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February 5, 2016
A Valuable Intellectual Resource on Dalit Writing

This book review  was first published in EPW  some years ago. It is included in the research section since it  is not just a review but an article generating a perspective of its own.

No Alphabet in Sight is the first of

a two-volume collection of the

English translation of vernacular

dalit writings from south India. The present

volume comprises writings from Tamil

and Malayalam. The forthcoming volume

promises to present writings from Telugu

and Kannada.

The dalit upsurge in the post-Emergency

period is in a significant sense a reaction

to the rise and consolidation of the shudra

December 9, 2015
Good Governance: The Amazing Emptiness Of Magic Words

First published by the author on 03 December, 2015 in
Countercurrents.org


Image Credit: Sundaytimes.lk

May 21, 2015
The Domain of Social (not Political) Justice

http://politicalphilosopher.net/2014/01/31/featured-philosop-her-sally-haslanger/

March 24, 2015
Assimilationism vs Multiculturalism

https://kenanmalik.wordpress.com/2015/01/12/assimilationism-vs-multiculturalism/

June 9, 2014
Economist's View: TIGER Forum 2014 Joseph Stiglitz Lecture: Creating a Learning Society

http://economistsview.typepad.com/economistsview/2014/06/-tiger-forum-2014-joseph-stiglitz-lecture-creating-a-learning-society.html

May 27, 2014
The Science of Inequality

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/344/6186/818

May 23, 2014
Genetic Basis for Racial Differences

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/jun/05/stretch-genes/

April 12, 2014
Article Review of “Gendering the Comparative Analysis of Welfare States: An Unfinished Agenda”,

Ann Shola Orloff in her article, “Gendering the Comparative Analysis of Welfare States: An Unfinished Agenda*”, sets forth the essentialist character of the linkages between the systems of social provisions & regulations and gender as how imperative it is to internalise gender perspectives into the mainstream scholarship, which influences policy formations to profusion.
 

November 11, 2013
Labelling and the creation of pariahs: A Pardhi story

Hindi version published in Srote Science and Technology Features, April 2008

Identity politics has become the hallmark of our times and emphasizing cultural identities does have some advantages in multicultural societies. However, it also encourages us to generalize about groups. The terrible effects of painting an entire community with one brush are to be seen in many ways. One instance is that of a teenaged girl who commited suicide in Bhopal some weeks ago. It was chance that she was born into the Pardhi community.

March 2, 2013
The dilemma of popular democracy and technical knowledge: the HSTP story

 

January 6, 2013
Popper vs Kuhn I

 

January 6, 2013
Popper vs Kuhn II
July 25, 2012
DNA-BASED EVIDENCES FOR EARLY MIGRATIONS INTO INDIA

 

April 20, 2012
WHEN TO SHOW IMPASSIVITY

 

March 2, 2012
WHEN TO BE A THOUGHT LEADER

It was in 1982-83 that I first read Descartes’ famous Discourse on the Method. The illustration in that essay, of how to “rightly conduct the Reason”, made a lasting impression on my mind. By enquiring into the foundations of our knowledge, and building it up from first principles, that essay distinguishes the thinking activity from other mental processes such as memory, information representation and reproduction etc. In a sense, it demonstrates how we can direct our thinking towards discovery.

February 28, 2012
Karl Marx
February 4, 2012
Educational Quality and Social Inequality: Reflecting on the Link

 

February 4, 2012
In Search of My Brahmin Self …

 

February 4, 2012
Reconsidering Romance and Intimacy: The Case of the Single Unmarried Woman

 

January 21, 2012
Anonymity and Personality Change

 

October 27, 2011
Sociology of Merit IV

 

September 22, 2011
Indian Higher Education and the need for critical knowledges

 

The construction of a reflexive modernity calls for people who can look back at their own society

and correctly identify its greatest challenges. Modernity may be weak and poorly rooted in India,

but this is just the situation in which more sensitivity is called for, not less. While many of the

contradictions created by nineteenth century industrialization are surfacing now in India, the risks of

late industrial societies, too, are making their presence felt. The weakening of social and normative

September 22, 2011
The Sociology of Merit III

Merit and the Middle Class

June 24, 2011
Politics and Governance in Democratic Societies Towards General Good: From Laski to Habermas.

 

We have been taught by long experience that the part played by reason in politics is smaller than we have been content to suppose……Our task, assuredly, is to give reason the largest possible place in the conduct of affairs; either we must plan our civilization or we must perish

                           - Harold Laski

June 14, 2011
Joti Rao Phule