The politics of global hegemony are being challenged for the first time after five centuries. The assertion and preservation of a unipolar world that mark the politics of dominance backed by the collective West are on the decline. The challenge…
Mumtaz Alam, Health, Medicine and the Encounter of Cultures in India, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2022, xiv+246 pages, Rs 1050. In the last few decades there has been a plethora of work exploring the history of medicine in India. However,…
Suneet Chopra, intellectual, writer, art critic and communist activist, who passed away on 4 April 2023, was a rare human being who possessed several outstanding qualities. One was his complete and unflagging dedication to the revolutionary cause. There are usually…
In this essay I have set out to examine one of the most enduring themes of literature, which is praise and censure of the ruling authority. In a way, this ability of humans to judge their superiors pre-dates literature. As…
It is more than three years since India began its Covid saga. As we breathe lighter after at least three waves that punched heavily on our people and fumes are periodically visible not very far away, we are in a…
The legal establishment of Right to Food began in 2001, in the context of deaths of 47 Sahariyas of starvation during a drought in Baran district of Rajasthan. Similar reports in 2004, 2009 and 2011 triggered a Public Interest Litigation…
Jitendranath Mohanty, one of the most distinguished philosophers of our time, chose the hard path of thinking without closure as his life’s mission, profession, source of enjoyment and liberation. Like a master draftsman, he has left for posterity several blueprints…
Text of the message read out by Gulammohammed Sheikh at the memorial meeting for Vivan Sundaram in Delhi on 17 April 2023.
A slightly expanded version of the message Tapati Guha-Thakurta read out at the memorial meeting for Vivan Sundaram in Delhi on 17 April 2023.
