The Return of Fascism
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The Return of Fascism

Fascism is again ascendant. The far-right politician Giorgia Meloni is expected to become Italy’s prime minister after elections on Sunday. Extremism is the political cost of pronounced social inequality and political stagnation. Demagogues, who promise moral and economic renewal, vengeance against phantom enemies and a return to lost glory, rise out of the morass.

Gandhi, Marx & the Ideal of an ‘Unalienated Life’
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Gandhi, Marx & the Ideal of an ‘Unalienated Life’

Akeel Bilgrami speaks on the relationship between Gandhi and Marx, issues of modernity, academic philosophy in India, secularism, caste and current politics in India, the Hindutva political challenge and ways of resistance, and the importance of Left politics.

NEP’s Focus on ‘Autonomy’: Are We Ushering in Academic Capitalism?; Also: Allahabad University Fee Hike Protests
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NEP’s Focus on ‘Autonomy’: Are We Ushering in Academic Capitalism?; Also: Allahabad University Fee Hike Protests

Commentators see the National Education Policy 2020’s emphasis on choice, modularity and autonomy as disquieting because they see it as pushing the education system into a neoliberal governance mode; Also – Allahabad University Fee Hike by 400% – Protests Rage.