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On October 20, 2012, less than two weeks after being reelected to his fourth term as Venezuelan president and only months before his death, Hugo Chávez delivered his crucial El Golpe de Timón (“Strike at the Helm”) speech to the first meeting of his ministers in the new revolutionary cycle. Chávez surprised even some of…
Twenty-first-century capitalist production can no longer be understood as a mere aggregation of national economies, to be analysed simply in terms of the gross national products (GDPs) of the separate economies and the trade and capital exchanges occurring between them. Rather, it is increasingly organised in global commodity chains (also known as global supply…
In June, I delivered a keynote presentation on Australia’s vulnerability to climate change and our policy challenges at the annual meeting of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, the main conference for those working in the climate science community. I saw it as an opportunity to summarise the post-election political and scientific reality we now…
One of the abiding myths of the right-wing in Indian politics has been that Jammu and Kashmir enjoys some sort of unwarranted constitutional status and that the problems there stem from the special treatment Kashmiris receive thanks to Article 370 of the constitution. From now on, at least, that complaint will no…
A.G. Noorani The Sangh Parivar’s chauvisim and ignorance feed on each other. Nowhere is this more evident than on the distinct identity of the State of Jammu and Kashmir. The State’s autonomy was guaranteed by Article 370 of the Constitution. Its people’s ancient rights are guaranteed by Article 35A. We discuss Article 35A…
(This article has been extracted by us from two articles: Jai Shankar Agarwala, “Article 370 of the Constitution: A Genesis”, Economic and Political Weekly, April 18, 2015; and “A.G. Noorani, “Article 370: Law and Politics”, Frontline, September 16-29, 2000.) The princely states comprised almost half of the Indian territories in the subcontinent at…
The urge for identity as a basic human urge has received specific academic recognition in post-modern political thought. People have sought a sense of belonging and security in groups throughout human history, starting from the primitive tribal life. The forms and basis of groups have changed from time to time and people were not…
It is urgent that we return to Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar’s thoughts on religion today. He helps us in our immediate fight against a resurgent Hindutva that targets Dalits, Muslims and dissenters in general. More generally, he helps us develop both a critique and an understanding of religion as a phenomenon. Ambedkar’s rethinking of religion has…
In his book Raga Mala, Ravi Shankar, the great musician, argues that had Rabindranath Tagore “been born in the West he would now be [as] revered as Shakespeare and Goethe.” This is a strong claim, and it calls attention to some greatness in this quintessentially Bengali writer—identified by a fellow Bengali—that might not be readily…
Reflections on His Practices There is no dearth of work on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and the caste system—a vast literature is already available on this subject but, with some variations, most of these works can be roughly divided into two groups. The first group includes the works of those scholars who believe that Gandhi…
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