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Devdan Chaudhuri is the author of the novel 'Anatomy of Life'. He is one of the contributing editors of The Punch Magazine. He publishes short fiction, poetry and essays on politics and culture for various publications. He lives in Kolkata.

Opinion

Notes from Lockdown: Virus Pandemic, Panic Outbreak and Moron Apocalypse

Devdan Chaudhuri Apr 1, 2020

While we are experiencing the first lockdown without knowing how things will transpire, we know that ‘death by economic collapse’ would be far more devastating than ‘death by virus’.

Opinion

The Citizen’s Guide to CAA, NPR and NRC: The Simplest and the Essential

Devdan Chaudhuri Dec 19, 2019

We need to heal from the traumas which have been inflicted upon us. Now we need schools and hospitals, not detention centres.

Opinion

Hindi was devised by a Scottish linguist of The East India Company – it can never be India’s…

Devdan Chaudhuri Sep 24, 2019

During Gilchrist’s travels in India, he developed an interest to study Hindustani languages.

Editor’s Choice

How far will the BJP succeed in Bengal in the General Elections of 2019?

Devdan Chaudhuri Apr 5, 2019

The story of the BJP in Bengal has been more hype than substance.

Editor’s Choice

The Meaning of India’s National Flag and ‘post-Pulwama-Balakot and pre-election’ India

Devdan Chaudhuri Mar 10, 2019

The Government is bizarrely manoeuvring to evade its responsibility to answer the questions being raised about Pulwama and Balakot.

Editor’s Choice

What is Neoliberalism: the Ideology that has Colonised the World

Devdan Chaudhuri Dec 15, 2018

‘With our thoughts we make the world’ – Shakyamuni Buddha For the last few weeks, Gilets Jaunes or the ‘Yellow Vests’ protests are rocking France. It’s a spontaneous apolitical citizens’…

Editor’s Choice

Is India, under Modi regime, turning into a Colony of a Western Hegemonic Power?

Devdan Chaudhuri Oct 3, 2018

Neo-Colonialism and The Empire The great Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist Eduardo Galeano exposed the realities of neo-colonialism that Latin America lived under – and is still…

Opinion

What was the role of the USA to forge a ‘cashless-economy’ in India, just prior to Demonetisation?

Devdan Chaudhuri Aug 2, 2018 0

The toxic brew of hate and greed – desi Hindutva ideology and videsi Neoliberal ideology – is causing crisis, after crisis, in India.

Editor’s Choice

Time has started to turn against the Modi regime and its Achilles Heel has been exposed

Devdan Chaudhuri Jun 3, 2018 0

When time itself starts to turn against you, then no ‘power, wealth, muscle and hubris’ can save the inevitable downfall.

Nation

Why the politics of BJP is fundamentally opposed to the intrinsic ‘character’ of Bengal

Devdan Chaudhuri May 1, 2018 0

What makes the politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party fundamentally opposed to the intrinsic ‘character’ of West Bengal?