The terrain of this paper, the writing and rewriting of history, is much traversed and contested. When we speak of the contested imaginings of the nation, history writing generally comes to mind. This is where the battle for the minds…
Tushar Gandhi, The Lost Diary of Kastur, My Ba, Harper Collins: Gurugram, 2023, ix+299 pages, Rs 399 ‘I have already said that Kasturbai was illiterate. I was very anxious to teach her, but lustful love left me no time. For…
In the lead article in this issue titled ‘The Constitutionality and Rationality of the Secular Imperative’, Rahul Govind defends the constitutional value of secularism against academic and political critiques which contend either that secularism has no roots in the Indian…
There is perhaps no more urgent and fraught issue in India today than the question of the relationship between the democratic State, secularism and religion. According to a widely held view, either secularism as a conceptnorm is inapplicable in India…
In a context where the argument for sustainable development has not taken adequate root, proponents of economic growth-oriented policies view the expansion of mining and extractive industries as an important tool for various ‘development’ agendas, including accelerating economic growth and…
The State of Jammu and Kashmir came into being by virtue of the treaty, known in the annals of Indian history as the Treaty of Amritsar, signed between the East India Company and Raja Gulab Singh of Jammu on 16…
India is the largest milk producer with a share of 23 percent in global milk production (IDM 2022:11). The USA is a distant second since 1997 with a 12 percent share in world milk production. The per capita availability of…
In modern Tamil Nadu social protest and anti-caste movements are always attributed to the Dravidian Movement and E.V.R. Periyar. The individuals and organisations who earlier earlier played an active part in challenging the odious system of caste and practice of…
It is difficult to express the deep sense of loss that Anil Bhatti’s passing means for German Studies and the larger intellectual world to which he introduced us as students. In a memorial meeting held at the Centre of German…
Professor Anil Bhatti who passed away on 11 October 2023 was an outstanding Marxist thinker and public intellectual of the country. He was a student in Germany, studying German literature and philosophy, when the world-wide student upsurge took place in…