Narendra Modi went on national television at 8 p.m. on November 8 to announce that from midnight of that very date, i.e. in a mere four hours’ time, 500 and 1000 rupee notes would cease to be legal-tender. The justification advanced for this bizarre move was that it would strike at “black money”.

November 13, 2016 09:50 AM

The Social Contract

https://philosophynow.org/issues/116/The_Social_

November 13, 2016 09:46 AM

Libertarians

https://aeon.co/essays/what-happens-when-li

October 11, 2016 09:45 PM

93% of India’s B-school graduates are useless

http://qz.com/672387/93-of-indias-b-school-graduates-are-useless/?utm_source=qzfbarchive

October 11, 2016 09:34 PM

Schopenhauer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k0LJGoC200

October 11, 2016 09:32 PM

Aristotle's Political Philosophy

https://philosophynow.org/

September 20, 2016 09:18 AM

Liberalization of Indian Economy in the 1990s and its major impact on the politics of India

K. Kailash

September 20, 2016 08:55 AM

CAPITALISM AND INDIA’S DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION

Dr. Prabhat Patnaik

The fact that several third world countries, especially in Asia, have experienced remarkably high rates of GDP growth has been a matter of much discussion. There has been talk of a development of “multi-polarity” in the world, of a shift in the balance of economic power from the West to the East, and of even an overtaking of the traditional metropolitan economies by the newly emerging ones.

August 5, 2016 11:56 AM

Communal Violence in Muzaffarnagar Agrarian Transformation and Politics

Dr. Jagpal Singh

This article was first published in EPW (Economic and Political Weekly) and was sent to me by a colleague who believes that this is an excellent article that needs greater visibility and so it has been put for circulation on Email. I thought this website also would get it visibility and since there is no money involved in any activity of the website I have taken the liberty of putting it up here.
Satish
Administrator

Communal Violence in Muzaffarnagar Agrarian Transformation and Politics Jagpal Singh This paper is an integrated version of presentations made at the Centre for the Multi-level Federal Studies, Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi in November 2013; Academic Committee’s Discussion Forum, School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi in August 2014; and in Doon University in February 2015, Dehradun. I thank Balveer Arora, S V Reddy, Nandini and an anonymous referee for their helpful comments and suggestions.

August 5, 2016 11:47 AM

The Left Movement and National Question: From Romanticism to Realism (With a Focus on Komala Organization)

Sabah Mofidi, PhD

Introduction Equality is one of the principles of democracy. The leftists’ belief in equality is the remarkable difference between Left and Right. From this viewpoint, it can be said that equality is not necessarily economic equality. So, democracy basically needs political equality and it has relation with its concept. In the line of the Left’s egalitarian view, the scope of the usage of justice or most of the social and political equalities have to be basically extended into socio-political relations among individuals, groups or nations too. Equality is a relative concept.

August 5, 2016 10:41 AM

Office of profit: AAP was opportunistic

This article was first published in the Deccan Herald of 5th of July, 2016 by the author.

August 2, 2016 08:46 AM

On Consequentialism

https://philosophynow.org/issues/115/The_Consequences_of_Accepting_Consequentialism<

August 2, 2016 08:43 AM

Sciences and Humanities

https://aeon.co/essays/why-should-science-have-the-last-word-on-culture

July 9, 2016 11:00 AM

“FDI and the Politics of Economics”

First published at http://m.greaterkashmir.com/news/editorial-page/fdi-and-the-politics-of-economics/2

Interestingly, the pro-foreign capital adaptation of the BJP-led government aims to open floodgates for FDI in sectors that were otherwise opposed by the same party while in opposition. Crossing 49% barricade to almost 100% FDI in many sectors may be a positive move forward, but the problem of the present regime is its radical dependence on FDI-driven growth model to make India a manufacturing superpower.

June 15, 2016 06:34 PM

Liberal Education and the Sciences

https://thepointmag.com/2016/examined-life/can-liberal-education-save-the-sciences

June 12, 2016 10:42 AM

Multiculturalism and India

Collated from various sources

Multiculturalism describes the existence, acceptance, or promotion of multiple cultural traditions within a single jurisdiction, usually considered in terms of the culture associated with an

June 12, 2016 10:23 AM

Pluralism vs multiculturalism

Collated from various sources

‘E Pluribus Unum’ – From many one.
That’s what’s stamped on the American currency. It means that it acknowledges that it is a pluralistic society. Not so much a melting pot but a stew. A society in which minority groups maintain their independent cultural traditions and where no one minority imposes its views on the other.

June 12, 2016 10:05 AM

Multiculturalism

Collated from various sources

Multiculturalism is a body of thought in political philosophy about the proper way to respond to cultural and religious diversity. Mere toleration of group differences is said to fall short of treating members of minority groups as equal citizens; recognition and positive accommodation of group differences are required through “group-differentiated rights,” a term coined by Will Kymlicka (1995).

June 12, 2016 09:51 AM

The Process of Leading Change in the Kurdistan Islamic Movement – Iraq (Emergence, Factors and Trends)

Sabah Mofidi, PhD

The views expressed in this article are solely of the author. The website does not promote or subscribe to them. Readers are advised to come to their own conclusions. The article is published here in the interests of freedom of expression of ideas.

ABSTRACT
This article studies the process of the emergence of the Islamic Movement in South
Kurdistan (Iraqi Kurdistan) and follows its internal changes. It explains how the Islamic
organizations rise came about and provides solutions to questions such as: What
have the effective factors been in the emergence of this movement and its internal
changes? What is the difference between this and other Islamic movements? How
have other Islamic movements affected it? Which ideological-intellectual trends have