by Akansha Chandra*
Language has always been an important identity marker in the domain of Social Sciences. Within the framework of ethnicity, language movements have played a significant role in the politics of identity. The South Asian region (...)
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Language as an Identity Marker: Placing Language Movements in Ethnic Conundrum of South Asia | Akansha Chandra
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Why There is Compelling Need for Comprehensive Inquiry Into Uttar Pradesh Panchayati Raj Elections | Bharat Dogra
16 July 2021, by Bharat DograWhile violence, intimidation and other more obvious aspects of irregularities which marred the recently held three-month long Panchayati Raj (PR) elections in India’s most populous state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) are now widely known, there is still (...) -
D R Chaudhry - an organic socialist intellectual of the Haryana peasantry | Pritam Singh
16 July 2021by Pritam Singh*
Daulat Ram Chaudhry (1935-2021) — a teacher, public intellectual and social activist — spent his whole life articulating progressive ideas and building socially transformative organisational structures and movements in (...) -
Obituary: Vir K. Chopra | Ranbir Singh
16 July 2021, by Ranbir Singhby Prof. Ranbir Singh Remembering a Multifaceted Personality
The demise of Vir K. Chopra is a great loss for the academic fraternity and Bollywood. After getting a first class first masters degree in (...) -
Master Plan of Delhi 2041 & Environment | Jeevesh Gupta
16 July 2021by Jeevesh Gupta*
The Great Greek philosopher, Socrates, once said, “By far the greatest and most admirable form of wisdom is that needed to plan and beautify cities and human communities”.
While the DDA has been opaque about sharing the promised (...) -
Business of Othering | Humra Quraishi
16 July 2021, by Humra QuraishiMUSINGS 14 July 2021
With more and more communal characters on the prowl, can we declare communalism, or to put it along the desi strain ‘communal-pan’, as a full-fledged disease or disorder of the day! Yes, it ought to be termed and notified as (...) -
An Ambassador India Doesn’t Remember | M R Narayan Swamy
16 July 2021, by M R Narayan SwamyA Forgotten Ambassador in Cairo:
The Life and Times of Syud Hossain
by N.S. Vinodh
Simon & Schuster India (December 29, 2020) ; ISBN13: 9788194752028 Pages: 378; Price: Rs 799
He was an outstanding journalist whose writings and (...) -
Padma Bridge in Bangladesh without World Bank stakes | Mizanur Rahman
16 July 2021Review by Mizanur Rahman
People build bridges to connect both sides; ironically, the politics of financing behind the Padma Bridge was a divide. Our national interests and social culture used to be promoted by intellectual groups, media and (...) -
Fire | Badri Raina
16 July 2021, by Badri RainaFire, fire, everywhere, As far as the eye can span; Fire across the continents, Fire in the mind of man.
The oceans rise, the waters fall, Yet fire defeats deluge; Governance is a fireball, Fire inflames the stooge.
Centuries of progression From (...) -
South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng are burning - We need to build a just peace | Abahlali baseMjondolo
16 July 2021[South African military has been deployed on a large scale (25 thousand troops) as the former President Jacob Zuma was jailed towards the end of the first week of July 2021 and unrest and looting spread in various towns. Zuma who was President (...)
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