Manash Firaq Bhattacharjee

Bhattacharjee is author of Looking For the Nation: Towards Another Idea of India.

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Gangs of Pakistan: The unexpected shades of Aditya Dhar’s ‘Dhurandhar’Subscriber Only

December 19,2025 15:39:06 PM

Even as a spy thriller meant for entertainment, Dhurandhar warrants introspection. Whether supported by directorial sensibility or not, the film bares the sickness of neighbourly hate by any nation that may leave the economy in tatters and damage social and intellectual progress

Fri, Dec 19, 2025

In recreating the violence of Direct Action Day, ‘The Bengal Files’ remains trapped by itSubscriber Only

September 09,2025 17:33:07 PM

Gandhi’s prayer meetings in Noakhali were intended as mass spiritual therapy. Nonviolence is not just an option for peace. It is the only chance for our survival

Tue, Sep 09, 2025

Adipurush controversy: Why myths cannot be historySubscriber Only

June 28,2023 18:53:06 PM

If people who claim an undying cultural heritage feel threatened by a film, it’s a terrible show of confidence

Fri, Jun 30, 2023

On Nehru’s death anniversary, a Nehruvian lesson: Contradictions are not a bad thingSubscriber Only

May 26,2023 19:39:11 PM

Nehru could sense the limitations of all the great and passionate ideas that thrived around him and moved him too — nationalism, scientific rationality, communism. India, for Nehru, is a place where no single idea, or culture, or identity, can dominate

Sat, May 27, 2023

Remembering my friend Zafar, who lost his COVID fightSubscriber Only

May 05,2021 03:00:00 AM

It was a childhood friendship, full of song and adventure

Wed, May 05, 2021

India is losing the promise of inclusivitySubscriber Only

December 13,2019 00:55:11 AM

Who is a citizen? Constituent Assembly debates dealt with that question, and came up with the widest possible humanist answer.

Fri, Dec 13, 2019