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TopicBhadralok

Topic: Bhadralok

The 1960s shifted something for Dharmendra. He became a bhadralok

From a prison doctor in Bandini, Dharmendra matured into a superstar by the mid-70s, and played Veeru in the blockbuster Sholay.

West Bengal politics has to be de-Brahminised. Dalit aspirations get dismissed daily

A ‘casteless Bengal’ is a carefully curated facade by the upper caste 'Bhadralok' society, which gets a free pass and is never questioned.

What brings out the bigot in the Bhadralok? All it takes is a Mohun Bagan vs East Bengal match

How do you call out someone who calls out everyone else? The unbearable Bengali-ness of being a Bhadralok bigot.

Bengal politics is not casteless or Bhadralok-free. But it’s still not a deciding factor

In ‘The Curious Trajectory of Caste in West Bengal Politics’, Ayan Guha writes why West Bengal has not seen large-scale Dalit resistance.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.