Stela Dey is Deputy News Editor with The Indian Express and is based out of New Delhi. She has covered three Lok Sabha elections and writes on social issues, literature, culture, gender, geopolitics and beyond the obvious. Prior to joining the...Read More
Stela Dey is Deputy News Editor with The Indian Express and is based out of New Delhi. She has covered three Lok Sabha elections and writes on social issues, literature, culture, gender, geopolitics and beyond the obvious. Prior to joining the desk, she covered social issues in Bengal. She is also a certified fact-checker with the Google News Initiative network.
Nov 13, 2025 18:08 IST
A reckoning with the art we love and the artists we can no longer...
Thu, Nov 13, 2025
Oct 27, 2025 17:22 IST
Kafka, Murakami and Krasznahorkai, in their own idioms, insist that alienation is not the end of...
Mon, Oct 27, 2025
Oct 13, 2025 17:04 IST
Mamata Banerjee reinforced what women have been told for generations, that safety is their own...
Tue, Oct 14, 2025
Oct 10, 2025 16:44 IST
Murakami romanticises solitude, turns the mundane mystical, and remains the Nobel’s most faithful...
Mon, Oct 27, 2025
Oct 07, 2025 13:33 IST
What happened in Rishikesh isn’t just an isolated burst of chauvinism. It’s part of a larger...
Tue, Oct 07, 2025
Sep 30, 2025 14:01 IST
Durga pujo is about belonging -- not only to the goddess, but to a city that remakes itself in joy....
Tue, Sep 30, 2025
Sep 19, 2025 11:51 IST
Jimmy Kimmel taken off air: If networks continue down this path, America will lose the very idea...
Fri, Sep 19, 2025
Sep 16, 2025 12:21 IST
Emmy Awards 2025: Stephen Colbert’s victory was the night’s loudest truth: You can fire the...
Tue, Sep 16, 2025
Sep 11, 2025 12:50 IST
Bengal’s history of lyrical resistance clashes with Anirban Bhattacharya's crude mockery, trades...
Thu, Sep 11, 2025
Sep 08, 2025 14:44 IST
Ishiba's resignation, while sudden, is the culmination of a much longer crisis in Japan. We explain...
Mon, Sep 08, 2025
Sep 05, 2025 12:17 IST
Once 007, now an elderly detective, Brosnan is rewriting the rules of ageing in...
Fri, Sep 05, 2025
Aug 19, 2025 16:08 IST
What happened in Bengal in 1946 cannot be reduced to a two-dimensional morality play. It requires...
Sun, Aug 24, 2025
Aug 18, 2025 12:48 IST
Dogs, strays and pets alike, have sparked plenty of chatter lately. Stela Dey reflects on the...
Tue, Aug 19, 2025
Aug 17, 2025 16:45 IST
On its 80th anniversary, Animal Farm remains relevant not because it predicts one political...
Mon, Aug 25, 2025
Aug 15, 2025 13:00 IST
Owens has rallied against most progressive positions, calling feminism "toxic", for instance. US...
Fri, Aug 15, 2025
Aug 07, 2025 18:41 IST
Donald Trump isn’t the first to promise peace. He is just the latest to learn that wars don’t...
Thu, Aug 07, 2025
Aug 07, 2025 17:47 IST
Gerrymandering Texas 2025, Democrat lawmakers flee Texas: What is gerrymandering, and why has it...
Mon, Aug 11, 2025
Aug 04, 2025 13:21 IST
Durga of Pather Panchali: The forgotten girl who shaped Apu’s story and broke literary ground for...
Thu, Aug 14, 2025
Aug 04, 2025 12:49 IST
In a hyperactive world, where everything is within a fingertip's distance, slow living is the...
Fri, Oct 31, 2025
Jul 31, 2025 13:08 IST
Stephen Colbert's Late Show cancelled: When satire gets too real, power pulls the plug. His exit...
Thu, Jul 31, 2025
Jul 28, 2025 16:24 IST
In Vivek Shanbhag’s masterful novella, ‘Ghachar Ghochar’ the rise of a middle-class family...
Mon, Sep 01, 2025
Jul 23, 2025 13:08 IST
In a new ad, Mohanlal dons bridal jewellery. Mammootty plays a closeted gay man in another film....
Wed, Jul 23, 2025
Jul 19, 2025 17:18 IST
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TEDx talk 'We Should All Be Feminists' became a cultural moment, later...
Wed, Jul 30, 2025
Jul 15, 2025 19:40 IST
San Rechal advocated against India’s deeply entrenched colourism, confronted an entire system...
Tue, Jul 15, 2025
Jul 15, 2025 12:49 IST
The first time I wore proper sandals that supported my feet and my dignity, I felt like I had...
Tue, Jul 15, 2025