Culture War after Article 370: It is for the Left Liberals to Lose it
Historical events do not always betray the culture of the times in which they occur; it is the intellectual climate they usher in and the narratives they engender, which reveal the deep structure of the society. More...
A Temple for Romila Thapar?
The recent outrage over JNU administration’s communication to noted historian Romila Thapar to submit her updated CV to help the administration review the possibility of her continuation as Professor Emeritus (an More...
Intellectualism as power and intellectuals as mercenaries
We have been told that it is power which produces knowledge, a truism of sorts in academia. Thus social norms are questioned as sites of domination: family values denounced as patriarchy, religious virtues dismissed More...
Intellectuals are contemporary anomalies
Indian intellectuals are acutely aware of their growing irrelevance in contemporary times, not just because the present political dispensation does not recognize their birth-right of representing others, but also More...
MeToo Movement and its Contradictions
MeToo movement in India has been celebrated in mainstream media as a defining moment in the history of women in general and the shared experience of Indian women in particular. While being sympathetic to many such More...
The imperative of decolonizing Indian education
Seemingly mindless Hindi movies often drop, albeit unknowingly, pearls of wisdom and offer insights into the working of society. While watching one such experiment titled Yamla, Pagla, Deewana, I came across a typical More...