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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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On 17 January 2016, we lost the young promising Dalit scholar, Rohith Vemula, because of circumstances created by right-wing forces at the helm of affairs from the Central University of Hyderabad up to the Education Ministry. This incident was aptly identified by social justice forces as an institutional murder. As we recollect this painful loss,…
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Hannah Arendt was the rare philosopher who saw how limited her discipline could be. Poetry offered her another outlet for thinking. BY Daegan Miller Originally Published: January 12, 2025Share “What is the subject of our thought? Experience! Nothing else! And if we lose the ground of experience then we get into all kinds of theories.” —…
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Every day, it seems, Payal Kapadia’s film is bagging a new award, scratching new nominations and topping year-end lists of prestige publications — will an Academy Award nomination be next? By Prathyush Parasuraman Stories by Prathyush Parasuraman : DEC 30, 2024|6 min read A still from ‘All We Imagine As Light’ “I didn’t even know some of these awards…
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The Modi government recently also cut out the founder of IITs, India’s elite tech schools, from the syllabus By Niharika Sharma PublishedJune 1, 2023 https://qz.com/ Class 10 students following the Indian government’s syllabus will no longer learn the periodic table of elements. Environmental sustainability has also been removed from the curriculum. 0:42 / 1:57 The…
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