Indrajit Hazra

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• How to make poverty disappear: Never mind trickle-down effect, or the rising tide that'll lift all boats

  
  06 Jun 2026 10:22 PM IST
• Cuteathetic new party wannabes

  
  30 May 2026 10:51 PM IST
• The rise of India’s frugal flamboyance

  
  16 May 2026 09:24 PM IST
• Jai Shibram: Remembering Bengal’s great satirist in a changed Kolkata

  
  09 May 2026 10:28 PM IST
• 'So, what do you think the final numbers will be? Ok, so, I think...'

  
  02 May 2026 11:07 PM IST
• Insiders vs outsiders, and a raja under the arch: Bengal goes to polls as debate over identity and development takes center stage

  
  29 Apr 2026 12:31 AM IST
• Bardhaman’s potato economy in focus as farmers weigh choices amid Bengal polls

  
  28 Apr 2026 12:34 AM IST
• Maachh, Mandate & Missing Names: Bengal’s voter list goes off the menu

  
  25 Apr 2026 11:09 PM IST
• Bhowanipur showdown: Didi vs Adhikari turns Kolkata’s heartland into battleground

  
  24 Apr 2026 12:20 AM IST
• Arsenal title fears: How to handle slow-burn anxiety & failure

  
  18 Apr 2026 11:00 PM IST
• The age-old problem of not being that young

  
  11 Apr 2026 11:10 PM IST
• Pax, Trump-Hegseth remix: America's gun laws, dehumanisation and double standards have been its ticket to virtue

  
  10 Apr 2026 11:22 PM IST
• Artemis II may chase “Planet B,” but the real fix for Earth does not lie in escaping it

  
  04 Apr 2026 11:00 PM IST
• A mad T party at the White House (with apologies to Lewis Carroll)

  
  28 Mar 2026 11:02 PM IST
• So, what do you do when the guys you admire do, or believe in, things you despise?

  
  21 Mar 2026 10:59 PM IST
• Why gas cylinder still anchors India’s middle-class kitchen

  
  14 Mar 2026 11:00 PM IST
• Start a war to stop one? Trump’s 'preventive war' paradox

  
  07 Mar 2026 11:00 PM IST
• Take buzurg log with more than a pinch of salt

  
  28 Feb 2026 11:00 PM IST
• Footpaths first, tech later: What broken pavements say about India’s development model

  
  21 Feb 2026 10:38 PM IST
• AI will usher a golden age of Dum Pukht

  
  14 Feb 2026 11:00 PM IST
• 18% till I die - or, at least till tonight

  
  07 Feb 2026 11:10 PM IST
• How we empower the ugly Indian abroad every day

  
  31 Jan 2026 11:00 PM IST
• A Trumpified Budget speech Nirmala Sitharaman may or may not want to deliver

  
  24 Jan 2026 11:02 PM IST
• Is anti-choice — not falling for Trump, Netanyahu, etc — driving our choice these days?

  
  17 Jan 2026 11:01 PM IST
• The unnatural beauty of Dhurandhar: Why Aditya Dhar's polarising film works as pure cinema

  
  03 Jan 2026 11:00 PM IST
• Your stereotypical stereotypes may be giving you a buzz you don't need

  
  20 Dec 2025 09:56 PM IST
• App ki khatir, never push it down throats: Anything mandatory raises suspicion — seduction’s a way better sales pitch

  
  13 Dec 2025 10:48 PM IST
• IndiGoing into the meltdown on a Sunday

  
  07 Dec 2025 12:04 AM IST
• Maha Bharat in Ramayan, try this 14-year 'what if?'

  
  29 Nov 2025 11:00 PM IST
• Enough of that 'Jai Macaulay, Kalkattawali!'

  
  22 Nov 2025 10:31 PM IST
• Ready, steady, dead, that urge to be first to show

  
  15 Nov 2025 11:49 PM IST
• A rum capitalist defends champagne socialists

  
  08 Nov 2025 11:00 PM IST
• After Trump's 'G2' meet, maybe it's time for Indians to (really) be Asian?

  
  01 Nov 2025 11:15 PM IST
• Can atheists appreciate the art of faith?

  
  25 Oct 2025 11:04 PM IST
• Are dnepo kids like Ishit 'Rudeboy' Bhatt what India needs instead of achhe bachhe?

  
  18 Oct 2025 11:00 PM IST
• What's the biggest nerd con? The truth about India’s quiz obsession

  
  04 Oct 2025 10:31 PM IST
• How the Grinch stole Durga Pujo!

  
  27 Sep 2025 11:04 PM IST
• Why invoking Valhalla doesn't automatically make you a helluva white supremacist

  
  20 Sep 2025 11:00 PM IST
• From Liszt to the Rolling Stones, and beyond: The softloud genius of the piano

  
  13 Sep 2025 10:48 PM IST
• Zzz of doing biz in the time of GST and tariffs

  
  06 Sep 2025 10:19 PM IST
• Should we swear by our swear words?

  
  30 Aug 2025 11:00 PM IST
• Flatter-ulence, negotiate the F-art of the deal

  
  23 Aug 2025 11:18 PM IST
• Freedom’s not just another word for nothing left to lose this I-Day long weekend

  
  16 Aug 2025 11:11 PM IST
• Spot a Bangladeshi Bengali in a sea of Indian Bengalis

  
  02 Aug 2025 10:56 PM IST
• Ozzy was the prince of excess, and what a heavy, heaving, R&B life he lived

  
  26 Jul 2025 11:00 PM IST
• The anti-woke can be as woke as the woke

  
  19 Jul 2025 11:00 PM IST
• Can Tata and Mamata Banerjee ever be business friends?

  
  12 Jul 2025 10:42 PM IST
• SIR-ji, if Bihar has moved on, why can't its voter numbers?

  
  08 Jul 2025 11:47 PM IST