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Sanjay Srivastava
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The Indian nationalist hero had scientific temper. Now, he just has techSubscriber Only
June 13, 2025 13:29 IST
The Five-Year-Plan Hero had mastered the technologies but he was never just a technologist. Today, to try and think beyond technology (the task of scientific thinking) and whether book knowledge should have any connection with real life – democracy, equality and discrimination – is pointless activism
Fri, Jun 13, 2025
Counting caste, confronting contradictionsSubscriber Only
May 04, 2025 13:47 IST
Caste lives on in identity even when its hierarchy is condemned. A census alone won’t resolve these contradictions
Sun, May 04, 2025
Young Indians are risk takers. But they have no shelter from the stormSubscriber Only
April 21, 2025 07:35 IST
What we have is a circumstance where there is a greater appetite for risk that exists alongside a significant reduction in the capacity for dealing with the harm that risky activity frequently brings
Mon, Apr 21, 2025
Rahul Sankrityayan, the forgotten thinker needed for a world dividedSubscriber Only
April 14, 2025 16:47 IST
The ‘ghumakkad’ (wanderer) avoids the pitfalls of reducing home and belonging to one form of identity. In a world that has increasingly turned to the idea of fixed identities — and one that suppresses the voices that question it — Sankrityayan’s ‘ghumakkadi’ is worth pondering upon.
Mon, Apr 14, 2025
Deportations in the US may not be an aberrationSubscriber Only
March 22, 2025 07:20 IST
Instead, they could be the consequences of the real aspects of American identity
Sat, Mar 22, 2025
Trump, Zelenskyy and the hypocrisy of ‘polite’ diplomacySubscriber Only
March 03, 2025 12:41 IST
Outrage over Trump’s treatment of the Ukrainian president distracts from the long history of Euro-American leaders who bullied and damaged the world in pursuit of their countries’ interests
Sat, Mar 08, 2025
AAP’s electoral calamity in Delhi tells us how successfully the BJP has managed to reinvent the ‘aam aadmi’Subscriber Only
February 08, 2025 18:54 IST
The BJP has carefully put forward the idea that the “ordinary person” is not the one who may be socially and economically marginalised. It is the one who has been marginalised by earlier political dispensations. This “ordinary” Delhi resident is a middle-class citizen. And that it is middle-classness that can serve as a criticism of earlier forms of politics.
Mon, Feb 10, 2025
Picture of a Gurugram farmer beside the London Bridge frames aspiration of our timesSubscriber Only
January 02, 2025 07:12 IST
Today, gods come together with land markets, global financial and statist processes and worldliness isn't separate from divine mysteries
Thu, Jan 02, 2025
Why Opposition is wrong to assume BJP is on the defensive over Amit Shah’s comments on AmbedkarSubscriber Only
December 23, 2024 12:16 IST
Dalits can valourise Ambedkar’s ideas at the same time that they may vote for a party, the BJP for example. It would be patronising to think that their worldview is guided by just one factor.
Mon, Dec 23, 2024
Tourism in Goa is more than tourists being tourists — it is about a limited Indian imaginationSubscriber Only
November 15, 2024 19:16 IST
India may be a country with many different languages, religions and ethnicities, however, a very new social activity (that of tourism) continues to be enacted through the lenses of majoritarianism. We interact with those who are different from us through our own frameworks of beliefs and behaviours.
Mon, Nov 18, 2024
In Mumbai Gymkhana today, echoes of a regressive culture from 19th-century CalcuttaSubscriber Only
October 27, 2024 16:33 IST
In a time when the idea of a ‘majority’ has so significantly become identified with religious identity, it is worth asking what the fate of cricketer Jemimah Rodrigues’s membership to the Khar Gymkhana might have been in other circumstances
Fri, Nov 01, 2024
Sanjay Srivastava writes: Why we must talk about casteSubscriber Only
September 07, 2024 07:05 IST
Not talking it only entrenches the existing distribution of cultural and economic wealth
Sat, Sep 07, 2024
PM’s I-Day speech: Viksit Bharat, nationalism and contradictionsSubscriber Only
August 15, 2024 15:57 IST
The PM seemed to imply that “reform” is stymied by “debate clubs” and their participants. And that there is a contradiction between the national interest and the questioning of how we might define it
Fri, Aug 16, 2024
Sanjay Srivastava writes: For a nation that aspires to Olympic glory, what is the role of the state?Subscriber Only
August 11, 2024 12:54 IST
There is a difference between promoting physical activity among the general population and sponsoring elite sporting activity.
