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Siddhartha Rai

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Sonam Wangchuk’s fast is farcical; the politics of it takes all meaning out

Sonam Wangchuk’s fast is farcical; the politics of it takes all meaning out

Aamir Khan might have junked suggestions that his movie ‘3 Idiots’ was ever in any manner inspired by the persona and life of Sonam Wangchuk and...

17.07.2026 20

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Siddhartha Rai

Sona Pappu, Jay Kamdar, Merlin Group: Decoding muscle-money-TMC nexus behind Kolkata’s notorious syndicate

Since time immemorial, West Bengal politics has been synonymous with violence backed by a syndicate. While the Left governments created this...

20.05.2026 30

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Siddhartha rai

‘Don’t cry wolf, when you are the wolf’: The said, the unsaid, and the implied in Amit Shah’s announcement of the end of Naxalism in India

Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s speech in Lok Sabha, just a day before the RSS-BJP juggernaut had set the date for the official deletion and...

01.04.2026 20

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Siddhartha rai