Georg Lukács places the issue of form at the centre of his early book The Theory of the Novel, and views form as integral to the humanist approach. In this context, he suggests categories such as nature, human consciousness and…
Ideas of modernism had a considerable influence on literary writers in both western and eastern parts of the world in the twentieth century. Springing from Europe modernism explained the crisis faced by people during the two world wars. It expressed…
The passing away of Professor Satish Chandra in October 2017 has been deeply mourned by the large number of colleagues, pupils and admirers, and by all who knew him and had a care for the cause of reason, objective history…
‘Unfortunately, today anybody talking in support of human rights and against fake encounters is branded a Maoist supporter. Along with that, my criticism of Hindutva politics and the caste system, which is part and parcel of what is considered “Hindu…
Translated by Nausheen Jaffery, edited by Swapna Liddle, New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2017, 172 pages, Rs 650 The publication in 2017 of the English translation of Sair-ul-Manazil by Tulika Books is part of a journey that began 197 years ago.…
The lead article by Amiya Kumar Bagchi in the current number of Social Scientist critiques some of the basic building blocks of neo-classical economics, such as the assumption of a hedonistic individual consumer making choices in splendid isolation that lead…
Illustrations of Successful Use of Mathematics in Neoclassical Economics In the literature of mainstream (read, neoclassical) economics I can think of three examples of successful use of mathematics whose theorems are verified by proper empirical tests. The first is the…
Lately there has been an aggressive projection of the falling levels of poverty in India, by national as well as international agencies. It is therefore anachronistic that the period from 1993–94 to 2009–10 saw a steady decline of per-capita per-day…
During 1990–2009, India witnessed a very peculiar trend: of declining per capita calorie consumption along with a rise in per capita real income. However, in the survey of 2011–12 there was evidence of a substantial rise in calorie consumption, particularly…
The present paper critically discusses the main features of the economic growth processes during 2003–2015 in Argentina and Brazil, two Latin American countries that witnessed a remarkably positive economic performance during the 2000s decade, except for the 2009 international slowdown.…