Interview

TMC Believed in Those Who Betrayed Party

'The only way to kill time in prison is to read and she can't even do that properly any more. Her knees, too, are in terrible shape. I could see how she was trying to hide her pain every time she got up from the bench where she was seated.'

'Just waiting outside the prison gate, thinking that your mother is inside those walls even though you know she is innocent, affects your psyche.' But life turned upside down for the film-maker and columnist when her mother Professor Shoma…

'Nobody will be saved if you don't stop this ideological and political-strategic bulldozer.'

Education has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP), co-hosted by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO), UNICEF, and the World Bank, has prepared a…

Among many other issues, US sanctions on RAB, extrajudicial killings, steps the government has taken to curb enforced disappearances and ensuring rights were discussed in the Bangladesh-USA partnership dialogue. Rozina Islam took an…

'This chauvinistic attitude, what they call nationalism in the name of religion, is sad.' 'It is a tragic state that we are all in currently.'

'While the ordinary Muslim must speak up against Islamic fundamentalism, ordinary Hindus too have to speak up against the excesses and fundamentalism that exists in their religion.'

After she was arrested in 2018, Ramachandra Guha, the historian and Gandhi's biographer, was in no doubt that the Mahatma would have donned his lawyer's robes and defended Bharadwaj, the IIT-Delhi alumnus who has spent her life defending…