Himani Bannerji’s lead article in the current issue of Social Scientist, which is the text of her keynote address to the Annual Conference of Socialist Scholars in Canada, explores the connection between contemporary neoliberal capitalism and the increased violence against…
For some time now India has been much in the news due to the large number of reported (gang) rapes and other violences against women. Especially after the horrific incident of the gang rape of a young woman (alias Nirbhaya…
The legacies of the freedom struggle are precious for those who strived hard against British colonialism. Modern independent India was built around a consensus of core values evolved out of the experiences of our freedom movement. All those who cherish…
Spontaneous or organised armed resistances in post-colonial India, such as the Telangana revolt, various armed groups in the North-East and the proliferation of the Naxalite movement in various parts of the country were described by the post-colonial Indian state as…
There has been a rapid increase in the politico-sociological literature on the relationship between the armed forces and society in the emerging nations since the 1960s. A fairly large part of the research deals with the army as a political…
For the greater part of my life I was accustomed to take for granted certain civil liberties, including the freedom of thought and speech. Now, as I approach the end of life, the freedoms I had taken for granted are…
The outpouring of admiration, respect and deep affection for Professor Randhir Singh in the print and social media space are a testament to a rare human being whose profound impact on so many lives cannot, quite literally, be imprisoned in…
Randhir Singh passed away on 31 January 2016. He was a communist revolutionary who shaped posterity by way of shaking the discipline of politics. A slew of critical thinkers, comrades, owe a lot to him for their transformation and critical…
Asok Sen (1927–2015) was a mentor to a generation of scholars from Bengal. He went to South Suburban Branch School in Calcutta, and then studied economics at Presidency College and at the University of Calcutta. As an economist, he worked…
Ellen Meiksins Wood, a Professor at York University, Canada, died early this year. During the 1980s, when Marxism came under attack in the West, Ellen Meiksins Wood built a barricade to guard its intellectual existence. She systematically defended Marxism from…