The Bengal Frontier The conversation around illegal infiltration from Bangladesh into West Bengal has long remained trapped between electoral rhetoric and moral abstraction. One side frames every discussion as xenophobia. The other often reduces a complex geopolitical challenge into simplistic slogans. Both approaches avoid the harder reality. https://www.boloji.com/articles/55479/the-bengal-frontier

OpenRefine in Library Science In the digital information age, data management has become extremely important. Libraries, research institutions, universities, and digital archive centers work with thousands of data records every day. These records often contain errors, duplicate entries, incomplete information, and different formats. To solve such problems, a powerful open-source tool called OpenRefine is widely used. https://www.boloji.com/articles/55478/openrefine-in-library-science

Reconstruction of Democracy The constitutional frameworks of India, the world’s largest democracy, and the United States, its oldest, explicitly enshrine liberty and equality as fundamental rights. The Indian Constitution empowers common citizens with the right to vote, placing the ultimate authority to choose rulers firmly in their hands. Yet, after seven decades of independent journey, a fundamental question haunts democratic thinkers: Is the Indian citizen genuinely sovereign, or merely a subject surviving at the mercy of bureaucratic discretion? https://www.boloji.com/articles/55477/reconstruction-of-democracy

My Village When I took my mobile handset trying to make a call to Sujatha, I saw a WhatsApp message sent to me by Godavari. https://www.boloji.com/articles/55476/my-village

A Tale of Two Friends This story exposes how unemployed or underemployed men are made to pay a brutal social price in urban India, reduced to objects of pity and contempt when they cannot secure respectable work. In contrast, non working wives face little stigma and often enjoy full social acceptance. Through Charan and Rajani, it shows how this double standard erodes male identity, hollowing out self worth, agency, and personality over time. https://www.boloji.com/articles/55474/a-tale-of-two-friends

The Escape This story digs into how children in India often get pushed into careers their parents pick, not what they actually wantand how that pressure can boil over into desperate, rebellious choices. It also shows how laws meant to protect children and women can be twisted by families to criminalise consensual relationships. All the while, caste and class quietly decide who counts as suitable, trumping love, consent, and the couples emotional lives. https://www.boloji.com/articles/55473/the-escape

Are Writing Habits Genetic? Are writing habits inherited through genes or learned through environment? Explore what science says about creativity and discover famous literary families whose children became writers, including the Bronts, Kings, and Dumas family. https://www.boloji.com/articles/55472/are-writing-habits-genetic

A Poignant Exploration of Love, Motherhood and Power A Thousand Dawns by Anoushka Poddar is an ambitious piece of historical-inspired fiction that explores power, motherhood, loyalty and emotional inheritance through richly drawn characters and layered interpersonal conflicts. The novel is far from a conventional royal drama, and it explores the human cost of power and the weak bonds that tie people even when love is left unspoken. https://www.boloji.com/articles/55471/a-poignant-exploration-of-love-motherhood-and-power

Rediscovering the Subtle Power of Simplicity The Short Stories of Ruskin Bond: A Critical Study, edited by P.V. Laxmiprasad, is an important academic work that examines Bond's tales, who is arguably one of India’s best-loved writers. In an era where literature often tends toward the more complex, experimental, and dramatic, the Short Stories of Ruskin Bond offers a scholarly perspective on one of the most significant writers of this century. https://www.boloji.com/articles/55468/rediscovering-the-subtle-power-of-simplicity

Hamatreya by Emerson Ralph Waldo Emerson is really one of those makers of American literature without whose names we cannot do with and he has imparted to what it is still a matter of talk and reckoning, scholarship and poetic judgement. A romantic, he was a transcendentalist and his works are replete with ruminations and the wisdom of the Vedas, the Upanishads and the Puranans is in him and he can think reasonably applying reasoning. Really, he is the that American scholar who can teach with his knowledge and wisdom. https://www.boloji.com/articles/55467/hamatreya-by-emerson