Opinion
Two Bengals and a Widening Divide
Lines drawn along religious faultlines never stay politely on the map but instead run through families, economies, and elections on both sides.
Pratyusha Pan
Opening The Rift
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Pratyusha Pan
Kolkata-based journalist and cultural commentator Pratyusha Pan writes insightful op-eds and film criticism. Her work draws on literary studies to analyze politics, social issues, and visual culture
Opinion
The Aesthetic of Resistance: Zohran Mamdani and the Machinery of Liberal Depoliticization
When resistance can be worn to a swearing-in ceremony, it has already been domesticated.
Pratyusha Pan
India
On the familiar burden of sanskar and the nation’s favourite guilt-trip
Forgiveness only works as a gift if you’ve accepted that the giver had the right to withhold it. That’s not softness, that is patriarchy in softness’s clothing.
Pratyusha Pan