In the present issue of Social Scientist we continue with our series on Gandhi, on the occasion of his 150th birth anniversary, with two more articles on him. The lead article by Gulammmohammed Sheikh, the renowned painter from Baroda, is…
Reading Gandhi can be both exasperating and exhilarating. And elevating. You often feel exhausted with his fads about health like his staunch avowal of a pure and simple life, which meant, for instance, a tyranny of food without spices in…
Gandhi often thought aloud as he went along, assimilating new facts and situations. One can almost hear the workings of his mind as it grapples, assimilates, suggests, concludes, revises and re-concludes. In this note I take up a few themes…
The private sector dominates the contemporary healthcare system in India. As a result the working poor experience adverse health outcomes (Qadeer 2013). The healthcare experience of countries such as Cuba indicates that universal healthcare is achievable at relatively low cost…
Photographs in journalism can be viewed as standard evidence for historical occurrences which tend to acquire a hidden political significance. Such photographs demand attention and interpretation that can make sense of the reality captured in a particular space and time.…
Wagish Shukla, an eminent writer and formidable scholar of Hindi, Sanskrit and Persian, an unabashed ‘Traditionalist’ who to many of his critics is ‘actually a right-winger’, told me a decade ago, ‘Namwar Singh is the last person in Hindi who…
Anand Chakravarti, Is This Azaadi? Everyday Lives of Dalit Agricultural Labourers in a Bihar Village, Tulika Books, New Delhi, 2018, (xiv+266) 280 pages, Rs 750. This book is a major contribution to the ongoing research in the academic sphere on…