Delhi University assured the High Court of Delhi on 19th September 2012 that “The university is committed to implementation of the biometric system.” The reply of the Delhi University further stated “After the implementation of the sixth pay commission, the teachers have lucrative pay packages and are expected to fully justify the trust and… Read More University Administration Echoes Desires of Capital
Some have already started pondering whether Anna Hazare himself or an agitation on his lines could be used to highlight the issue of establishing a Common School System or for some other welfare measures that concern the downtrodden. My conviction that it is impossible emanates primarily from the analysis of the so-called amorphous ‘civil society’… Read More Beyond the Blinding Haze of Corruption Battles!
Yesterday one could see in Delhi University a rally: youths on motorcycles and open jeeps, vidographying themselves, dancing like mad and bringing back memories of those days when the ABVP members would boisterously march on streets after election victories threatening to ride over you if you do not go with them. They were wearing white… Read More Beware ! You could trampled by them
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 