Michael Walzer

How to Draw a Line on the Ground : Ravi Sinha

Comments for the Washington DC Diaspora Program on “Karnataka Election Outcome and the Two Contesting Ideologies” Guest Post by Dr Ravi Sinha I must begin with a disclaimer. I am no expert on how elections are won or lost. Nor can I claim any competence in deciphering an electionresultfor what has worked and what has … Continue reading How to Draw a Line on the Ground : Ravi Sinha →

Kejriwal and the ‘Dirty Hands Problem’

Guest Post by SURAJ JACOB [Note: This article was written before the ongoing violence in Delhi began and is not about current affairs. It rather engages with the political problem at a broader philosophical level. – AN] Analysts of Delhi’s recent election note thatAAP imaginatively courted voters on the BJP’s own turf (Shekhar Gupta): welfarism … Continue reading Kejriwal and the ‘Dirty Hands Problem’ →

To Gain a View of the Elephant – India, History, Modernity, and Marx : Ravi Sinha

Guest Post by Ravi Sinha (Marx Bicentennial lecture – Acharya Nagarjuna University, Guntur, March 16, 2018) etaddhastidarshana iva jatyandhah That is like people blind by birth viewing an elephant. (Shankaracharya’s bhasya on Chandogya-Upanisad 18.1)[1]   It was six blind men of Indostan, To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them … Continue reading To Gain a View of the Elephant – India, History, Modernity, and Marx : Ravi Sinha