Umesh Joshi We are not inventors of anything. We are just readers of Marx, and political revolutionary agitators in our time. – Antonio Negri I Antonio Negri, a prominent post-war intellectual of European Marxism, died on December 16th at 90. Negri led many lives in a single lifetime— a militant theorist, a philosopher, an inmate, a… Read More Antonio Negri: The Theorist of Autonomia
A thirty two year old is pitched against a senior, seasoned politician in an otherwise non-descript constituency called Begusarai. But it does not seem non-descript at all. Initially, it was RJD’s insistence to not have CPI on its alliance (largely because of this candidate) and now it is because of an interesting battle on cards.… Read More Begusarai – Has BJP made it a prestige issue?
Abstract A Common School System (CSS) had been a long-standing demand in Indian educational discourse since it was recommended in 1966 by the Education Commission. Those who saw the state as an agency of welfarism invoked its implementation on the grounds that it would have allowed equity in education and would have taken care of… Read More Imagining a Socialist, Democratic and Secular Society through Possibilities of a Common School System in India
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
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 