Selective Outrage

Selective Outrage in West Bengal: Communists and Islamists Organise Four Major Rallies in Support of Iranian Leader Accused of Mass Killings

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 …