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Monidipa Bose Dey

Monidipa Bose Dey

- Opinion
- January 29, 2025, 6:31 PM IST
Opinion | The Forgotten Genocide: How The Namasudras Were Betrayed Twice
Betrayed by Jinnah's broken promises, the Namasudra Dalits fled to India post-Partition, only to face a second genocide at Marichjhapi in 1979 at the hands of the West Bengal Communist government
- Opinion
- January 2, 2025, 4:30 PM IST
Opinion | Debunking The Myth Of Tipu Sultan As A Secular Nationalist
Tipu Sultan, often hailed as a secular nationalist, was neither. Historical evidence reveals a ruler driven by religious zeal, cruelty, and a desire for regional dominance, not Indian liberation. His ‘nationalism’ is a myth
- Opinion
- November 23, 2024, 8:14 PM IST
Opinion | The British Empire Didn’t End Slavery, It Reinvented It
What the Empire simply did was devise an alternative means of reintroducing slavery, by terming it as ‘indentured labour’ across its colonies, and that sounded politically correct to the Western world
- Opinion
- September 14, 2024, 4:27 PM IST
Opinion | Manipur Issue: How Decades of Christianisation Ignited Today’s Conflict
Manipur’s conflict is not just about ethnicity; it’s a tinderbox ignited by decades of Christianisation, now exploited by global powers seeking a strategic foothold in the region
- Opinion
- August 21, 2024, 3:47 PM IST
Opinion | Hindu Massacres in Bangladesh: An Ongoing Genocide That Is Rarely Discussed
The horrors of the 1947 and 1971 massacres against Hindus in Bangladesh are a chilling reminder of the ongoing persecution they face. Despite widespread condemnation, these atrocities remain largely unacknowledged
- Opinion
- March 12, 2024, 8:10 PM IST
Opinion | The Millennia-old History of Kashi Vishwanath
The history of the Kashi Vishwanath temple is filled with tales of repeated destruction by Islamic invaders and rebuilding of the temple by Hindus until Aurangzeb destroyed it in 1669. It was more than a century later that Rani Ahilyabai rebuilt it
- Opinion
- March 5, 2024, 9:07 PM IST
Opinion | Sandeshkhali, Sundarbans and Systematic Repression in Bengal
West Bengal not only needs a change in political scenario, it also needs a thorough cleaning up of its institutions and systems that are often found to be hand in glove with mafia bosses and political leaders
- Opinion
- February 17, 2024, 5:19 PM IST
Opinion | Large Hindu Temples Existed Before 5th Century CE
A narrative that keeps appearing in media is the claim that there were no Hindu temples before 5th century CE. This claim is nothing but a myth, and the propaganda is aimed at postulating that most pre-Gupta temple structural ruins were Buddhist in nature
- Opinion
- January 15, 2024, 8:17 PM IST
Opinion | Three Issues that Tried to Distort Ayodhya’s Ram Mandir Debate
The JNU historians and Muslim scholars in their zeal to prove Babar had not destroyed any temple to build a mosque, not only distorted facts and argued using half-truths, they also tried turning Ram and Ram’s association with Ayodhya into a myth
- Opinion
- January 3, 2024, 1:17 PM IST
Opinion | Why Aurangzeb’s Bigotry And Temple Vandalism Must Not Be Negated
Aurangzeb very blatantly implemented the theology of the Muslim state throughout his kingdom, with no scope for any kind of secularism or tolerance for his Hindu subjects. Certainly not what one would call a symbol of wisdom or good governance
- Opinion
- May 17, 2023, 1:28 PM IST
Opinion | How the West Has Been Insulting and Abusing Hindu Gods for Decades
The portrayal of Indian culture in the West has long been a story of a negative depiction of caste dominations, worship of weird and unsightly pagan gods in primitive and grotesque ways, etc. Beyond Buddha and Gandhi, it seems the West found nothing appealing in Indian heritage
- Opinion
- April 17, 2023, 3:12 PM IST
Opinion | Indian History and its Course Correction That Cannot Be Delayed Any Further
India is perhaps the only nation in the world that has distorted its history to such an extent that its own native/indigenous religions and cultures are mocked and derided, while the brutal foreign invasions are glorified
- Opinion
- April 3, 2023, 4:08 PM IST
Opinion | The History of Sikhism and How the Issue of Khalistan Was Created
What started as a game by the British to keep the Hindus and Sikhs divided for political control, snowballed into a full-scale terror movement known as the Khalistani separatist movement
- Opinion
- March 13, 2023, 7:27 PM IST
Opinion | Emergency: Rahul Gandhi Must Revisit the Time India Actually Lost Democracy
The next time when Rahul Gandhi, the left cabal, and the judiciary want to sing their favourite anthem ‘India’s democracy is in danger,’ they must be reminded of the 1975 Emergency

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