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June 9, 2025, 02:42 PM - 3 min read
From the Kolkata airport, Suman Biswas, one of the key faces of the protest, said, “By going to Delhi, we will try to draw the attention of the Prime Minister, President and leaders of various national parties towards our problems.”
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April 22, 2025, 03:59 PM - 6 min read
Education in India is being dismantled, repurposed not as a tool of enlightenment but as a means of electoral engineering. In both the Centre and the state, political forces have weaponised schools to serve their vote-bank agendas.
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April 19, 2025, 08:32 PM - 2 min read
The process of recruitment - including taking exams and recruitment - will have to be completed by December 31, the official said.
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April 15, 2025, 01:20 PM - 6 min read
Yes, the crowd was unruly. Yes, the DI office in south Kolkata’s Kasba was nearly overrun. And yes, the police had to act. But that is not what history will remember. The camera did not capture the broken barricades. It captured a boot to the ribs of a teacher. And that image, more than any official statement, has cemented itself in public consciousness.
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April 10, 2025, 03:50 PM - 7 min read
While the ruling may appear to be a necessary step toward cleansing systemic corruption, the indiscriminate nature of its execution has unleashed unprecedented suffering. The innocent have been bracketed with the guilty, honest educators penalised alongside those who manipulated the process.
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April 10, 2025, 01:10 PM - 4 min read
Teachers and school staff dismissed after the Supreme Court’s annulment of a 2016 recruitment drive began a relay hunger strike in Kolkata, alleging police brutality and administrative failure to separate fraudulent hires from legitimate ones. Protests spread to multiple districts, intensifying unrest across West Bengal.
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