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Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, the author of two non-fiction books on India’s ultra-Left and the Hindu right, writes and comments on India’s politics, environment, human rights and culture.

Snigdhendu Bhattacharya is an independent journalist, writing on India’s politics, history, data, environment, human rights and culture since 2005. A former special correspondent of the Hindustan Times, he has been published in The Wire, Outlook magazine, The Caravan, Mongabay India, Huffpost India, Nikkei Asia, The Third Pole, Deccan Herald, The Times of India, Live History India and IndiaSpend, among others. He takes a special regional interest in eastern and northeastern India and Bangladesh. He has two books of political nonfiction published by HarperCollins India — Mission Bengal: A Saffron Experiment (2020) and Lalgarh and the Legend of Kishanji: Tales from India’s Maoist Movement (2016). He is a recipient of EJN’s Asia-Pacific Climate and Environmental Story Grant.

Posts by Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
February 21, 2025

Why India’s Ruling BJP Is Celebrating Trump’s Crackdown on USAID

By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Trump’s claims that USAID funding in India went toward boosting voter turnout triggered a political firestorm in India.

January 24, 2025

Why Politicians Are Urging Indians to Have More Children

By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Ethnic politics is driving politicians in India, which accounts for 18 percent of the global population, to call for stepping up the population growth rate.
January 21, 2025

2 Recent Moves by the Indian Army Trigger Hinduization Concerns

By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
While some see the moves as reflecting India’s greater security concerns over China, army veterans say the secular foundations of the Indian Army are being undermined.

December 26, 2024

Bangladesh’s Bid to Rewrite History

By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Sections in post-Hasina Bangladesh want to "rescue" the Awami League’s usurpation of the Liberation War’s history. Others question the Liberation War itself.

December 10, 2024

The Rise of the BJP’s Hindutva Ideology in Bangladesh

By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
India’s Hindu nationalist symbols and slogans are gaining popularity in Muslim-majority Bangladesh.

December 03, 2024

Justice Eludes India’s Bhopal Gas Tragedy Survivors

By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Forty years since the deadly gas leak, survivors’ drawn-out battle for justice has become a quest to set a precedent of accountability.
November 25, 2024

Modi’s BJP Bounces Back Through State Election Wins

By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
The electoral victories will embolden the BJP to go on the offensive in the ongoing winter session of Parliament.

November 06, 2024

100 Years of the Discovery of the Indus Valley Civilization: How It Shaped Indian Politics

By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Harappa has proved to be a hurdle before Hindu nationalists’ Vedic Aryan superiority theory.

October 18, 2024

Why Some People Are Calling an Indian Professor’s Death an Institutional Murder

By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
G. N. Saibaba, a paraplegic scholar spent nearly a decade in jail for alleged links with Maoists. He came out acquitted, but in worse health.

October 09, 2024

Jammu & Kashmir Election Hands Clear Mandate to Opposition Alliance

By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
The results also indicate a triumph of Kashmir’s mainstream political forces over separatist sympathizers.

September 30, 2024

RSS, the Ideological Mentor of India’s Ruling BJP, Enters its 100th Year

By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Its overwhelming grip over institutions has been possible because in the century gone by the RSS has transformed into a massive banyan tree that stands on a hundred trunks.
September 03, 2024

Islamic Fundamentalism Raises Its Head in Post-Hasina Bangladesh

By Snigdhendu Bhattacharya
Many statues like those of Mujibur Rahman were defaced for political reasons. But targeting sculptures like that of Lady Justice lay bare the Islamists’ anti-statue agenda.

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