Some of my most relaxed and enjoyable moments in India in recent years have been spent during the lunch hour in the Sahmat office in Delhi each winter with Sitaram Yechury and his communist friends and companions, all brought together…
What was remarkable about Sitaram Yechury was the extent to which he broke away from his own class background and the career choices typically made by youth from his background, and that too without any fuss or obtrusion. He came…
Sitaram Yechury had the loveliest smile. Paired with that twinkle in his eyes and the signature chuckle that invariably followed, it was a smile that lit up not just his face but an entire room. That was my first impression.…
In a life that ended too early, Sitaram Yechury’s contribution to the post Emergency transformation of the Left, and, in the process, to the discourse and practice of politics in India was immense. Graduating from student to party politics, Shaving…
Sitaram Yechury was a brilliant student of Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University. He quickly moved from student activism in JNU, where he was thrice the students’ union president, to full-time party activism. He swiftly rose up the highest echelons of…
The development experience of China has exhibited some features that differentiate it from all other countries since the advent of the capitalist system (Ghosh 2019). First. the rate of growth of GDP both before and after 1978 was high (Felipe…
Social justice is a concept that aims to address and rectify structural inequalities and systemic injustices and seeks to promote fairness, equality, and equitable treatment for all individuals and groups in society. In the Preamble of the Constitution, it has…
The routes of procession mark the city with each step, each halt and each congregation. In this essay, I will look at the routes of procession of Muharram in the city of Shahjahanabad, with respect to the ossification of pathways…
Krishna Mohan Shrimali, Land, Agriculture and Money in Central India and Beyond (c. 100 to c 1300 CE): The Feudal Order Revisited, Aakar Books, Delhi, 2024, xxviii+488 pages, Rs. 1595. The preface to this new veritable sourcebook on Vākāṭaka and…
Several films and novels engage with the war in former Yugoslavia: Kusturica’s Underground (1995), Srdan Dragojevic’s Beautiful villages burn beautifully, Milčo Mančevski’s Before the rain (1994), the novel by Zoltán Danyi, A dögeltakarító (‘The Corpse Remover’) (2015), Orsolya Bencsik’s MorelLife…