It is widely known that Gandhi, for most of the long period of the freedom movement that he led, was indifferent to the claims of what has come to be called ‘secularism’. In fact, ‘secularism’ was not a concept that…
I will devote a significant part of this paper to discussion of the state of the social sciences in the United States. I’ll not apologise for this. It is simply because, by virtue of the sheer numbers of social scientists…
Communicating public health crises effectively and accurately to the people has remained a serious concern throughout the last century. Media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed many systemic issues associated with the functioning of the mainstream media across the…
The discipline of International Relations has had confused intellectual beginnings. Debates regarding the origins of the field have culminated in a scholarly consensus of three great debates which defined the subject matter, methodology and object of analysis of the discipline.…
Jacob Eapen, who passed away on 13 January 2022, was one of the founding members of Social Scientist, having been attracted towards the Left movement, which the journal was meant to serve, in the mid-sixties.
S.K. Rao was born in a village called Gogulumpadu in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, a village that lacked even a post office, for which one had to go to the adjacent village Chintalavalli; and even though he spent…
Joseph Benedict Prabhu (lovingly known as ‘JB’) breathed his last the evening of 27 September 2021, at their home in Los Angeles; wife Betty Bamberg and Joseph’s daughter Tara were by his bedside when he passed away peacefully. The first…
Lim Mah-Hui and Michael Heng Siam-Heng, COVID-19 and the Structural Crises of Our Time, ISEAS Publishing, 2022, xxi+198 pages For generations born after World War II, the COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly the greatest catastrophe they have encountered at a global…
We had brought out very recently a special number celebrating the ninetieth birthday of Professor Irfan Habib, the renowned historian. The current issue is another special number that celebrates the ninetieth birthday of another renowned historian, Professor Romila Thapar. We…
Romila Thapar, arguably one of the great historians and public intellectuals of our times, turned 90 on 30 November 2021. This issue of Social Scientist is a tribute to her work, and includes contributions from young and not so young…