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A Call to Slow Down

By Shruti Jain on August 22, 2019

We, who have grown up on the fable of the hare and the tortoise, with the moral that slow and steady wins the race, have, over time, stopped believing in this story. So much so that it sounds silly even if one wishes to believe in it. Knowingly or unknowingly, we have imbibed the logic of capitalism that equates speed with efficiency—“the faster, the better”. Being “successful” and winning the race was also the mantra in the hare-tortoise story.

Decoding “Reform, Perform, and Transform”

By Sunipa Dasgupta on August 09, 2019

What has fascinated me the most in the 2019 Union Budget is the evocative, if not innovative, use of jingles. Be it “Har Ghar Jal” for universal access to (drinking) water or the use of “Team India with Jan Bhagidari” for minimum government and maximum governance, or “Green Mother Earth and Blue Skies” for the vision of a pollution-free India, who has ever witnessed, let alone conceptualised, such sublime mellifluousness in a mundane accounting statement like the budget document!

The Game is Afoot

By Lina Mathias on July 10, 2019

In 2017, when Cressida Dick became the first woman commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Service in its 187-year old history, it was only to be expected that there would be comments about the appointment being on the basis of “political correctness” rather than her competence.

The Future of Critique

By Gopal Guru on June 18, 2019

Effective critique has to be understood in terms of its hermeneutic capacity in order to intensify its impact in shaping the political orientation and social imagination of the people. Critique has both restorative and creative functions in so far as it does not dispel the object of critique in terms of its semantic expression and its truth claim. Critique that does not see its motivating role in taking a large number of people along with its truth claim loses its hermeneutic power.

Rescaling of Coastal and Forest Governance and the Marginalised Communities

By Indu K on June 06, 2019

The proposed changes to the Coastal Regulation Zone, 2018 norms as well as the Indian Forest Act, 2019 are a manifestation of the neo-liberal Indian state’s role as an institutional mediator of capital (Brenner 1997).

The 'First City', Then and Now: Working Class Movements in Bombay

By Lina Mathias on April 30, 2019

“Gandhi called Bombay the ‘first city of India’ by which he meant, among other things, that it had a highly developed, public-spirited civic culture not found in other Indian cities,” writes Bhiku Parekh in his foreword to Gandhi in Bombay: Towards Swaraj by Usha Thakkar and Sandhya Mehta.

Evidence-based Policy or Policy-based Evidence: What Do We Need Data For?

By Sunipa Dasgupta on April 26, 2019

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Achilles heel in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections is the economic non-performance of the Narendra Modi government, which it has brazenly buried under its tinkered macroeconomic estimates.

From Lula to Lalu

By Nachiket Kulkarni on April 09, 2019

Can Brazil and Bihar be spoken about in the same breath today?

Being Reasonable Is Being Mutually Justifiable

By Gopal Guru on March 22, 2019

The relationship between “reason” and “being reasonable,” is very delicate and complex. Reasonableness pervades many important fields such as law, economy and philosophical and political practices. Since reason, as a notion, is an agreed upon touchstone in society, it is imperative that we separate the moral conception of what it means to “be reasonable” so that we are able to access reason without being buried under its weight.

Long Live the 'Feminazi'

By Titash Sen on March 08, 2019

The righteous anger of revenge is coursing through our streets. It wants to announce itself to the world in bold, brazen strides with banners, meetings and parades calling for more death and more blood. And, we are letting it circulate through the veins of society with renewed vitriol, again and again. What allows this anger to be so very blatant, so unabashed and proud? Why does it demand the same kind of blinding rage from those who don’t feel it? Why is this rage a marker of patriotism? Why is the lack of it, immediately treated as a betrayal?

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