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West Bengal- The Israel for Hindu Bengalis? Its time to redeem the pledge on the day Bengal was partitioned

Guest Author - 20 June, 2020

For Bengali Hindus, West Bengal is last stand & need to be protected at all costs or be permanently stateless like Sindhis & Kashmiri Pandits.

Culture and History

Noboborsho: While detractors hail Akbar for the Bengali calendar, Bengalis need to remember Shashanka Deva

Debpratim De - 14 April, 2020

Noboborsh: There is much chatter about how our cherished Bengali Calendar was promulgated by Akbar in order to align revenue collection better with the local season cycles

News Reports

Assam govt may consider financial aid for Bengali Hindus for marrying into Assamese families

OpIndia Staff - 18 February, 2020

The Linguistic Minority Department of Assam has proposed to offer monetary assistance of up to Rs 40000 to Bengali Hindu brides or grooms marrying into Assamese families.

News Reports

In a first, Mamata warns about ‘minority extremism’ from those who have base in Hyderabad: Read why

OpIndia Staff - 19 November, 2019

Mamata Banerjee said, "I am watching that there are some extremists among minorities. They have their base in Hyderabad"

News Reports

Bengal never sent request to conduct JEE Main in Bengali: National Testing Agency exposes Mamata Banerjee’s propaganda

OpIndia Staff - 7 November, 2019

Mamata Banerjee on 7th November had raised a hue and cry and questioned the Modi government over why the JEE Main exam is conducted only in Gujarati.

Opinions

Garga Chatterjee and the ‘Gutkha Pill’: A reaction to the rise of Hindutva in West Bengal

K Bhattacharjee - 8 October, 2019

Garga Chatterjee, a self-proclaimed 'Bengali Nationalist' and allegedly a Brain Scientist, is a peddler of the 'Gutkha Pill'.

News Reports

If you want to stay in Bengal, speak in Bengali: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s autocratic diktat

OpIndia Staff - 14 June, 2019

Beleaguered with the NRS controversy, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee whips up linguistic chauvinism

News Reports

TMC troll speaks in Bengali on English news channel in response to others speaking in Hindi, despite already knowing that it was a Hindi...

OpIndia Staff - 13 June, 2019

The debate on CNN News18 soon deviated from the main issue of political violence in West Bengal into a war of words between the anchor and Garga Chatterjee over the issue of whether CNN News18 was a Hindi or an English channel.

Culture and History

The side of Rabindranath Tagore that ‘Liberal Intellectuals’ don’t want you to see: Here is what he thought of Islam

K Bhattacharjee - 18 May, 2019

Rabindranath Tagore was an extremely complicated man born into an extremely complicated era. Unfortunately enough, he became a victim of the newly minted artificially secular regime's revisionist project

Culture and History