He left behind a treasure house of ideas that scholars will explore for years to come.

The opportunity presented by the global pandemic crisis lies in the sudden suspension in India of normal politics. And that has opened a door for the BJP to push for changes that it earlier considered too risky.

It's time to ask where the current protests – a burst of youthful passion, bravery and creativity – will lead us.

Paranoia is a state of mind in which people have a hugely exaggerated feeling of persecution, of being constantly threatened by known and unknown enemies.

The remedy is to provide constitutional guarantees for the less powerful and vulnerable units.

The history of modern nationalism shows conclusively that every attempt to unify the nation-state around a majority defined by language, religion or ethnicity necessarily, and thus inevitably, excludes some who become minorities.

It is distressing that parties which should have been most concerned about the implications of this move have fallen in line. The thrust of this majoritarian logic of colonising nationalism will not stop at Kashmir.

While the government’s motive in terms of electoral calculations is obvious, the entire opposition acquiesced for fear of being dubbed anti-poor.

"I believe it is fair for me to demand that the nature of the allegation against me be made known to me so that I could make a specific response to it," says the noted scholar.

In an open letter to Sameeksha Trust, the renowned social scientist has questioned the trust's position on recent events at EPW and their decision to take down an article on the Adani Group.

As I said in my article, the similarities in the language of justification stem not from the acts themselves but from a structural similarity between the two situations of military deployment.

There are chilling similarities between the justifications advanced for the actions of the British Indian army in Punjab in 1919 and those being offered today in defence of the acts of the Indian army in Kashmir.

Wajda's life and work can be traced as a cultural barometer of Poland and a substantial measure of its psychological preoccupations.