Sankha Subhra Biswas

Trump Venezuela flag oil rig

‘Our oil’: Venezuela, Trump and the brutal logic of 21st century imperialism

Opposing US intervention is necessary, but doing so without analysing the limits of the Maduro regime risks reducing politics to reflexive allegiance, writes Sankha Subhra Biswas.
Indian cricket team

From decolonisation to ultra-nationalism: The political transformation of Indian cricket

Sankha Subhra Biswas — Before the commercial explosion of the 1990s and the hyper-nationalist staging of the present, cricket fields often functioned as spaces of progressive expression.
protest mass rapes Kunan and Poshpora

The republic on trial: Militarised sovereignty and accountability in Kashmir

Sankha Subhra Biswas — The mass rapes by Indian soldiers in Kunan and Poshpora in 1991 cannot be treated as an aberration or tragic residue of a turbulent decade; it was the structured outcome of a state that chose insulation over scrutiny.
Nepal protests

Nepal joins regional wave of revolt as popular anger at repression and inequality spreads across South Asia

Sankha Subhra Biswas — Today’s anti-government mass movement in Nepal did not emerge spontaneously. Instead, it developed as a result of two decades of ineffective and unproductive politics by Communist parties.