Anusreeta Dutta

The neglect of Bengal’s women revolutionaries mirrors a deeper failure to uphold the dignity and rights of women in the state today. Matangini Hazra featured on an Indian Stamp Bengali women have played a decisive role in shaping movements of resistance, reform and revolution throughout India’s long and complex history. Their contributions have been profound and transformative, from the anti-colonial struggle to social reform movements. But in modern narratives, these contributions are often...

Maharashtra’s enduring epidemic of farmer suicides is a saga of an agricultural policy that has repeatedly failed to reduce structural risk. Each election season, India’s farmers are the subject of political debate. Governments promise to write off loans, offer compensation packages, and set up new welfare programs. But as the ballots are counted, another grim statistic emerges from the villages of Maharashtra: another farmer has taken his own life. For almost three decades, Maharashtra has...

As Maharashtra accelerates its industrial expansion, a debate over a PFAS-linked chemical plant in Ratnagiri compels politicians to face a difficult question: Can economic growth be achieved without compromising environmental security? Every industrial success story raises a similar question: who will pay the environmental bill of such growth? The issue has recently taken on a new urgency in Ratnagiri, with local residents and environmental groups protesting allegations that machinery is...