Culture | India | Online Blog
The World of Lalla: A Journey into the Heart of the 14th-Century Kashmiri Mystic Poetess
Her praxis, as her poetic corpus reveals, is rooted in the Saivate tradition and equally influenced by Islamic mysticism.
Constitution | Fascism | India | Online Blog
Protecting Constitutional Rights: Lessons from India’s Founding Fathers
Let us hope and trust that the future has stored a better India, with a strong democracy and complete and truthful enforcement of fundamental and constitutional rights, says the senior advocate.
Constitution | Fascism | India | Online Blog
The Indian Constitution Has Always Been the Hurdle in the BJP’s Path
Long before the BJP came into existence, nearly four decades ago, the Sangh Parivar has many times betrayed its uneasiness with the Constitution. In fact, many of the sarsangchalaks of the RSS took a public stand for scrapping the Constitution.
Union Budgets 2014 to 2024 – Article 10: The Education Budget
In this article, we first discuss the National Education Policy 2020, and then the budget allocations for school and higher education in the eleven budgets presented by the Modi Government from 2014-15 to 2024-25.
Culture | Dictatorship | Fascism | India | Online Blog
How a Modi-Era Ecosystem of Official & Unofficial Censorship Is Transforming India’s Film Industries
A right-wing, pro-government, Islamophobic wave has swept India’s films, especially from Bollywood, after 2014. Although the Tamil and Malayalam film industries, in addition to independent and documentary filmmakers, are pushing back against the trend, self-censorship and extra-judicial pressure to conform to unwritten restrictions is now routine across India.
Dictatorship | Fascism | India | Online Blog
One Nation, One Voice: Dissent, Diversity and Other Enemies in Modi’s India
As the BJP’s obsession with conformity gathers pace, it is challenged by India’s defiant nature and lived heterogeneity.
Caste | India | Online Blog
What Kerala’s Temple Dress Code Row Reveals About Faith, Caste and Religious Reform
A century after Narayana Guru’s reforms, the debate over men wearing shirts in temples lays bare shifting caste alliances and Hindutva’s influence.
When Big Business Influences the State and Foreign Policy in India
Neoliberalism has empowered India’s big capital to control the state, reversing an earlier relationship. Capital, once subordinate and nationally defined, now dominates and defines the nation, using the state to advance its global business interests.
How a Megadam Disrupts the Flow of Water – and Money
In Northeast India, a controversial hydropower dam moves toward completion – causing great uncertainty for downstream dwellers whose livelihoods depend on the river.
Who was Hansa Mehta, Tireless Feminist and ‘Founding Mother of the Indian Republic’?
Mehta’s greatest contribution in the Constituent Assembly was to the cause of women’s rights. As one of only fifteen women members in the Constituent Assembly, her constant demand for equal rights for women shaped the nature of the Constitution.