Mukulika Banerjee

Indians give to save each other from free fall

April 02,2026 06:12:53 AM

They know that if they don’t large sections of the population would simply disappear from society

UK riots: A deliberate challenge to new Labour governmentSubscriber Only

August 06,2024 08:05:16 AM

The past 14 years under Conservative rule have seen officially endorsed right-wing activism fuel the move to Brexit and induce anti-immigration sentiment and growing ‘culture wars’

After Opposition alliance meet: The diversity of 28 vs the uniformity of oneSubscriber Only

September 05,2023 07:55:16 AM

At the end of the Mumbai conclave, Opposition has presented an alternative to the voters. But how long will the 28 parties hold together?

Cow-hug Day: What cow ‘protectors’ and mocking elites both don’t getSubscriber Only

February 20,2023 07:00:33 AM

Ethnographic accounts highlight that people in rural India form deep bonds with their cows. 'Protectors' like the image of a cow but rarely engage with the creature. And those for whom hugging a cow was laughable, failed to see that one person’s pest could be another’s pet

What led to the success of the farmers’ movementSubscriber Only

December 11,2021 03:11:17 AM

🔴 Mukulika Banerjee writes: Cultivation is a combination of dynamism and stasis, hope and fear, trust and vigilance. The ability to navigate these is what helped farmers succeed in their protest

A small ‘feastie’ in a Republic’s anniversarySubscriber Only

January 26,2020 01:16:36 AM

Amid protests, it is the quotidian lessons of citizenship that have been taught and practised over seven decades that are now being used to express what it is to be Indian

My parents bequeathed to me a lived liberalism. From Dec 6, 1992, that virtue, that country, is besiegedSubscriber Only

December 06,2019 04:35:07 AM

The dream had communicated a message: That if young men armed with just axes, hammers and uncontrollable rage could reduce a 16th-century mosque to rubble as they had done that day, the bare bones of the virtues required to challenge them might lie beyond the boundary of time.

The business of politics, the necessity of valuesSubscriber Only

August 24,2019 01:45:27 AM

Elections are short term contests, but the political project of democracy is a long game.

A new poriborton: Two villages provide a pointer to the emerging Hindutva politics in West BengalSubscriber Only

May 16,2019 23:26:58 PM

Something has changed in Madanpur and Chishti, as across West Bengal. Simply put, more people seem to be supporting the BJP, a party that has been peripheral to their political vision until now. While support for Trinamool remains strong, the BJP seem to be drawing in support from the traditional Left Front households.

Your not-so-secret ballotSubscriber Only

January 16,2017 00:00:39 AM

The government must adopt the new technology that restores poll privacy

Wali Baba, my adoptive fatherSubscriber Only

February 04,2006 00:00:00 AM

Wali Baba passed away on January 26 at his favourite hour. At 7.15 am, between bed-tea and breakfast, he was usually to be found in his belo...