Javeed Alam was a close friend and intellectually combative interlocutor from the time I first met him, when both of us were Visiting Fellows at Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, in the mid-to-late 1990s. What drew me…
In the past weeks so many persons around the world are together in remembering John Berger – as though he were a friend, almost as though we are all friends. As though in this mourning there is some elation reminiscent…
John Berger’s television series Ways of Seeing famously began with him setting a knife to Botticelli’s Venus and Mars. Flouting all rules of television performance, he stood with his back to the camera that instead faced the framed painting hung…
P. Chandramohan, Developmental Modernity in Kerala: Narayana Guru, SNDP Yogam and Social Reform, New Delhi: Tulika Books, 2016, xiv + 260 pages, Rs 750 The question of modernity and the theoretical approaches that are used to describe and explain it…