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Anitesh Chakraborty

Writer and documentary filmmaker. Works on the rights of forest-dependent communities. Has edited several books, journals, and web portals.

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News · 18 Sep 2026

The Jantar Mantar Movement: A Victory of Anger, an Unfinished Politics: Part-2

A demand for a transparent examination process should lead to a demand for equitable education, and to a larger question about a just society. Politics lies in moving from the rights of candidates writing an exam to the rights of general students, from the rights of students to the right to education to the larger question of social rights. Perhaps this is where the possibility of a movement centred on examination candidates becoming a broader youth movement emerges.

News · 09 Sep 2026

The Jantar Mantar Movement: A Victory of Anger, an Unfinished Politics: Part-1

The Jantar Mantar movement dealt a powerful blow to the idea of the ruler’s domination as seamless and perpetual. Whether that political shock will contribute to the return of increasingly debilitating parliamentary democracy is not yet clear, at least for now. It would be equally foolish to assess the movement’s political impact by election results hastily. The test that remains is different: How will it carry forward the political language it created, what direction will it take, and how far will it go?