The plaque next to the ruins of an apartment in Shaniwarwada, the Peshwa’s eighteenth century fortified residence in the heart of Pune, proudly proclaims that its former occupant was Sadashiva Rao ‘Bhau’, a national martyr, convincing the mesmerised tourists that…
Malnutrition in India has been a persistent problem and has even been called a ‘national shame’. This has been one aspect of the Indian economy that regularly reminds us during both periods of high economic growth as well as stagnation,…
The last three decades witnessed extensive changes in the organization of economic and political life in India. However, social change has been slower, if not stagnant. This is reflected in slow improvements in measures of human development, particularly in health…
Spousal violence is often seen as individual and isolated and considered a private matter not worthy of public condemnation.1 It is, however, an expression of larger systemic and structural issues. Following neoliberal economic reforms in India, a narrative has been…
Professor Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya was one of the most innovative, analytical and complete historians of early India of his generation. Prof. Chattopadhyaya studied in the Sanskrit College, and Presidency College, Kolkata, and obtained his Master’s degree from the Department of Ancient…
Abhijit Sen (or ‘Manik’ to his family, friends and colleagues), one of India’s leading progressive economists, passed away on 29 August 2022. Besides serving as a much respected and loved Professor of Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies and…
Besides being inherently controversial with implications for freedom of choice of religion, anti-conversion laws run into a long-standing practice among oppressed sections even within the majority community: that of opting for conversion as a form of protest. This issue has…
The decision of the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Haryana government to pass an anti-conversion law has once again put the contentious political issue of religious conversion at the centre of political discourse (The Hindu, 22 March 2022). This is not an…
The body of the child at the site of protest has always been a point of contestation. It is used by the State to dilute protest movements. This could be seen during the farmers’ movement and also the Shaheen Bagh…
The significance of communist ideology in the political process of Kashmir cannot be understood without examining the political milieu of Kashmir. It had a significant contribution in designing the socio-political and economic structure of Kashmir, being at the forefront in…