
Every spring, when the air turns fragrant with shiuli’s memory and the first blaze of palash ignites the countryside, West Bengal steps into Dol Utsav, also known as Dol Purnima. It is Holi, yet rendered in a distinctly Bengali key, where colour carries scripture, music carries memory and processions become a living archive of devotion …

On 1 March 2025, four large-scale public protests unfolded across Kolkata, Lalbagh and Basirhat, not over unemployment, local violence, or civic distress, but over the death of a foreign ruler thousands of kilometres away. A commemorative gathering was organised for the late Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei in Sakchura Sarania of Basirhat. Hundreds of demonstrators …

India has once again been reminded that the threat of terror is a persistent, adaptive reality and not a distant headline. In a coordinated operation spanning two states, security agencies arrested eight Islamists allegedly linked to the Pakistan-based terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba. According to officials, the arrests have potentially thwarted a larger conspiracy aimed at destabilizing …

In 2017, Srijita Chatterjee, a young woman from Kishanganj, believed she was stepping into a future shaped by love and choice. What followed instead, according to her testimony, was the systematic dismantling of her faith, her bodily autonomy and her dignity ending in abandonment and social exile. Srijita’s account is not one of a relationship …

When a state is scarred by violence, institutional mistrust and the proliferation of arms, governments often turn to figures who embody discipline, credibility, and strategic clarity. That is the context in which L. Nishikanta Singh has been appointed Advisor (Coordination) to the Chief Minister of Manipur. A retired Lieutenant General of the Indian Army’s Intelligence Corps, Singh is …

Hindu Voice Desk: হিন্দু ধর্মে ফেরার স্রোত চলছে দেশে। এবার স্বেচ্ছায় সনাতন হিন্দু ধর্ম গ্রহণ করলেন আসামের এক মুসলিম পরিবার। বৈদিক নিয়ম মেনে হিন্দু ধর্ম গ্রহণ করেন তাঁরা। আসামের সোনাপুরের কচুতলীর বাসিন্দা হাফিজ আলী ও তাঁর স্ত্রী রিজওয়ানা বেগম হিন্দু ধর্ম গ্রহণ করার ইচ্ছা প্রকাশ করেন। সে কথা স্থানীয় হিন্দুদের অনেককেই জানান। তারপরই এগিয়ে আসেন …