Guest Post by PRATIKSHA BAXI In May 2020, the Ministry of Home Affairs constituted a Committee to recommend reforms in criminal laws in India with NLU Delhi. The National Level Committee for Reforms in Criminal Laws (henceforth, the NLUD Committee) is to review and recommend changes to the Indian Penal Code, Criminal Procedure Code and the … Continue reading Muscular Law Reform in Times of a Pandemic: Pratiksha Baxi →
This post should be read as a sequel to my earlier post of 16 July, which had discussed the discourse of “Hindu Unity” and questions before the struggle against the Right. That post had ended with the claim that the struggle against the Hindu Right is not so much about what we understand as “secularism” … Continue reading Intimations of a Bahujan Counter-Tradition and the Hindu Right →
[Democracy Dialogues Lecture Series ( Webinar) Organised by New Socialist Initiative] Date and Time: Sunday, August 16, 2020, at 6 PM IST (8.30 AM EST in the US) Topic: The Structural Contradictions of Indian Democracy and the rise of the BJP Abstract: This talk explores the deep social transformations that have made the dominance … Continue reading The Structural Contradictions of Indian Democracy and the Rise of the BJP : Prof Pratap Bhanu Mehta →
अगर हम प्रोफेसरों के पदों की बात करें तो यूजीसी के मुताबिक अनुसूचित जाति से आने वाले प्रत्याशियों के लिए आरक्षित 82.82 फीसदी पद, अनुसूचित जनजाति तबके से आने वाले तबकों के लिए आरक्षित 93.98 फीसदी पद और अन्य पिछड़ी जातियों के लिए आरक्षित 99.95 फीसदी पद आज भी खाली पड़े हैं। असोसिएट प्रोफेसर के … Continue reading केन्द्रीय विश्वविद्यालय: वर्चस्वशाली जातियों
A caste-based society will overcome legal codes that make equality the norm unless people actively bring change. Will we ever know the category-wise distribution of vice chancellors of the forty central universities located across the country? Thanks to the rules governing these universities, and those of the University Grants Commission, there is no such record. … Continue reading Are Central Universities Modern-Day Agraharams? →
Banojyotsna Lahiri shared her translation of some excerpts from a poem by Rabindranath Tagore, written 120 years ago, titled “Deeno Daan”. It is about a temple. Original Bangla below the translation. “There is no god in that temple”, said the Saint. The King was enraged; “No God? Oh Saint, aren’t you speaking like an atheist? … Continue reading “There is no god in that temple”: Rabindranath Tagore/Translated by Banojyotsna Lahiri →
यह मानने के पर्याप्त आधार हैं कि राम मंदिर के भूमि पूजन के लिए चुना गया यह समय एक छोटी रेखा के बगल में बड़ी रेखा खींचने की क़वायद है, ताकि नरेंद्र मोदी और उनकी सरकार की बढ़ती असफलताएं जैसे- कोविड कुप्रबंधन, बदहाल होती अर्थव्यवस्था और गलवान घाटी प्रसंग- इस परदे के पीछे चले जाएं.
Guest post by ARVIND KUMAR अभय दुबे की पुस्तक हिन्दू एकता बनाम ज्ञान की राजनीति पर जारी बहस में एक योगदान। दि प्रिंट में 8 जुलाई 2020 को योगेंद्र यादव का लेख ‘भारतीय सेक्युलरिज्म पर हिन्दी की यह किताब उदारवादियों की पोल खोल सकती थी मगर नज़रअंदाज़ कर दी गई है’, अभय दुबे की पुस्तक को केंद्र मे रखकर लिखा … Continue reading गैर-दक्षिणपंथी विचारकों के आत्ममंथन का घ
Re-reading Antonio Gramsci lately, in preparation for a webinar organized by the Dean, School of Social Sciences, University of Hyderabad on “Gandhi, Ambedkar, Gramsci”, I was struck by an aspect of his thought that I had not really understood in all its dimensions earlier. This aspect is directly related to the relationship between subalternity … Continue reading Gramsci, the “Puranic” and Shekhar Gupta →
क्या कोई जानता है 21वीं सदी की शुरुआत में चकवारा के दलितों के एक अहम संघर्ष को?
