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Persisting Socio-economic Crisis: COVID-19 Lays Bare the Social Fault Lines | Arun Kumar
7 August 2021, by Arun Kumar(*This article is substantially based on Kumar (2020d) and is appearing in Raza G. and S. Singh (Ed.) (2021). The Second Pulse of the Pandemic: A sudden surge in scientific temper during the Covid-19 crisis. N Delhi: Anhad. Forthcoming.) (...) -
A statusquoist ministry takes shape in Karnataka | P S Jayaramu
7 August 2021, by P S JayaramuAugust 5, 2021
Though the appointment of the new Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai, as the Chief Minister of Karnataka was announced in quick time after the resignation of Yediyurappa, the constitution of the new ministry took a week, with Bommai (...) -
PMs May Come, PMs May Go, But Modiji... | T J S George
7 August 2021, by T J S GeorgeIMPRESSIONS
All said and done, Narendra Modiji must be having a grand time. He never meets the press — the only prime minister in the world with that distinction — nonetheless he is all over the papers and television. Terrible things happen (...) -
Review by Devaki Jain of Amartya Sen’s Home in the world - A memoir
7 August 2021, by Devaki JainBOOK REVIEW
by Devaki Jain
Home in the World: A Memoir
by Amartya Sen
Imprint; Allen Lane
Penguin Random House
July, 2021
480 pages
ISBN-10 : 1846144868
ISBN-13 : 978-1846144868
available via Amazon
In Home in the World, (...) -
Athlete Ila Mitra missed the 1940 Olympics, but became an indomitable peasant leader | Sohini Chattopadhyay
7 August 2021by Sohini Chattopadhyay
July 30, 2021
Instead of sprinting in the 1940 Olympics, gifted athlete Ila Mitra was jailed and tortured for joining the famous Tebhaga peasant uprising in Bengal. Here is her story of immense courage
In 1940, when (...) -
Prashānt Mamatā as Rājdharma | Pradip Baksi
7 August 2021by Pradip Baksi
“Bā rayat sulh Kun wa’z jang i khasm aiman nishīn / Z’ānki Shāhinshāh i ādil rā rayat lashkar ast.” (“Be at peace with subjects and sit safe from the attacks of foes / Because his subjects are the army of a just Shāhinshāh.”)—Saʿdī Shīrāzī (...) -
Mamata Banerjee into the Vedanta trap | Sankar Ray
7 August 2021, by Sankar RayWilly-nilly, the West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has walked into the corporate trap of Vedanta Limited (erstwhile Vedanta Resources plc), incorporated in UK, an NRI Anil Agarwal-led group, diversified natural resources company with (...) -
Pandemic and the State: a Political Economy perspective | Banhi Baran Ghosh
7 August 2021by Banhi Baran Ghosh*
Abstract
Pandemic engendered by Covid-19 rekindles the normative view of the Indian State. For more than two decades the State which has been embracing the ideology of neo-liberalism, suddenly has turned into advocating (...) -
The Lord Macaulay’s Minute, 1835: Re-examining the British Educational Policy | Ajit Mondal
7 August 2021by Ajit Mondal *
Development of education system during the British period was determined by the needs of the colonial powers. If we analyse the development, we will find that the colonial interests of the British always shaped the then (...) -
Intimations of Stupidity | Avay Shukla
7 August 2021by Avay Shukla
30 July 2021
These last two weeks have been pretty confounding and humbling for me, both as a generic Indian and a stand-alone Shukla. It’s bad enough to be treated as an idiot by the government of the day, but it’s worse when (...)
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