on development and corruption in the past 10 years. But political parties are back to harping on insider-outsider binary