One has often wondered what does it mean for an act to be ‘organic’. Is it about invoking the Gramscian notion of the organic or the redefinition of it? Many a times it becomes misplaced. It is shorn of its content. Creating a space of resistance (and ‘resistance’ does not always lead to ‘revolution’) has… Read More The Politics of Anti-Politics: Forms of Expression and Dreams for an Alternative World
THE HEART OF THE MATTER – Development, Identity and Violence: Reconfiguring the Debate Edited by Ravi Kumar (Aakar Books, Delhi, 2010) Contents Acknowledgement Introduction – Ravi Kumar Thinking through Urban Debris: Violence, Terror and the State – Nandita Badami and Anirban Nigam Through and Beyond: Identities and Class Struggle – Paresh Chandra “No Rehabilitation” is… Read More THE HEART OF THE MATTER – Development, Identity and Violence: Reconfiguring the Debate
Ghetto and Within: Class, Identity, State and Politics of Mobilisation by Ravi Kumar (Aakar Books, Delhi, 2010) http://www.aakarbooks.com/ Contents Acknowledgement Context of the Study Secularism, Nationalism and the Problematic of Religious Identity Formation Identity Formation and the Class Question Identity Politics and Ghettoisation Why Study the Ghettos: Some Methodological Considerations Identity Formation and the Ghetto:… Read More Ghetto and Within: Class, Identity, State and Politics of Mobilisation
the counter-narrative 