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Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of a series of short volumes that Neera Chandoke and I are editing for the Centre for Equity Studies
Rooted in anti-colonial struggle, Indian socialism, despite its limitations, helped progress towards an egalitarian society. Can that pathway be reclaimed? India’s immensely respected economist and public intellectual Prabhat Patnaik masterfully assembles in the pages of a short monograph the sweep of India’s post-colonial economic history. This is in his forthcoming Socialism and the Indian Constitution (part of
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When you first arrived home from the hospital you should ask your mom and dad how much Mogli showed his happiness and how he was jumping in joy. It was some day in march may the end of march 2025 you were imitating and repeating your mom’s crackling sound it was so funny we all…
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Prasanth Bhushan My piece in today’s Hindu on the Justice Yashwant Verma affair.We need a full time body indep of the govt to select judges in a transparent manner after laying down a criteria.We also need a judicial complainants body, indep of govt & judiciary to deal with judicial misconduct.
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Partha P Majumder 1,* PMCID: PMC4779617 PMID: 26837547 His mother wrote “I taught him to read quite early—partly in self-defence, for when he became absorbed in a book he ceased to ask questions.” To prove to him that methane was lighter than air and to demonstrate the effects of breathing methane, his father took him crawling into a…
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By Eigil zu Tage-Ravn In his Truth and Method (1960), the German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer insisted affectingly that human understanding is an essentially historical process. The “meaning” of texts (novels, poems), the significance of past eras or events (WWII, the Renaissance) — none of this can ever be, somehow, “settled” or “put to rest”. On the contrary, because we are…
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Madhu Sudan Chatterjee 23/Mar/2025 Once among the best in the country, West Bengal’s education system is in dire state now with rising student dropouts, especially of girls, lack of teachers, school closures and rise of RSS-affiliated schools. Only one teacher runs the Teliya Bhasa Junior high school in Ayodhya hill, Purulia sistrict, West Bengal. Scene…
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