Articles by: P Radhakrishnan

The meaning of Vaikom Satyagraha

The meaning of Vaikom Satyagraha

If, as Will Durant wrote “[s] society is a growth in time, not a syllogism in logic, and when the past is put out through the door it comes in at the window,” the “Kerala phenomenon” of putting the past, or at least a major part of its malignant growth, out through the door, and ensuring that what came in[Read More…]

by 02/04/2023 Comments are Disabled India
‘Malevolent Republic – A Short History of the New India’ review: Why the India founded in 1947 is dead

‘Malevolent Republic – A Short History of the New India’ review: Why the India founded in 1947 is dead

Narendra Modi was prime minister of India for five years from 2014-2019 in his first term and his second term began this May; so, readers may ask why this book? The devil is in the details. Debut writer K.S. Komireddi traces the rise of Modi who he argues has reduced Indian democracy to ‘Mann Ki Baats’, road and stage-shows, instead[Read More…]

by 14/01/2023 Comments are Disabled Book Review
An agenda for debate on Scheduled Castes and reservations

An agenda for debate on Scheduled Castes and reservations

In an editorial dated 01 Sep 2022 the New Indian Express has raised an important issue about the final aim of reservation – whether to remove social and educational backwardness or end untouchability. Because of the judicial mill grinding frustratingly slow; the fact that in the fast changing internet manipulations access to important materials already published is limited for various[Read More…]

by 03/09/2022 Comments are Disabled India
Google’s Google Scholar Goggly

Google’s Google Scholar Goggly

Read my letter to Sundar Pichai, go to Google Scholar, and raise your voice against Google’s unscrupulous and unscholarly ride on all of us for commerce and greed. Dear Sundar, I have been getting emails from Google reminding me “Time to update your articles”. Least said, such emails with no provision for replying are scandalous (scholarcitations-noreply@google.com), and against professional civility[Read More…]

by 06/07/2021 Comments are Disabled Uncategorized
Muslim Woes Just Being Recorded By A PM High Committee Isn’t Enough. Here’s Why

Muslim Woes Just Being Recorded By A PM High Committee Isn’t Enough. Here’s Why

What Led To The Monumental Sachar Committee Report Of 2006? Setting The Context After a lull of about a decade on the Justice Rajindar Sachar Committee Report on Muslim backwardness, sections of the media have finally brought the report again to limelight for debate and action. This is a good development. One example of this is the write-up “Shelved &[Read More…]

by 23/10/2017 1 comment Communal Harmony
The Economic And Political Weekly Is Dying

The Economic And Political Weekly Is Dying

I began my association with the Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) in early 1979, when I sent a hand-written book review to Krishna Raj – my first contribution to EPW, from the field where I was collecting data for my PhD thesis. I continued my association well into 2004 – about which I had written in the EPW of May[Read More…]

by 19/09/2017 1 comment India
A Former Writer For ‘The Hindu’ On Gauri Lankesh And BJP’s ‘Propaganda Machinery’

A Former Writer For ‘The Hindu’ On Gauri Lankesh And BJP’s ‘Propaganda Machinery’

Gauri Lankesh’s parting gift is a brilliant and courageous editorial. It is clear that, like Hitler, Modi cannot survive as the Prime Minister (let alone project a larger-than-life image), without his Goebbelsian propaganda machinery which constantly churns out lies and damn lies. Today, Modi’s advantage is technology, which is incomparably far more advanced and can be easily manipulated. Instead of[Read More…]

by 12/09/2017 Comments are Disabled India
Translate »