A white line and a mosque
Why did the frontier-tourists secretly wish to imitate the coolies, walk right up to the twelve-inch white line and put their foot across it? What did it mean to go back home and say they had crossed over?
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Should we not have more women in the Indian Army?
Cutting across all socio-economic strata, women in India face a wide range of discrimination; be it in their job choices, political rights or voicing out their rights. They do confront various degrees of inequality when it comes to developing themselves in any sphere of life. Women empowerment is, thus, in the foremost need to extract…
Tamil Nadu and Korea: An untold tale of princess Sembavalam
Can you believe that incredibly, six million Koreans or almost 10% of the Korean population trace their ancestry to an Indian Princess who is said to have travelled to Korea in search of her groom? Yes, it is true.
Community, State, and the Virus
A society can act through communities which are in turn formed and reproduced through sharing of pleasures and losses. A community is one where people know what they are achieving and losing- both collectively as well as personally. The deadly Covid-19 pandemic has encircled perhaps the whole of humanity into its effects but it has…
Thank you letter to a ‘narrow-minded’ father
Dear Papa, I have a confession to make. As a kid, I saw you as a conservative and a narrow-minded person. And my only reason for seeing you was because you never liked Di and me wearing clothes that were even a little revealing. I used to get envious of my friends and cousins who…
Would Andhra Pradesh understand that democracy is more than elections?
Why should the government silence such a small opposition in Andhra Pradesh? Is it the insecurity of the ruling party about the fragility of its public finances? Or, is it the desire to rule the state without any opposition?
The mirror of history
Humanity possesses a natural tendency for remembrance and its transmission. For those interested in ideals of progress, history is a laboratory of social theory.
Listening for Well-Being: A Discourse for Democracy
I would like to make it clear at the outset that my objective is to engage with the ideas in the book, rather than providing a book review. I adopted a style to amalgamate sentences taken from the author and apply them to my own experience.
Prehistory of socialism and soviet history
In the early 20th century, as four medieval empires disintegrated, it was Russian social democracy that put the right to self-determination of nations on the global agenda, including in Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points.
Climate change and ecofeminism
The daunting effects of global climate change impact women, and its repercussions are negative on global migration, economic un-sustainability, and the global gender gap.
Unfamiliar Side of Gandhi: On State and Non violence
As Gandhi stood for Poorna Swaraj where citizens will have the collective right to have a sovereign state to realize their individual rights to freedom and also the state will not be coercive in the hands of any one particular class rather it will be the instrument of the whole society.
Unfamiliar Side of Gandhi: On State and Non violence.
As Gandhi stood for Poorna Swaraj where citizens will have the collective right to have a sovereign state to realize their individual rights to freedom and also the state will not be coercive in the hands of any one particular class rather it will be the instrument of the whole society.
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