The Limits of Gandhian Non-Violence
Written by Prem Kumar Vijayan & Karen Gabriel It is widely acknowledged that Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, and more specifically, his political method of non-violent struggle, was one of the major…
Prem Kumar Vijayan
Trade Unions, Professional Associations and the Politics of ‘Collective Bargaining’
The French thinker Louis Althusser in his famous essay on ideological state apparatuses, includes trade unions (and presumably professional associations too) in his illustrative list of such ideological state apparatuses.…
The Ends of Dissent? A Dissenting Understanding of Dissent
What is ‘dissent’? The term ‘dissent’ was first used in sixteenth century England, to refer to the opinions of those Christian sects that would not conform to the Church of…
On Intellectual Property
This article seeks to elaborate an argument that I had merely touched upon, at the beginning of another article. I would like to reproduce here the relevant portions of that…
Patriarchy’s Engines: Toxic Masculinity, Desire, Sexual Violence
Prefatory Note Before I begin with the issues that are properly the concern of this article, I would like to make some clarifications. Firstly, with this article, I would like…
Some Clarifications on Some ‘Clarifications’ on the CAA
Co-Written by Karen Gabriel and Prem Kumar Vijayan The following is a message that has been doing the rounds on WhatsApp and other social media forums. It is apparently a…
Made in India to Make in India: The Meanings of Moditva
Co-Written by P,. K. Vijayan, and Karen Gabriel The past few months have witnessed the grand spectacle of Narendra Modi emerging as the Prime Minister of India, and the…
Naming And Shaming: Men, Sexual Harassment And “Due Process”
There has been much sound and fury on social media recently, about the posting of a list of alleged sexual harassers in the Indian academe, on Facebook. Much of this…
Thoughts On A Love-Letter From Prison
As the nation approaches yet another birthday, its seventieth, to be precise, this Independence Day, I am reminded of the letter that a dear friend of mine sent to his…
UID – The Greatest Trick Yet, By The Greatest Prestidigitator
The Italian Kautalya, Niccolo Machiavelli, is supposed to have said that ‘Politics is the art of deception’ (or maybe it was the Indian Machiavelli, Kautilya, himself). Whoever it was,…
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