The development experience of China has exhibited some features that differentiate it from all other countries since the advent of the capitalist system (Ghosh 2019). First. the rate of growth of GDP both before and after 1978 was high (Felipe…
Social justice is a concept that aims to address and rectify structural inequalities and systemic injustices and seeks to promote fairness, equality, and equitable treatment for all individuals and groups in society. In the Preamble of the Constitution, it has…
The routes of procession mark the city with each step, each halt and each congregation. In this essay, I will look at the routes of procession of Muharram in the city of Shahjahanabad, with respect to the ossification of pathways…
Krishna Mohan Shrimali, Land, Agriculture and Money in Central India and Beyond (c. 100 to c 1300 CE): The Feudal Order Revisited, Aakar Books, Delhi, 2024, xxviii+488 pages, Rs. 1595. The preface to this new veritable sourcebook on Vākāṭaka and…
Several films and novels engage with the war in former Yugoslavia: Kusturica’s Underground (1995), Srdan Dragojevic’s Beautiful villages burn beautifully, Milčo Mančevski’s Before the rain (1994), the novel by Zoltán Danyi, A dögeltakarító (‘The Corpse Remover’) (2015), Orsolya Bencsik’s MorelLife…
This issue leads with an essay by Akeel Bilgrami on ‘Understanding Gandhi on Caste and Modernity’, a slightly modified version of a lecture he delivered at a meeting in memory of five leading progressive intellectuals and artists and activists –…
After ten years of its dark night of the soul, Indian politics found, on the 4th of June, that it had groped its way into a tentative shaft of light; and though the sour stink of fascism is still in…
The thoughts on Gandhi and caste that Akeel Bilgrami’s lecture give rise to, have been intellectually most stimulating, as have been his explorations of the subject. This in itself makes one look forward to reading his forthcoming book. We also…
Almost all seminars on Max Mueller held in my country begin or end with one of the many euphoric eulogies Max Mueller uttered to underline his deep attachment to ancient India, that is, India of the Vedas and the Upanishads.…
After Cyrus Mistry’s death in a car accident, National Transport Minister Mr Nitin Gadkari posted a video on Twitter on 9 September 2022, emphasising the importance of airbags in cars.1 The video, which starred Akshay Kumar and carried a logo…