Tue, Aug 13, 2024
Kanwar yatra and the perils of nostalgic HinduismSubscriber Only
July 23, 2024 16:08 IST
Current reinvention of Hinduism — in terms of purity and impurity — owes a great deal to transformation in the cultures of nostalgia. It breaks the connection between actual conditions of life and its romanticised version, and those who are expected to take part in have no role in its propagation
Sun, Jul 28, 2024
Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi in Parliament: The Kishkinda KandSubscriber Only
July 03, 2024 20:18 IST
Two contrasting speeches in the 18th Lok Sabha — by Leader of Opposition and Prime Minister — show that myths have no monopolists, their potency lies in developing an appropriate language of invocation
Thu, Jul 04, 2024
Sanjay Srivastava writes | Election results: Triumph of society and independent thoughts over statismSubscriber Only
June 04, 2024 19:50 IST
Threats to democratic culture do not come from hyper or bigotry-inspired nationalism. The most fundamental threat to cultures of dissent derives from the rise of the charismatic state
Sun, Jun 16, 2024
Galgotias University is not alone: Empty jargon at institutes mirrors students’ political slogansSubscriber Only
May 09, 2024 17:43 IST
Public anger over the protestors’ lack of knowledge about matters of public and private interest about which they were ostensibly protesting is entirely justified. However, this is not an episode that is necessarily about the end of critical thinking at one institution whose students were found to be particularly ill-informed
Sat, May 11, 2024
UK’s Rwanda Bill: Why it’s a solution that doesn’t workSubscriber Only
April 25, 2024 08:00 IST
The idea that British ‘sovereignty’ is under threat from extra-national forces, including refugees and international courts, echoes parts of the Brexit narrative.
Thu, Apr 25, 2024
Elections 2024: Electoral bond revelations concern all citizens. But will it matter to voters?Subscriber Only
March 16, 2024 16:18 IST
Electoral bonds are a national rather than a sectional issue. However, given the consolidation of the sectional, modified voting public, they are unlikely to attract much voter backlash against the party that appears to have benefitted the most
Sun, Mar 24, 2024
Sanjay Srivastava writes: Byju’s fall and the failure of fast-food educationSubscriber Only
February 26, 2024 15:52 IST
The salve for anxieties regarding uncertain futures cannot be found in decrepit, quick-fix and technocratic attitudes towards education
Thu, Feb 29, 2024
Sanjay Srivastava writes: The temple in Ayodhya is more about the present than the pastSubscriber Only
January 23, 2024 10:01 IST
It showcases the move towards spirituality as a matter of spectacular display, which is located in cultures of contemporary Indian modernity
Fri, Jan 26, 2024
The hypocrisy of our concern for workers trapped in Uttarkashi tunnelSubscriber Only
November 24, 2023 18:28 IST
The migrant labour force produces the visible signs of national pride — governments proudly proclaim the making of a new and global India — but itself becomes invisibilised
Tue, Nov 28, 2023
Maratha reservation: Why everyone wants a ‘sarkari naukri’ in New IndiaSubscriber Only
November 02, 2023 07:17 IST
It is all very well to speak of a market-led society and the spirit of free enterprise, but if this happens in a context of an overweening state presence in everyday life, no one is silly enough to actually believe it
Thu, Nov 02, 2023
In Palestine-Israel war, the violence of pure identitySubscriber Only
October 13, 2023 07:07 IST
The historical roots of contemporary Israeli-Jewish identity lie in acts of forgetting actual relations on the ground. Brute force – both Israeli and of its western allies – has ensured periods of unstable and inherently fragile peace
Fri, Oct 13, 2023Journalism of Courage
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