Sambit Pal is a multimedia journalist and media teacher currently working with IIMC Dhenkanal. He has worked with ABP Digital as its assistant editor, Times Now as Kolkata Bureau Head and various other news channels in Kolkata
What did the Chhath violation of NGT at Kolkata's Rabindra Sarobar expose
While religious, political and other inetrests gain currency, environmental concerns take a backseat
Secret tales of polling and counting booths: How our democracy works
Spending a day in a polling booth and another 24 hours in a counting centre served as eye-openers on the way Indian democracy works and the …
Adivasis in Jhargram fight a divided battle for the same aim in LS polls
In these General Elections, tribals in West Bengal are sparring among themselves over politicising their struggle for tribal rights
Mahanadi: Neither an election issue, nor a developmental one
The dying river is marred with pollution and irrigation issues and yet it hasn’t made it to the election agenda
Democratic choice held hostage to cash: A tale of Odisha's urban poor
Though political parties deny such claims and these “incidents” often go unnoticed, the truth is that the poor consider elections to …
‘Give us our forest back’
An unprecedented people’s movement might have forced the Odisha government to cancel a beer factory project, but there are many unresolved …
