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…]
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…]
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…]
Caste In Heaven: Can Shudras And Dalits Find Moksha In Brahminism? 
Make Mankind Great Again! 
Dictatorship And Democracy As Loaded Language: Anti-Communist Cold-War Propaganda 
“Sugar” 
Menstrual Hygiene – Talk about what’s not comfortable! 
So You want to ally with the Dalit Rights Movement? 
Crunch Time 
How the War Came Home, Big Time – Perspectives From a Military Spouse 
Notes on US presidential election: Show of a politics 
Bhima Koregaon Case: A Critical Appraisal : Our Call – Free them All 
Ensuring Mental Health For All 
The Proletarian Uprising of Punnapra-Vayalar: 74 Years Later 
‘Night March – Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas’ 
Is it time to revisit the measures in India to prevent cruelty against animals? Stand With Stan: Release All Accused In The Bhima Koregaon Case 
Cultivated Lunacy, Nuclear Deterrence and Banning the Nuke 
70 Years after China and the DPRK Defeated the United States in Korea 
Hindutva: A Political and Economic Project of Shared Lies of Brahmanical Caste and Class Order in India 
Phenomenal Surge of Domestic Violence/Gender Violence: The Shadow Pandemic of Humanity 
No end in sight for Rohingya crisis 
Tribal health in India: An eternity of backwardness? 
Globalization and health: A glimpse into the developing nations 
Chile’s dream for an equal society 
The World is Changing: China Launches Campaign for Superpower Status 
Capitalism is double-billing us: we pay from our wallets only for our future to be stolen from us 
The Significance of 27th October, 1951 for Punjab 
Political Economy of Caste in India 
Innocence Lynched 
Need to update EIA norms for preserving biodiversity 
Muslim intellectuals, activists condemn Paris beheading, demand abolition of apostasy and blasphemy laws 
Dalits V/S Bahujan 
The Privileges Of A “Quota” Student Who Is “Not Poor” 
Reflections on the Instrument of J&K Accession 
The Dissent of Man –Asserting Humanity by Raising Voices 
Impunity and Carefree Violence: Australia’s Special Forces in Afghanistan 
So Trump Loses, What Happens Then? 
Liquid Capitalism: Everyone Drinks it, Swims in it, Drowns in it 
The Muslim World denounces French President’s remarks against Islam, its prophet 
Trump’s Desperation and the Manufactured China Threat 
Bihar Assembly Elections 2020: Media shows bias towards BJP 
This article is based on the 25th Chandrashekar Memorial Lecture delivered on 20 September 2020. The original lecture was delivered in Hindi and the event was organized by Punashcha, the Indian People’s Theater Association (IPTA) and Koshish. Friends, comrades gathered here; I am very honoured to be invited to deliver the Chandrashekhar Memorial Lecture this year but I cannot say[Read More…]
