Author: Deshwale Editorial Desk

The Slow Unravelling of the Left: How the CPI(M)’s Political Machinery Collapsed in West Bengal When the Left Front lost power in 2011, the defeat was widely interpreted as the triumph of a determined challenger. Yet the fall of the communist establishment in West Bengal cannot be explained solely through the rise of Mamata Banerjee. The deeper story lies in the gradual weakening of the political system that had sustained the dominance of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) for more than three decades. For much of its history, the CPI(M)’s authority in Bengal rested not only on electoral success…

March 24 has witnessed moments that altered the course of medicine, politics, diplomacy and human rights. A single date produced a cure for the world’s deadliest disease, ended a presidency at gunpoint and sent a military alliance to war for the first time in its history. The events below span continents and centuries, each leaving a mark that still resonates today. Canada Gives Black Citizens the Right to Vote – 1837 Upper Canada became the first British colony to grant Black men the right to vote in 1837. The decision arrived without fanfare but carried genuine constitutional weight. It predated…

March 23, 1931: The Day Three Young Men Chose the Gallows – and What They Still Say to India Ninety-five years after Bhagat Singh, Rajguru and Sukhdev were hanged at Lahore Central Jail, their questions about the state, dissent, economic justice and the ownership of martyrdom have not gone away. If anything, they have sharpened. Sometime before sunset on 23 March 1931, three young men were hanged inside Lahore Central Jail. The British colonial administration had moved the execution hours ahead of schedule, quietly, almost nervously, as though it feared what daylight and a gathering crowd might bring. Bhagat Singh…

एक सेवानिवृत्त पाकिस्तानी राजनयिक ने टेलीविज़न पर मुंबई और दिल्ली को परमाणु निशाना बनाने की धमकी दी। घंटों के भीतर यह क्लिप करोड़ों भारतीयों के फ़ोन तक पहुँच गई। यह सिर्फ़ एक आदमी के बयान की कहानी नहीं है। यह उस जंग की कहानी है जो कभी रुकी ही नहीं, और उस नई मशीनरी की, जो अब इसे बिना किसी लागत के लड़ती है। पाकिस्तान के एक न्यूज़ चैनल पर वह एक सामान्य शाम थी। स्टूडियो वैसा ही था जैसा हमेशा होता है: पैनल डेस्क, गंभीरता का आभास देने वाली नाटकीय रोशनी, होस्ट आगे की ओर झुका हुआ, जैसे कुछ…

March 23 has left its mark on history more than once. From the gallows of Elizabethan England to the ruins of a crumbling caliphate in Syria, this date has witnessed turning points in politics, war, religion and resistance. Taken together, the events below trace a remarkable arc across four centuries of human experience. Separatist Puritans Sentenced to Death – 1593 English Separatist Puritans John Greenwood and Henry Barrowe were tried and sentenced to death on March 23, 1593. Charged with devising and circulating seditious books, both men faced the full weight of Elizabethan authority. Their case remains one of the…

How the West’s hundred-year dream of a Christian nation in South Asia moved from missionary to mercenary From British baptisms in Nagaland to a US mercenary arrested in Mizoram with drones, the dream of a Christian homeland in South Asia has never been a conspiracy theory. It has been a project, patient, evolving, and far from finished. On 13 March 2026, at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata, a man named Matthew Aaron VanDyke was arrested by India’s National Investigation Agency. He had entered the country on a tourist visa. He had travelled to Mizoram without the required…

Chuck Norris died on 19 March 2026. He was 86, still training, still punching. The world lost the myth first, and only then realised how much of the man it had never actually seen. Nine days before he died, Chuck Norris posted a video to Instagram. He was on the island of Kauai, standing in sunlight in a black T-shirt, and he was sparring, properly sparring, not posing, with a boxing trainer who was giving him real combinations to answer. Norris was 86 years old. He slipped a jab, rolled a right hand, fired back. His footwork was not what…

रमज़ान की इबादत, चाँद रात की रौनक और ईद की उस पहली सुबह का अनकहा एहसास कुछ त्योहार सिर्फ कैलेंडर पर नहीं, दिलों की गहराई में बसते हैं। वे आते हैं तो सिर्फ तारीख नहीं बदलती मौसम बदलता है, रिश्ते महकते हैं, और ज़िंदगी एक पल के लिए रुककर मुस्कुराती है। ईद ऐसा ही एक त्योहार है। रात के आसमान में जब वह पतला-सा चाँद झाँकता है, तो लाखों दिलों में एक अजीब-सी हलचल मच जाती है। बच्चे छतों पर दौड़ते हैं, बुज़ुर्गों की आँखें नम हो जाती हैं, और माँएं रसोई में सेवइयों का इंतज़ाम करने लगती हैं। यह…

For three centuries, the editorial cartoon was the most dangerous single object a newspaper could publish. One image could bring down a government, free a people, or get its maker killed. Today, fewer than thirty staff cartoonists remain employed at American newspapers. This is the history of how the most powerful art form in journalism was laughed into extinction. On the morning of 19 July 2023, three men received telephone calls they had not expected. Jack Ohman, the Sacramento Bee’s editorial cartoonist and the sitting president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, was told his position was eliminated. He…

Every day carries its share of historical significance. March 21 has witnessed pivotal events across centuries, shaping politics, science, society, and culture. From tragic outbreaks to legal reforms and technological breakthroughs, here is a look at ten events that occurred on this day in history. Black Death Massacre in Erfurt, Germany – 1349 One of the most tragic events of the medieval period took place on 21 March 1349, when a wave of anti-Jewish violence swept across Erfurt, Germany. Between 100 and 3,000 Jews were killed in the Black Death riots. This massacre was part of a wider pattern of…