Examined here is the link between the collapse of internationalism in 1914, as some on the left endorsed nationalist and/or pro-war positions, and the analogous shift a little short of a century later, as some leftists saw virtue in the…

Venturing to offer anything like a vision of a country as gigantic, as diverse and complex, as contradictory and mixed-up as India, more than three decades into the future, is a risky endeavour. It might also seem pointless, if you…

There is, understandably, widespread boredom with the topic of the ‘Humanities in Crisis’. In the Western world the crisis has been declared repeatedly for over half a century (perhaps from even much earlier – ever since the rise and consolidation…

Violence against women is framed within discourses on gender justice, human rights, health and well-being, partner violence, intimate partner violence, battered women, gendered violence, sexual assault, woman abuse, wife abuse, rape, aggravated rape, marital rape, date rape, among others. So…

French travellers, during their travels in the Orient in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, have always shown intense curiosity for diverse issues, besides pursuing political and commercial objectives. A theme that they  were immensely interested in, and extensively wrote about…

Can you elaborate more on how you distinguish between the vernacular modernists and the English-oriented modernists? English-oriented modernists were well-intentioned people, good old liberals, and tried to reform religion, get rid of sati practice and so on. They were essentially…