স্নিগ্ধেন্দু Snigdhendu

Journalist; politics, history, rights, conflict, evirnmnt&climate, culture, data; Books Lalgarh and the Legend of Kishanji; Mission Bengal: A Saffron Experiment

[স্নিগ্ধেন্দু Snigdhendu @snigspeak]

'Water Bomb': Why indigenous people in northeast India fear hydropower projects

My 24-minute documentary from Assam, Arunachal and Sikkim

Link here -
https://t.co/35xChQDN4K

@thewire_in
@earthjournalism
#mobilejournalism #hydropower #Tribal #IndigenousPeoples

[স্নিগ্ধেন্দু Snigdhendu @snigspeak]

In UK & US, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said pure, selfless love is the basis of their work. In this investigative piece, I show RSS links to a series of hate-preaching violence on Christians in West Bengal, directly contradicting what Bhagwat said abroad

https://t.co/xHxFyqRYA6

[Adrija Bose @adrijabose]

Since the BJP came to power in West Bengal in May, one political leader after another has been attacked with eggs, filmed, and put online. The phenomenon has a name: dim therapy.

@snigspeak reported on how it works — and what it leaves behind. https://t.co/99681oDvDE

#Thread

[Article 14 @Article14live]

“After 4 or 5 days, we realised we were circling the same areas”

Lost in a forest after #BSF soldiers forced them into #Bangladesh, 6 #WestBengal residents survived on river water as children cried from hunger. They spoke of their ordeal to @snigspeak

https://t.co/k7yHcKQLN1

[Samar Halarnkar @samar11]

Deported in 6 days. Returned after 6 months & a year

6 West Bengal natives—man, 2 women, 3 children—picked up in Delhi as #Bangladeshis, forced into Bangladesh without telling families or verifying citizenship

They tell @snigspeak of their trauma

https://t.co/x8P0EiRFOS

[স্নিগ্ধেন্দু Snigdhendu @snigspeak]

A man, 2 women. 3 boys. No food, money, papers. Bengal natives hastily deported to #Bangladesh. From travelling directionlessly in forest to jail terms, I record their harrowing tales after they were allowed to return. Report thanks to @reporters_co supprt https://t.co/XxVKd4nuwN

[Samar Halarnkar @samar11]

A man, 2 women. 3 boys. No food, money, papers. Only the clothes they had on when BSF forced them into #Bangladesh, where they spent a year

“Cops took away everything before throwing us out”

@snigspeak reports

https://t.co/tk5tykSiuC

[স্নিগ্ধেন্দু Snigdhendu @snigspeak]

@joyopal Hello! I am a journalist. Trying to connect with you. Can you please send me a DM. I can't DM you

[স্নিগ্ধেন্দু Snigdhendu @snigspeak]

No reason for surprise if CEC Kumar becomes ministr/Guv/Prez after ECI tenure. Post-truth era over, it's post-imagination era. Unimaginable is th new normal. Just like the man who supervised Bengal poll conduction became new BJP CM's first appointee. CM's advisor. Just like that.

[স্নিগ্ধেন্দু Snigdhendu @snigspeak]

Election commission's special observer for bengal, Subrata Gupta, who played the most influential role in conducting the election, appointed as new chief minister suvendu Adhikari's advisor

[Article 14 @Article14live]

The RSS leaves no paper trail. @snigspeak spent a decade believing it—until a US lobbyist’s story didn't add up. What he found instead: decades of self-admissions, in the RSS's own mouthpieces, hiding in plain sight. Read his #fieldnotes

https://t.co/5o9mdcpOZv

[Samar Halarnkar @samar11]

After a US lobbying firm disclosed receiving $330,000 from @RSSorg, the group denied operating abroad. But our investigation & other reports find its Vishwa Vibhag (world department) works globally, reports @snigspeak https://t.co/K4laYpPr83

[স্নিগ্ধেন্দু Snigdhendu @snigspeak]

The #RSS denies operating abroad. But our investigation finds that its Vishwa Vibhag, led by pracharaks (full-time officers), runs networks across Europe, the Americas, Africa & Australia. My report. Here is how the RSS global network functions. My latest.
https://t.co/k1kUxWbwrQ

[স্নিগ্ধেন্দু Snigdhendu @snigspeak]

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পর্যবেক্ষণ, প্রতিবেদন, বিশ্লেষণ

২০২০-২৫ পর্যন্ত, মূলত বিভিন্ন ইংরেজি মাধ্যমে রাজ্য রাজনীতির নানান বাঁকবদল, ইতিহাস ও তথ্য নিয়ে প্রকাশিত ৪৩টি লেখার সংকলন। অধিকাংশই অনুবাদ। কিছু বাঙলাতেই লেখা। ২৯৬ পাতা। ৫০০ টাকা। ব্ল্যাকলেটার্স। বইমেলা স্টল ৬৬৫

[স্নিগ্ধেন্দু Snigdhendu @snigspeak]

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[স্নিগ্ধেন্দু Snigdhendu @snigspeak]

In my latest for Outlook, I narrate the origin and development of the Maoist movement in India and how it's crumbling currently

https://t.co/NJZh55yBNX

[স্নিগ্ধেন্দু Snigdhendu @snigspeak]

Interview with cpiml liberation general secretary Dipankar Bhattacharya

Caste-based polarisation has intensified in recent months, says the CPI(ML)(Liberation) leader amidst Bihar assembly election campaign | Outlook India https://t.co/7MBjnhSIuG

[স্নিগ্ধেন্দু Snigdhendu @snigspeak]

Vande Mataram faced objections not only because it included an ode to goddess Durga, but also because the novel which contained the song had manipulated communal history. There is a reason why Bose chose Jana Gana Mana for INA, I write for @the_hindu

https://t.co/2f6bya7H7C

[স্নিগ্ধেন্দু Snigdhendu @snigspeak]

In my latest for @Outlookindia in its cover on #BiharElection2025, I write about land reforms, a largely unimplemented and mostly shelved programme, which is considered central to Bihar’s growth. Yet, it has little currency during election campaigning

https://t.co/WTXlL2OKwG