Arjun Mukhopadhyay

Arjun Mukhopadhyay writes from Dhaka, where the view across both halves of Bengal sharpens every argument about the subcontinent's trajectory. A student of Thomas Paine's pamphleteering tradition and Vivekananda's civilisational confidence, he reads India's democratic renewals — and Bengal's in particular — through the long arc of history. His columns trace the line from the Pala Empire's universities to Plassey's betrayal to the ballot box's redemption, insisting always that a people who built Nalanda need no one's permission to rebuild their future.