Friday, June 13, 2025

Nikhil Singh

Nikhil Singh is an independent journalist.

North Bengal’s tea gardens, missing childhoods and unending exploitation

Fulmoni Munda’s son Taran (name changed to protect identity as per law), who would be 27 this year, had gone missing in 2011. Fulmoni, a retired tea garden worker who lives with her elder sister in the Matiali block of Malbazar sub-division in Jalpaiguri district of West Bengal, believes a local goon trafficked him to work in Delhi. The elderly lady waits for her long-lost son in her small cottage with only an old passport-size photo, which hasn’t been of much help in finding him.

Beaten and hunted by colleagues: Ordeal of a Muslim cop in West Bengal

On a very ordinary morning of 6 August last year, a police constable in West Bengal, Suraf Hussain and his family were attacked by his colleagues. Their lives have taken unexpected and unpleasant turns since then.
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As Bengal moves on mega coal block, tribals trying to get best deal possible

As West Bengal's Mamata Banerjee government moves on a mega coal block, tribals in a Deucha village trying to get the best deal possible.