Rethinking the Debate on Reservations
On how the Constitution replaces the Brahmanic idea of merit with a modern, democratic, rational, scientific and constitutional idea of merit.
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Communalism | Culture | Fascism | India | Indian Politics | Print Edition
To watch the Jantar Mantar videos is to know what hate looks like
As Independence Day approaches, a sense of anxiety hangs over Muslims in Delhi.
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Romanticism and Revolution
During the gloom of the early nineteenth century, Shelley’s rage against injustice and revolutionary ardour burned with an intensity perhaps unmatched in the history of art.
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How a 19-Year-Old Found ‘Kairos’ at the Tikri Border
Nirvair Malhi, a 19-year-old high school graduate from Jalandhar, came to the Tikri border with the intention of visiting the protest for exactly a day. He has ended up staying there for the last seven months.
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Culture | Imperialism | Print Edition | USA | World Politics
Civilizing the Savage
I fear that as we unite, we diminish our ability to respect, and understand, the complexity of the universe, and of our fellow humans…. This is history’s primary lesson: The savage we need to civilize, continually, is within ourselves.
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How Ambedkar Makes Us Richer
The Dalit feminist writer, Urmila Pawar, sums things up in her foreword by saying, “The more we see him (Dr. Ambedkar) in the round, the richer we become,” a point that can be made about no leader alive today.
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Reading Rabindranath Tagore in Our Traumatic Times
The great Bengali poet, writer, thinker and artist, Rabindranath Tagore published a collection of short but deep observations on life world 100 years ago. The description of life and death in one of the stories in this collection relates closely to our everyday life in the post-COVID world.
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Caste | Culture | Fascism | Gender Issues | Indian Politics | Online Blog
Whose History Is it Anyway?
A critical look at a report currently being considered by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education pertaining to school history books. It unpacks the misplaced bases of comparison used in the report, and also examines the implications of its recommendations to erase or simplify histories of caste and gender.
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Caste | Communalism | Culture | Fascism | Indian Economy | Indian Politics | People's movements | Print Edition | Socialism
A Gandhian Case to Repeal Sedition Law
The CJI rightly asked why independent India needs a colonial-era law used to convict freedom fighters, for the law cannot persist unless a vestige of colonial mindset persists.
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How Modi Is Trying to Use Gandhi’s Name to Whitewash His Dark Record
The plan to reshape the Mahatma’s Sabarmati Ashram is an act of vandalism.
