Articles by: Biswajit Roy

Book Review: Civil Liberties Movement in India: From Colonial Times to the Present by Nilanjan Dutta

Book Review: Civil Liberties Movement in India: From Colonial Times to the Present by Nilanjan Dutta

The Civil Liberties Movement in India (CLMI), despite its crucial role and glorious tradition during our freedom struggle as well as in postcolonial India in making democratic principles and constitutional promises meaningful in the lives of the millions, did not receive its due attention in our mainstream media, academia and political discourses. It has hardly been considered a subject for[Read More…]

by 06/07/2023 Comments are Disabled Book Review
Wife and mother of lynched Nasirul Haque

Bengal’s Worthy And Unworthy Victims Of Hate Crimes

In a way, middle-aged Afrazul Khan of Maldah’s Syedpur, a migrant laborer from West Bengal was lucky to be killed by a Hindutva- induced fanatic in Rajasthan on 6 December last year than his three co-religionists in their early twenties who were battered to death by some Hindu villagers at Chopra in neighboring North Dinajpur six months earlier. Khan and[Read More…]

by 02/02/2018 2 comments Communal Harmony
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